P2 EF710 Class 7

 

Today’s Agenda

·         Attendance

·      MAYBE LATER THIS WEEK 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”

·      Continue “Comma Splices”

Teach, exercises

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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 check it over 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:

I like to play in the snow and taking (to) take pictures. parallelism

parallelism – same word forms in a row

I like playing in the snow and taking pictures.

I like to walk in the snow, drink tea, and winter is beautiful look at the beauty of winter.

 

WRITING STYLE parallel structures-

 

Vancouver is beautiful, expensive and has lots of parks. NOT PARALLEL

Vancouver is beautiful, expensive and ADJ.

Vancouver is beautiful, expensive and quiet.

Vancouver is beautiful, expensive and full of parks.

 

She likes skiing, hiking, and to go for walks. XXX

She likes skiing, hiking, and walking.

 

 

IDIOM I’m full. I’m stuffed. I am going to explode.

 

Customer: I will have the chicken, please. I would like the chicken, please.

We will be having dinner at 7pm. future progressive vt- not used often

EASIER We will have dinner at 7pm. simple future vt- used more often

 

IDIOM to my eyes – in my opinion

To my eyes, my son is the most handsome kid in the world.

To my eyes, Vancouver is the prettiest city in Canada.

 

from my perspective – from my point of view-

point of view- how you see the world, how you perceive the world, your worldview, your mindset

 

 

 

 

 

But we stayed out late that night.

but    and   so   or- middle of a compound sentence

FIXES

We stayed out late that night.

We were tired, but we stayed out late that night.

However, we stayed out late that night. TRANS- transitional term

Nevertheless, we stayed out late that night. TRANS

 

MOST POPULAR TRANS TERMS: however   therefore   nevertheless    also   in addition    moreover    first   second   firstly   secondly    first of all   to begin   in conclusion   finally   overall

 

The young man asked if she would marry him.

The young man asked her, “Will you marry me?”

 

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

 

AI taking over the world, taking jobs.

GMOs- genetically modified organisms- food

DNA- genes

            big moral questions

supernatural- ghosts, vampires, witches, black magic, superstition, gods

 

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“What Happened During the Ice Storm”

Get into small groups (4-6)

Discuss the Thought Questions

 

 

“What Happened During the Ice Storm” Thought Questions

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

1.     What is the setting of the story?

place- infer, make a good guess- farm, country , side road, dirt road-ditches?

rural, village,

time- winter, the dead of winter, Dec-Jan, daytime

1970-80s?- published in 1985

psychological- farmers, boys

 

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?

foreshadowing- feeling that maybe bad thing will happen

too much freezing rain

problem

 

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

curious?

goal- harvest the pheasants

harvest- catch and kill