Greetings!
We started today with a Quick Write using prompt options that they had written:
- What are some of your pet peeves?
- What do you do that annoys others, either accidentally or intentionally?
- What is the grossest thing you've ever eaten?
- What is the best/worst part of your hous?
- Whatever????
Our Words of the Day were from Michael, Nina, and Annelise
cantillate-- from Latin cantillare, "to sing low" -- to chant or intone
onychophagy-- from Greek onux, "nail;" phago, "to eat" -- nail-biting
apathy -- from Greek a, not, without; pathos, feeling/emotion -- lack of feeling or interest; indifference
empathy -- from Greek em, "in;" pathos, feeling/emotion -- the ability to identify with feeling the suffering of others.
The usual Agenda for the class time is to do these beginning of class activities and then most of the time we cover these topics in this order: Writing assignments/instruction, Literature discussion, and Grammar instruction/work. My plan is to give the last 10 - 15 minutes of every class to working on Grammar assignments so that if students have questions, they can ask them right in class.
For our Writing discussion, I checked in with them about the progress of their Mystery Stories. The Pre-Writes and Rough Drafts are due next week. We discussed for a bit how writing this story will take a different kind of planning. Students are thinking about putting in clues and even red herrings. I am really looking forward to reading their stories next week! By the way, if students want to read some student-written stories, they can go to the Writing 2 blog, and the stories are listed on right hand margin.
The class has read the first 2 stories from our book, Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories. I read sections from the first pages of the story and we discussed the character and abilities of Sherlock Holmes. Then I divided the class into 2 groups, and they played the game "Enter the Mystery Mansion." Students were given cards with pictures, and as a group, they were to compose a mystery and/or spy story. When they were done, they retold their stories for the Zoom portion of the class. They were quite creative!
The last part of class was for Grammar instruction. Today, I did a short lesson on simple and compound subjects and predicates along with compound sentences. I often use fairly simple sentences to illustrate the concepts, but then we take these concepts and apply them to the students' own writing. T
Have a great weekend!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
Homework for Next Week:
Holmes: Read “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” & “The Engineer’s Thumb”
Answer 4 questions for one of the two stories
Answer 4 questions for one of the two stories
Is it a Compound Sentence? -- Note: This one's extra credit because I left the worksheet at home
Links for this Week
Writing 2 Class Notes
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