IEW- Week 18

Thank you moms for making this a wonderful day! And thank you Rose for heading up the math part of it despite feeling so crummy.

All of the menus and worksheets were saved and page protected so that we can play this game again and again (sans food) until they get quite comfortable with the concepts of tax and tip and subtotals and unit pricing and all that practical math stuff. Thank you to all the moms who jumped in to help whoever needed help. Totally a team effort all around.

Now, on to the assignment of that week: Lesson 22. This lesson is very well laid out in the book and really holds your hand through the process. I highly recommend that everyone do Level A since this is a one week paper. However, if you feel you need an extra challenge, Level B instructions are spelled out on the last page of the lesson. It is a 3 paragraph paper with an opening topic and final clincher. If you really want to take it to the next level, the unit 7 chart in the student notebook lays out how to stretch this to a 5 paragraph essay.

Here's the scoop:
-one week
-one paragraph
-one thing
-can be first person
-illustrations get an extra 5 marbles

Nitty-gritty:
Pretending that you are a Medieval peasant who has visited 2014 for a brief 24 hr period, what are you going to tell your friends when you get back home? Pick ONE THING to describe and then use your 5 sense words (and other decorations and dress-ups and sentence openers) to put it in terms that they can understand (remember, you can tell them that you saw a cool telephone-eth ;) but they don't have a clue what a telephone-eth is. It would be better to describe it as a "magical box that voices come out of".... or "a box that lights up and rings"... or.... you get the picture).

Remember:
The goal is one well written, solid paragraph that practices the format that you will need in future essay writing from prompts such as on standardized achievement tests and college admissions essays. Don't forget the topic sentence, clincher sentence and a title that repeats and reflects. Just a reminder, a paragraph is 4 to 7 sentences.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me!
Blessings,
Melissa

PS- I know many of you are feeling quite under the weather and have sicklin's at home. Several of you have expressed concern. Grace and mercy to you! This is one of the reasons why this and the next few assignments are listed as Level A only. It's that time of year and we want to be practical as well as accountable. No crying in Essentials! Only you know the needs of your family.