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Today’s agenda:
1. Quotation homework “Roses Sing on New Snow”
2. “Residential Schools” I sent this to you a few days ago.
3. Test – sentence combining test, 8 sentences
I might have to start the class late tomorrow. I have a meeting at 1-1:30, but teachers like to talk, so we may go late.
Today’s picture is of Adams Lake, Saskatchewan.
Quoting:
quote a few words “ “
Do you have some examples to share?
Write them in Chat.
1. When the governor came to Chinatown, every restaurant would show their “best dish” for him.
2. There are many “bone-tired” men among Maylin’s customers.
3. Maylin was asked to “spare no expense” on a dish for the banquet.
4. When Maylin’s father told a lie to the governor, the governor was angry and “pounded his fist on the Chair.”
5. When the truth was revealed, Maylin’s father “hung his head in shame.”
6. Maylin’s father brought the “New World dish” to the Governor when he came to the party.
7. President Trump on Monday said, "If we stop testing, we will have few cases."
8. Maylin used the “best ingredients” to create the dish which her father brought to the Governor.
9. The governor was "mesmerized" by Maylin's brave response to him.
“mesmerized” not a quotation, not in the story
The governor was mesmerized by Maylin's brave response to him.
10. To ingratiate himself to the governor, Maylin’s father asks Maylin to create a new dish and “spare no expense”; therefore, they can get appreciation and a reward from the governor.
11. After the governor tried each dish, he gave Maylin's dish the “warmest praise”.
12. The governor who became angry because Maylin refused “the emperor a chance” that the dish can not took the dish to China. XXX
The governor became angry because Maylin refused “the emperor a chance” to try the dish in China.
13. Maylin is a “wise person” when she proved that the Governor could not cook that dish like her.
Excellent work. We will start putting quoted text in our writing starting tomorrow. A little bit goes a long way – just do a few quotations in each paragraph. Don’t overdo it. Don’t go nuts with it. One or two small squirts of perfume is enough.
Sentence combining is the best way to get good at writing simple, compound and complex sentences.
Our goal: to be able to write a variety of sentences with confidence and skill.
Test
Combine each exercise into a sentence, for a total of eight sentences. Use a variety of sentence types.
Email them to me as an attachment by 2:45.
e.g. I like cats.
Cats are cute.
I like cute cats.
1. a. I have never understood a certain proverb.
b. The proverb says, "You cannot have your cake and eat it, too."
2. a. My mother once interpreted it for me.
b. She told me that it meant you cannot have everything.
3. a. For example, it is impossible to find a job that pays well.
b. It is impossible to find a job that interests you all the time.
c. It is impossible to find a job that challenges you every day.
4. a. That may be true.
b. I have often wondered why it has to be that way.
5. a. Why is it impossible to have everything?
b. ·Why is it impossible to be completely satisfied?
6. a. You think about the illustration of the cake.
b. It does not make sense.
7. a. Who would make a cake?
b. Who would not enjoy eating it afterwards?
8. a. There is definitely something wrong with the illustration.
b. You consider it carefully.
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