EF5Wr567 Class 13

 

Good afternoon, everyone.

We will get started at 12:00

 

Winter Break- Last day is Friday, Dec, 22

Break is Monday, Dec.25- Sunday, Jan.7

We come back on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024

 

Time flies like an arrow.

The weeks are flying by.

You have to grab every day.

Grab every moment. Enjoy every moment.

 

New segment- Discussion topic

-small group chatting about a topic

-discuss the topic

- brainstorm ideas

-build vocab

-share ideas- agree or disagree

-report out to the class – tell what ideas you came up with in the small group chatting

 

Today’s agenda

·      Discussion topics:

Humans should not eat animals.

People rely too much on technology these days.

·      Test#2 pass-in paragraph

 

Friday

·      Begin complex sentences- adverb clauses

·      “Top 100 Most Used Adverbs”

·      Song lyric- listening exercise

 

Monday

·      Begin “Grabbers”

 

 

 

Next week

begin sentence paragraph types, modes of writing

-narrative- telling a (personal) story

-descriptive-describing something- five senses

taste, hearing, smell, sight, touch

-persuasive – give our opinion, convince the reader, present an argument for or against something

-process/expository- teach how to do something, explain how something works

 

 

Small groups (4-5 people)

-good energy in a group

- talking, sharing ideas, sharing vocab

Later: report out to the class

 

Topics:

1.    Humans should not eat animals.

2.    Social media is harmful to people.

 

Take five minutes and get some ideas and vocab together.

 

 

1.    Humans should not eat animals.

NO

-not good for planet

-greenhouse gasses

-cute

-unhealthy

-right to live

-spread of disease

-less energy to grow plants

 

YES

-need animal protein

-energy

-tasty

-humans at the top of the food chain

-culture- hunting, fishing

 

2.    Social media is harmful to people.

depends how much how you use

 

YES

-quantity or quality?

-easy to get addicted to it

-headache

-can’t focus

-interrupt sleep

-hurt eyes, joints

-privacy issues

-destroy communication with family, IRL

-connecting with fake reality -filters, photographs

                                                   - present  a image of perfection that is not real – lifestyle, identity

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NO

-teaching video “How-to”

-news

-building community

-sharing ideas

-useful blogs

-online school

-online learning- pandemic

-build long-distance relationship with people- new friends, old friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test #2

Write a paragraph of at least 150 words in response to one of the writing prompts.

Topics:

1.    Humans should not eat animals.

2.    Social media is harmful to people.

 

 

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences

Concluding sentence