EF 5/6 June 9

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Good afternoon.

Today’s agenda:

1. Grabbers, topic sentences for Homework

2. Sentence combining

3. “Little Rock Nine”

4. Quiz – noun clauses

Tomorrow - citations, quoting

Grabbers (choose one that seems most appropriate to you)

1. anecdote

2. quotation

3. question

4. fact or statistic

5. history

6. idiom or expression

7. funnel

HOMEWORK – We can share our example tomorrow.

Write a grabber and a topic sentence for each. Try different types of grabbers. Choose the one that you feel is best for each topic. Please write only the two sentences for each – you don’t have to write the entire paragraphs. If you want to, email it to me by tonight for 1 extra point.

1. My Favourite Food

2. Why I Came to Canada

3. Things That Would Make my Neighborhood Better

4. Global Warming

5. My Best Friend

Topic: My Favourite Food

descriptive writing -describe the dish or cuisine

my mother’s fish chowder

Grabber: The comfort food that we remember from our childhood stays with through continues to bring us comfort/happiness/joy/sweet memories through our whole lives.

The food that we remember from our childhood continues to brings us happiness through our whole lives. (funnel)

Topic sentence: My favourite food from my childhood is my mother’s homemade fish chowder.

The food that we remember from our childhood brings us happiness through our whole lives. My favourite food from my childhood is my mother’s homemade fish chowder. SUPPORTING SENTENCES

CONCLUDING SENTENCE

Sentence combining – a very effective type of exercise to improve sentence writing.

REVIEW

simple

compound

complex

Essential tools – We have to know how to use them. If you can’t use them comfortably, you have to learn. You have to practice.

-practical work with the sentence that we have learned

sentence combining – mimics how a writer writes

several short sentences – combine them into one longer, denser sentence

Easy

Joe has a ball. – kernel

The ball is red. -find new information

The ball is soft. -find new information

Joe has a ball, and the ball is red, and the ball is soft. poor quality writing REP

Joe has a soft red ball. SIMPLE

Joe has a soft, red ball. XXX Joe has a soft, red ball. XXX

Joe has a soft ball, and the ball is red. COMPOUND Sometimes a little repetition is good.

Joe has a soft ball which is red. COMPLEX – adj cl

Example:

1. The object looks long. - kernel

The object looks thin.

The object measure about eight inches in length.

The object looks long. - kernel

thin

measure about eight inches in length

1. Find the kernel

2. Look for new information. Avoid unnecessary repetition.

3. Decide: What kind of sentence do you want to write?

simple, compound, complex

complex -adj cl

The object which looks long and thin measures about eight inches in length.

The object which measures about eight inches in length looks long and thin.

style – Anything in an adjective clause is less important than the what’s in the main clause.

Your examples:

1. The object looks long and thin that measure about eight inches in length. XXX

The object that measures about eight inches in length looks long and thin.

2. The object looks long, thin and it measure about eight inches in length. XXX

parallelism- the same kind of word in a row

long (adj), thin (adj) and it measures (SV)

The object looks long and thin; it measures about eight inches in length. COMPOUND

We’ll continue tomorrow with it.

Quiz #8 - Write a complete sentence with an noun clause for each:

Email it to me as an attachment by 2:50.

1. say key

2. know ask

3. believe Canada

4. understand job

5. remember party

6. think house