Devotional Text: Isaiah 9:6
Quiz: Sally Ride's "Single Room, Earth View"
Students received a table of common nonfiction genres with definitions and another without the definitions. The definition of these terms will be evaluated on the nonfiction test given before Christmas break. Students may find the table without definitions useful as they study for the portion of the test where they will need to be able to classify nonfiction genres by primary intention/form of discourse.
Students also received a packet on the five rules/principles of commas.
Mr. Stone reviewed the introductory material on observation and description in the text(635) and students took notes on the definition of description and on description techniques--naming, detailing, and comparing. Mr. Stone explained the writing adage: "Be concrete and specific" by using an example from his recent writing.
The class finished correcting their comma pretests. Two separate scores will be recorded, one showing how many commas the student properly inserted and another showing how many times the correctly identify which rule/principle supported the use of a comma in the given instance.
Homework: Read Isaac Bashevis Singer's "the Washwoman" (650-655). There will be a quiz at the beginning of the next class period.
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