Greetings, Everyone!
We’ve turned the corner into Fall and the weather is still gorgeous. Time sure flies with this wonderful group of students!
After a check-in about homework, we started the class with Visual Vocabulary as we discussed the words epigram and edifice. In today’s world, there seem to be edifices of epigrams wherever we look! If you want to see a lot of epigrams in one place, go to your local Hobby Lobby! 😀 (See the example on the left.)
After that, we got to our Writing. Today’s focus was on learning the last of the dress-ups–strong adjectives and www.asia.b. The latter is not a website, but a mnemonic device to help us remember the subordinate conjunctions which begin this adverbial clause dress-up. Students should memorize these www words for a quiz at the beginning of class next week. (Try to be able to recite them in 3 seconds or less!)
For a more fulsome discussion of these dress-ups, see the slideshow posted on GC. They are to choose “The Shepherd Boy” or “The Fox and the Crow” to write three paragraphs. As usual, hand in all four pieces EITHER on GC OR on paper: checklist, rough draft, final draft and KWO (which is a story sequence chart.) Follow the directions on your checklist.
Literature
Roles for our big Literature Circle discussion were assigned for next week. You will receive a grade on your preparation and participation and we went over the expectations. Each student has a part to play in order to make this a fruitful discussion. They are to keep reading chapters 9 & 10 this week and complete a 3 Responses worksheet. Any material up to chapter 10 is fair game for the discussion.
Grammar
Due to technical difficulties, the scheduled verbs presentation will be presented next week. Both the verbs and adjectives groups will go, so make sure you’re prepared! I passed out two worksheets on verbs which are due next week.
Homework
Retelling Narrative Variations–”The Shepherd Boy” OR “The Fox and the Crow”
Literature Circles Roles–See above
Read chapters 9 & 10 Ender’s Game
Verbs
Where is the Verb–Worksheet–Homework 1
Identify the Verb in the Sentence–Homework 2
Links for this week
About -ly adjectives & www.asia.b clause Dress-ups & Numbers Slides
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