He had a fun class today and it was quite full!
We started with a Quick Write about hair:
What is the worst thing you have ever done to your hair? Why did you do it? What is the best thing you’ve done to your hair?
If you could change your hair, how would you change it?
If you could have somebody else's hair for a day, whose would it be? Why? What do you like about that person's hair
Do you have any regrettable looks from the past?
What’s the fashion trend you just cannot embrace?
Our Words of the Day were from Megan and the list of ACT/SAT Vocabulary words. We will continue on with these words (and any that students may contribute) until the end of the year.
alienate: to cause to turn away
elated: very proud or happy or in high spirits
epigram: a short witty saying or quip
finifugal: afraid of finishing anything
We are now in Week 5, so students need to check in on their homework. I give students three weeks to get assigned work (actually, they have 4 weeks from the assigned date until I will no longer take it.) After that extended time, assignments will be given zeros. According to my late homework policy, any assignments due on Week 2 is now overdue. Grade Reports were sent Week 3 and I will be sending another round in a few more weeks.
Our discussion of The 39 Steps included some close reading brushing up on our Annotating Skills. After reviewing the skills of (purposeful) underlining/margin notes, and drawing icons (arrows, stars, thought bubbles), students did a close reading of the end of Chapter 8. The culprit is discovered in this section! Using their annotations as a guide, students broke into small groups to discuss characterization, description and overall plot. I overheard some insightful comments.
Students handed in the final drafts of their Narrative Essays. I'm really looking forward to reading these because their rough drafts were so good!
When we finish one paper, we start another. For the next round of essays, students can choose to write an Examples Essay or an Analogy Essay. For both of these types of essays, the students should be explaining one thing with one or more other things. We discussed in depth about analogies and the requirements of this essay. This topic must be “researchable”and will need to have MLA style in-text citations along with a Works Cited page. We will discuss those details next week. For now,students have the next two weeks to do their brainstorming and research. The pre-writes and rough drafts should be handed in on March 2.
At the end of class, I assigned the Grammar worksheets, practicing identifying and classifying prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases function either as adjective phrases or adverb phrases, and it can be tricky to tell what kind of phrase it is. They have these as homework.
Assignments for Next Week
-- Examples/Analogy Pre-Write (due Feb. 16–hand in with RD March 2)
–Discussion Question: Which Essay? Which topic? (GC)
-- Examples/Analogy Rough Draft (due March 2)
-- Read and Annotate Ch. 9 & 10 of The 39 Steps
-- Week 6 – 3 Study Guide Questions
–Ch. 5-8 Quiz (if you didn’t do it already)
-- Prepositional Phrases -- Adj or Adv
Links For This Week
–About the Analogy Essay & Examples Essay
Google Slides Presentations
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