Writing 2 Class Notes -- Week 8 (March 18)

 Greetings!

We are officially over half way through the Spring semester.  I don't know about you, but once we hit daylight savings time and the days get longer, the days also seem to fly by more quickly!

For the Quick Write this week students had 3 options: 

• March 18 is National Awkward Moments Day.  What is the most embarrassing or awkward situation that you’ve been in?
• March 19 is National Let’s Laugh Day.  Tell about one of the funniest experiences you’ve had. 
• Tuesday, March 16, was National Everything You Do is Right Day.  If you didn’t have to worry about making mistakes, what challenge, adventure, or risk might you take? 

We had one Word of the Day

fortuitous -- fr. Latin, fors, "chance" -- something good that happens by chance

I handed back the rough drafts of the Cause/Effect and Problem/Solution Essays that the students had written.  As part of our writing/grammar instruction, I covered common errors in the papers.  For this round of essays, these were the topics:  amount vs. number; less vs. fewer; scared vs. afraid; the word "things;" contractions; and noun/pronoun agreement.  The final drafts are due next week.  Note:  A number of students did not get their rough drafts in on time.   I might be able to get them corrected before the next class period; if not, they will be returned next week during class.

We have read two more Short Stories by Hawthorne, Bierce, Poe, Harte, Twain, Jewett, Crane, Gilman.  We briefly talked through some plot and character details.  

Following our brief literature discussion, I divided the students into small groups to work together on a worksheet for which they needed to revise some "there is/are" types of sentences.  Then for the rest of our Grammar portion of our class, we are continuing our work with commas.  This time, we are practicing putting commas in the correct places for dates and addresses.  We had time in class to work on our worksheets.

Have a great weekend!

Blessings,

Mrs. Prichard

Assignments for Next Week:

• Cause/Effect OR Problem/Solution  Final Draft

• Short Stories: Read Twain (175), Jewett (87), Crane (34), Gilman (50)
  

• Short Story Packet #2

• Grammar:  Wk8 - Commas Dates Addresses

• Grammar:  Wk8 - Dates Addresses

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