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Return books next Monday and Tuesday
Writing to Communicate
The Least You Should Know about English
Today’s agenda
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Begin essay- five-paragraph essay
Bring Writing to Communicate tomorrow and
Friday
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Time to work on presentation project
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Continue sentence combining
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Email about replacement quiz and/or test-
dealine tomorrow at 5.
Thursday
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Continue essay
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Continue presentation project
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Continue sentence combining
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Continue First Nations
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Email about replacement quiz and/or test-
deadline 5pm.
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I will be absent. Another teacher will be
here.
TOPIC: Essay writing
MONDAY – We
will write our first essay. Worth 20pts
Monday
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Essay#1
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Collect books
Tuesday
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Presentations
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Collect books
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Optional replacement quiz
Wednesday
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Finish presentations
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Optional replacement test
Thursday
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Essay#2- final work for marks
Friday
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Final day
Final marks and reports
No instruction
-parallelism
sentences—paragraphs—essays
– papers - college,university (5,10, 20 pages) – thesis (80-120 pages) – book
(300-600 pages)
** sentences-
sentence types: simple, compound, complex
FOUNDATION OF ALL WRITING
** paragraphs –
structure Grabber
Topic sentence
Supporting sentences,
Concluding
sentence
(150-200
words)
- format -
font size, doublespace, indent, paper orientation
** essay -multi-paragraph
writing, 3-5,6,7 paragraphs on a topic
Writing prompt: “essay
form” “in paragraphs” “multi-paragraph” – means write an essay
5-paragraph –
basic model, our focus
essay- French “to
try” , try to explain something in full, attempt to describe a subject
completely, endeavour to explicate an idea
essay – an attempt
to write a longer piece that covers a topic well
Writing to
Communicate p50
From a paragraph to
an essay- expand the paragraph in to the essay.
Distribute
photocopy
“Expanding the
Paragraph"
Model Paragraph #1
“Man’s Best Friend”
Model Essay #1
“Man’s Best Friend”
Structure of this paragraph
-Grabber(optional, highly suggested)
-Topic sentence
-Body- supporting points
Supporting idea 1
-point
-subpoint
1
-subpoint
2
Supporting idea 2
-point
-subpoint
1 & subpoint 2
Supporting idea 3
-point
-subpoint
1
-subpoint
2
-Concluding sentence- restate the topic sentence
(150-200ww)
*The writer chose
to not start with a grabber. Starting with a grabber is a good idea.
Possible grabbers:
ask a question, short anecdote, fact or statistic, history, etc.
Model Essay 1- same topic “Man’s Best Friend”
-almost three times as long, not five times, not 10 pp
-divided into paragraphs, five paragraphs
*The five-paragraph is the basic essay model
**
An essay has three sections(five paragraphs):
**
1.
Introductory paragraph – usually one paragraph,
introduces the topic, thesis, and main points of the essay
2.
Body paragraphs– usually several paragraphs- 2,3,4,5
paragraphs (3 is the magic number for a standard five-paragraph), discussion,
explanation, description of the main points of the essay
3.
Concluding paragraph- usually one paragraph, restatement
of the introduction, restates the topic, thesis and main points, ends with a
clincher (like a grabber only at the end of the piece)
Length -300-350 words, not too long, short compact paragraphs,
more than twice, almost three times as long as one paragraph, not a book
“THE BARE BONES OF THE FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY”
***THESIS- Latin ‘idea’ theory, theoretical,
Writing to Communicate p53- excellent graphic representation
of expanding a paragraph into an essay
Read these for HW
“Animal Camouflage”
paragraph version on p54
essay verison on pp55-56
Tomorrow and Friday – WtC Chapters 4,5,6,7,8
Start to review these chapters.
Preparing for our first essay on Monday
Getting a deeper idea of what a five-paragraph essay is all
about
Practice- easy topic- put together an outline for an essay,
no sentence, just organizing the paragraphs
HANDOUT “Essay Plan”
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used organize ideas and key words and vocab, no
sentences
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CRITICAL Organizing all your ideas is very important.You
should have a clean plan before you start to write any sentences.
CHALLENGING WORK (OPTIONAL)-
Come up with an outline for an essay. No sentences.
“Why did you come to Vancouver?”
PROCESS
Prewriting
1.Read the question, every word, five times.
2.Brainstorm ideas, vocab
3.Outline, organize “Essay Plan” document
Writing
4.
Rough copy
5.
Proofread and edit
6.
Good copy IF TIME Submit the legible rough copy
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