Good morning.
We will get started at 8:30.
I still don’t know about summer school.
Today’s Agenda:
· Quiz#2 – adverb clauses
· IF TIME Writing Process – ‘Prewriting and
Writing for Paragraphs”
· Begin types of paragraphs- narrative,
definition, descriptive, opinion, process, literary
· Begin narrative writing
Purpose
and structure
· HW Narrative
paragraph on one the topics
Friday
I will not be here
Friday. I have an Adult Ed conference all day. There will be a subsitute
teacher here on Friday.
Monday- Holiday,
Victoria Day, NO SCHOOL
Tuesday
· “Women in Trades”
recent
articles
Read
CBC story
Listen
to documentary, make notes
· Narrative writing work
· Adjective clauses
Wednesday
· Test #2 Narrative paragraph
· Finish adjective clauses
· Definition writing
Thursday
· Quiz 3- adjective clauses
Quiz#2
All
on paper, please.
Write
a sentence with an adverb clause for each.
Submit
them to me by 8:58
1.
since celebrate
2.
unless lay off
3.
in
order to establish
4.
even
if advertise
5.
even
though recognize
6.
until exhausted
Kinds of
paragraphs:
*narrative- tell a
story, narrate(v), narrator(n)-person who tells a story
narration(n)
*descriptive –
description(n), describe(v)- appeal to five senses, adjectives, descriptive
words
five senses-
points of contact with the world: sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch
*opinion- explain
your point of view, your perspective, maybe convince the reader, represent your
ideas clearly
*definition – exaplin
precisely what something is
*literary- writing
about a short story, novel, movie
*process – explain
who to do something, teach
You can choose
what type of writing is most approriate for your purpose.
type of writing –
mode of writing
ACTIVE and PASSIVE
VOICE
convince(v) passive and active voice
active voice- S
does the V
Joe convinced
his wife to buy a new car.
Mei ate the sandwich.
passive voice- S does
nothing, does not does the verb
Joe’s wife was convinced by Joe to buy a new car by Joe.
The sandwich was
eaten by Mei.
passive voice verb
– more complciated than active voice, longer
extra auxiliary verb
Mei ate the sandwich. active voice
The sandwich was eaten by Mei. passive voice
passive is longer,
harder to do, and sounds weak
the subject is not
doing anything
PRO TIP: Avoid
active voice.
Use it when you
want to sound passive or weak, don’t know who did the action.
My car was dented last night.
Jasbir’s apartment
was broken into.
Exercises next
week- remind me if I forget, please.
MODES OF WRITING
Narrative writing
- tell a story,
personal story
- happened to you
or someone close to you
-first person
point-of-view- “I” “we” “my sister”
- the story is
told through your eyes, your perspective
- illustrate a
point using that story
-storytelling-
stroytelling
-stories that
inform us or enlighten us, teach us something about life, -about humanity
- most people
enjoy heating stories, transmit knowledge
- storytelling podcasts:
-general stories The
Moth
-scary, ghost stories
that happened to them- Jim Harold’s Campfire, Uncanny
-extreme
situations Let’s Not Meet, This is Actually Happening
-embarassing
stories – Simon Mayo Confessions
** get podcast
software, listen for free, e.g. Overcast, (iphone)Podcasts
Spotify
-
narrative
mode is very effective, storytelling is universal
-
oral,
verbal – transmission of knowledge, First Nations
-
teaching-
telling stories, impact, more meaningful
Narrative paragraph
Beginning
Middle
End
Topic
sentence- topic, controlling idea
Middle- events of the story, usually in order of time
End- concluding
sentence, wrap up
Homework for
tomorrow:
Put together a narrative
paragraph (150-200ww)
Tomorrow, we can
read them out loud tomorrow and Tuesday.
Topics to choose:
1.
Write
about an important lesson that you learned when you were a child.
2.
Write
about a scary/funny/emabarassing experience you had.
No need to email
it to me, but feel free if you want to.
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