Hello!
We are in the thick of it and the weather is turning warm. Just as spring should be! We had another great class together today. Here’s what we did.
Quick Write
The topic today was designed to get students thinking about success, qualities in others they admire, people they admire and fictional characters they’d love to meet IRL 🙂. They were given five minutes and they could choose whichever topic piqued their interest.
For the Writing portion of the class, we had a check-in on their Thank Me essays that were assigned last week. The topic of this essay is to think deeply and write about what specific deeds/personality traits they’d like to be thanked for. We thought a little bit about the importance of gratitude–this time, in the form of writing thank you notes. I hope my students are no strangers to this dying art! We watched a few short videos on how to write a proper thank you note. After that, each student picked out some stationary and they got started.Their finished thank you notes are due along with their essays next week. While they were writing, I went around and gave them credit if they met the deadline for their KWO. Their KWOs were due this week and most students look like they are tracking well.
Two more sentence openers were added to our checklist for this next assignment and today, we learned the [5] adverbial clause opener and the [1] subject opener. The [5] sentence opener is very straightforward if you remember the WWW.ASIA.B dress-up. You just start the sentence with that. The only trick is to make sure to use a comma after the adverbial clause. Remember:
AC, MC
That stands for adverbial clause COMMA main clause. (You need to use a comma after the www.asia.b clause when you use it to start the sentence.) For example:
[5] When you use this adverbial clause, you must put the comma after the clause.
The subject opener is SUPER SIMPLE! It's what you write as a default--which is why I leave this one until last. You simply start the sentence with a subject. (You may use an adjective or article to precede if necessary.) Don't overuse this because it can be very tedious to read. For example:
[1] This sentence opener is very easy.
We didn’t discuss “Piemienta Pancake” or “Retrieved Reformation” from last week in Literature. Instead, we had a true Pop Quiz! I wanted to give these students the “authentic pop quiz” experience since I had given them a warning last week. Instead of grading last week’s quiz, I will grade this one.
We will discuss the above two stories plus the“The Ransom of Red Chief” in class next week. The last story is O. Henry’s arguably most famous–it is a very humorous one that I think they will enjoy. There is a worksheet, and a Quiz assigned on Google Classroom. (I forgot to emphasize the quiz in class!)
For our Grammar portion of the class, I gave three worksheets for continued practice in identifying sentence elements for the various sentence patterns that have been covered this semester. Make sure to correct your own work!
Have a blessed weekend!
Mrs. G
Homework
Read “Ransom of Red Chief”
Grammar
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