Friday, 13 March 2026

P1 EF71011 Class 28

 

Sentence work coming up:  sentence combining- after Spring Break

 

 

Today’s Agenda- final day before Spring Break

·      Attendance

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 6

·      Quoting section- Animal Farm

·      Animal Farm Chapter 3

·      Quiz 1- sentence quiz (25m at the end of the class)

 

Two-week Spring Break

 

Monday, March 30th

·      First day of reg for Q4

·      Continue with Animal Farm Chapter 3

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Tuesday

·      Animal Farm Chapter 4

 

 

 

 

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Animal Farm quoting section

“ “  quotation marks

 

l  Talk about quoting, instead of copying

l  Plagiarism is copying with showing where the text came from.

 

l  Uses of quotation marks      1.reported speech

                                                   2.titles

                                                   3.quoting from text

 

direct quotation- My sister said, “Feed the dog.”

indirect quotation- My sister told me to feed the dog.

 

title of an article, poem, short story, not a book “I Confess” “Dead Men’s Path”

 

title of a book Animal Farm or Animal Farm    italics ctrl i

 

quoting material in answers

 

Using “ ” quotation marks in our answers

INCORPORATE quoted material

MIX in quoted material

 

 

EXAMPLES OF REPLACING YOUR VOCAB WITH QUOTED MATERIAL FROM TEXT

 

Old Major was the oldest pig on the farm. All of the other animals respected him.

 

INCORPORATE “wise and benevolent”(1)   brackets

brackets- page number   (1)  (p1) (page 1)

 

Old Major was a “wise and benevolent”(1) pig. The other animals respected him. 2 SIMPLES SENT

 

Old Major was a “wise and benevolent”(1) pig who the other animals respected. COMPLEX SENT

 

Old Major was a “wise and benevolent”(1) pig, and the other animals respected him. COMPOUND SENT

 

Old Major was a “wise and benevolent”(1) pig; the other animals respected him. COMPOUND SENT

 

Old Major was the oldest pig on the farm, and all of the other animals respected him because he was “wise and benevolent(1). COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENT

 

VERY HIGH-QUALITY WRITING

Quote just a few words. 2-3-4 words

 

 

 

Benjamin was a pessimistic donkey who was loyal to Boxer but who was serious around the other animals. COMPLEX SENT

 

INCORPORATE QUOTED MATERIAL FROM THE BOOK INTO OUR WRITING “cynical” “devoted” “never laughed”

 

Benjamin was a “cynical”(2) donkey who was loyal to Boxer but who was serious around the other animals.

 

Benjamin was a “cynical”(2) donkey who was “devoted” to Boxer but who “never laughed” around the other animals.

ALL THREE TOO MUCH, PICK ONE

 

Benjamin was a pessimistic donkey who was “devoted”(2) to Boxer but who was unsmiling around the other animals.

“never laughed” SYNONYMS– unsmiling, serious, long face, joyless

 

This kind of writing with a couple of quoted words or short phrases gets top marks.

Teachers love it. Most students in English 11 and English 12 can’t do it.

 

 

Students practice one about Boxer.

Try a sentence of your own about Boxer. Include a few quoted words.

Choose a word or two from the book about Boxer. Put it into a sentence with a quotation.

Students practice one about Boxer.

Try a sentence of your own about Boxer. Include a few quoted words.

Choose a word or two from the book about Boxer. Put it into a sentence with a quotation.

 

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Boxer was strong and hardworking. No “”?

Boxer is one of the "cart-horses"(2) on the farm.

Boxer who has a "white stripe"(2) on his nose was a horse.

Boxer is an “enormous”(2) and honest horse.

Boxer was an "enormous beast"(2) of a horse.

Boxer was very strong but had a “stupid appearance”(2).

The animals “universally respected”(2) Boxer because he was honest and hardworking.

 

All future tests, you will be expected to use quotations. You’ll get it with practice.

 

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Chapter 3

Chapter 3

         

Interesting quotations that point to important themes in the novel:

 

  “How they toiled and sweated...” (17)

“toiled and sweated”(17)

The animals “toiled and sweated”(17) to get the harvest in.

 

  “Gee up, comrade” (17)

gee-haw- cowboy

 

  “not an animal on the farm had stolen so much as a mouthful” (17)

 

  “Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them though”(18)

“tremendous muscles”(18)

 

naïve- will believe anything that someone tells you

 

  “Nobody shirked- or almost nobody” (18)

 

  “Donkeys live a long time” (19)

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