Greetings!
From my point of view, we had a productive class time. Our Quick Write was a short brainstorming session with an ACT writing prompt concerning dress codes. We took turns contributing and organizing ideas.
Our Vocabulary Building exercise included SAT prep words, a Latin dictionary, a Latin/English derivatives book, and a book of word etymologies. Knowing the roots and derivatives of words often opens up an even wider vocabulary.
Our Grammar Review included sentence fragments, run-on sentences, subject-verb agreement, pronoun-verb agreement, and pronoun-antecedent agreement. Some of this information is helpful for their own writing, and some will aid future testing.
The students should be in the "gathering information" stage of their research paper. We covered what makes a Finding the Best Sources, Evaluating a Source, Preparing an Annotated Bibliography, and Note-Taking. (Please go to the blog for more information and review of the information.)
Next Week's Assignments:
-- An first draft of an outline for the paper.
-- Notecard check. (A check of the students' progress in researching their topic.)
Note: I had mentioned at the very beginning of the class that most of the work for this class will happen outside of our class periods. Realistically, the students should do about an hour of work a day on this project. This is not something that they should leave until the last minute.
Have a great week!
Tammy Prichard
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