March 25, 2025 Skills

Hello, RW3!
​I hope you are having a great day so far! Here are the skills and reminders for the week ahead.

Reminder: All writing prompts are due on March 28, 2025, which is Friday of THIS week! To those of you who have passed work in during these past few weeks, thank you so much!! If I have not returned your writing just yet, it's on its way back to you!

Part One
Idiom of the Day
I have an entire page of idioms, which you will soon receive (and which I will hang on the wall for future reference!). It will be fun to go through several at a time each day (and to test your knowledge of all of them when we have finished)!

Today's Example: cup of tea
Sentence with idiom used in context: Lucas was proficient at most sports, but golf was not his cup of tea!

How can we figure out the meaning of this idiom? Let's discuss it now, and you can jot down your ideas in this space:

Your Definition of this Idiom:

Part Two
Root of the Day
de-
Origin: Latin
Meaning: from, away from, removing, down
Examples: delete, descend, dethrone, denounce, debate, depress, decay, decode, depart (and so many more!)

Can you use each of the above words in sentences of their own? 

Part Three
Grammar Challenge
Review of Various Parts of Speech

Directions: Please select the correct part of speech that fits with the words in bold print in the sentences below. Remember our usage rule--what may seem like a noun could, in fact, be another part of speech because of how it is used!

1. The computer game was so much fun that we could not stop playing it!

2. Did you purchase a new computer for class yet?

3. Is that an Italian restaurant on the corner of Broadway?

4. He is a great professor, who teaches his students how to write great stories.

5. Tom worked so hard yesterday that he slept for over ten hours last night.

Bonus: Writing: If you have not finished your writing prompts that are due on Friday (tomorrow!), please work on them in between class activities today!