September
21
ELA 20: Sept 21 Homonyms and Commonly Misspelled Words…
- With students starting their blogging and submitting the first of their assignments, I’m noticing some common errors with the ‘typical’ words that many students struggle with. We want to curb this at the beginning of the year and have students put an effort into carefully choosing the correct spelling of their words for the context the words are used in. A lot of those errors start with Homonyms.
- We reviewed several groups of them: there/their/they’re; its/it’s; to/two/too; where/wear, etc. They did a quick test on their words, too, and did fairly well. This test was more elementary. Evan seemed pretty confident with it all, though, and challenged me to really test his abilities. Well… game on! lol
- We then started looking at the next piece of literature we are going to study called “How to Battle with Grown Ups”. We discussed two aspects of the article – that it is a satire and meant to mock the relationship between adults and their children and that it alludes to characters from the Bible, David and Goliath, in creating a drama between extreme competitors. It’s actually quite a well-written article. We’ll study it in more detail tomorrow.