Hour 1
Plan for this week (5)
- learn complex sentences
- hand in assignment #1 (last class of week)
Office Hours (5)
Here are my office hours.
Remember: you need at least one consultation to discuss your writing (10%).
Free Writing (10)
Write freely in your notebook. This is personal writing.
Rules:
- no stopping
- no erasers
- no dictionaries
Complex Sentence Intro (15)
Learn how to write a complex sentence.
Fluency Drill (15)
Here is a writing drill to help you learn how to write complex sentences.
Page 31, edit (10)
Read the short paragraph. Find 11 mistakes.
Hour 2
Homework (5)
Read this short story — Death by Scrabble.
Next week, be ready to discuss the answers to these questions:
Part A Understanding the Story
- Who are the main characters?
- What is the setting?
- Describe the plot.
- What happened at the end?
Part B Thinking About the Story
- What kind of story is this — fiction or non-fiction?
- Does the writer seem to follow any rules for paragraphs?
- How does the writer create structure in the story?
- Give 1-2 examples of how the writer gives us hints about what is going to happen.
Textbook
Page 31, On Your Own (12) — Practice writing
Look at the bottom of the page. There are 6 steps that show you how to quickly write a paragraph with good organisation — and a good idea sentence (the first sentence)
You get exactly 12 minutes to write the first draft of a paragraph.
- Choose a topic from the list.
- Don’t worry about the mistakes — it’s the first draft.
- Keep the paper.
- You will rewrite it next class.
Page 33, edit (10) — Time Order – a new structure
- Read the paragraph at the top of the page.
- It shows time order.
- Answer the 3 questions.
- notice the time words and phrase at the bottom of the page.
Page 35, edit (10) — See the time order
Got to page 35. Do questions 1 and 2.
- Read the topic sentence.
- Read the other sentences. Put the other sentence sin the right order.
Write time order (15)
Write a paragraph with time order.
- If you want a little easy question, go to page 39 or 40.
- Use the hint in the smartphone.
- Use time orders on page 33 that show order (e.g. first, then, etc).
- Add time word from page 36 (like AT and ON).
- If you want a little harder, go to page 41 or 42. The hints rare harder.
Hour 3
Review Complex Sentences (10)
- Practice writing complex sentences in your notebook.
- Here is the worksheet.
- Let’s do the top half of the page today.
Hand in Room 8 summary (15)
This is a time limited assignment –12 minutes.
This is assignment #1. Hand in your one paragraph summary.
This is what I am looking for:
- great first sentence
- good paragraph organisation (the hamburger structure)
- at least one complex sentence
- great idea, words, sentence mix, organisation, convention, presentation (6+1 writing traits)
- some time order words (if useful)
Next stuff (20)
- Start doing the homework — Death by Scrabble
- Ask me to check some of your complex sentence writing.
- Re-write the time order paragraph.
- page 36-27 review prepositions.
- page 46 edit
After reading the short story, make notes to answer these points:
- Describe the characters, plot, and setting.
- How does the writer create structure in the story?
- How does the writer give us hints about what is going to happen next in the story?
- What happened at the end of the story?
Hard Editing (20)
- Read the text. Edit the mistakes.
- Add punctuation to create sentences.
- Write the corrected text in your notebook.