Vocab Quiz 10: Absolute phrase reminders.
Vocab 11: new words, worksheet.
Return Argument essay #1—conferences.
Notes on common essay errors.
Read “Hellhole.”
Monday, April 20, 2009
Friday Lessons
Vocabulary Unit 10 Quiz (14 points).
Discussed rhetorical features—examples, narration, compare/contrast, analogy) and evidence (examples, statistics, testimony) of Margaret Talbot’s “Red Sex, Blue Sex.”
Discussed rhetorical features—examples, narration, compare/contrast, analogy) and evidence (examples, statistics, testimony) of Margaret Talbot’s “Red Sex, Blue Sex.”
Thursday, April 16, 2009
"Red Sex, Blue Sex"
Vocabulary Unit 10: Worksheet (5 points).
Absolute phrases: review; students wrote three sentences, one in each pattern (opener, subject-verb split, closer).
Read Margaret Talbot’s “Red Sex, Blue Sex” –will analyze and discuss tomorrow.
Absolute phrases: review; students wrote three sentences, one in each pattern (opener, subject-verb split, closer).
Read Margaret Talbot’s “Red Sex, Blue Sex” –will analyze and discuss tomorrow.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Another Lab Day
West Wing Lab—Work on topics for final Argument Essay.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Thiel check essay folders for content.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Thiel check essay folders for content.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Lab Day
West Wing Lab—Work on topics for final Argument Essay.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Thiel check essay folders for content.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Thiel check essay folders for content.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Absolute Phrases
Lesson: Absolute phrases: Reviewed verb forms, participial phrases. The absolute phrase is like a participial phrase with a subject. Whereas participles and participial phrases function as adjectives, absolute phrases modify the entire clause or sentence. Activity: Sentence scrambles.
Vocabulary Unit 10: New words.
Students turned in Argument Essay #1 folders.
Vocabulary Unit 10: New words.
Students turned in Argument Essay #1 folders.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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