WI567 Class 34

 

In-class speaking:

Spoken 1 x/10

Spoken 2 x/10

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 7

Pass back in by end of class

·      Continue with new paragraph type- Opinion/Persuasive writing

Practice from yesterday

·      Continue adjective clauses- final type of clause

 

Monday

·      Test4 – Paragraph - opinion/persuasive writing

·      Business letters

·      Continue adjective clauses-

 

Tuesday

·      Business letters

·      Continue adjective clauses-

 

Wednesday

·      Quiz5- adj cl

·      Begin essay

 

Thursday

·      Essay work

 

Friday

·      Essay work

 

Final week

Thursday

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test.

 

Friday- last day

·      One-on-one meets

·      Final marks and comments

*You will be able to see you final marks. You will be get a report card from the office the following week.

 

Coming up in the final two weeks

·      Sentence combining

·      Essays – five-paragraph model

·      Essay types        compare/contrast

persuasive

literary?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOPIC:
Should marijuana be legal without prescription?

YES/PROS

HEALTH

-helps with anxiety(n), anxious(adj)

-social

-helps with appetite

- safer product

-natural product

varieties- purposes

 

GRABBER -personal choice

                     -statistics

 

SOCIAL BENEFITS?

-takes $ away from gangs

-big source of tax revenue

-profitable business-

-market competition

-better quality

 

-normalizes responsible usage

 

NO/CONS

*psychological

-psychologically addictive

-gateway drug- get into more serious drugs, open doors to bad behaviour

-emotionally sensitive, exaggerated emotions,mood

-feeling of withdrawl

-paranoid, anxiety

 

*societal

-increased crime?

-causes conflict in families

-smells

-wrong hand- kids

-young people lack self control

-lose conciousness?

-reduces producitivity

 

*physical effects

1-health concerns- e.g.pregnant women

1-smoking causes cancer

1-damages lungs

1-hurt nervous system

1-affects brain development

 

 

 

Grabber- contrary opinion to your own

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences

Concluding sentence

 

 

 

Exercise A

Exercise B – Multiple choice

 

Exercise C – Full sentences

 

We can go over some tomorrow.

 

 

B. Multiple choice

 

 

2. to whom I talked VERY FORMAL

who I talked to

I talked to

 

8.insurmountable- not fixable, a problem that cannot be solved

This is what I say. NOUN CLAUSE

The problems (that) I have are small.

 

THC

CBD oil- relaxing to the body

 

She is a person you can depend on/upon. You can count on her.

 

11. field- major in university, profession, area of expertise

She is outstanding in her field.

JOKE: The farmer is out standing in his field.

It’s a dad joke. corny humour

 

12. outlook(n)- opinion, viewpoint of the world, how you see the world

 

-optimistic/pessimistic

IDIOM

She is a glass-half-full person.

He is a glass-half-empty person.

 

 

The farmer is outstanding in his field. He is an excellent farmer.

field- area of profession, meadow, area of land

outstanding- elite, excellent, very high quality

out standing

 

The farmer is out standing in his field. He is standing in the middle of the meadow.

 

The doctor is outstanding in his field. Not funny.

 

 

9.The man I was talking to is very funny.- AUTHENTIC

The man who I was talking to is very funny. CLEAR

The man whom I was talking to is very funny. FORMAL

The man to whom I was talking is very funny. VERY FORMAL

 

C. Monday