Week Seven Spring 2009 ADV core

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Week 7 Goals:

  1. Word of the Day:  Strong verbs
  2. Reading skills: evaluating opinions, purpose of paragraphs
  3. Writing:  Designing Good paragraphs:  what are the ingredients?
  4. Essay #1 Final Due Thursday in class, printed to hand in
  5. Midterm conferences-Friday during class time--see apppointments below

Date

 MONDAY

 TUESDAY

 WEDNESDAY

 THURSDAY

FRIDAY 

 Location & Time

Innovation Hall 326

8:30-10:20am

Innovation Hall

336

10-11:30am

Innovation Hall

326

8:30-10:20am

Innovation Hall

336

10-11:30am

Innovation Hall

326

 8:30-10:20am

IN CLASS

Classes cancelled

due to snow

 

 

 

 

 

Vocab of Day

 

Complete "paragraph purpose" from Friday

 

Review HW in book

 

Review Purpose of Paragraph for UPFRONT article

 

Another UPFRONT Activity

 

Vocab of Day 

 

Review HW

 

Good Paragraphs

Good Paragraphs.doc

 

Try to apply to YOUR final draft

 

 

Vocab of Day

 

BRING PAPER PORTFOLIOS:

Turn in Essay final draft & Peer Feedback paper from last week
 

How will I grade your essay?

ESSAY 1 Writing Assessment Criteria ADV.doc 

 

SARAH the "Grammar Doctor" Workshop:

Error correction:

  1. Diagnostic
  2. Clauses
  3. Review of Clauses
  4. Now, try some practice 
  5. Now Test yourself 

No Classes:

Midterm Conferences

 

8:30-Abood

8:40-Worther

8:50-Maliha

9:00-Aseel

9:10-Mansour

9:20-Sumayah

9:30-Annie

9:40-Kevin

9:50-Gana

10:00-Christine

10:10-Hai

HOMEWORK

 

Read UPFRONT page 6-7

  1. know main ideas
  2. identify theme & tone
  3. understand the purpose of each paragraph

Quiz.docx

Essay Final draft

 

How will I grade your essay?

ESSAY 1 Writing Assessment Criteria ADV.doc 

Prepare any questions you have for our conference tomorrow!

 

During the Break, practice the grammar we worked on today:

#1 Run-ons

#2 Run-ons

#3 Fragments

#4 Fragments

 

When we return, you can expect a quiz!

Have a great Spring Break!  Be safe and I'll see you in 10 days!

 

When we return for the 2nd half of term, we will complete

5 additional text chapters and READ your book, The Last Lecture

 

You will also write two more essays and complete a Speech/Presentation!

Word/Phrase

Of the Day

 

Christine

attribute (verb only)

 

 

 

Kevin

stress (verb only)

 

Maliha

 

contrast (verb only)

 

Gana

undertake

 

BRING

Paper PORTFOLIO?

 

 

 

 

YES 

 

 

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