Greetings, Everyone!
We’ve turned the corner into Fall and the weather is still gorgeous. Time flies with this wonderful group of students!
After checking in about homework, we started the class with Visual Vocabulary. Today we bandied about the definitions for bandy and entity. Students are really catching on to these vocab words! (See the hint for bandy on the left.)
After that, we got to our Writing. Today’s focus was on learning the last of the dress-ups–strong adjectives and www.asia.b. The latter is not a website, but a mnemonic device to help us remember the subordinate conjunctions which begin this adverbial clause dress-up. Students should memorize these www words for a quiz at the beginning of class next week. (Try to be able to recite them in 3 seconds or less!) For a more fulsome discussion of these dress-ups, see the slideshow posted on GC. We also learned some rules about how to write numbers in compositions. The numbers thing is normally a point of confusion for writers at this level. We filled out a worksheet in class to help solidify the concepts.
They are to choose “The Miller and His Son” or “The Stag and the Pool” to write three paragraphs. As usual, hand in all four pieces EITHER on GC OR on paper: checklist, rough draft, final draft and KWO (which is a story sequence chart.) Follow the directions on your checklist.
Literature
I assigned roles for our big Literature Circle discussion next week (see below.) You will receive a grade on your preparation and participation and we went over the expectations. Each student has a part to play in order to make this a fruitful discussion. They are to keep reading chapters 11 & 12 this week and complete a 3 Responses worksheet. Any material up to chapter 12 is fair game for the discussion. I did assign the 3 Response worksheets this week (left them at home!) Now you can focus more fully on reading and preparing your roles!
Grammar
Today’s grammar concept was on misplaced and dangling modifiers. A misplaced modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word or clause it modifies or describes. Because of this separation, the meaning of the sentence is often awkward, ridiculous, illogical, or confusing. A dangling modifier is a phrase or clause that is not clearly and logically related to the word or words it modifies or describes. These mistakes can often be amusing:
The waiter served a dinner roll to the woman that was well buttered.
They have two worksheets on this concept that are due next week.
Homework
Retelling Narrative Variations–”The Miller and His Son” OR “The Stag and the Pool”
Read chapters 11 & 12
3 Responses
Links for this week
About -ly adjectives & www.asia.b clause Dress-ups & Numbers Slides
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