Visual Vocabulary
Our words today were hackneyed (adj) and boon (noun). Students worked with those words today.
Writing
Happy deadline day! We turned in our Compare/Contrast essays and jumped straight into Peer Reviews. I love this exercise because it gives you an authentic audience and the kind of "outside-in" feedback that turns a good draft into a great one. Plus, there’s no better way to spark your own creativity than by seeing the brilliant ways your peers tackle the same assignment. In order to benefit from this assignment, you had to have brought a finished paper copy of your essay today. The final essay is due next week (3/19).
Literature
After that, we refreshed ourselves on the two O. Henry stories that were assigned for Literature this week. They were a study in contrasts! “The Furnished Room” is a rare melodramatic (and, frankly, depressing story) whereas “Makes the Whole World Kin” is more in the style we have come to know from O. Henry: witty, humorous and ironic. After a short discussion–and because I must keep these students on their toes– we had a quiz over the second story. Next week they have two more stories and a Short Story Packet as homework.
Grammar
Today we coveredPredicate Complements. I told the students that linking verbs are very vain: they always need a “complement”! We took out the linking verb Venn Diagram that we used during the last class to remind us of linking verbs examples.
If a complement renames the subject, it is called a “predicate noun.” If the complement describes the subject, it is called a “predicate adjective.” I wrote a few simple examples on the board and then students had time to work on the worksheets. They should use the KEY to correct their own work and are due next week.
Blessings!
Mrs. G
Homework this week
Read “Pimienta Pancake” & “Retrieved Reformation”
Short Story Packet #2
Grammar
Predicate Complements
Predicate Adjectives
Links for this week
Writing 1 Class Blog
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