Description, cont.

0.  Attendance and caption contest, here.

1.  Journal-  Descriptive Practice...  Video here.

2.  Descriptive Game... It's like.

3.  Poem Discussion... Let's find descriptive tricks....

4.  HW-

Think, really think, about your story, and be ready to tell the story to another next class.  Also, prepare an outline or plan of how you'll tell your story.  Please bring the plan to class.

1. Journal-  essay checks.




2.  Read a loud.


Common Mistakes...

1.  Fragment.
2.  Comma Splice
3.  Run on
4.  Tense shift.
5.  Verb tense agreement.
6.  Parallelism.
7.  Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
8.  Comma after introductory elements-


  

Closing and what's up-

Descriptive Reading:  "The Deer at Providencia" on page 150 plus the first set of questions 1-6.
Descriptive Reading:   "The Vietnam Wall" on page 176.
Descriptive Reading:   "Facing It"  on the world wide web with no questions. 

No Journal! 

Narrative... Quick notes and reminder... DUE MONDAY!

We're going to jump right in.  First, Sentence Fluency. Story and Trade.

Voice Practice-  Groups and Game.

Grading with the Traits.

Student Essay  :  "Mother Nature"

Rubric:  this rubric to grade...

HW-  Complete your Narrative Essay for class.  Remember the rules!

Closing Thinking, beginning Narrative...

Journal 1-  What thinking skills did you utilize to complete your origami?

Journal 2-  What was your most embarrassing moment?

Notes....

Notes...

Notes...

Story and Plan...

HW-  Return with an organized plan for a narrative story...

Next Class-  Grading with the traits, SF practice, Voice practice...

HW-  Typed Essay Draft Due MONDAY!

HW

Reading and questions from Patterns  "The Lottery" by Chris Abani with questions 1-6 under "Reading Closely" and "Salvation" by Langston Hughes with questions 1-6 under "Reading Closely."

Virtual Class!

Hi Everyone!  Thanks for checking in to find your HW for our class on Monday.

Please read "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan and create 10 TS questions for another to answer. 

Please also read "A Hanging" by George Orwell and create 10 TS questions for another to answer.


Also, please notice that these stories are Narrative stories, written in the first person and seemingly true, and this is the type of writing we will be doing on our first assigned essay.

Please return to class with your Crane and TS questions.  We'll wrap up thinking skills and begin Narrative and Writing process notes.

Monday- Thinking Skill Project

1.  Origami Flower...

2.  HW-  Origami Crane