Did you see the amazing moon last night? God’s creation is amazing! Anyway–
We started the class with our Visual Vocabulary words: gist and fealty. We also had a Door Quiz over the acronym ICE for in-text citations:
www.asia.b–when, while, where, as, since, if, although, because
Writing
Speaking of writing, today was our Peer Review day for the Process essays. Using a checklist, students gave some high quality feedback to their peers. Students that met this deadline received points for completing it on time. I am hoping that feedback will be incorporated as they continue to polish their essays.They are due next week.
Grammar
Today’s grammar discussion continued our unit on phrases. Today it was participial phrases. Using these phrases correctly is key to “leveling up” your writing. Students took notes on how participials look like verbs, but they function as adjectives because they describe a noun/subject. Participials usually end in “ed” or “ing.” Students had a chance to write a few practice sentences and they were assigned homework.
So far we have learned the phrases: prepositional, infinitive and participial. For homework they are to complete a Phrases Review, which is posted as a Google Form on Google Classroom.
Literature
Today we played a board game that was a review for the Peace Like A River exam. Each group had a game board, a stack of cards and a penny. As they flipped the penny, they moved their piece forward and answered questions on our novel. Hopefully students will feel prepared to take the Final Exam in class next week.
Have a blessed weekend!
Mrs. G
Homework
Prepare for PLAR Exam
–Take the Edpuzzle on Phrases/Verbals first!
Links for this week
Class Blog (archived notes)
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