Summary/Response Fri

Check Comma Tests.

Look at Summary/Response.  We mark your copies of the reading up.  Then you get the assignment sheets for Summary/Response. You have already created rough drafts.  Now is the time to start turning them into the First Draft, which is due on Wednesday.
Grammar practice.

Homework:

1.  On Wednesday bring Draft #1 of your Summary/Response to "On Dumpster Diving."  It must be typed.

2.  Wednesday will be the Grammar Final.

Summary/Response

We correct page 233 in Brushup.

You work on pages 91-94.

We look at your summaries.  Do you give his name and the title of the essay?  List the main points on the board.

Time to freewrite:  what is your reaction to Eighner's information?

Practice quiz.

Homework:

1.  Write one or two paragraphs of your opinion about the article "On Dumpster Diving."  Comment on some of the details in his essay  and the ideas he shares.  Bring it Friday, either handwritten or typed.

2.  Do Tests 3 and 4 pages 97 and 98.

Summary/Response

We check grammar work.  You do some in-class tests.

We look at Seeing the Pattern, writing a summary.

I hand out the new version of "On Dumpster Diving" and you read and annotate it.

Homework:


1. Bring a one to two paragraph summary of the handout version of "On Dumpster Diving" to class.  It can be either typed or hand-written. Have your annotated copy of the article with you.

2.  In Brushup do page 233.

Final Version Comparison Essay Due

Hand in your papers.

We discuss pronouns and you find them in your old papers.

We work on Test 1 and 2 on pages 85-86.

We look at "On Dumpster Diving" again.

We check Wednesday's Review Quiz.  You do another Review Quiz.

Homework:

1.  Do Tests 3 and 4 pages 87-88 in Brushup.

Draft #2 Comparison

We check Tests 4 and 5.

You do Test 6 handout to hand in.

You take a review quiz and we check it.

You write your introductions on the board.

You read drafts.

Homework:

1.  Create the final version of your Comparison paper.

2.  Read and do pages 81-84 in Brushup.

3.  Bring all of your essays to class on Friday.

Draft #1 Comparison/Contrast

We check the fragment exercise.

We check Tests 2 and 3 pages 75-76.

Peer review of Draft #1.

Homework:

1.  Do Tests 4 and 5 pages 78-79.

2.  Create and type Draft #2 of your Comparison/Contrast paper.

Writing Comparison/Contrast

 Brainstorm paper topics. I read  "A Taste of Snow"  and we look at #2 page 320.

Fragment exercise.

Homework:

1.  Read and do Tests 2 and 3 in Brushup pages 77-78.

2.  Write Draft #1 of your Comparison/Contrast paper.

Final Version Process Analysis Due

You organize your papers.  Before you hand them in, you circle any transition words you used.  Then you double underline at least one compound sentence and one complex sentence.

Quiz over fragments.

Look at page 292 in Seeing the Pattern and follow instructions.

Then we look at pages 299 and 300.

Homework:

1. Read "We've Got the Dirt on Guy Brains" by Dave Barry pages 311-312 in Seeing the Pattern.

Draft #2 Process Analysis

We check Tests 1 and 2 pages 65-66.

You do Test 3 and check. 

We discuss having a thesis in your draft. We look at page 36 in Seeing the Pattern. Also transitions.

Read drafts.

Homework:


1.  Create the final version of your Process Analysis paper.  Edit carefully.


2.  Do Tests 4 and 5 pages 69-70 in Brush Up.

Draft #1 Process Due

Do Test 5 page 57;  we check it.

Do Test 6 to hand in.

We do some test questions.  Now you do some.

We discuss transitions between details and steps -- see page 60 in Seeing the Pattern.

And you read drafts.

Homework:

1.  Read and do pages 59-64 and Tests 1 and 2 pages 65-66 for Monday.

2.  Work on Draft #2 for Monday.

Compound/Complex Sentences and a Process

You do some work in Brush Up.
Then you read the handout:  "The Dare"

You get the assignment sheet for the next paper, a Process paper.

Homework:

1.  Create the first draft of your Process Paper.

Final Version Due

We go over Test 1 and 2 pages 53-54.

We discuss punctuation for compound and complex sentences.

Hand in Remembering papers.

Read Chapter 8 page 243 and write a paragraph.

Then we read "How the Oscars Work" on pages 244-247.

Homework:

1.  Create a different sentence for each of the pairs in Test 2 page 54.  Write these in your daybook.

2.  Cover one full page in your daybook brainstorming about a process "how-to" or "how-it-works" that you could write.  You need a topic that could take up two to three pages.