Summer Quarter-- Week 4, Day 1

Good morning! Yesterday was a fun day...we began class with "chicken"...don't chicken out, you'll do fine on our quizzes on Thursday!

We moved on a bit in the grammar even though yesterday and today's lessons won't be on Thursday's quizzes. I want to keep moving on in the grammar because our schedule will be getting tighter and tighter as the quarter continues with presentations, service project, etc.

The grammar point was short, but important because students do make errors using because of/due to. Because of and Due to show causes, but only a noun can follow. Remember that you need a subject + verb when using because & due to the fact that. EX. Because of/Due to my bad knee, I can't go jogging anymore. Because/Due to the fact that I have a bad knee, I can't go jogging anymore.

Marguerite brought up a good question on suffixes and changing back and forth among the different parts of speech. We do this informally almost every day. With my quick examples on the board, I hope I showed you that you already can do this somewhat. Since a few students have never had such a lesson on suffixes (and it's an important part of vocabulary building), we will do a lesson on it this week or next.

After the break, we returned to social studies and finished the test-taking practice. We'll go over the questions that you made today and the reading.

I hope you're staying cool! Summer has definitely returned!