Another week of Grammar has gone by. I am so glad that we changed the way Socratic Seminar works in our class. Instead of having two separate circles there was only one. Having one circle helped with everyone participating when they wanted to; I also felt like the entire class was actively listening to the discussion even if they had nothing to say. I hope that having one group continues to help whole class participation.
On Monday we got to do more verb types. I was so glad that we got to work more on them. I was not sure how to find transitive verbs, linking verbs, or intransitive verbs. Barbara helped go through some with me so that I could see steps to finding them. I was really happy that Barbara would cross out the prepositional phrases of the titles in the newspaper so then there was nothing else but the type of verb and its subject or direct object. It seems like in Grammar we are going to have to build on our knowledge of word classes so knowing all of them is important. I really appreciate that Barbara had another day to work on it with us.
Barbara has said that in class we are going to be looking at our blog entries and that we are going to be upset when she tells us our mistakes. I don’t think I will get mad though. I am hoping that her telling me what I’m doing wrong will help me to improve my writing. It might surprise me the kinds of mistakes I am making but nonetheless it will help me.
I am also getting nervous about our Grammar Scrapbooks. I don’t want all of my examples to be from one newspaper or magazine. I want to have a variety of mistakes from different sources. I just hope that I have enough knowledge of grammar to find the mistakes. Although I am nervous about the actual examples I love doing the scrapbooking part. I love putting all of the paper together and making it coordinates with the rest of the book.
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