Announcements and Reminders:
If needed, revise your book of the month project, print it, and hand it in stapled to the front of the rubric. If you have lost your rubric, you could download it and print it from Skyward or from here:
Jan BookoftheMonth 2018.docx If you haven't created, turned in, and presented your slideshow yet, do that immediately!  |
Targets for Today:
I can correctly spell commonly confused words.
I can explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences. I can choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas. I can write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. |
Today’s Agenda:
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1. Prepare for the tests. 2. Take the Spelling and Other Conventions Tests 3. Correct the tests. 4. Receive your study guide for next week. Conventions of the Week #5.docx 5. In Computer Lab 224, type the argument paper. This is a one-sitting writing assignment. Write your paper on MyAccess and submit it for a score by the end of the class. You may submit multiple times. Bring your notes. The articles and instructions will be in the lab. My Access Prompt: Take a Position
Topic: Taking One’s Own Food into a Movie Theater
Type of Writing: Argument
Your writing prompt: Write a 4-6 paragraph essay to present to your English class, arguing why a person should or should not take their own food into a movie theater.
Use and cite the articles
“Is it OK to bring food to the movies?” and
“Popcorn Ethics.”
Cite both articles.
Make sure you have an introduction which contains your thesis sentence, two to four body paragraphs, a counterclaim, and a conclusion.
Use information from the articles and cite it. Use parenthetical citation.
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If You Were Absent:
If you were not here to take notes last time, or if you missed today, you may get caught up at home by downloading the articles and notes page above, and taking your notes, or by going to MyAccess, selecting the prompt "Take a Position" and spending about an hour writing your essay. Conventions of the Week #5.docx |
Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/subordinateconjunction.htm
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/parts-of-speech-the-preposition-and-the-conjunction/introduction-to-conjunctions/v/subordinating-conjunctions Conventions of the Week #5.docx
Labeling for Types of Sentences and Types of Clauses
Conjunctions |
