We
will get started at 8:30.
Cameras
on. Mics muted.
Registration for September is now open!
Check both:
https://moodle.vsb.bc.ca/fall.php
REMINDER: I will be teaching EF6 in P1 and EF34 in P2.
Choice for 11
Composition 11- focussed on writing skills
Literary Studies 11- focussed on short story, novel, poetry
*We are a small school, so we run these together as a split
class.
First Peoples 11- focussed on First Nations curriculum
First Peoples 12
*We have to run these as a split. We are a very small
school.
* We also often run Eng 11 and Eng 12 as a split class. It
is a necessity for our small school due to class minimum numbers.
The class mimimum for VSB Adult Ed classes is 28. Sometimes
we have to cancel classes with 25 students. It is not as bad in the past year or
two.
When I first teaching in VSB Adult Education in 1993, the class
mimimum for VSB Adult Ed classes was around 16. It went up bit by bit over the
years.
The prioirty of VSB is K-12. Adult Ed is not a high priority.
Over the past 30 years, we have had to fight to keep Adult Education alive.
Every year when VSB sets their budget for the following
year, we have to fight to keep Adult Ed alive.
We used to have 7 schools. Now we have 1 ½.
There are cooling stations around Vancouver:
https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/hot-weather.aspx
If you are struggling with the heat, you can go there to
cool off.
Today’s agenda;
1.
Review of course work – sentences, paragraph,
points of grammar
2.
Leftover grammar – parallelism, sent comb
Wednesday’s agenda:
We will not meet as a class tomorrow. I will put together
your final marks. Please email me during class time, and I will email you back
your final mark.
Summer term begins Monday, July 5. Summer terms end August 6.
REVIEW OF SENTENCES
The basic sentence styles that you have to be able to
produce are simple, compound, and complex. You should be able to write these
consistently without having to think about them too much. This is not easy, but
practice will make it more automatic.
*All sentence need capital letters and punctuation at the
end. If you write a sentence that does not begin with a capital letter or end with
a period or a question mark, you have to change that.
SIMPLE- one independent clause
SV It is very hot
today.
SSV Joan and Marie
are going to the beach.
SVV The beach is
beautiful and has a lot of things to do.
Imperative- command, tell someone to do something
You be careful. implied subject
Be careful.
Come in.
Sit down.
*Note: We don’t normally use imperative in first person. We
use it in third person: talking to somebody else.
Interrogative sentences: question, flip the verb
You have a new bicycle.
Do you have a new bicycle?
The bus is coming.
Is the bus coming?
COMPOUND – two independent clauses joined together
SV + SV
, FANBOYS ,
SOBA - , so , or , but
, and
HIGH FREQUENCY COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
It is very hot today. We will stay in the shade.
It is very hot today, so we will stay in the shade.
; semicolon
It is very hot today. We will stay in the shade.
It is very hot today; we will stay in the shade.
; TRANS,
It is very hot today. We will stay in the shade.
It is very hot today; therefore, we will stay in the shade.
It is very hot today; accordingly, we will stay in the
shade.
It is very hot today; for that reason, we will stay in the
shade.
* You should learn more transitional terms. Learn them and
use them.
What is the difference?
It is very hot today; accordingly, we will stay in the
shade.
It is very hot today. Accordingly, we will stay in the
shade.
; glues the two sentences more than a perios. A simcolon
tells the reader that the two sentences are tlaking about the same thing.
A semicolon is like glue.
; in the end, ; finally, ; in conclusion, ; to sum up,
There are lots of them to learn. You can choose a bunch of
new ones that you like:
https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/style/transitions/
https://owl.purdue.edu/engagement/ged_preparation/part_1_lessons_1_4/transitions.html
COMMON ERROR
It is very hot today, we will stay in the shade. COMMA SPLICE
It is very hot today, therefore, we will stay in the shade.
XXX
Compound sentences with semicolons may require some more
study and practice.
: colon
I have two kids: a boy and a girl.
Sarah has lived in three countries: Spain, China, and Canada.
Yas will take two classes in September: English 10 and
Biology 11.
I have three things I want to do this summer: finish EF6,
drive to Calgary, (and) learn to swim.
appositive
My dad, Carlos, is a manager in a company.
My dad: Carlos, is a manager in a company. XXX
Kathy, my sister, lives in Spain.
My class, EF6, finishes tomorrow.
REVIEWING PUNCTUATION AND PRACTICING PUNCTUATION WOULD BE A
GOOD USE OF TIME FOR YOU. IT’S A WHOLE WORLD OF PUNCTUATION.
KEY ONES , .
;
Others : -
? !
COMPLEX
-adverb clauses – time, situation, reason
because if when
while since although
unless only if as .. as
COOMON ERROR
Judy is staying home, because it is hot. XXX
Judy is staying home because it is hot.
Because it is hot, Judy is staying home.
noun clauses –
A.
feel think say believe know
B.
that how why
A+B
feel + that
Maria feels that Sarah should not marry John.
think + that
Sarah thinks that John would make a great partner.
knows+that
In fact, Maria knows that John is hiding a big secret
from Sarah.
know+how
The big secret is that John doesn’t know how to eat with
a fork. We only can use his hands.
-adjective clauses - who that which
OTHERS whom where whose NOT USED AS MUCH
‘Whom’ is used hardly at all.
who -people
that – things, animals
which – special things, unique things NOT AS IMPORTANT
The woman who runs
the store is very organized.
The cat that is
sleeping on the bed is very cute.
The car that is parked
in front of my house is old and rusty.
The woman who we
bought the boat from was very friendly.
object pronoun
CHOICE:
The woman we bought
the boat from was very friendly. MOST NATURAL SOUNDING
The woman whom we
bought the boat from was very friendly.
UNUSUALLY FORMAL
That is a pretty full review of simple, compound and complex
sentence.
It was a good class. You all made it fun!
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