It sounds from Tina as if Essentials proceeded wonderfully without me today! She said the students were perfectly behaved, so thank you to all! Thanks, too, to Amy for holding Will so Tina could teach without distraction. We are having a nice week together at the beach. Strangely, we're more caught up on school work than we would be at home. A relaxing feeling, to say the least.
I'm sure Tina explained and demonstrated interjections, simple imperative S-Vi sentences, and diagramming thoroughly. Work through a few sentences at home and review your charts this week. Next week, we move on to our second sentence pattern: S-Vt-DO. I can't wait to see the students' brains begin discerning the different sentence patterns as they are juxtaposed. It's invigorating to watch them learn.
To their IEW paragraphs, the students are adding sentence openers, a who/which clause, and a clincher-reflecting title. I am glad Tina thought to distribute "Evil Ka-Weasel" so that you could see how to label papers. Handwritten labels in the margins of typed papers are fine! You don't have to figure it out on the computer. I would, however, like for paragraphs to be formated in MLA style. The IEW resource notebook has a page on this, but I'll also include a link that gives you both written instruction and a visual image: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/. It's not difficult, and once you've done it, it's easy to replicate.
Please let me know if you have questions. I'm eager to read their paragraphs. See everyone next week.
Erin
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