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Post date: Dec 8, 2017 4:09:57 PM
Friday December 8, 2017
15 Free for Me! > Spicy Diction
See cards... I hope you can understand my handwriting. :)
(They're coming... Just had a surprise chat with the Office Manager of the LF Family Practice - Mrs. Hall. What a nice person!
UPDATE: (Thanks for the email, A.C.) - to improve your lexicon (your personalized vocabulary, the "dictionary in your head," the best way to take words on is if YOU choose them and YOU figure out the best way to study them, prove to yourself / me that you know them, etc.).
So... 10 words today, please. 5 for this week, 5 for next week. Also, the most effective way to integrate new words into your lexicon is to look through your writing to see what ideas you express frequently, but for which you don't have a wide variety of words that you use.
Some typical examples that are shallow for folks: fun, great, happy, sad, angry, annoying, smart, hard (is it hard - as in a rock or hard as in difficult?).
Make a list of ideas that you bottom out on quickly, and then see what you can do to add to that. Were I to do this, I'd make my lists on different colors of paper to keep track of them easily. Help yourself to my colored paper, as you know. :)
Here are some places to look:
https://sites.google.com/a/rsu73.com/huish1213/home/logophilia
My Logophilia Pinterest board (probably will have to use your phones for this > if so, just show this part of my lesson plan to the sub): https://www.pinterest.com/mtnhaah/logophilia/
If you know you want to go into a specific career, see if you can Google a vocabulary list for that field. Totally fine with me if you get ahead!
After the first 15 minutes, please work on the 1.4 and 1.5 writing prompts. Draft 1.4, and you may do so together.
The best thing to do would be to work in small groups, comparing notes. Remember: your drafts have to be 100% in keeping with the prompt's requirements, so feel free to share ideas. REMEMBER, THOUGH: if you hear an idea from a classmate, one you've not thought of on your own, ask his/her permission to use it in your writing. Also, include his/her name in your response, for appropriate intellectual credit. In terms of how to do this correctly, look for "interview" on the Purdue OWL's "In-Text Citations, the Basics" page (link coming in a few minutes - by ??11:20??).
Try to finish your prompts by 11:45ish, and then move to the Write, Revise, Repeat protocol - using the W, R, R pens and clipboards. Remember: I cannot replace any of the pens and clipboards, as they were paid for by a grant. 8 out, 8 in. If one of you could take responsibility for being the "check in person" that'd be great.
If Google Classroom is cooperating, I'll make an assignment spot there for the 1.4 prompt. Pass it in, please, before the end of the day today (as in, 11:59pm).
If it's not, just share it with me, please.
If you finish early, I'd like you all to compare notes on the 1.5 story.
Here's the basic story structure:
a young girl who has highfalutin ideas about what she'll find in the U.S. arrives here from Russia
she starts off by working for a family from her hometown
it's not a great situation, but it's also not atrocious
she freaks out and storms out of the job, starting a roller coaster of horrid jobs > one after another
eventually, she figures out that - EUREKA - she has to learn a skill, have some humility, learn the language, and work really hard to succeed here
by the end of the story, she realizes that in order to be the person she really wants to be, she has to also learn how to read about the history, culture, and values of American society
So... that's the story, in a nutshell.
Now, please work together to tackle the annotating needed to address the writing prompt, keeping in mind that a well crafted driving question will make **everything** easier. :)
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