IEW-Week 7

Shout out to Mrs. Gains, last year's IEW tutor, who keeps up with us through our blog! We love and miss you!

Despite the picture chaos we managed to get in almost all of the review of the grammar rules and vocabulary thus far. Second class even got to a little bit of letter writing! I'm wracked with guilt over not completing those letters and I apologize profusely. :(  This week was a "breather week" and I tried to cram in too much. Don't forget that you have a grammar review quiz in your hands to use if you choose. ;)

Next week we will write some class letters to Indonesia and collect money for their Christmas package. If any student (or mom) wants to send a personal letter covered in stickers and drawings is highly encourage you to do so. We want to establish a relationship with this English Language Club so that they will have someone to connect with when they write letters back. We will send them another box with letters and goodies in February so putting names and faces together soon is an incredible blessing for us and them.

Along those lines, address the letter to "The English Language Club" and keep in mind that we cannot jeopardize their situation by referring to them as missionaries or  mentioning the work they are doing for the Kingdom. You can tell them about your church life or similar things about yourself. Honestly, I'm not sure how close we can walk that boundary and I do not want to create a potential "situation" for them so I suggest in this first letter to keep to the weather as they say in the South. Please also think about including pictures of you and your life. It can be as simple as printing it off of your computer! Along those lines, moms with smartphones, can you help me get some pictures of the class next week?

Now, on to the assignment: Lesson #11 is for you to keep on keeping on with the mini-research report. There is NO NEW INFORMATION (thus the reason why we could double back over our grammar rules and vocabulary). Make sure that this week you complete all 3 paragraphs. Topic A was what we did last week (Duties/Purposes of a Knight), Topics B and C are of your choosing. Go back in your mind to the list we made on the board on the topic of each paragraph in both source texts. You can choose from any of them. If you choose a topic that only has one source text, find a source of your own so that you can practice fusing 2 sources together.

Next week we will tackle Lessons #12 and #13. I highly recommend that you read ahead a bit. We will cover introductory/ conclusion paragraphs or sentences and how to do a bibliography. Then, our reports will be complete and ready to turn in.

THINK AHEAD:
-The faces of History Dinner Theatre is coming! Choose your topic and costume.
-It is tentatively scheduled for Thursday November 21.
-Everyone is welcomed to come for a medieval style feast that will showcase not only our Essentials students but also some Challenge 1 and 3 students who are also working on Shakespeare projects!
-Anyone that has a bent or interest in this type of event is heartily welcomed to join forces to make this fabulous!
-Don't forget to chip in a few dollars for our Indonesian Care Package!

Here are some links:

To the Indonesian Travel and Tourism website

To the blog for the Knott family

The blog has some funny stories and beautiful pictures as well as enlightening information about the people they are working with.

Have an amazing week and please, please contact me with any questions. Yesterday seemed a bit unorthodox and I'm concerned I may not have been able to answer questions properly.

Melissa