Writing Class: 1. We will introduce participial phrases today by working on IXL GG6. Work to a score of at least 85 today. (This IXL will be due to a score of 100 on Friday, January 21.) 2. Use the link below to access class notes for the packet, "Sentence-Composing Tools: Participial Phrase." Read through the notes and watch the video links. 3. Complete Practice 1 Matching, Practice 2 Unscrambling, and Practice 3 Combining. Self-check and be prepared to show these to me when you return to class. 4. We will work on Practice 4, Practice 5, and the Creative Writing next week. Literature Class: 1. We will discuss Shakespeare's poem "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" in class today. Make sure you have shared your study guide responses with me. See yesterday's blog post for links. 2. We will watch a musical interpretation of the poem at the link below. As you watch, think about how this may change your analysis of the poem. Revise your answers on your study guide as needed. (You do not need to send the document to me again. Your changes will show up when I view your first link.) 3. Compare and contrast Shakespeare's poem about winter with Dickinson's and Updike's. Write your ideas in a brief paragraph at the bottom of your study guide. The video links have been approved for you to watch, but you still may need to access them on a different device due to school filters. As always, please feel free to email me during the school day if you have questions. Writing Class:
1. This is the last day this week that we will use a full class period to work on the Independent Reading #3 project. Please read your book for at least 30-35 minutes. 2. Add one quotation to your slide collection. Write a paragraph of detailed analysis of the quotation on your next slide. 3. Remember that the project is due on Friday, January 28. See yesterday's blog post for a link to the requirements. Literature Class: 1. We are finishing discussion of the Dickinson and Updike poems. If you are working from home, please make sure you have answered the study guide questions and shared them with me in a Google Doc. See the January 11 blog post for links. 2. We will read and answer study guide questions for the poem "Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind" on p. 393 of the textbook; see below for links. If you are working from home, please share your responses in a Google Doc by 3:00 PM today. Writing Class: 1. Review the requirements for the Independent Reading #3 project at the link below. Read the model and rubric carefully to make sure you are following instructions. 2. Read your IR#3 book for a minimum of 35-45 minutes today. 3. Create at least one quotation slide and one explanation slide. Make sure that your written explanation is specific and detailed. Literature Class: 1. Make sure you have read the Dickinson and Updike poems. and submitted your responses in a Google Doc for the study guide questions. See yesterday's blog post for links. 2. We will discuss these poems in class on Wednesday. If you are working from home, look for some feedback from me in your Google Doc. As always, if you are working from home, please feel free to email me throughout the day if you have questions.
Writing Class:
Today we are borrowing some time from writing class to work on our Independent Reading project. If you are working from home, read your book for about 35 minutes and then spend about 15 minutes setting up your slide show with at least one quotation. Literature Class: 1. Read the two poems about snow: "The Sky Is Low" by Emily Dickinson and "January" by John Updike. Use the links below. 2. Answer the questions on the study guide at the second link. If you are working from home, write your answers in a Google Document and share it with me by the beginning of class on Wednesday, January 12. As always, please feel free to email me if you have questions. Writing Assignment: 1. Use the link below to access the lesson "Sentence-Composing Tools--Prepositional Phrase." 2. Complete all items Practice 1 through Practice 5. You may use loose leaf paper for these exercises and turn them in when you return to school. 3. Scroll to the last page of the document and complete the Creative Writing Assignment. This should be shared as a Google Doc by the end of school today. 4. This week's IXL assignment is II.1 (Prepositional Phrases). This is due Friday, January 14, at 7:00 PM. Literature Class: 1. Use the link below to read the poem "Migrant Birds" and answer the study guide questions. You may share your responses in a Google Doc by the end of the day. 2. Please watch the three videos at the end of the "Migrant Birds" study line. I have shared the links in that Google Doc. They are approved, but you still may need to watch them on another device. 2. Continue reading your Independent Reading Book #3 (Nonfiction). Set up your Slides to start collecting significant quotations from the book. If you have not shown me your book for Friday's book check, please send me an image of the physical book you have or bring the book when you return to school. As always, please email me if you have questions. Thank you! |
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A Classroom Prayer
Holy Spirit, Giver of all good gifts, enter into my mind and heart. Give me the gift of knowledge and the grace to use it wisely. Help me in all my endeavors. Give me perseverance and fortitude. Help my memory, that I may remember what I learn and recall it when necessary. Guide me in the classroom.
O Jesus, You who are the Way, the Truth, and the Life, let me not be deceived by false teaching. Our Lady of Good Studies, pray for me. Amen. Mary, Undoer of Knots,
Pray for Us! A Prayer to Christ, the Divine Teacher
O source of all Wisdom, Christ the Teacher,
You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Teach us to embrace the truths You have revealed to Your Church. Fill our souls with Your Grace that we may love God above all and our neighbors as ourselves. Christ Jesus, friend and Teacher most patient, bless us and teach us. O Light of the world, teach us always to follow You that we should not walk in darkness, but have forever the Light of Life! Amen. Archives
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