Hello All,
We’ve hit a cold snap in Minnesota, but that didn’t keep these lovely Writing 1 students from the task at hand this week. It was good to be together again!
Our Visual Vocabulary words today were delineate and discordant. We took a few minutes to discuss the words. They wrote some sentences (and drew pictures!) to help cement these words into their brains. I always look forward to reading these sophisticated words in their writing!
Writing
Before they passed their Visual Vocabulary sentences in, we added two new sentence openers to our style sheets and practiced writing sentences using the #3 -ly adverb opener and the #4 -ing opener.
These will be added to our checklists for the next compositions!
Last week we discussed different propaganda techniques used on Animal Farm AND that are commonly used in the media today. They are to choose an advertisement and analyze it for propaganda as well as use of any literary devices. This assignment is due next week, so I took the opportunity to check their progress and answer any questions. Before moving on, we took a minute to learn the persuasive techniques of ethos, pathos, and logos. We learned that pathos is the most common technique in advertising today. Playing on consumers’ emotions seems second nature to ad agencies. Logos–logical facts and stats are also powerful. Ethos is like the bandwagon technique in some ways–it appeals to a person’s credibility by showcasing their achievements and accomplishments. (If you want to play ball like Michael Jordan, wear this brand of shoe!) After that, I called students’ attention to this page for a longer list of literary devices to use in their analysis. Those are due next week.
Literature
We are moving along in Animal Farm and are up to chapter 6. We broke into groups and had a 4 Square Style Discussion over the significant events in those chapters. Each group member was assigned a role and we had some great participation. After the small group discussion, each group presented their most significant or surprising takeaways to the large group.They demonstrated some wonderful critical thinking! I told the students I wish we had the entire class time to just talk about the book and many agreed. Instead of reader response questions, they have a take home quiz to complete on Google Classroom.
Alas, time moves on and Grammar awaits. Today’s topic was on a Simple Sentences Review and the other was practice on prepositional phrases. Make sure to correct your work before you turn it in!
Blessings,
Mrs. G
Homework
Advertisement analysis (due next week)
Read Animal Farm ch. 7 & 8
Prepositional Phrases Practice
Links For This Week
Ethos, logos, pathos slideshow
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