Monday, October 14, 2013 Prepositions, Study Groups, & Library Lesson 1

1. Sign in and Homework Review in Groups 2. Prepositions 3. Writing Groups 4. Library Lesson

 Take your completed homework out and work with one or two other people to check your work.  Mary will circulate around the room, check off your homework, and answer questions.  More questions? See Mary after class.

 Please reflect and write about your experience completing the Visual Literacy Worksheet.  What was easy about it?  What was hard to do?  What parts of the exercise did you enjoy, and why?

 Preposition is derived from Latin root words, pre, which means before, and position, which means place or, well, position.  A preposition is a plain little word—although a few are longish-- that relates a noun or a word that acts like a noun to another word in a sentence. For example, in this sentence, of chess The man in the yellow hat played a game of chess with Curious George, ▪ the word in relates hat to the man, ▪ the word of relates the word chess to the word game, ▪ and the word with relates Curious George to played.  We use prepositions all the time! Check out the preposition list (handout), and then, with a partner, make a list of all of the prepositions on this slide.

 Of course, nothing about the English language can be totally simple and no rule is without exceptions.  And so it is with prepositions, but luckily, we only have one problematic preposition, to.  To can be a preposition: We walked to the store  But to can also be part of a verb form, the infinitive. We wanted to walk to the store rather than to drive.

 Thumb through the packet.  You’ll need to find a minimum of two and a maximum of four other folks whom you can meet with at least once a week face-to- face  I suggest meetings either right before or right after our class.  But any time or place works, as long as it’s conducive to studying  Hook up with some folks and complete the worksheet.  Set up a meeting before next Monday to discuss your rules.  Look on the portal, if you like, for some guidelines for study groups. (What’s Due When, Week Four)  Your worksheet and rules will be due by Wed., Oct. 23 rd.

 An overview of library services  A hands-on workshop on how to evaluate websites  Library classroom, located in the back of the library (look behind the stairs).

 Visual Literacy Worksheet  Preposition Worksheet  On Wed., Oct 16 th we will conduct a reading response workshop, you will receive your first graded writing assignment, and we will learn about finding verbs and their subjects in sentences.