Quick Write
Today we had a choice of options revolving around events that happened on October 13 in different years in history–ranging from ancient to modern. We really skipped around!
Words of the Day
No words of the Day today
Writing
Students handed in their Final Drafts of their Personal Essays. As soon as we complete one essay, we start ite next. Our next essay is a Biography Essay. In this essay, they are to make sure that they have an opinion about the person and write in a way to show the significance/importance of that person. For our previous papers, we followed a 2-step process (rough draft to final draft). For the rest of the papers we write this year, we’ll follow a 3-step process: pre-write, a rough draft, to a final draft. We discussed pre-writing techniques such as using a mind map or outline. I demonstrated composing an online Mind Map using a free website. The Pre-Write and Rough Draft is due Oct. 27.
Literature
We've finished Animal Farm, and as a final activity, but unfortunately did not have time to do our last activity. Perhaps next class period. They are to take the Final Exam posted on Google classroom.
The next book that we'll read is Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. I gave them their books. Below I'm posting the background information and the Introduction Quiz. Please note: The quiz is not due until Nov. 3.
Grammar
We're continuing with the Parts of Speech presentations, and today we had the Nouns group. They gave a short teaching, showed a video and had a game for the students to play. They have homework to practice identifying nouns. (A reminder: students should fill out the evaluation of ALL the presentations we’ve seen so far: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Nouns. If you presented, fill out the Self-Evaluation).
Fall Break
We don't have CHAT classes next week; October 20 & 21 are our Fall Break days. I hope you can find some fun outside activities to do.
Homework
A Christmas Carol Introduction
Quiz on A Christmas Carol (GC)due Nov. 3
Nouns SELF Evaluation (if you presented)
Adjective Evaluation (if you haven’t completed yet)
Verbs Evaluation (if you haven’t completed yet)
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