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 10 is National Pack a lunch Day. Write about your favorite lunches.
- Where is the one place you never want to go to again?
- List 20 of your favorite foods
- And, as always, the "Whatever" option
We had three Words of the Day
lunette-- fr. French, lunette, "little moon" -- a small window, often crescent shaped in a dome
telluric -- fr. Latin, terra, "earth" -- of or pertaining to the earth
ozostomia -- fr. Greek, ozein, "to smell' and stoma, "mouth" -- having bad breath
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: paper format, the word "things," there is/are sentences, comma splice sentences. The final drafts are due next week. In addition to the final draft, students are to fill out a form for their first 5 and last 5 mistakes on their rough drafts.
We have read more Short Stories by Twain, Jewett, Crane, and Gilman. As promised, we had a short quiz. I asked students to write a 1-minute version of the stories they had recently read.
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:
Links for This Week
Writing 2 Class Notes -- Week 8 (March 10)
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