Food, glorious food! Today’s Quick Write had to do with that topic as it is National Cereal Day. (Yes–it’s a thing.) We watched a 1 minute video about ranking sugary breakfast cereals. They also had the option of writing about their thoughts on that OR writing about their favorite packed lunch ideas and memories.
I handed back the Rough Drafts of the Urban Legend essay during Writing and for the most part they looked great! Bringing together the research and the MLA citations is no easy feat and they are coming along nicely. Final Drafts and Endnotes are due next week (3/14.)
We shifted gears to focus on our Literature and spent most of the class discussing all those short stories! After refreshing ourselves on the key points on these famous short stories from last week and this week in our notes, the class got in groups of two or three and had a Hexagonal Discussion. This is my favorite type of open-ended discussion because it really fosters critical thinking and making connections that might otherwise be overlooked. Printed on each hexagon was a theme, a concept or the title of the story . Students were really locked in as they decided where each where the terms best fit in the web. This method yields many different results as a hexagon has six sides–therefore each concept CAN connect to six others. Their job was to be intentional and make the most important connections a priority. Using a dry erase marker, they even made their own hexagons to forge unique connections. They shared their results with the class at the end of the time and I was VERY impressed with some of their insights.
As promised, we had a quiz over the stories. It pays to be prepared for class!
We are forging ahead with our comma unit in Grammar and today’s topic was a review on where to put the commas in dates and addresses. There are two worksheets due next week–they are to finish and correct them. Please note, the worksheet “Commas in Dates and Addresses” I handed out in class was actually the KEY--you need only fill out the bottom half of that if you submit the paper one. On Google Classroom it is fine–you may complete the whole thing. (Thank you, Miya, for pointing that out!)
We just had time to end the class by watching a Lego version of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” It was an enjoyable way to end the class to see a humorous interpretation of the story just read.
Blessings on your weekend!
Mrs. G
Homework
Read: Chopin (30); Mansfield (130); Pirandello (149); de Maupassant (134)
Commas in Dates, Addresses and in Letters
Links for This Week
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” (Lego version)
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