Announcements and Reminders for Monday/Tuesday, February 11/12, 2019:
Important Reminders
If you have not handed in your waiver, get that signed and handed in.
Hand in your mini-bio if you haven't. See the requirements on Skyward, or requirements and Mentor Texts on CANVAS.
Also Due
See Canvas or Skyward for document downloads and more instructions.
GREAT OPPORTUNITY: AMERICAN FORK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS COULD WIN UP TO $200 IN THE ANNUAL FREEDOM FESTIVAL ESSAY OR ART CONTEST. STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO CREATE AN ORIGINAL ESSAY OR ART WORK ON OUR 2019 THEME. "CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW ... ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM ... OF SPEECH OR OF THE PRESS.” |
Targets for Today:
I can add two examples of sentence imitation to my chapter body.
I can type my draft of my chapter body into my chapter document. |
Today’s Agenda for Monday/Tuesday, February 11/12, 2019:
1. Writing Prompt -- Write at least a half page in your composition book.
Watch "Book Report" from "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" at
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Write about your writing process. What do you do when you need to write?
2. Last class, we put parts A and B together so our chapters had the same mix of part A (the story of our person’s life) and part B (the story of our person’s death) that our mentor texts had. Today’s we’re going to use sentence imitation to enhance our drafts and spend the last part of class typing our drafts into our google docs.
SENTENCE IMITATION --
Answers for Sentence Imitation February 11/12
SENTENCE IMITATION --
A. An infection on that small piece of real estate on his large body—the inside of his mouth—killed George Washington.
a. What is the structure of this sentence?
- Use the same structure to write your own sentence:
- Write a sentence for your draft using the same structure:
B. Caesar lowered mortgage rates, gave away land, and built new settlements for veterans when they returned from war.
Do a, b, c. as above.
C. In his own body, something else was moving—his kidney stones.
Do a, b, c. as above.
You will go to the computer lab and type into your google doc your chapter body, with parts A and B mixed together and with one or two examples of sentence imitation. Underline the examples of sentence imitation in your document.
If You Were Absent:
See above. You are able to work on your chapter from home.
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Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
To look at how the text is written in How They Croaked, and how some transitions are used, you can go here: https://www.npr.org/2011/03/12/134468072/the-famous-meet-gory-ends-in-how-they-croaked and scroll down to the chapter they've included. Find more information on Transitions on CANVAS.
Transition: a word or phrase that a writer uses to shift from one idea to another.
(Transition -- the word roots -- means "go across.") Transition Words I Transitions for Informational Writing Transition Words for Comparison/Contrast Paragraphs If you'd like to read about Georgia Bragg, the author of How They Croaked, go to http://georgiabragg.com/aboutpage/ |
