Thanks for a First Great Week!
Literature Class: During our first week of school, we have discussed our summer reading books and written two short compositions about them. Once you see your grades for these in Jupiter, you can open the Google Docs and read the feedback. Please see me if you have questions. We started our first thematic unit of literature, Unit I. Generations--Conflicts and Legacies, by reading Longfellow's famous poem "Paul Revere's Ride." We completed this assignment in Actively Learn. Writing Class: We have reviewed and are starting to use MLA format for all of our compositions. We updated the "Yes Ma'am" strategy for constructed response items to a "CEA" strategy (Claim, Evidence, Analysis). Be sure to keep both handouts over these lessons to reference throughout the year. This week, we started a unit on Sentence-Composing Tools. Our first tool is the Opening Adjective. IXL HH.1 and HH.2 are assigned this week to help us master the use of adjectives. The Creative Writing Assignment for Opening Adjectives is below.
Independent Reading: The first Independent Reading opportunity begins next week, but you are welcome to find a book now and to start carrying it daily. Our first IR book is free choice fiction, and you will complete a series of Google Forms surveys about your book for accountability. Your book should be a challenging and fun choice that can keep you reading for three-four weeks. Picture Day is August 25! (The above image relates to our choice of sentence starters for the Opening Adjectives Composition. It illustrates Baba Yaga's forest hut. If you look closely, you can see the "hen's feet.") 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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