Greetings!
We had a great class yesterday. This is a good, conscientious group of students.
We started with a Quick Write. For today's prompt, I offered them 2 options. September 15 was Agatha Christie's birthday, and she is known as the "queen of mysteries" with over 80 books to her name. She also wrote the world's longest running play, The Mousetrap. Students could write their opinions about mysteries, a mysterious event, or an original mystery. The other option was related to National Apple Dumpling Day (Sept. 17). Baked apple goods seem to be the quintessential fall food. Students could write about apples or some other favorite fall food.
Following our Quick Write, I went over some Google Classroom "Protocols," hopefully clarifying questions that students have had.
- 99.9% of your assignments are on Google Classroom (GC)
- You can hand in work on GC or in class but NOT BOTH
- If you do the assignment on Google Classroom, remember to "Turn In" (button in the upper right corner of the window.)
- If you have handed in an assignment during class (the paper version), please the Google Classroom assignment alone. I will assign a grade and return in.
- Some assignments can ONLY be done on Google Classroom. When that is the case, those homework assignments will be designated (GC)
- For the Final Drafts of your essays, follow these steps IN ORDER:
- Open your Rough Draft document, select/highlight all of the content (Ctrl-A) and copy it (Ctrl-C)
- Open the Google Classroom assignment for the Final Draft and then open the document/template.
- Paste the contents of the Rough Draft onto this document.
- Make corrections and revisions. (DO NOT MAKE CORRECTIONS WHILE IT IS STILL IN THE ROUGH DRAFT DOCUMENT!)
- Turn it in!
This week, students were to take notes of class, and these notes are due in class next week. Sometimes when we are covering a significant amount of content, I will have students take notes and then turn in copies of those notes. Students can hand in the paper copies of their notes next week OR upload copies to the Google Classroom assignment.
Students are taking part in some of the instruction of the various topics related to research writing. This week Katie and Laura led the discussion/instruction regarding MLA paper format. They thoroughly covered the bases. (Here's a link to a copy of their whiteboard.)
We took the rest of our class time to go over the Rough Drafts of their essays in a peer review session. Students traded papers and read through one another's essays, making comments about content, organization, and mechanics. I was pleased with how thoughtful and intentional they were and how thorough they were in filling out the peer review worksheet. (Those who were absent will receive scanned copies of their rough drafts.)
Have a wonderful weekend!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
Assignments for Next Week
-- Final Draft of Essay #1
-- This should be submitted online via Google Classroom
-- Bring the rough draft with my corrections to class on 9/24
-- The MLA Format Quiz (GC)
-- A Copy of your 9/17 notes
-- 3 potential topic ideas for the Research Paper
Other Links for This Week
Class Notes for 9/17
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