Good morning, everyone.
We will get started at 8:30
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Continue sentence combining, Sarah #4
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Begin “Penny in the Dust”
Check notes
“’Penny in the Dust’ Discussion Questions”
Friday
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Test#4 Paragraph on “Penny in the Dust”
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Return Quiz#5 adj cl
Monday
Next week – letter writing, formal letter, business letter,
email
If we have to write a letter, we might as well do a good
job.
-professional, polished- represents ourselves in the best
light
“Sarah” sentence
combning exercises from homework
Our colearner’s attempt:
1. She amazed
us.
She did this
during the tour.
The tour was of
the building.
She jumped down
the steps.
They were the
last ones.
They were at the
bottom of the staircase.
4. She amazed
us. KERNEL – first, centre, hub
NEW
INFORMATION
She did
this during the tour.
The tour
was of the building.
She jumped
down the steps.
They were the
last ones.
They were at
the bottom of the staircase
ELEMENTS TO
COMBINE
She amazed us
did this during
the tour
of the
building
jumped down
the steps
last ones
the bottom of
the staircase
First version
Although they
were the last ones who jumped down the steps, she amazed us during the
tour. Meaning?
Second
version
She amazed us
during the tour of the building; in addition, they were last ones on the
bottom of the staircase who jumped down the steps. Meaning?
Right
process. Keep going.
ELEMENTS TO
COMBINE
She amazed us
during the tour of the building when she jumped down the steps
and they were the last ones at the bottom of the
staircase. GETTING CLOSER
She amazed us
during the tour of the building when she jumped down the last steps at the
bottom of the staircase. DENSER
She amazed us
during the tour of the building when she jumped down the last bottom steps of
the staircase.
She jumped
down the last steps at the bottom of the staircase during the tour of
the building, amazing us. VERY AUTHENTIC SOUNDING
When she jumped down the last bottom
steps at the bottom of the staircase during the tour of the building, she
amazed us.
** HIGH QUALITY WRITING – A WORTHY
GOAL
Sentence
Combining exercises
“Buying” for
homework
1.They were shopping for a gift.
The gift was for their mother.
France saw a display.
Monika saw a display.
The display was in ther mall.
It was of furniture.
The furniture was antique.
The furniture was refinished.
Technique from yesterday 1. Find
the kernel. 2. Fiund new information. 3. Combine th elements. GLOBAL APPROACH
New technique – Combine adjecent
sentences as you go. LOCAL APPROACH
1.They were shopping for a gift.
The gift was for their mother.
France saw a display.
Monika saw a display.
The display was in the mall.
It was of furniture.
The furniture was antique.
The furniture was refinished.
1.When they were shopping in the mall for a gift for their
mother, France and Monika saw a display of antique refinished furniture. TOP
QUALITY WRITING
You can do it!
Do your best with the homwework.
If you can’t fit all of the elements in, put in as many as you can. e.g. #4. We
can explore these tomorrow.
caught their eye – caught their
attention (same meaning)
You will have to add connecting words
like ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘when, ‘because’, etc.
How to Read My Story
My experience. My approach
Read the story twice.
1.
Armchair- relaxed, cup of tea
-reading for basic elements of the story: setting, major characters,
milieu (overall situation)
-read for plot- plotline
Plotline: Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, Denouement
-basic understanding
2.
Desk- deeper reading – making notes, look for deeper
ideas- conflicts – person vs ?
- nice passages, beautiful writing
- symbols, similes, metaphors
- repeated phrases, repeated words
-irony
ADVICE: Defend time to read the story in one sitting without
distractions. Turn off the phone. The phone is the enemy of your concentration.
defend time – set aside a piece of time to read, focus on
one task
“Penny in the Dust” Notes
Exposition
-setting
time- penny
was valauble, used a wagon, cars (from 20-40s)
place- field,
rural -father working, animals, “brush”, “sun-stil fields”(p1)
-major characters- boy
-
father
- personality traits son -
- personality traits father – quiet, shy, “inarticulate”
minor characters – mother
-
sister (very minor)
Rising action –
*son’s description of father (last para p1) – having trouble
dscribing his father to us – complex man- “still waters run deep”
throught the narrator’s struggle to explian his father to
us, we come to understand how complex and deep the father is
‘reeling off’- talking quickly and freely
* “an articulate man a little at sea with an imaginative
child”
-narrator looking back on his childhood/father with the understanding of an adult
page 2 “There’s no way you can tell it....” WHOLE PARAGRAPH-
fundamental to the story
P1&2 establish the story- setting, characters, conflict
***penny – catalyst of the conflict
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