Homework:
Period 1 English 9 - Make sure your journal is complete through Act 3 scene 3
Period 2 English 9 - Make sure your entire Act 3 journal is complete. It is due tomorrow
Period 4 English 10 - Holden it Down, Holden Style story is due tomorrow. It should be typed and follow MLA style. Please note that we did not yet finish reading Catcher so the journal will not be due tomorrow. Stay tuned for more information on that due date...
Period 1 English 9 - Make sure your journal is complete through Act 3 scene 3
Period 2 English 9 - Make sure your entire Act 3 journal is complete. It is due tomorrow
Period 4 English 10 - Holden it Down, Holden Style story is due tomorrow. It should be typed and follow MLA style. Please note that we did not yet finish reading Catcher so the journal will not be due tomorrow. Stay tuned for more information on that due date...
English 9 and 10
We began class today with our simple sentence "Margaret slept." Each student received one red and one white lego. The red lego represented Margaret, the subject of the sentence, and the white lego represented slept, the predicate of the sentence. I challenged students to write a four to six sentence story where each sentence included only two words. My example was: He dribbled. He shot. He scored. He celebrated. Ask your student what he or she wrote and maybe come up with one on your own. It was actually very interesting to listen to the amount of action contained in this simple stories. The next activity involved varying sentence structure with a method called branching. Students learned that a sentence that begins with the subject and predicate and then follows with a more detailed description of the subject and predicate is called left branching. The opposite of left branching is right branching and this is when the details of the subject and predicate are written first in the sentence and the subject and predicate come at the end. The last structure is called middle branching and this is when the subject is written first, details follow, and the predicate ends the sentence. For example:
After a night cramming for her chemistry exam, Margaret slept. This is an example of left branching.
Margaret slept, dreaming of her long-lost love. This is an example of right branching.
Margaret, the campaign organizer who worked so tirelessly, slept. This is an example of middle branching.
Most students are already capable of crafting their sentences using the branching structure. Today we exposed their skill in grammar and writing in order to define the structure and their skill.
Period 1 finished Act 3.2 and 3.3 in Romeo and Juliet. Here are the passages I found to satisfy the prompts. These are examples and not the only passages that provide evidence for the prompt. Students should fill in their own reactions to the passages.
We began class today with our simple sentence "Margaret slept." Each student received one red and one white lego. The red lego represented Margaret, the subject of the sentence, and the white lego represented slept, the predicate of the sentence. I challenged students to write a four to six sentence story where each sentence included only two words. My example was: He dribbled. He shot. He scored. He celebrated. Ask your student what he or she wrote and maybe come up with one on your own. It was actually very interesting to listen to the amount of action contained in this simple stories. The next activity involved varying sentence structure with a method called branching. Students learned that a sentence that begins with the subject and predicate and then follows with a more detailed description of the subject and predicate is called left branching. The opposite of left branching is right branching and this is when the details of the subject and predicate are written first in the sentence and the subject and predicate come at the end. The last structure is called middle branching and this is when the subject is written first, details follow, and the predicate ends the sentence. For example:
After a night cramming for her chemistry exam, Margaret slept. This is an example of left branching.
Margaret slept, dreaming of her long-lost love. This is an example of right branching.
Margaret, the campaign organizer who worked so tirelessly, slept. This is an example of middle branching.
Most students are already capable of crafting their sentences using the branching structure. Today we exposed their skill in grammar and writing in order to define the structure and their skill.
Period 1 finished Act 3.2 and 3.3 in Romeo and Juliet. Here are the passages I found to satisfy the prompts. These are examples and not the only passages that provide evidence for the prompt. Students should fill in their own reactions to the passages.
act_3.2_class_dejt.pdf |
rj_act_3.3_dejt.pdf |
Period 2 finished the rest of Act 3. Most students also completed their entire journal. If students had some entries to complete they need to have that done by tomorrow to receive full credit. Here the passages I shared with the class. To be clear, these are not the only passages that can satisfy the prompt, so your students might have other passages that are equally as valid. Students are responsible to fill in their own reactions on the right side of the journal.
rj_act_3.4_and_3.5_dejt.pdf |
Period 4 took notes on a PowerPoint which introduces my expectations of writing an academic body paragraph. The Internet went down after class so I am completing this blog from home. I will put the PowerPoint on the blog tomorrow once the Internet has been restored on campus. We spent the remainder of the period listening to The Catcher in the Rye and completing our journals. Tomorrow we will start with chapter 24 so make sure your journal is finished through chapter 23. Additionally, remember that one of your entries must be about the passage where Holden describes himself as the catcher in the rye.