*Scroll down for the link to the essay contest!
Welcome back to CHAT! I hope you had a wonderful break and are ready to finish the year STRONG! The weather is really starting to turn Springy now!
We started out with Visual Vocabulary. Today’s words are: fallacious and ardent. Hopefully these students are never ardently fallacious! I told them that we only have one more installment of Visual Vocabulary before the end-of-semester quiz.
We moved on to discuss the Writing portion of the class. Today I checked in about the Comparison/Contrast essays that are due today. This essay required some research, citations and Works Cited page. It also requires the most amount of Style elements for this year. For some, this list of Style elements is a comfortable challenge and for some, it has been a tough stretch.
If you are in the second category, I talked about how to reduce the checklist. I demonstrated using the document camera how to choose just a few elements from both the Dress-Ups and Sentence Opener categories and how to indicate those chosen elements all the way through their essay. If you are wondering which elements you should choose, I like to use the EZ + 1 strategy. That is, choose the elements that feel easy for you, and then add one more.
Be strategic about this! Your checklist should not look sporadic! For example, if one of your chosen elements is an -ly adverb, then I should see that -ly adverb in each paragraph. Please write “Reduced Checklist” on your Checklist if you decide to narrow it down.Unless you have indicated that on your checklist, I will expect all boxes to be checked–but DO WHAT YOU CHECK & CHECK WHAT YOU DO! 😀
In light of this new information, I extended the deadline. It will be due next week (4/24). I recommend students use their time well and get in any compositions/essays that are still in the “In Process” category.
Last announcement: As per my email, you may check Google Classroom for your current grade. I have lost the battle with my grade book, so I won’t be sending any more reports this year. I will send out final grades with some comments at the end of the semester.
For the Literature part of the class, we worked with a poem that is assigned for next week. It’s actually one of my very favorites! “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams is short and packed with imagery. After reading silently and aloud a few times (this did not take long!), we watched a short biographical video on his life. Students then used a handout that helped them discuss the imagery and themes. We discussed the other imagist poet Ezra Pound. Students are assigned to write two poems in the style of Williams or Pound.
For Grammar we practiced Simple and Compound sentences again. Students had time to work on the two worksheets in class. Remember, just because you see a FANBOY, does not necessarily mean it’s a compound sentence. You’ll know it’s compound if the sentence has two independent clauses. Then put your comma before the FANBOY.
That is all! Blessings on your weekend!
Mrs. G
Homework
Week 12 Grammar
Compare/Contrast Essay (if not yet finished or would like to reduce checklist)
Links for this week
WK 12 Poetry Discussion– “The Red Wheelbarrow”
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