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Today’s agenda:
1. Review paragraphs
Format
Structure
Plagiarism- copying from a book on the internet
2. Rosa Parks
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks
OR
There are many sources of information about Rosa Parks
3. HW Prepare for Test#2, paragraph on the topic of Rosa
Parks
Friday, November 27 is a Professional Development day for Adult Educators. We will not have class together. We’ll have our regular class on Monday.
Monday: Continue with Compound sentences ; semicolons
Paragraph about Rosa Parks story
Paragraph – (150-200w)
Begin with a Topic sentence – 1st or 2nd part of a paragraph
- addresses the topic directly
- gets to the point immediately
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Last week’s paragraph “How does Covid19 affect you?”
Topic sentence – get to the point very quickly
- get on topic immediately
- address the question directly
- borrow vocab from the question or using synonyms
“How does Covid19 affect you?”
Topic sentence(TS)
For the past 10 months, Covid19 has been affecting me in three main ways.
Covid19 affect – synonyms – pandemic, infectious disease, virus, latest coronavirus
affect- change, inconvenience, complicate
Topic sentence(TS)
Since early in the year, the latest coronavirus, known as Covid19, has made my life more complicated.
Linked together
Question/Writing Prompt
Topic sentence
Sometimes a student forgets to write a topic sentence.
“How does Covid19 affect you?”
First, it makes it difficult to see friends.
First point, no topic sentence XXX
Begin your paragraph with a topic sentence that addresses the topic directly.
If the password doesn’t work, it’s probably this:
Password: O or 0. Capital letter O or the numeral 0.
Paragraph
Topic sentence
- supporting point #1
- supporting point #2
- supporting point #3
e.g.
- hard to see friends (one or two sentences)
- can’t go to school (one or two sentences)
- can’t travel (one or two sentences)
End with a concluding sentence – restate the topic sentence in different words
- end on a personal note “I sure hope the pandemic ends soon so that we can get back to normal.”
TS
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CS
(150-200w)
Format
- doublespace
- 14-16 point font
- indent
- block of writing, not five separate sentences
Sentences- focus of our attention
Each sentence has to be a real sentence
-Simple
-Compound
-Complex
Sometimes when students start writing about a topic, the quality of the sentences suffers. We have to make sure that the sentences are good quality.
Writing format – the structure
The flow of the writing.
HIGHER LEVEL – You can begin your paragraph or essay with a Grabber.
A Grabber, or a Hook, is a sentence or two that you can put at the beginning of your writing to get the reader’s attention.
1. General to specific statement
2. Ask a question.
3. History
4. Anecdote – short personal story
5. Quotation from a famous person
6. Fact or statistic
7. Idiom or adage from English or any language
A well-organized paragraph
Grabber
Topic sentence
Supporting points
Concluding sentence
(150-200w)
BA – Bachelor of Arts, UCCB, 4 years
MA – Master of Arts, UBC, 2 years
BEd – Bachelor of Education, UBC, 2 years, children and family
TOESL – Teaching English as a Second Language (diploma), VCC, 1 year, children and family
My wife went back to university twice to do degrees while we were working and raising children. It was a lot of work and stress and tears, but she did it!
If she can do it, you can do it.
Maybe in the future, she might be interested in trying some college or university program. You will learn about things that you didn’t even know existed. You will gain new understanding and new perspectives.
Plus, you will meet lots of interesting people who enjoy learning.
Rosa Parks –
- Birmingham, Alabama- segregated in the 1950s
- refused to give her seat for a White man
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr – minister at her church
-protest against the busses
- started the Civil Rights Movement in the US
- civil rights – your rights within a country
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