We covered a lot of material this morning in class. We started with a Quick Write, which was to be a "Literary Love Letter." This is a traditional assignment for the class around Valentine's Day. They could choose a part of speech, some punctuation, an author, or anything else literature of writing related. I like to post these on the blog, so students could let me know if they would like theirs published. (There are links below with "love letters" written in past Writing 1 classes.)
Our Words of the Day included 2 choices from the students and one from me.
coup de main -- French, coup de main, "stroke of hand" -- a sudden surprise attack
xertz-- Urban Dictionary -- to eat or drink extremely quickly, heartily, enthusiastically
eponym -- Greek, epi, "called after," nym, "named" -- a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named. Examples: Kleenex, chapstick, sandwich, cardigan.
plagiarism -- Latin, plagiarius, "kidnapper" -- a group of pirates known to kidnap children -- to take someone else's writing as their own
Students handed in the final drafts of their Mystery Stories. I really enjoyed their writing, and look forward to grading the final drafts. Over the years I've been putting the final drafts of the stories on my blog (see the sidebar on the right hand side.) If they would like their story included, they should send me a Google or Word document that I could copy and paste into the blog format. (Apple Pages or PDFs won't work for this)
As soon as we finish one Writing assignment, we start the next essay. They have a choice of two essays: a Cause/Effect Essay or a Problem/Solution Essay. They can choose one type of essay, but some asked if they could do more than one, or if they could combine them. If they do two essays, they will get double credit. If the combine the types (i.e. certain causes lead to a result, which is a problem, and students propose a solution.) Students can write that kind of essay, and if it is long enough and has enough detail, they could get credit for 1 1/2 essays.
We've started our Short Stories book, and briefly discussed two of the stories: "The Three Hermits" by Tolstoy and "The Coffin Maker" by Pushkin. We used a whole group Triangle Talk strategy, wherein one person makes a comment, the next agrees or disagrees and explains, and another person adds more information.
No Grammar for this week. Enjoy the break!
Next week we have a break from CHAT classes, so the assignments listed below are for February 27.
Have a great two weeks!
Mrs. Prichard
Assignments for February 27
-- Short Stories: Dickens (p. 45); Wilde (p. 189); Kipling
(p.101); Munro (p. 140)
-- 2 Short Story worksheets: one worksheet for one story and one for another
-- Pre-Write for Cause/Effect or Problem/Solution essay
Links for This Week
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