P1 EF1011 Class 7

 

Today’s Agenda

·         Attendance

·      P2 “Adult Ed Student Information Verification”

·      “Correction Codes”

Go over

·      Return Test 1

Go over

Optional rewrite for one point

·      Continue “Literary Terms”- conflict, narrator, point-of-view

·      Continue “Ice Storm” module

·      HANDOUT “Comma Splices”

Teach, exercises

 

Wednesday

·      Continue “Literary Terms”- symbol, theme, foreshadowing

·      Continue “Ice Storm”

 

Thursday

 

 

 

 

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Format for tests

-lined, ruled paper

-orient the paper

-full name, period, class, and date top right corner

-Title- Test 1 (in the middle)

-write in pen- blue or black

-double space

-write between the margins (red lines)

-indent the first word

 

 

Structure for paragraph

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences

Concluding sentence

(at least 150 words, 150-250 Goldilocks Zone)

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Every test and quiz, you can rewrite it and pass it back to me. You can make some corrections and rewrite it. I will read it quickly and give you one point. (1pt)

The point of the RW is that you have to do some thinking as well as writing. That’s how we learn. Learning takes effort.

 

Title: Test 1 RW

Pass that back to me today or first thing tomorrow.

 

 

EXAMPLES:

And then we went to a park. ww

FIXES

We has some lunch, and then we went to a park.

Also, we went to the park.

Then we went to the park.

** Avoid beginning sentences with ‘and’ ‘but’ ‘so’. It’s casual for school or business writing.

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Literary Terms

 1.     A conflict is a problem or struggle that drives a story. Common forms of external conflict are person vs person, person vs society, person vs nature, person vs technology, and person vs supernatural. Internal conflict is person vs himself or herself.

GMOs- genetically modified organisms – genetically modified food

supernatural- ghosts, witches, magic creatures

PTSD- post-traumatic stress disorder

 

2.     The narrator is the voice that tells a story. A narrator may be a character taking part in the story or an outside observer of the story.

narrate(v)

narrative(adj)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.     Point of view refers to the location of the narrator in relation to the story and the conflict. Two common types of point of view are first-person and third-person. Second- person narration is not common.

a.     The first-person narrator is a character in the story and tells the story using the word “I” and knows the thoughts and feelings of only herself. This point of view is extremely limited. The first-person narrator may not be aware of all aspects of the story or may lie.

b.     The third-person narrator is not a character in the story. The third-person narrator relates what the characters say and do, and also what some characters think and feel. Third-person narration exists on a continuum from omniscient to limited omniscient to objective. An omniscient narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters. A limited-omniscient narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of only one or a few characters. The objective narrator knows only what the characters say and do and has no insights into their interior lives.

 

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“What Happened During the Ice Storm”

Get into small chat groups (4-6 people)

Talk about the Thought Questions.

Confer, discuss, argue, chat.

 

“What Happened During the Ice Storm” Thought Questions

** Make notes in preparation for small-group discussion **

1.     What is the setting of the story?

infer-guess

time- winter, deep winter, Dec-Feb, daytime?

place- countryside, village, farm, country?

 

2.     The word ‘But’ in the third sentence causes the mood of the story to change. How is this a pivot point in the story?

from beautiful to dangerous

too much freezing rain

 

3.     Why do the boys go out in the storm?

find pheasants (wild game bird)

help them

“harvest” them- kill them and take them to eat

 

4.     What does “harvest the pheasants” (paragraph 2) mean?

hunter- a person who hunts

hunt-chase and kill wild animals

harvest- take crops and kill animals on a farm

 

wild animal – bear, deer, raccoon, tiger

tame animal- dog, cat

domesticated animal- farm animal- chicken, pig, cow, horse, goat, sheep

game animal- an animal that you can hunt- BC -deer, mountain sheep, moose, elk

 

 

 

 

5.     What are three comparisons the writer creates between the birds and the kids in the third paragraph?

 

1.     breathing

2.     eyes moving

3.     covered with ice

 

 

 

“Adult Ed Student Information Verification”

Check that your information is correct.

If it is all correct, please sign and the date the paper. Give it back to me.

If there are errors, make corrections on the paper.

 

PEN- Personal Education Number

DOB – date of birth