Today’s
agenda-
· Return Test#3
Optional RW
for bonus point
Pass in the RW
today or first thing tomorrow
Talk about paragraph
structure and process
·
Continue causative verbs from yesterday
Check sentences
· Discuss adverb clauses (complex sentences) and sentence
fragments
· Begin work
of quoting text “ “
·
Continue First Nations- reconcilation process
Thursday
· Continue work
of quoting text “ “
·
Continue First Nations- reconcilation process
Imagine you are Mr Wei or Mr Obi. What would you have done if you
were in his situation?
Paragraph structure – at least 150ww
Grabber-
choose one of seven ways
Topic sentence - related
to the question
-
borrow words from the quesiton of use synonyms
Supporting
ideas
Concluding
sentence
First plan.
Then write.
WRITING PROCESS
*Prewriting/Planning
1. Read
the question. Make sure you understand what the teacher is asking you to do.
2.Generate
ideas. Write down key words. Vocab begets vocab.
3.Organize
the ideas. Put them in order of how you want to present them.
*Writing
4.Write
the sentences of your paragraph.
5.Proofread
and edit. You know what you have to check: vt vf sp punc
6.Submit
the editted rough draft.
7.I will mark
it and give comments.
8.RW for a
bonus point
Example
sentences:
I would
get to know/learn about the school and the/its surroundings.
I would try to find some middle ground between what is best for
the school and what it best for the community.
I would try to find some middle ground between what I want and
what the priest wants.
Sentence styles
SIMPLE
COMPOUND - , SOBA ; TRANS,
COMPLEX
-Adverb clauses
because
when
if
I would not have argued with the priest. Because I would have listened
to his opinions about the path. frag
FIXES
I would not have argued with the priest because I would have listened
to his opinions about the path.
I would not have argued with the priest. In fact/Instead, I would
have listened to his opinions about the path.
I would not have argued with the priest, and I would have listened
to his opinions about the path.
frag – sentence fragment – fragment- a piece
Sentence Fragments Exercises
Fix all of the sentence fragments by adding or deleting words.
Some of them are not frags, ok.
1. Driving in the city
during the evening rush hour.
2. Because he didn't
want to work on weekends.
3. The wallpaper goes
well with her furniture.
4. Who borrowed
Stefanie's car Saturday night.
5. While waiting for
her friend.
6. Since Manuel had
seen the movie before.
7. I was cold when I
lost my gloves.
8. When my cousin moved
to Richmond.
9. My brother has been
driving a taxi for five years.
10. But she told us that
she made the dress herself.
Adapted from
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/fragments_add1.htm
‘
‘ - single quotations marks
“ “
– double quotation marks – used much much more often
·
Uses of quotation marks 1.titles e.g. short stories
2.reported
speech
3.irony,
ironic finger quotes (for talking, casual)
4.
borrowed words from a text
1.
titles – short story, chapter in a book, magazine
article, newspaper article, part of a book, not a whole book
“I Confess”
“What Happened During the Ice Storm”
“Dead Man’s Path”
<<I Confess>> Chinese, not
English
{
} [ ]
( ) not for English
name of a book
The Identity Trap italics
ctrl i
Grammar In Use
The Identity Trap
Grammar In Use
name of a newspaper
Korean Daily
Korean Daily
The Vancouver Sun
The Province
The Vancouver Sun
The Province
magazine Fretboard Journal
article “Bluegrass Now”
National Geographic “Sumatra”
Vogue Vogue
Title of a novel, book by itself, magazine ,
something that has its own covers
magazine “Fretboard Journal”
Fretboard Journal or Fretboard
Journal
ctrl i- on a keyboard
name of a font style- italics
Animal Farm Animal Farm italics
writing with a pen, underline Impact
writing on computer, use italics Impact
In the novel Shanghai Girls, the
theme of ….
In the novel Shanghai Girls, the
theme of ….
“The Sniper” “Charles” We
can tell that these are titles of
short stories.
<<What Happened During the Ice
Storm>> NOT ENGLISH
<<The Sniper>> NOT ENGLISH
“The Sniper” THE ENGLISH WAY
Math
5>4 greater than 4<6
lesser than
> alligator’s mouth The alligator always eats the bigger number.
“ “ usually double quotation marks, not single
‘ ‘
“ “
‘ ‘ normally we use double quoatation marks, 95%
of the time
e.g. The class really enjoyed reading Animal
Farm.
The class really enjoyed reading “Roses Sing
on New Snow”.
Luis is reading a book called Two Pieces
of Clothes. computer
Luis is reading a book called Two Pieces
of Clothes. handwriting
Charlotte’s Web is a very popular kids’ book.
“Animal Farm” XXX, not both, just one or the other
either belt or suspenders
IDIOM He is a belt and suspenders kind of
person.
kids’ book
- ‘ apostrophe, shows possession
Joe’s new bicycle is pretty rad/cool.
Joe’s sister’s bike is also really nice. one
sister
Joe’s sisters’ bikes are also really nice.
two sister, three sisters
The student’s writing is improving. 1 person
The students’ writing is improving. all of
them
Is the noun singular or plural. Put the
apostrophe after the word.
The dogs’ leashes got tangled.
punctuation – umbrella term – comma, period,
apostrophe, semicolon, colon, exclamation point, quotation mark, hyphen, dash
Jun read an article in The Vancouver Sun
called “What does Putin Want?”.
Jun read an article in The Vancouver Sun
called “The Future for Ukraine”.
italics
(ctrl+i)
Good Food has an article called
“Old-Fashioned Apple Pie”.
Good Food has an article called
“Old-Fashioned Apple Pie”.
bold- not necessary, used for visual
effects
Netflix series The Sinner “Episode 1:
The Argument”
All the Light We Cannot See
Black Mirror
2.
reported speech, direct speech- exact words that
someone says, quote, quotation
Mary said, “I am going to be late today.”
exact words
You said, “I will pick up the kids.”
Barack Obama said, “Yes, we can!”
indirect speech- not the exact words, just
the idea
Mary said that she will be late today.
noun clause
You said that you would pick up the kids.
noun clause
Barack Obama said that we can do it!
DIRECT She
said, “That will be fine.”
INDIRECT She
said that that will be fine.
Mary said that she is going to be late
today. indirect speech, noun clause
COMMON ERROR
Mary said that I am going to be late today.
CONFUSING DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH
FIXES
Mary said that she is going to be late
today. noun clause indirect
Mary said, “I am going to be late today.”
direct
MIXING VERB TENSES IS OK SOMETIMES
Joe said that he will go to Hawaii for
vacation.
COMMON ERROR My mother said that you should
do your homework. Who is ‘you’?
FIXED My mother said to me, “You should do your
homework.” direct
FIXED My mother said that I should do my
homework. indirect
My daughter said, “Let’s go to the pet
store.” DIRECT SPEECH
My daughter said that we should go to the
pet store. INDIRECT SPEECH
that we should go to the pet store - noun
clause
let’s – let us
FURTHER INSTRUCTION ON QUOTING DIRECT AND
INDIRECT SPEECH:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/quotation_marks/index.html
3.
to show irony,
finger quotes- informal, casual speaking
three
kinds of irony –
ironing
1.
verbal irony – say something but mean the opposite,
not hurtful, gentle humour
“
“ finger quotes
sarcasm-
meant to hurt someone, rough humour, biting humour
He
is a sarcastic person.
SPOKEN
Joan went to a party last night. She missed work today because she is “sick”.
She
has the “party flu.” She is hungover. She has a hangover.
a
hangover- headache, dehydration, and nausea from drinking too much the night
before
2.
dramatic irony – you know something that the character in the book or movie doesn’t know
3.
situational irony- you try to do something to help someone but you wind up
hurting them, you get the opposite result from what you intended
IDIOM
wind up – what happens in the end
“Dora wanted to move to Chicago, but she wound
up going to Toronto.”
“Sue is studying business in college. She will
probably wind up being a manager in a company.”
proposterous (adj) – ridiculous, outrageous
MOST
IMPORTANT FOR US
4. quoting
from a story- borrowing words from a story , putting them into your paragraph,
essay,
citation, citing
Borrow
words from a text. Incorporate the words into our writing. Include the words in
our sentence.
-borrowing words without quoting them is
plagiarism.
“I
Confess”
Choose
just a few words “great faith”(1)
Write your
own sentence. Incorporate those words into your sentence. It has to be
grammatical.
Mr.Wei was
stressed out because he knew that the school officials had put “great faith”(1)
in him to be an effective teacher.
“harsh
voice”(1)
Write your
own sentence. Incorporate those words into your sentence. It has to be
grammatical.
Mr.Wei
felt that he should talk to the student, Wang Wei, using a ”harsh voice”(1) in order to intimidate
him.
Borrow
1,2,3,4 words. Borrow short phrases.
Don’t copy
a whole sentence.
The
quotation marks show two things.
1. The
words were quoted, borrowed from the text.
2. The words are evidence that your
opinion is rooted in the story.
We can practice
tomorrow.
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