Caveman English: Monday/Tuesday, March 12/13, 2018

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Monday/Tuesday, March 12/13, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:

Today is the first (or second) day of Term 4.

Don't forget that your Nonfiction Book of the Month is due March 21.
Example for Nonfiction Book of the Month

Targets for Today:

I can recognize a complete sentence and its parts.
I can pull out important information from an article.
I can write an informational essay.

Today’s Agenda:

Conventions in Sentences Investigations
Recognizing the Parts of a sentence. Is it all there?

1. In your composition book under CSI Sentences/Grammar. Page 83/84 +

label this CSI # , and add today's date -- March 12/13, 2018.

Copy this sentence:

The llama in the red pajamas gave his mama a

flower because he loves her.

1. Place parentheses around any prepositional phrases. ( )

2. Circle the simple verb or verbs. [The action or what is being done.]

3. Underline the simple subject(s). Who or what is doing the verbs?

4. Double underline the object(s). Who or what is affected by the action of the verb(s)?

5. Write the answer to this question: Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex? Why?

By the way, it is a declarative sentence.

Answers: Parts of a Sentence: Llama Mama Sentence

2. Preparing to write an informational essay -- We will be preparing more next time, then beginning to write this essay the time after that.

A. Read/attack/deconstruct the prompt.
The Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering

Your Prompt:

Write a multi-paragraph essay discussing the advantages and disadvantages of genetic engineering.

Make sure you follow the rubric:

R
A
F
T
S

[B. Remember what parts I need for an informational essay.]

Introduction Sentence

Thesis statement states that there are advantages and disadvantages to the topic (all in one sentence).

Body Paragraph 1

Paragraph begins with a topic sentence stating the advantages of the central idea of the paragraph.

· Topic sentence is indented.

· Each sentence begins with a capital letter.

· Each sentence is punctuated correctly.

· Paragraph contains at least two pieces of evidence from the texts to support the topic sentence.

· Evidence is introduced. (EX: According to …)

· Evidence is cited. (Where did the information come from?)

· All of the sentences relate to the central idea.

· Explanation about how each quote relates to the topic sentence is included.

· Transitions are used effectively. (EX: For example,…; In addition,…; Also,…; Another reason…)

Body Paragraph 2

Paragraph begins with a topic sentence stating the disadvantages of the paragraph.

· Topic sentence is indented.

· Each sentence begins with a capital letter.

· Each sentence is punctuated correctly.

· Paragraph contains at least two pieces of evidence from the texts to support the topic sentence.

· Evidence is introduced. (EX: According to …)

· Evidence is cited. (Where did the information come from?)

· All of the sentences relate to the central idea.

· Explanation about how each quote relates to the topic sentence is included.

· Transitions are used effectively. (EX: For example,…; In addition,…; Also,…; Another reason…)

Conclusion Sentence

There is a conclusion sentence that rephrases your thesis statement.

C. Read the stimulus materials (articles or other materials provided) to gather supporting details for my essay.

Think aloud. (10 minutes) Do not write on the article.
As I read, try to answer this question --
What in the article could you use in an essay about the advantages and disadvantages of genetic engineering?

3. Writing a quick informational essay.
In an informational essay, you are not taking a side, just sharing information.

Prompt: Write a brief essay, explaining advantages and disadvantages of Daylight Saving Time.

A. Study the stimulus materials provided.
Watch a Video --Take notes on a T-Chart. -- Compare/Share.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/daylight-saving-time-2016-why-change-clocks/

Read the Article: "The Never Ending DST Debate:

B. Write the essay:

Introduction: Give a brief definition of Daylight Saving Time. End with a thesis sentence that says something like "Daylight Saving Time has both Advantages and Disadvantages."

Body Paragraph 1: Tell briefly about your experience with the change to DST.

Paragraph 2: Tell about two advantages of DST. Introduce, quote and cite from your sources. Explain each quote.

Paragraph 3: Tell about two disadvantages of DST. Introduce, quote and cite from your sources. Explain each quote.

Conclusion

Hand in what you have at the end of the period.

If You Were Absent:

See above.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment

Transitions -- http://www.smart-words.org/linking-words/transition-words.html

Parts of Speech: Practice with this game -- http://www.abcya.com/parts_of_speech.htm

bananas and TR4:
http://www.fao.org/world-banana-forum/projects/fusarium-tr4/disease/en/
http://www.fusariumwilt.org/index.php/en/about-fusarium-wilt/
http://www.promusa.org/Tropical+race+4+-+TR4

Answers: Parts of a Sentence: Llama Mama Sentence

Contact Ms. Dorsey at cdorsey@alpinedistrict.org
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"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

"Empathy is really important... Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential." -- Jane Goodall

"I’d wish you luck [in your writing], but good writing depends on conscious choices, not luck. Make good choices."

-- Bret Stephens, writer for the New York Times

Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough said, “Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”

"As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn’t come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others." -- Dalai Lama

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison, welcoming us all back to school

"Perseverance is not a long race: it is many short races one after the other." --Walter Elliot

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Thomas Huxley

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -- Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
― Sydney Harris

Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The American Notebooks, 184

--notable-quotes.com

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself." -- Edmund Lee

What I've Been Reading -- Fall 2012

"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you." - From the Mixed Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler

"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."
-John Berger

“Think of education
as a garden
where questions
grow.”
Anna Devere Smith

". . . success is not a function of fame or PR, but of hard work and discipline." President Barak Obama

"The future is not a gift. It is an achievement." Robert Kennedy as quoted by President Obama

A great grammar link (with some errors, but it has Yoda!)
http://www.lordalford.com/grammar/grammarevil.htm#2

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Other Classes and Activities

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This is the English Class Blog.
If you're looking for Ms. Dorsey's other classes and activities, here are the links:

For Reading 7 go to
http://cavereading.blogspot.com/

For Creative Writing go to
http://cavewriting.blogspot.com/

For Mock Trial go to
http://cavemocktrial.blogspot.com/

Here's a site with word games, etc.:
http://www.fun-with-words.com

Play a punctuation game at
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar2.htm

Wonder how to pronounce author names? Go to http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=3090
and begin with a very popular author. Use the search to find others.

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