8:30 7/10 "Ice" paragraph notes

What time of day do you peak?
When you are most energetic in the day?
*early bird "The early bird gets the worm."
"I am a morning person."
*a night owl
"I am a night person. I am not good with mornings."

Homework for tomorrow "I Confess" "Dead Man's Path"
-stories about power and how people use their power, strength, influence, authority

Friday paragraph
"What Happened During the Ice Storm"

"Why did the boys not harvest the pheasants?"

PROCESS
PREWRITING - planning, organizing
1. Read the question. E12: Read the question five times. Read every word. What is the teacher asking you to do?
2. Generate some ideas. Brainstorm, list, mindmap, keywords.
Getting vocabulary flowing. Wake up your dormant (sleeping) vocab.
3. Put 3-4 points into order. TIME, SPACE, IMPORTANCE

WRITING - writing sentences
4. Rough copy. Begin with a topic sentence. The topic sentence will mirror the question- same vocab, synonyms
e.g. "Why did the boys not harvest the pheasants?"

Simple Topic Sentence:    The boys did not harvest the pheasants for three reasons.

There are several reasons why the boys didn't slaughter/kill/take the wild pheasants.

PLOT It was raining ice rain, and the windows were covered with ice. The boys went down the road looking for pheasants.

And the boys were covered in ice, too. XXX

casual writing, fiction

school writing, academic writing - high school, college

a bit too casual, better choices

And also, in addition, additionally, furthermore, moreover, 

In addition, the boys were covered in ice.

But however, nonetheless, nevertheless, on the other hand, instead, in contrast

However, they didn't kill the birds.

So the boys ran home.

therefore, thus, consequently, for this reason, for these reasons

For these reasons, the boys ran home.

Or they could have killed the birds.

alternatively, on the other hand

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