Monday, February 27, 2017

Week 18 Recap

Grammar:
Now we compare S-Vt-DO OCN and OCA (see previous blog post)! 😄

Writing: Marco Polo
More Inventive Writing (using our own mind as the source text by asking ourselves questions). This assignment is fun because our students get to write a letter and let their imaginations run wild! Great place to practice all our dress ups!

Monday, February 13, 2017

Week 16-17 Recap

Grammar: S-Vt-DO-OCN and OCA

I like to think of the contrast between these two structures as similar to the difference between S-Vt-DO-PN and PA: it's a matter of the DO being renamed as another noun or describing by an adjective what the object has become.


Writing: Favorite Amusements, 1&2
Unit VII: Inventive Writing
In this unit we practice using our own experiences and imagination as a source text. We do this by asking ourselves a series of questions about a topic (questions in the student text). Remember, it's the process of asking and answering these questions well which we want the students to master; not simply rewriting a source text!