November 12 and 13, 2024

Hi Class!

I have embedded a few hyperlinks within this page to make it easier for me to access them during class time! You can also click on most of them from your laptops at home and practice some of the same skills!

We will be reading a new fable today using this link Library of Congress Aesop Fables. We will read perhaps the most famous fable of all today and discuss its meaning (and whether we have experienced something similar in our own lives). Do you remember what the elements of a fable are? 

In grammarbook.com, we will continue to look at the various types of pronouns that exist! This particular page provides important rules, examples, and exceptions. (Note: An exception to a rule means that it is an example that does NOT follow what the rule tells us to do!! This is the trickiest part of the English language, for sure!)

We will then try a quiz or two on that same grammarbook.com website in order to check our understanding. This second hyperlink will bring you directly to the pronoun quiz we will complete in class today!

After that, we will edit a paragraph that will be shown on our Smartboard. Since we do not have the hard copy, we will be working on this verbally as a class. You may still use your notebooks to take down any notes about the edits we make today!. The website is Every-Day Edit: Veterans Day | Education World and today's paragraph just happens to focus on Veterans Day!

Our vocabulary lesson will also be on the Smartboard, since I was able to access materials through Townsend Press for our current lessons! This website is https://www.educationworld.com, but a hyperlink isn't available because only a teacher who has been approved is able to use this website! I am happy to have received approval so that I can at least share it with you in class. We will work on chapter 10 today, but when our school photocopier is back, we will review both 9 and 10 more thoroughly!

In addition, here is our adage for today: The grass is always greener on the other side.

Some topics we will be looking at as we begin our argument essays are:

• Are we too dependent on our phones?
• Should everyone have internet access?
• Should internet access be free?
• Should social media companies be allowed to collect data from their users?
• How has the internet impacted human society?
• Should self-driving cars be allowed on the streets?
• YOUR CHOICE!

I cannot wait to work with all of you in the days ahead!! Let's have the best class!!