Thursday, September 3, 2009

Wed. Class

I was not in class on Wednesday due to a family situation; could someone please let me know what I missed?

3 comments:

  1. Hi Natalie.
    We basically went into more depth on the "Four Language Systems" (handout table 2.5)

    We talked alot about the Morphemes...

    *Irregular & Regular Morphomes

    Irregular-
    teach
    taught

    Regular-
    talk
    talked
    talking
    talks
    talk

    *How many (#) Morphemes in the word unbelievable?

    Answer- 3 un believe able

    How many (#) Morphemes in the word dogs?

    Answer- 2 dog s


    * Morphemes:
    -re
    -ology
    -pre
    -tion
    -ing
    - etc.-

    * We did a group worksheet
    (Stuctural Analysis Circles)
    We had to write a word with an affix or root and then describe how they were related.

    Our group did (ist)
    radiologist
    biologist
    cardiologist
    psychologist

    ist meaning - person

    That about covers it, I hope this helps and made sense. :)

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  2. Jeannie, thank you so much for sharing your notes. I want to clarify something. You said, "We talked alot about the Morphemes...

    *Irregular & Regular Morphomes

    Irregular-
    teach
    taught

    Regular-
    talk
    talked
    talking
    talks
    talk

    This list is of regular and irregular VERBS.

    The smallest unit of meaning is a morpheme.
    A word that shows action is a verb.

    So, when you take a small unit of meaning and add it onto a verb you can change the MEANING of that verb.

    walk - is an action
    now add a small unit of meaning such as "ed" to that word and it becomes, "walked." It now has a new meaning. It means an action in the past

    This is an EXCELLENT example of why we want to see students explain what they gained from class so that we can determine their level of understanding, acknowledge what is correct, clarify anything that needs to be revised and continue building on that knowledge.

    THANKS, JEANIE!

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  3. Sorry about that.....an oversight on my part.:(

    I knew those were verbs- I just had morphemes on the brain. My bad!

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