Week 8

Thank you for being flexible with me and allowing me to run the classes together and slip out during math.  I thought I was just exhausted from being up with sick girls, but it looks like it was a bit more than that.  I spent the rest of that day and the next day in bed. I pray that no one caught anything from me.  I was careful to wash hands well and not breathe all over people just incase I was carrying germs.

EEL

Prepositions

I hope you enjoyed The Spooky Old Tree! My kids love the book.  I've not found a better one for introducing prepositions.

We started class with "Preposition and Treat" and wrote down the preposition. Mine was...

between

This became the foundation of our sentence.  We added an object of the preposition by asking preposition + who/what?  Remember, without an object, a preposition is just an adverb. (Example: Jane went out.) Here is mine.

between the pages

We added a subject and verb to the preposition to complete our simple sentence. Mine had a direct object too.

She hid money between the pages.

Finally, we added a second simple sentence, using the interrogative form.  We connected these sentences with a comma and coordinating conjunction.

She his money between the pages, but where did she hide the book?

Voila! A compound interrogative sentence with a prepositional phrase.

We also checked out Chart J (Prepositions) and talked about memorizing them.  There is a song for this in the sidebar, in Cycle 1.  It's lengthy, but worth memorizing.
We also walked through the C.S. Lewis quotation and found tons of prepositional phrases.

IEW

Vocabulary words: animosity, provoke, indignant, audacious.

We moved from Unit 3 Story Narrative (creative writing based) to Unit 4, Summarizing References (report writing based).  Your Unit 4 chart in your IEW charts section gives the outline that we use.

Topic:
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Clincher:

We looked at "The First Thanksgiving" p. 102, and identified topic sentences and clinchers and saw how they repeat and reflect.

With topic/body/clincher, remember…
Tell them what you're going to tell them.
Tell them.
Tell them what you told them.

Next, we read our source text for Lesson 14, "Colonial Life: Church" p. 104.  We constructed our KWO by reading through and choosing facts that were important or interesting. Do not KWO each sentence.  With a lengthy text, you will have no choice but to limit information.  The idea is to learn how to extract facts from too much information and to prioritize and limit what goes into your paper. Feel free to use the outline we did in class or change it to incorporate facts that you wanted to include.

The one paragraph paper is due on Tuesday.  Please remember to check off your checklists and highlight words in the topic sentence and the clincher that repeat and reflect.