Good morning, everyone.
Today’s agenda:
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Begin essay work
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Begin presentation work
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Animal Farm Chapter 8
IF TIME
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Continue parallelism
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Continue sentence combining
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Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses, phrasal
verbs
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HW Don’t
forget to email me about the optional replacement
test or
quiz
Tuesday
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Continue essay work
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Animal Farm Chapter 8
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Presentation work
IF TIME
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Continue parallelism
·
Continue sentence combining
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Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses, phrasal
verbs
Wednesday
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Continue essay work
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Animal Farm Chapter 9
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Presentation work
IF TIME
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Continue parallelism
·
Continue sentence combining
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Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses, phrasal
verbs
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Optional Replacement test or quiz (last 55m of
class)
Thursday
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Continue essay work
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Animal Farm Chapter 9
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Presentation work
IF TIME
·
Continue parallelism
·
Continue sentence combining
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Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses, phrasal
verbs
Friday
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Continue essay work
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Animal Farm Chapter 10
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Finish presentation work
IF TIME
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Continue parallelism
·
Continue sentence combining
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Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses, phrasal
verbs
Monday
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Presentation day
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Animal Farm Chapter 10
Tuesday
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Final test AF Ch 7-10 – essay
I will not have much time to mark the essay in
detail- grammar
I’ll read it and give a mark.
Wednesday
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Marks Day
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Final class
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Not an instructional day
We can meet one-on-one to discuss your final result.
sentences—paragraphs—essays
– papers (college,university: 5,10, 20 pages) – thesis- graduating from degree (80-120
pages) – book (300-600 pages)
** sentences-
sentence types: simple, compound, complex, 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
EXAM Writing
prompt: “in essay form” “in paragraphs” “multi-paragraph” – means write an essay
“at least 300 words” sweetspot, the Goldilocks zone (300-400)
We will focus on
the five-paragraph essay – 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 statement, 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
Read for HW “THE BARE BONES OF THE FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY”
Animal Farm presentation
acting- performing- theatre
cosplay- costume play
Imagine you are a character in Animal Farm. What would you think
as the character? What would you say to the other characters? What would the other
characters think and say? What would you all talk about? What would you do?
Create a short scene based on your understanding of the
characters in Animal Farm. Imagine a scene in which the characters
interact. This can be based on a scene from the novel or from a scene from your
imagination.
Scenario- scene, setting, place and time, plot
Write a script in which characters speak with each other
about the situation.
narrator? An outside person who is explaining the story
The scene should between 3-5 minutes long.
Next Monday, your group will perform the script for the
class.
You can have the scripts to refer to, but please, no boring
reading out loud. Put some energy into it.
Pass in a written copy of the script to me on Friday.
STEP 1
Get into groups of 4-6. In a group, imagine a scene in which
characters from Animal Farm interact.
Assign a character to each member of your group.
STEP 2
Make a plot.
Write a script.
Divide up the work evenly.
STEP 3
Practice blocking and dialogue.
STEP 4
Perform it for us. Have fun!
VALUE: Easy 10 pts
Class work: 4 pts
Script: 4 pts
Presentation 2pts
What is a plot?
Let’s talk about that!
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