Daily Annoucements
I post here daily about what we accomplished in class each day, including handouts and links available to students on my CANVAS site.
Tuesday, 2/13
Semester 2, Day 14 We started off, as usual, with 10 minutes of independent reading time. There is such a great diversity in what students are reading during this time: graphic novels, historical fiction, young adult literature, popular fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, fantasy -- you name it! Next, we defined and discussed the next 5 words on our current vocabulary list, followed by a brief discussion of correct punctuation of compound sentences. Most students demonstrated understanding of the structure of compound sentences on our pretest for the grammar unit, but in their writing, students still punctuate their compound sentences incorrectly more than correctly. Our goal is to reverse that to more correct than incorrect! For the final third of class, students worked in their groups on the research project for the Introduction to Greek Drama and Oedipus. Today's goal was to take notes/write the answers to all of the questions and to identify each source that answered each question (most questions are answered in multiple sources). Since this is a mini-research project, they must NOT ONLY find the answers BUT ALSO must find ALL sources that address the question and include in the answer information from each source. Homework: 5-minute compound sentence punctuation worksheet (comma or semicolon?). Finish writing answers for each of YOUR allotted questions from the Greek Drama research so that tomorrow you can start inputting information into Google Doc and then adding design elements to create "textbook" pages.
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