**IMPORTANT: We can meet to revaluate your
midterm recommendation. This is for the people who were lower than 65% and
above 50% at the time of the midterm recommendations.
Come and
talk to me during the class, at break, or tomorrow.
Today’s
agenda
·
Collect writing for tomorrow’s presentations
·
Return Quiz#1 -sentence combining
Optional RW for a Bonus point
·
Begin essay writing
·
Continue preparing Presentation #1
Check-in, see where you are in the prep
·
HW Email
about replacement test by 7PM tomorrow if you want
to do it.
Thursday
·
Presentations
·
Continue essay writing
Friday
·
Presentations
·
Continue essay writing
FINAL WEEK
Monday
·
Presentations
T/Wed
·
Essay #1 to pass in
Thursday, April 18
·
Optional replacement test.
Friday, April 19- last day
·
Non-instructional day
·
I will be doing your final marks and report
cards. We can meet for one-on-one conferences if you wish.
I will submit your final marks and report cards to the
office on Friday.
School starts again on Thursday, April 25th-
Quarter 4.
Quiz#1
1. The group met at the beach. KERNEL
Find new information:
They met at
10:00 a.m.
They met
every day.
The beach was
public.
Avoid repetition
The
group met at the beach, and they met everyday. Not good style
Combine
as fully as we are able.
The
group met if it
was sunny.
COMBINE
THESE ELEMENTS AS FULLY AS WE CAN:
The
group met at the beach. KERNEL
at
10:00 a.m.
every
day.
public.
if it
was sunny.
What
kind of sentnece? simple compound complex
COMPLEX
The
group met at the public beach at 10:00 a.m. every day if it was sunny.
SIMPLE
At
10:00 a.m. every sunny day, the group met at the public beach.
Logic?
The
group met at the beach at 10:00 a.m. every day if it was sunny because the beach
was public.
Sentence
combining is a very powerful tool, excellent practice.
1.
Sentence
combining reveals the depth of your understanding of English sentences.-
sentence structure, grammar, etc.
2.
Sentence
combining reveals your comprehension of meaning of written text.
2.
The teenagers lay in the sun and played volleyball; meanwhile, the children
swam, waded, and ran in the sand.
3. The sand was white.
The white was glaring.
The sand emitted waves of heat.
The waves of heat blurred the water.
The water was blue.
The blue was vibrant.
The
sand was glaring white.
The sand emitted waves of heat; the waves of heat
blurred the vibrant blue water. REP
The
sand emitted waves of heat which/that blurred the vibrant blue water.
The
blue colour of the ocean
The
vibrant blue of the ocean
usually
– present tense, past tense
She
usually goes to the gym twice a week.
When
she was a kid, she usually played with her friend after school.
She
sometimes goes to the park.
Sometimes,
she went to the park.
ADJECTIVE
CLAUSES which / where
adjecttive
clause describes a noun – who that which whom
which
I
love Beijing which is my hometown.
where
SV
I
love Beijing where SV.
I
love Beijing where I was born.
ADVERB
CLAUSE while
– COMPLEX SENTENCE
The
kids were playing while their parents were making lunch.
TRANSITIONAL
WORD meanwhile- COMPOUND SENTENCE
The
kids were playing; meanwhile, their parents were making lunch.
**NOTE**
I do
an advanced sentence structure tutorial online on Zoom every November to January
(Quarter 2). I do it on Tuesday nights from 5-5:30.
You are
welcome to sit in if you like. You don’t have to sign up. I will post the Zoom
link on my blog in late October.
You are
most welcome to join.
ALWAYS
CONFUSING lie/ lay
A car
emits pollution.
Essay work
sentences—paragraphs—essays – papers (college, university:
5, 10, 20 pages) – thesis- graduating from degree (80-120 pages) – book (300-600
pages)
** sentences- sentence types: simple, compound, complex,
compound-complex
FOUNDATION OF ALL WRITING
** paragraphs – structure Grabber
Topic
sentence
Supporting
sentences,
Concluding sentence
(150-200 words)
- format - font size, doublespace, indent,
paper orientation
** essay -multi-paragraph writing, 3-5,6,7 paragraphs
on a topic
EXAM Writing prompt: “in essay form” “in paragraphs” “multi-paragraph”
– means write an essay
“at least 300 words”
sweetspot, the Goldilocks zone (300-400)
paragraph - at least 150 words
essay – at least 300 words
We will focus on the five-paragraph essay – basic model
essay- French “to try” , try to explain something in full,
attempt to describe a subject completely, endeavour to explicate an idea
essay – an attempt to write a longer piece that covers a
topic well
”The Bare Bones of a Five-Paragraph Essay”
“The Benefits of Cycling”
-
look at who it looks on th page
-body paragraphs are comparable length
- indented paragraphs
- not doublespaced- should be double-spaced
-CONTINUE TOMORROW-
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