Mon. Notes were given on John Steinbeck's life. Students need to read through page 65 of Of Mice and Men by Wednesday, and should finish reading the whole book by next Monday (10/19). Expect a quiz!
Tues. Students received one handout on Word Choice and another handout on Sentence Fluency. We discussed these handouts quite a bit; students studied their drafts of the Autobiographical Narrative assignment and marked them up so they have ideas on how to improve them. The improved, second draft will be due next Wednesday.
Also, everyone was supposed to read Of Mice and Men through page 65 for today, and the book needs to be finished by Monday. Expect a quiz!
Tuesday and Wednesday we've been discussing the autobiographical narrative assignment.
Thursday: Class studied a story that appeared in a newspaper. Students examined sentence structures present throughout the article. This is an example of the "Journalistic Style," and its merits and shortcomings were discussed.
Students then received a two-sided handout containing the vocabulary from Of Mice and Men, and a poem. There will be a quiz in the next couple of weeks on the vocab.
Also, students received a poem titled " To a Mouse". A line in the poem matches the title of the current novel we're studying; students thus should answer the questions and be prepared to discuss this on Friday.
Finally, students received the second of three handouts on 6 Traits of Effective Writing. This handout covered Ideas and Organization.
Friday: Class reviewed chapters 1 and 2 in Of Mice and Men, and started working on questions from chapter 3. Additionally, the class's attention was drawn to the "hands" motif which appears most notably in the fourth chapter.
Assignment: All 3 classes are to revise their Autobiographical Narratives, with particular attention paid to verb choices and adjective choice (i.e. beware of
"nickel words.")
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