The honeymoon is over, as they say, and the English teacher is pulling out the grammar and vocabulary at long last! This week will mark our first foray into the nuts and bolts of English, with an introduction to nouns, the first round of WordSkills vocab, and a quiz on nouns at the end of the week.
Our schedule for today:
- Grade update and review of policies. Grades are now posted by student number in the classroom and online. I can provide you with your student number.
- Turned in second polished memoir piece. If you email it to me by midnight, it won’t be late. BUT remember to copy and paste the text into the body of your email as well as attaching the document.
- Reviewed parts of speech in groups. Students all received a Flowchart for Identifying Parts of Speech. Then, students chose a reading to practice identifying parts of speech on. The choices were: a page from Lois Duncan’s A Gift of Magic, a page from Walter Dean Myers’s Scorpions, the Lewis Carroll poem “Jabberwocky,” and a short story about friendship, “A Mardsan Giberter for Farfie.” “Jabberywocky” and “A Mardsan Giberter for Farfie” both contain mostly jibberish or nonsense words. Students had to identify what parts of speech each of these words was.
For example:
‘Twas brillig [N/ADJ], and the slithy [ADJ] toves [N]
Did gyre [V] and gimble [V] in the wabe [N];
All mimsy [ADJ] were the borogoves [N],
And the mome [ADJ] raths [N] outgrabe [ADJ/V].
Or:
Glis [N] was very fraper [ADJ]. She had denarpen [V] Farfie’s [ADJ] mardsan [N]. She didn’t talp [V] a giberter [N] for him. So she conlanted [V] to plimp [V] a mardsan [ADJ] binky [N] for him. She had just sparved [V] the binky [N] when he jibbled [V] in the gorger [N].
Students turned in their group work for a classwork grade.
HW: If you are presenting a WordSkills poster tomorrow, have it ready. Otherwise, no homework tonight.
Absent: Download “A Mardsan Giberter for Farfie,” and the Flowchart (see above). On your “Mardsan” sheet, label each made up word with the appropriate part of speech. Then answer the questions below. This can help your classwork grade if you do well. Due Wed. 9/16.
ALEXA GARVOILLE 