Welcome to Writing 2, 2016 - 2017

Kim Nelson has been sending out rosters for the fall classes, and I'm excited to see the Writing 2 Class fill up.  I'm looking forward to a great year with your students.

 For those who are new to my classes, I will use e-mails and this blog to keep parents and students informed and connected.  If you are curious about the class, feel free to peruse past blog posts, especially the Weekly Class Notes.

The students will be reading A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain this semester.  I will buy these books for the students.  I order almost all of my books from Dover Publications because they are so inexpensive.  

The only items your student needs to bring to class, along with some paper and a pen/pencil, is a notebook or folder to keep track of assignments, handouts, worksheets, and class notes.  

Shortly, you will receive an invitation to join the Dropbox folder with all of the study guides, handouts, worksheets, etc.

I also use My GradeBook, an online grade book, for keeping track of assignments and grades.  You will be getting a link to that account also. 


I'm looking forward to a new group of students and starting a fresh year of writing.  Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Looking forward to the Fall classes!

Tammy Prichard

Parts of Speech Update

Hey class!

I've gotten a couple of e-mails with questions about the Parts of Speech unit, so I thought I'd send out a group-wide e-mail.

Even though we talked about this in class last week, I feel that there may still be some confusion about the guidelines for the project and the specifics of the assignment.  So, here's what I'd like to do --- let's push the presentations out a week so that we have extra time to plan and to work in groups.  This week we will talk through any questions that students might have.

Adjusted schedule:

Week 3 -- Review Parts of Speech/Discuss assignment

Week 4 -- Parts of Speech Pre-Test
Week 5 -- Nouns (Chader, Darren, Ted)

Week 6 -- Pronouns (Rachel, Anna.)

Week 7 -- Adjectives (Nicole, Andrew, Luke)

Week 8 -- Adverbs (Hannah, Shay, Ian)

Week 9 -- Verbs (Corey, Abby, Faith)

Week 10 -- Prepositions (Christopher, Savannah, Megan

Week 11 -- Conjunctions (Katelyn, KC, Danielle)

Week 12 -- Interjections (Simon, Nick, Jack)

Week 13 -- Review

Week 14 -- Parts of Speech Post-Test

I've taught this lesson using this process at the other school where I teach, and I was excited about how students learned.  We all know that if you have to teach something, you learn it a little better.  Also, students enjoyed being taught by their classmates.

On the down side, we only see one another once a week, so we need to fit a lot in to our weekly class.  Students may not realize that they have questions about an assignment until AFTER they've left class.  Always feel free to send an e-mail to clarify anything.

See y'all on Thursday,

Mrs. Prichard