Writing 1: CHAT Writing 1 Class Notes

Greetings, Everyone!

We’ve finished the first third of this semester and the weather is still gorgeous out there. Time sure flies with this wonderful group of students!

We started the class with Visual Vocabulary as we discussed the words epigram and edifice. In today’s world, there seem to be edifices of epigrams wherever we look! If you want to see a lot of epigrams in one place, go to your local Hobby Lobby! 😀 (See the example on the left.)

Grammar

Today marked the beginning of learning the parts of speech. Since we don’t have an Interjections group to present, I did the honors of teaching a mini-lesson. I modeled the “I do, We do, You do” teaching technique that I’d like to see in their presentations.

📚“I do” = the mini-lesson on interjections where I explained what an interjection is and I projected some example sentences on the doc camera

📚“We do", a fun fill-in-the-bank comic book activity they completed with a partner

📚“You do”= worksheets

They got a start on their worksheets in class. I also passed out the KEYS for the Grammar worksheets for this semester and explained the procedure. Students are to complete the worksheets and then (using a different colored pen) correct their own work. There is a lot of learning that occurs during this process! They will receive a base score for completed work no matter how many they get wrong. Please make the corrections very visible to me so that I can see you have completed the assignment or it will be returned to you with a “0.” The same applies to work completed on Google Classroom. After each student presentation, the class will evaluate the presentation and I will take their evaluations into account for their grade. This evaluation is a five question Google Classroom assignment. To complete this “pilot presentation”, and give them a taste of what they will be doing for each group that presents, students will fill that out for my presentation today.

Last, the Verbs group was scheduled to present today. However, due to a scheduling challenge, we had to pivot. Therefore, I gave a very brief presentation on verbs and assigned worksheets. Those are due next week.

Literature

Roles for next week’s Literature Circle discussion were assigned. You will receive a grade on your preparation and participation and we went over the expectations. Each student has a part to play in order to make this a fruitful discussion. They are to keep reading chapters 12 & 13 this week and prepare for an in-class reading quiz next week. The discussion will follow the quiz and cover Peter Pan up to chapter 13.

Writing

Since the focus of this first essay is narrative and strong use of language, we quickly discussed talked figures of speech–aka “decorations.” I posted a slideshow on similes, personification, metaphor, alliteration, the VSS and 3SSS and duals/triples. We will work with these more next week and play a game.

Their KWOs which were due today. If they didn’t have them in class, they have until 11:59pm tonight to post it on GC. Personal essays are due next week! They must be composed on Google Classroom using the template–use some decorations :)

Enjoy this gorgeous, summer-like weather!

Blessings,

Mrs. G

Homework

Interjections

Interjections–Circling

Interjections Practice

Interjections Evaluation–Evaluate my “presentation”

Verbs

Where is the Verb–Worksheet–Homework 1

Identify the Verb in the Sentence–Homework 2

Personal Essay–due next week (10/9)!