Greetings!
I am thankful we have this week off of class and I hope you are hunkered down as we prepare for this “historic blizzard” they are forecasting. Maybe even catch up on some homework for Writing Class? In case that’s on your to-do list, here is what we covered last week.
Quick Write
The prompts were taken from the suggestions you submitted last semester:
If you could be married to someone famous from the past who is no longer alive, who would you like it to be? Why?
If you could trade lives with anyone in the world, who would you choose and why?
If you could go back to any period of time or place in history what would it be and why?
Words of the Day
We are continuing with our ACT words and they were:
fatalistic: (adj) believing everything is determined by fate and is inevitable
lackadaisical: (adj) without spirit, interest or effort
licentious: (adj) ignoring rules or morals; uncontrolled or immoral
Charlotte submitted this beautiful word:
apricity–noun; The warmth of the sun in winter
The lion’s share of our class was spent on discussing Writing. I have assigned a Cause/Effect OR Problem/Solution Essay.. We spent some time sharing topic ideas and brainstorming how to structure this essay. There were some good ideas! We will continue sharing on Google Classroom as they answer the discussion question and comment on their classmates’ ideas. The Rough Draft and PreWrite is due when we get back from break (3/2.)
I had sent an email home to parents to broach the topic of the Artificial Intelligence tool ChatGpt. We briefly touched on some of this tool’s capabilities and drawbacks. Students were eager to discuss and share their experiences using the tool. There were a range of experiences: some were already pretty familiar and some had never heard of it. I told students we will be writing about ChatGpt in the next essay and it will be a topic of deeper discussion in the near future. As of right now, we will not be relying on Artificial Intelligence to write our essays and doing so would be dishonest. In order to make best use of this in our class, we will need to understand its capabilities and drawbacks and we still need to know the fundamentals of writing.
One of the things this tool does NOT do well yet is to give credit to its sources and in-text citations. Since for this essay I am requiring 3 sources and 3 quotes along with a Works Cited page, we took the class time to review MLA documentation. This is the main way we can maintain academic honesty and avoid the charge of plagiarism. Students took notes on a presentation and I handed out citation maker sheets for students to keep track of their sources while they do their research.
Because we had such a robust discussion on Writing, we did not spend as much time on our LIterature Discussion. I handed out some information on AnnotationSkills 3 & 4–and instead of applying and discussing, I assigned students to practice annotating the next assigned stories. They are due when we get back from break along with the Short Story Worksheets
No Grammar this week! Enjoy the time off!
Homework
Cause/Effect OR Problem/Solution Essay PreWrite
Cause/Effect OR Problem/Solution Essay Rough Draft
Read Hawthorne,Bierce, Poe and Harte
Links for this Week
MLA Presentation and Guided Notes
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