Literature
We are nearing the end of our "Generations: Conflicts and Legacies" unit. We will read Mark Twain's memoir, "Cub Pilot on the Mississippi" next week. To prepare, we are watching a documentary called Mark Twain's America and a clip of Hal Holbrook's stage show, Mark Twain Tonight!. (The videos can be linked on our Resources tab.) Students are to take notes over both and be ready to discuss what they think Twain's legacy is to us. Writing Students will receive their graded Literary Analysis essays this next week and begin our next composition: a narrative about a special family memory or life lesson learned. We will use the stories, poems, and nonfiction pieces in our lit unit as models. We will now use our SOAPSTone charts as writers--intentionally crafting our work to convey ourselves as the speaker, to use the literary elements to develop our theme, and to control our tone with creative diction, figurative language, and syntax. We will continue our review of grammar and mechanics, incorporating that into our composition. Vocabulary We have made flash cards for the suffixes on p. 11. Online cards and games are available at Quizlet.com, and IXL RR.1, RR.2, RR.3 are due on Friday, 9/16/16 by 7:30 AM. Our quiz will be that day as well. Independent Reading Everyone please remember to bring the IR books (a pre-1960 classic) to class every day and to keep the vocab and figurative language logs up-to-date! This project is due on September 30, 2016. Comments are closed.
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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
August 2023
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