Hello All,
We’ve hit a cold snap in Minnesota, but that didn’t keep these lovely Writing 1 students from the task at hand this week. It was good to be together again!
Our Visual Vocabulary words today were clemency and munificent. We took a few minutes to discuss the words. They wrote some sentences (and drew pictures!) to help cement these words into their brains. I always look forward to reading these sophisticated words in their writing!
Writing
Before they passed their Visual Vocabulary in, we added two new sentence openers to our style sheets and practiced writing sentences using the #3 -ly adverb opener and the #4 -ing opener.
These will be added to our checklists for the next compositions!
Though we are wrapping up our Sherlock Holmes unit, the mystery writing continues as their Writing from Pictures assignment was due today. We will start our next writing assignment next week.
Literature
With regret, we are finished with our Sherlock Holmes unit. We used our Characterization of Sherlock worksheets that were due today to help them make a chart listing the hero's positive and negative traits. They then got in small groups and had a mini-debate on whether they think Sherlock was actually a hero or not. They have a Sherlock Final Exam that focuses on that topic. It was a great display of critical thinking and public speaking. I was impressed with their efforts!
After that, I passed out the new books which are a collection of short stories. They are to read three for next week and answer the Short Story Questions.
For Grammar, we have two worksheets on independent and subordinate clauses again. This time, they will identify those clauses and write sentences that contain both. Due to the fact that we didn’t have time to work on those in class, I plan to make and post a quick teaching video in case anyone needs support learning these concepts.
Blessings,
Mrs. G
Homework
Read Short Stories: Pushkin (162), Tolstoy (169), Checkov (26)
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