Desc essay....

1.  Journal--  How does good description work?

2.  Practice.  Be a reporter at this event.  What do you see, hear?  Catalog it.

3.  Discussion of the video.

4.  Concrete/Abstract words.

5.  Don't tell, just describe.  WCW

6.  HW-  Reading two descriptive essays and first group of questions for each.150, 156, 176, The deer at P, Struck by, and The Vietnam Wall.....

7.  Next class-  Essay planing.  My essay.

1.   Are you proud of your essay?  Is it your best work?  Why?  Or, what’s the problem?  Why can’t your work get done?

2.  Groups and editing.

1.  Circle any mistakes you think you see.

2.  Is MLA correct?  Why not?

3.  Does the story make sense?

4.  Is the story on topic?  Victim/Creator?

5.  Are there enough paragraphs?

6.  Are there too many paragraphs?

7.  What would you add to the story?

8.  What would you change?

9.  Offer a compliment.

3. HW!  Please complete your essay for submission on Friday.

1.  Summarize the story you might tell in your narrative essay....

2.  Groups and telling...

3.  What can we learn from our reading to help us with our stories?

1 minute event.
3 ish pages.
Start in the middle of the action.
Words matter
Sentences flow
Voice

4.  MLA format review.

5.  HW-  Complete your typed draft of your narrative essay for class on Monday.

Writing Process-

Invent-                  Create ideas. 

Organize-              Plan your work, work your plan

Draft-                   Practice.  Work my plan, fast.  Get done.

Revise-                  Sentences, words, organization, paragraphs, order.

Edit-                     Grammar, conventions…

Publish-                Publish means perfect *

6-traits-

Voice                                       Your personality-  Professional voice.

Ideas and Content-                             Topic-  Interesting….to others.

Conventions-                            Grammar                                 

Organization-                           Shape, set up-- paragraphs

Sentence Flow-                         way sentences fit together…

Word Choice-                           choosing the best word.

TAP-

Topic-                                      What it’s about.

Audience-                                 Who it’s for

Purpose                                    Why I’m writing.

Event                                        Started in the middle of the story.

Back story

Back story

Event

Lesson.

Common Grammar Mistakes:

Comma splice                            I love dogs, I love cats.

Run on                                     I love dogs I love cats.

Fragment                                  I love dogs when.

Verb Tense agreement              I loves dogs.

Pronoun agreement                  I love dogs because it is nice.  Jon is someone that is nice.

Parallelism-                               I love to ride, walk and running.

Tense shift-                              I love to ride and I loved to walk.

1.  Journal-

When's a time you've felt humiliated, but were able to laugh about it later?

2.  Notes, Notes, Notes.  Maybe some illustrative practice.

3.  Essay planning.

4.  HW-  Read "The Lottery" and "Salvation" from your textbook.  Answer the first group of questions for each.

5.  HW-  Create a plan (like I did in class) for your essay.  Please, please think about your topic.

1.     Journal-  

What do you worry about when you are trying to write something for someone else?

What’s a memory that you have that describes you as a student?

2.     Final thinking skills project… Practice, then you.

3.  Origami Crane

 

Thinking Skills, Starting Essay Notes.

1.  Journal- 

Do you know how to make a paper airplane? Write down some instructions so that someone else can follow them.

2.  Notes?

3.  In class practice thinking for project...

4.  HW-  Get the book!

5.  Read:  "A Hanging"

6.  Create 10 Thinking Skill Questions....

2 More Thinking Skills Lessons....

1. Journal- 

What do you think about your chances of finishing what you've started in college?  Be honest.  Why?

2. Attendance

3.  Thinking Challenge-  What's a proverb you know?  List.

4.  Model, Me.  In class.

5.  Topic, What it means in terms of topic, why it means what it means....

6.  Your Practice.  Show me when completed.  Teams?

7.  Challenge-  Below.

8.  HW-  Reading....  ?


1. Stag vehicle
2. Youngster honesty
3. Village jester
4. Pony rout
5. Hot drink charge
6. Jar cover chart
7. Grab a quick look at
8. Courageous captive
9. Dog mug
10. Dog noise


1. Cargo entrance fence
2. Clan secretary
3. Rock area
4. Postage winner
5. Adorable shoe
6. Rookie team
7. Top exam
8. Unusual fish
9. Prison story
10. Dollar fortune

 1. Move, Female Deer
2. 24 hours with toys
3. 50% giggle
4. A totally cool dad
5. A birds foot defect
6. A blue-green moray
7. A boring Choo-choo
8. A boy slug with a shell
9. A cap that got sat on

 1. A literary theif
2. A naked sitting device
3. A literature hiding place
4. An uncooked animals foot
5. A pig meat rip off
6. A prison for Moby
7. A promise to grow
8. A quick explosion
9. A run for the money
10. A sack for holding Old Glory

Cancelled Classes!

Classes are cancelled because of some rain.  Don't come in!

Thinking skills, cont.

1.  Journal- 

What's metacognition?  When's a time when you felt proud of yourself because you figured something out or learned something new?  How did you learn it?  What does that teach you about the way you learn?

2.  Fun TS questions.

1. A graduate applying for pilot training with a major airline was asked what he would do if, after a long-haul flight to Sydney, he met the captain wearing a dress in the hotel bar. What would you do?

2. A man built a rectangular house, each side having a southern view. He spotted a bear. What colour was the bear?

3. If you were alone in a deserted house at night, and there was an oil lamp, a candle and firewood and you only have one match, which would you light first?

4. What can you put in a wooden box that would make it lighter? The more of them you put in the lighter it becomes, yet the box stays empty.

5. Which side of a cat contains the most hair?

6. The 60th and 62nd British Prime Ministers of the UK had the same mother and father, but were not brothers. How do you account for this?

7. How many birthdays does a typical woman have? Why can't a man living in Canterbury be buried west of the River Stour?

8. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?

9. If you drove a coach leaving Canterbury with 35 passengers, dropped off 6 and picked up 2 at Faversham, picked up 9 more at Sittingbourne, dropped off 3 at Chatham, and then drove on to arrive in London 40 minutes later, what colour are the driver's eyes?
10. A woman lives on the tenth floor of a block of flats. Every morning she takes the lift down to the ground floor and goes to work. In the evening, she gets into the lift, and, if there is someone else in the lift she goes back to her floor directly. Otherwise, she goes to the eighth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to her flat. How do you explain this?

11. A window cleaner is cleaning the windows on the 25th floor of a skyscraper, when he slips and falls. He is not wearing a safety harness and nothing slows his fall, yet he suffered no injuries. Explain.

12. The Zorganian Republic has some very strange customs. Couples only wish to have female children as only females can inherit the family's wealth, so if they have a male child they keep having more children until they have a girl. If they have a girl, they stop having children. What is the ratio of girls to boys in Zorgania?

13. John's mother has 3 children, one is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?

14. You are running in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

15. In the same race, if you overtake the last person, then you are in what position?

16. Using just ONE straight cut, how can you cut a rectangular cake into two equal parts when a rectangular piece has already been removed from it?

17. A man and his son were in a car crash. The father was killed and the son was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The examining doctor exclaims: "But, this is my son!".
    How can this be?

18. You have to choose between three rooms.
    The first is full of raging fires
    The second is full of tigers that haven’t eaten in 3 years.
    The third is full of assassins with loaded machine guns.
    Which room should you choose?
19. Name three consecutive days in English without using the words Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday

21. What's unusual about this paragraph? Just how quickly you can find out what is so funny about it. It looks fairly ordinary and plain that you might think nothing is wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly curious though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you could just find out.

3.  Attendance.

4.  Trade.

5.  HW-

Inference Norming...

1.  Attendance.

2.  Journal:

Please read the following short poems by Robert Frost and Sara Teasdale, respectively.  Choose one and, using your thinking skills, explain what you think it means and why you think what you think it means.  :)

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.


The Mexican Cabdriver

We were sitting in traffic
on the Brooklyn Bridge,
so I asked the poets
in the backseat of my cab
to write a poem for you.
They asked
if you are like the moon
or the trees.
I said no,
she is like the bridge
when there is so much traffic
I have time
to watch the boats
on the river.

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3.  Inference tests....  Number 1-  in groups.

Babe Smith has been killed. Police have rounded up six suspects, all of whom are known gangsters. All of them are known to have been near the scene of the killing at the approximate time that it occurred. All had substantial motives for wanting Smith killed. However, one of these suspected gangsters, Slinky Sam, has positively been cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  1.                  Slinky Sam is known to have been near the scene of the killing of Babe Smith.

T  F  ?  2.                  All six of the rounded-up gangsters were known to have been near the scene of the murder.

T  F  ?  3.                  Only Slinky Sam has been cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  4.                  All six of the rounded-up suspects were near the scene of Smith's killing at the approximate time that it took place.

T  F  ?  5.                  The police do not know who killed Smith.

T  F  ?  6.                  All six suspects are known to have been near the scene of foul deed.

T  F  ?  7.                  Smith's murderer did not confess of his own free will.

T  F  ?  8.                  Slinky Sam was not cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  9.                  It is known that the six suspects were in the vicinity of the cold-blooded assassination.

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   A businessman had just turned off the lights in the store when a man appeared and demanded money. The owner opened a cash register. The contents of the cash register were scooped up and the man sped away. A member of the police force was notified promptly.

           

T  F  ?  1.                  A man appeared after the owner had turned off his store lights.

T  F  ?  2.                  The robber was a man.

T  F  ?  3.                  The man who appeared did not demand money.

T  F  ?  4.                  The man who opened the cash register was the owner.

T  F  ?  5.                  The store-owner scooped up the contents of the cash register and ran away.

T  F  ?  6.                  Someone opened a cash register.

T  F  ?  7.                  After the man, who demanded the money, scooped up the contents of the cash register, he ran away.

T  F  ?  8.                  While the cash register contained money, the story does not state how much.

T  F  ?  9.                  The robber demanded money of the owner.

T  F  ?  10.              The robber opened the cash register.

T  F  ?  11.              After the store lights were turned off a man appeared.

T  F  ?  12.              The robber did not take the money with him.

T  F  ?  13.              The robber did not demand money of the owner.

T  F  ?  14.              The owner opened a cash register.

T  F  ?  15.              The age of the store-owner was not revealed in the story.

T  F  ?  16.              Taking the contents of the cash register with him, the man ran out of the store.

T  F  ?  17.              The story concerns a series of events in which only three persons are referred to: the owner of the store, a man who demanded money. and a member of the police force.

T  F  ?  18.              The following events were included in the story: someone demanded money. a cash register was opened, its contents were scooped up, and a man dashed out of the store.

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HW-  Read Fish Cheeks, by Amy Tan and create 10 TS questions for another in class to answer.

HW-  Finish the first inference test we didn't complete in class (STORY A).   To access it, please click here.