Ramadan- religious practice, annual, Muslim
-cannot eat or drink anything for one month, from sunrise to
sunset
fast days fast-no eating
He was on a two-day fast.
You have to fast before you get an operation or a blood test.
Some people fast to lose weight or for health reasons.
Religious fasting requires no food or water.
Christian – Lent – leading up to Easter- 40? days give up
one thing
UPCOMING SENTENCE WORK:
Parallelism
Using quotations marks to incorporate borrowed text.
Sentence combining
Today’s Agenda
·
Attendance
·
Return Test 2
Go over, talk about
Emphasis C1 & C5
Optional RW for one point.
·
Teach using quotation marks in academic writing “ ”
This will take several classes. We will do
lots of practice.
·
Continue “I Confess”
“Characteristics of Short Stories”
·
Continue sentence work- “Complex Sentences”
Friday
·
“Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 3
·
Prepare for Test 3 on “I Confess” probably
Monday
Monday
***
Begin “I Confess”
Chat groups of 4-5 people
Work on “Thought Questions”
**
Test 2
Dividers
Take out several sheets of paper.
You can have the story out.
You can have “Transitional Terms” out.
All other notes, phones, devices put away.
Write a well-organized paragraph of at least 150 words on
the following topic:
Why did the boys change their minds at the climax of the
story?
PREWRITING (make a plan)
1. Read
the question. Make sure we understand the question)
2. Brainstorm
ideas.
3. Organize
the ideas
1. boys
felt compassion for the pheasants
-birds cold
-covered with ice
-weak
-helpless
2. realize same situation
-‘breath’
-heads moving
-‘grass seed’
‘eggs’
3. young, unprepared
-no sacks
-no clubs
- never done
that before
*Not a plot summary.*
WRITING
4.Write the first draft.
-sentences
Topic sentence- linked the question
e.g. Why did the boys change their minds at
the climax of the story?
TS The boys changed their minds decided
to act differently at the end of the story for three reasons.
TS The rain fell
all day. Everything was covered in ice. XXX
5.Proofread and edit. sp, vt, punc, vf
6. Pass it in. I mark it.
NOTES: Do not copy from the story.
MARKING: PLOs
*Focus on C1-
-using conventions, forms and structures of writing
-organization of ideas
-grammar and usage
-all the details about sentence writing
- sentence structure, verb tense,
verb form, punctuation, phrasing
*Focus on C5
-generate, develop, and organize ideas
-setting a purpose What are we writing about? based on the
question
-limiting the topic
Focusing on the question.
REMEMBER: You will have
an opportunity to replace one test and/or quiz on the second last day of the
course.
*verb tense- Choose a verb tense and stick with it. Use all
past tenses or use all present tenses. Avoid switching verb tenses.
Using verb tenses is probable easier. The question was in
past tense. The story was in past tense.
TRANS
finally in the
end ultimately
You can pass in the Test2RW today or first thing tomorrow.
**
‘
‘ - single quotation marks
“ “
– double quotation marks – used much much more often
“ “
99% of the time
Uses of quotation marks 1.titles e.g. short stories
2.reported
speech
3.irony, ironic finger quotes (for talking,
casual)
4.
borrowed words from a text
1. titles
– short story, chapter in a book, magazine article, -newspaper article, part of
a book, not a whole book
short stories
“I Confess”
“What Happened During the Ice Storm”
<< I Confess >> Chinese, not
English
math 5 > 3
-name of a book
The Identity Trap italics
ctrl i
Grammar In Use
The Identity Trap
Grammar In Use
How to Know a Person
How to Know a Person
name of a newspaper
Korean Daily
Korean Daily
The Vancouver Sun
The Province
The Vancouver Sun
The Province
magazine Fretboard Journal or Fretboard
Journal
article “Bluegrass Now”
National Geographic or National
Geographic “Sumatra”
Vogue Vogue
movie or TV show Bad Guy Holes
Titanic
Title of a novel, book by itself, magazine ,
something that has its own covers
magazine “Fretboard Journal”
Fretboard Journal or Fretboard
Journal
ctrl i- on a keyboard
name of a font style- italics
Animal Farm Animal Farm italics
writing with a pen, underline Impact
writing on computer, use italics Impact
In the novel Shanghai Girls, the
theme of ….
In the novel Shanghai Girls, the
theme of ….
“The Sniper” “Charles” We
can tell that these are titles of
short stories.
<<What Happened During the Ice
Storm>> NOT ENGLISH
<<The Sniper>> NOT ENGLISH
“The Sniper” THE ENGLISH WAY
Math
5>4 greater than 4<6
lesser than
> alligator’s mouth The alligator always eats the bigger number.
“ “ usually double quotation marks, not single
‘ ‘
“ “
‘ ‘ normally we use double quoatation marks, 95%
of the time
e.g.
In the story “What Happened During the Ice
Storm”, the boys changed their minds about killing the pheasants.
English “
“
Farsi (
) brackets
Chines << >>
The class really enjoyed reading Animal
Farm.
The class really enjoyed reading “Roses Sing
on New Snow”.
Luis is reading a book called Two Pieces
of Clothes. computer
Luis is reading a book called Two Pieces
of Clothes. handwriting
Charlotte’s Web is a very popular kids’ book.
“Animal Farm” XXX, not both, just one or the other
either belt or suspenders
IDIOM He is a belt and suspenders kind of
person.
kids’ book
- ‘ apostrophe, shows possession
Joe’s new bicycle is pretty rad/cool.
Joe’s sister’s bike is also really nice. one
sister
Joe’s sisters’ bikes are also really nice.
two sister, three sisters
The student’s writing is improving. 1 person
The students’ writing is improving. all of
them
Is the noun singular or plural. Put the
apostrophe after the word.
The dogs’ leashes got tangled.
punctuation – umbrella term – comma, period,
apostrophe, semicolon, colon, exclamation point, quotation mark, hyphen, dash
Jun read an article in The Vancouver Sun
called “What does Putin Want?”.
Jun read an article in The Vancouver Sun
called “The Future for Ukraine”.
italics
(ctrl+i)
Good Food has an article called
“Old-Fashioned Apple Pie”.
Good Food has an article called
“Old-Fashioned Apple Pie”.
bold- not necessary, used for visual
effects
Netflix series The Sinner “Episode 1:
The Argument”
All the Light We Cannot See
Black Mirror
2.
reported speech, direct speech- exact words that
someone says, quote, quotation
“ “
quotation marks
reported
speech, direct speech- exact words that someone says, quote, quotation
Mary
said, “I am going to be late today.”
You
said, “I will pick up the kids.”
Barack
Obama said, “Yes, we can!”
He
said, “Hello.”
My
sister said you should be careful. XXX
FIX
My
sister said, “You should be careful.”
direct
speech- exact words
Her
mother said eat something. XXX
Her
mother said, “Eat something.”
The
little boy yelled, “Give me my toy back!”
exclamation
point- loud or high energy
She
said, “What a surprise!”
indirect
speech- not the exact words, just the idea
My
sister said, “You should be careful.” direct speech, quotation
My
sister said that I should be careful. indirect speech, no quotation
Mary
said that she will be late today. indirect speech, no quotation
Mary
said, “I will be late today.” direct speech, quotation
SCENARIO-
situation
You
said that you would buy some milk. NOUN CLAUSE
I
said, “I might buy some milk.”
*Fiction
writers like to break the rules.
You
said that you would pick up the kids. indirect, no quotation
You
said, “I will pick up the kids.” direct, quotation
My
friend said I don’t want to go to the party. I said you should go. XXX
FIX
My
friend said, “I don’t want to go to the party.” I said, “You should go.”
My
friend said (that) he didn’t want to go to the party. I said (that) he should
go.
My
mother said you have to do your homework. CONFUSING
FIXES
My
mother said, “You have to do your homework.”
My
mother said that I have to do my homework.
Using
quotation marks “ “ double quotation
marks 99% of the time
‘ ‘
single quotation marks 1% of your time , university papers
Barack
Obama said that we can do it!
DIRECT She said, “That will be fine.”
INDIRECT She said that that will be fine.
3.
Mary said that she is going to be late
today. indirect speech, noun clause
COMMON ERROR
Mary said that I am going to be late today.
CONFUSING DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH
FIXES
Mary said that she is going to be late
today. noun clause indirect
Mary said, “I am going to be late today.”
direct
MIXING VERB TENSES IS OK SOMETIMES
Joe said that he will go to Hawaii for
vacation.
COMMON ERROR My mother said that you should
do your homework. Who is ‘you’?
FIXED My mother said to me, “You should do your
homework.” direct
FIXED My mother said that I should do my
homework. indirect
My daughter said, “Let’s go to the pet
store.” DIRECT SPEECH
My daughter said that we should go to the
pet store. INDIRECT SPEECH
that we should go to the pet store - noun
clause
let’s – let us
**FURTHER INSTRUCTION ON QUOTING DIRECT AND
INDIRECT SPEECH:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/quotation_marks/index.html
4. to show irony, finger quotes- informal, casual speaking
three
kinds of irony –
ironing
1.
verbal irony – say something but mean the opposite,
not hurtful, gentle humour
“
“ finger quotes
sarcasm-
meant to hurt someone, rough humour, biting humour
He
is a sarcastic person.
SPOKEN
Joan went to a party last night. She missed work today because she is “sick”.
SLANG
She has the “party flu.” She is hungover. She has a hangover.
a
hangover- headache, dehydration, and nausea from drinking too much the night
before
2.
dramatic irony – you know something that the character in the book or movie doesn’t know
3.
situational irony- you try to do something to help someone but you wind up
hurting them, you get the opposite result from what you intended
IDIOM
wind up – what happens in the end
“Dora wanted to move to Chicago, but she wound
up going to Toronto.”
“Sue is studying business in college. She will
probably wind up being a manager in a company.”
proposterous (adj) – ridiculous, outrageous
MOST
IMPORTANT FOR US
5.
quoting from a story- borrowing words from a
story , putting them into your paragraph,
essay,
citation, citing
Borrow words
from a text. Incorporate the words into our writing. Include the words in our
sentence.
-borrowing words without quoting them is plagiarism.
The boys saw that the birds were “blindfolded with ice”. Therefore,
the boys felt empathy for them.
*Incorporate- put words from the story into your sentence.
“helpless pheasants”
The boys were looking at the “helpless pheasants” and felt sorry
for them.
Both the boys and the birds were covered with “icy rain.”
Both the boys and the birds were covered with frozen rain.
Read the idea. Rephrase it, restate it in your own word.
This is the basic idea of quoting from a text. We will practice it
a lot in class.
HW Write a few short sentences
that have quoted words or phrases from the story “Ice Storm”. We can share them
tomorrow.
