Dear Students,
The weather is turning and we are all ready for a break! But before the break: one last class!
Our visual vocabulary words this week are: felonious and elated. Hopefully, you are not elated about something felonious!
Writing
Today, the composition on Victorian Christmas is due. I checked in on how the process of summarization went. Writing source and fused outlines is a new skill to most and is very important to the “bones” of writing. After fielding some questions, we moved on to the next writing topic.
I emphasized that up to this point, we have used the source texts provided and we haven’t used outside sources.We will continue to practice summarizing multiple sources, but for this next assignment, students will get to choose their own references/source texts.The subject is Victorian inventions/events. After watching a short video on the Victorian era, we broke into small groups to brainstorm ideas on this topic. Students shared their ideas, so they should now have at least a few pretty good ones.
Their homework over break is to find AND bring 3-4 references/source text to class. Two references may be internet articles and the other one(s) must be from a different source– a book, magazine/journal or documentary. Bring a hard copy of your references–that means bring the physical book/magazine or printed article to class with you next class.
Grammar
After that, the pronouns group presented. They did a good job! They have two worksheets from me for homework as usual. Our last presentation on prepositions will be presented when we come back from break on December 5th (Liam, Wesley, Brecken and Peter).
Literature
We wrapped up the class with a discussion on Stave 1 of A Christmas Carol. I handed out a vocabulary worksheet that they will fill out as they work their way through the book and hand it in on the last day of class. Then, we listened to a dramatized reading of the beginning of Stave 2 from Audible for the last few minutes of class. Over break, students should read the rest of Stave 2 and answer 3 Questions from the worksheet. I forgot to mention that they should answer the fun Christmas food Discussion question posted on Google Classroom as well.
Homework
Choose a subject–Victorian invention/event
Bring 3-4 (physical) references about a Victorian invention or event to class
Two references may be Internet articles–bring the printed article to class; bring physical copies of the other reference(s)
Read Stave 2 ACC
Christmas Food Discussion Question–Google Classroom
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