Greetings!
This week was our penultimate class for the year -- the one before the last one!
We had a lightning fast round Visual Vocabulary today in order to get our last two in before we took the Spring Visual Vocabulary Quiz. Our words today were garrulous and abrogate. We talked them through and students jotted down the definitions. This was great, because the vocabulary quiz was “open worksheet.” What a great reward for taking great notes all semester!
After that, I gave the students five minutes to review for the Grammar Test and to make sure all was in order for the Vocabulary Quiz. Since their homework was a Sentence Patterns Review that they finished and corrected, they should have done really well on it! I had them help me correct it when it was all over and then we were ready to switch gears.
The rest of the class time was dedicated to committee work for the big event next week. As we discussed, it takes a lot of work to pull off a successful event. When students have “skin in the game” with planning and organizing an event, I find there’s a high level of ownership and engagement. After discussing how the committee work should flow, they were split into groups and got busy dividing and conquering their committee’s punch list. I encouraged them to exchange contact information. The theme was decided upon: Game Show! I am looking forward to seeing what they come up with–it should be fun!
Their final writing assignment, a Reflection Paper, is due next week. For this paper, they are to write about what they learned this year, what they learned about themselves this year, and what did and didn't work well this year. At the bottom of this email is a link to an article about the value of reflection as a part of learning.
Next week is the final week, and I will accept homework until Sunday, May 11 at 11:59 PM. My experience is that once the CHAT classes are done, students really lose momentum for completing late homework. My plan is to get final grades out within the week.
Blessings on your weekend!
Mrs. G
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Any old homework
–Practice your poems!
–Committee work
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