October 17th -- Needless to say, today is Monday. Haha. I am feeling particularly punchy tonight because I corrected the verb grammar quizzes in four of my classes and the top average was in the junior class with a 65%. Two freshmen classes followed at 62% and the other freshman class was even lower. But it's a starting point of sorts -- the first real assessment of how they are doing with identifying verbs in a sentence. And why, I ask myself, is this important? Well, I answer (because I am clearly talking to myself here) this is how one becomes a better writer. For example if one writes a sentence with more than one verb, it's important to keep them in the same tense. If I don't know which one of them are verbs, how do I do that?
Heavy stuff for a MOnday. But I came up with a brilliant way to teach them how to id a verb in a sentence. Without getting into gerunds etc. ughhhh. Now I have to teach this method. Let's see how that goes. Fortunately though...I have a few days to prepare. Grammar day is Friday -- woo hoo.
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