Hello Everyone!
Time flies when you are having fun–and it sure flew once again today in Writing 2. You students are such a joy to teach! Read on for a recap of all we accomplished in class today!
Visual Vocabulary
Today’s words are acumen and cogent. Acumen means the ability to make quick and accurate judgements and decisions, especially in practical matters. Cogent means convincing or believable, especially in terms of an argument, explanation, or reasoning. We decided it would be awesome to be able to make a cogent argument with acumen!
Writing
Now that we have handed in our Weaknesses as Strengths narrative essays along with our notes of apology.
We spent some time today analyzing a sample, brainstorming some ideas for topics and also some strategies for organizing itNow that those are in, we are ready to embark on our last “from scratch” essay–the Persuasive Essay. This essay requires students to pull all their writing skills together and to write a five paragraph essay with a thesis statement, bibliography and complete style checklist. The KWO is due next week (April 3) and the final draft is due after break (April 17.)
For the Literature portion of our class, we finished our short stories unit with an in-class quiz, then we started our next unit–poetry. Our poems come from a book titled 101 Great American Poems, and they will be reading a chronological collection of poems, starting with poetry from the early 1800s to that of the mid-1900s. Students have the books, but I will also post the poems on Google Classroom.
We talked about how each week from here on out students will read all the assigned poems and respond to two of them.
Here are their options:
1. Fill out a Poetry Worksheet for one or both
2. Write a paragraph about the poem(s) that analyzes the poem; discuss what you think it means and why you like or don't like it.
3. Instead of writing a paragraph, record a video commentary about the poem. Youtube LiveStream or some other app on a device is OK as long as it can be seen by me.
4. Do a piece of art that connects with the content and meaning of the poem.
5. Make a video of your recitation of the poem. Our poetry unit will culminate in a Poetry Jam (poetry contest.) More details on that to come.
Grammar
Our topic today was parentheses, dashes, and ellipses. After reading some tips about using these, students got to work practicing on their worksheets. I had printer problems, so there are only two worksheets this week instead of three!
Homework for this week
- Read Week 11 Poetry
Week 11 Poetry Pt. 1 -- Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow
Week 11 Poetry Pt. 2 -- Whitman, Dickinson
- Poetry: Read Emerson (4-5); Longfellow (6-10); Holmes (21), Whitman (22-26),Dickinson (29 - 32)
Week 11 Poetry Pt. 1 -- Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow
Week 11 Poetry Pt. 2 -- Whitman, Dickinson
Grammar: Wk10 - Dashes & Parentheses
Grammar: Wk10 - Parentheses & Dashes
Links for this week
About the Persuasive/Pro/Con Essay KWO
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