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A-List Vocabulary Word – Imagine

Round 2 of Sentence Diagraming – Students were given a study guide taking the work we had done last week with the basic sentence diagraming line and expanding it to the primary elements of the sentence that go under the line and the difference needed if there is an indirect object instead of a direct object. How to diagram all of the following was covered in class today.

What to do under the line.

• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Articles
• Prepositional Phrases

Indirect Objects

Students were shown how to find and review the presentation on the Weekly Independent Grammar Lesson in Canvas – which this week covers Prepositional Phrases.

Under Resources in Canvas click on the link for the appropriate week under Independent Weekly Grammar Lessons. This will allow you to download the powerpoint directly to your iPad.

Once you open the powerpoint on your iPad you must play the slide show so that all of the links are active.

In this first week’s lesson the first slide in like a table of contents with five different links. You have to click on the first link: Identifying prepositional phrases. That will take you into the first part of the lesson. There you must read each part of the slide and click on all of the small yellow arrows to work your way through that lesson. DO NOT just click Next or you will miss important information.

Watch * Summarize * Question

Once you have worked your way through the entire presentation you must fill out the WSQ form and submit it to the assignment for that week in Canvas. You will receive points for the WSQ each week and have a review quiz over that week’s grammar concept on Fridays. Your WSQ assignment in Canvas is due prior to the start of your class period every Friday. 

And the last thing covered in class today was the introduction to our next reading:

“The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol (funny satire with a surreal or supernatural twist)

• Add Satire to the vocabulary words in you Reading Log. Satire – the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Then think as we read “The Nose” what parts of it are satire and what parts of it fit our criteria for being magical realism.
• Close Reading – Reading for understanding and clarity.
• Annotation – Marking your text in ways that are helpful to you. What do your annotation tell you? They are no good to you if you just highlight different parts of the text. That is called coloring, and while coloring might be fun, it really doesn’t do anything to help you better understand the text or help you dig deeper.

 

Homework – finish reading and annotating the first chapter of “The Nose”