Thursday, 16 January 2025

EF56 Class 38

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Begin essay work

·      Work on spoken presentation

·      Begin adjective clauses- final type of clause

 

Friday

·      Work on spoken presentation

Spoken presentation check in

·      Continue essay work- work from homework

·      Continue adjective clauses-

·      Vocabulary exercises

·      Listening fun IF TIME

 

Final week
Write an essay- Tuesday or Wednesday

Quiz5 adjective clauses- Tuesday or Wednesday

 

Monday

·      Spoken presentations 1

·      Continue adjective clauses

·      Continue essay work

 

Tuesday

·      Spoken presentations 2

·      Quiz or essay

 

Wednesday

·      Spoken presentations 3

·      Quiz or essay

 

Thursday

·      Optional opportunity to do a replacement quiz and/or test.

 

Friday- final day

·      Non-instructional

·      One-on-one meets

·      Final marks and comments for report cards. You will be able to see your final marks

*You will be able to pick up your record card in the office the following week.

 

 

 

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Essay work (EF5 and above)

 

sentences—paragraphs—essays – papers (college, university: 5, 10, 20 pages) – thesis/graduating essay- graduating from degree (80-120 pages) – book (300-600 pages)- non-fiction, fiction

apply to postsec- essay

 

** sentences- sentence types: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex- next step

** GOOD SENTENCE WRITING IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL WRITING

Building vocab, word form, verb form, preposition, phrasal verbs

Developing authentic(natural) phrasing

 

You picked a hard road to walk down. You are brave and strong! We have to be.

Have hope and vision and a target.

IDIOM Never say never. Have resolve!

IDIOM Needs must. You do what you have to do.

 

 

** paragraphs – structure    Grabber

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences,

Concluding sentence

(150+ words)

 

- format                - font size, doublespace, indent, paper orientation, name and class

 

** 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)

 

paragraph - at least 150 words

essay – at least 300 words*

*You don’t have to write a book. You just have to 3-5 short paragraphs.

 

We will focus on the five-paragraph essay – basic model

-academic essay- school

-3X5 essay

 

“essay”- French “to try” , try to explain something in full, an attempt to describe a subject completely, an endeavour to explicate an idea

 

essay – an attempt to write a longer piece of writing that covers a topic well

 

 

”The Bare Bones of a Five-Paragraph Essay”

 

“The Benefits of Cycling”

-         look at who it looks on the page

-body paragraphs are comparable length

- indented paragraphs

- not doublespaced- should be double-spaced

 

COMPARE/CONTRAST ESSAY – good points compare with the bad points

Deeper learning for essay writing- VPL, Amazon- high school essay writing

 

 

**A teacher is looking for structure, a clear organization of ideas.

If the writing seems unfocussed or not organzied, the mark will suffer.

 

**An essay has a lot of repetition. It’s a balance of repetition and new information.

 

 

HOMEWORK TOPIC: No need to write an essay. Just come up three good ideas.

PROCESS

Prewriting- HOMEWORK

1.Read the question.Make sure you understand the question.

2.Generate ideas- brainstorm, mindmap, list- vocabulary bank, synonyms

3.Organize into three groups

*Write down the key words.

Writing- NOT FOR HOMEWORK

4.Rough draft, first version

5.Proofread, edit

*4/5 Revise, revision - repeat many times

6.Pass it in.

HOMEWORK TOPIC: Why did the US go off the Gold Standard in 1972?

Why did you move to Canada?

 

CONTINUE TOMORROW- share our ideas

 

 

 

VOCAB confuse(v) confused(adj) confusing(adj) confusion(n)

 

               


Quiz4

Phones and devices away.

Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

Pass in by 11:05.


1.    understand               problem

2.    say                              Montreal

3.    think                           interview

4.    realize                        information

5.    forget                         results

6.    believe                       prescription

 

 

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