It was good to see everyone’s smiling faces today. We had a productive class today and I sure am enjoying this group of students!
Today’s Quick Write was about lists:
Do you make lists to get stuff done? Do you use an app? Old fashioned paper?
List as many points you can think of!
What is the worst food combination you can think of? An example: hamburgers with whipped cream. (Yuck!) Think of as many as you can.
I am grateful for…
List all candy you can think of.
List all the breakfasts you can think of
Do you make lists to get stuff done? Do you use an app? Old fashioned paper?
Make a list of items a favorite fictional character would make.
Our Words of the Day
acmethesia (n)the awareness of sharp points through the sense of touch without experiencing pain. (Contributed by Stella)
And our ACT/SAT Vocabulary:
numismatist a person who collects coins
Obtrude to force something upon another person; to intrude upon
Paucity smallness of number or scarce
I started class with a bit of “buzzkill”--and in invitation to excellence. This time of year starts getting challenging to do the things we know we should do. We touched on the CHAT policies regarding lateness and cell phones. I told the class I would be enforcing CHAT’s guidelines on that moving forward, so we all need to make good choices. On that note, I mentioned the fact that we learn best when homework is done in a timely manner: discussions are richer when we have done our reading and writing on time. If we don’t meet our deadlines, we are not only letting ourselves down, but we’re letting our classmates down as well.
On that note, Problem/Solution or Cause/Effect Rough Draft is due today. Next week we will be doing some peer review, so each student must bring a paper copy of their essays to class with them. We discussed how to document websites using MLA formatting and in-text citations. There is a worksheet students can finish at home on that topic.
In the literature section of our class, we talked about the last annotation skill: Using Post-It notes. Students should read and annotate the next stories and I encourage them to try using Post Its–along with any other type of annotating they like.
After that, we had a discussion using the Hexagonal Thinking method. This is a great way to use our critical thinking as we see the various ways the themes and concepts connect and fit in an overall web. The key to this type of discussion is the ability to explain the connections they make. As they manipulated their hexagons, some deep and nuanced connections were made. I am proud of them! We did not have time to share our connections, but students did fill out a map that explains important they made.
Students elected to forgo the grammar lesson so we’d have more time for Literature. For that reason, I assigned the three worksheets as homework. The focus is on Appositives and Interrupters. (Please note, we are week behind the syllabus on Grammar worksheets. We will be caught up by next week)
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. G
Homework
MLA Worksheet 1-2
Read & do 2 Annotations
Short Stories by Twain, Crane, Jewett, Gilman
2 Short Story Worksheets
Week 7 - Appositive Phrases
Week 7 - Appositive & Parenthetical Phrases
Week 7 - Interrupters Phrases
Link for this Week
WK 7 Stories–Audio Versions
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