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Thursday 3/29
1. Read Sample Intros to papers 2.. Peer Review of 1st three sections. Use this Peer Edit Checklist 3. Post to Non-Fiction Book journal 4. Reflect before we get too far into next paper. Read comments carefully, then log in to Turnitin. Hover over the little i to read the instructions. Do a screenshot of that black box with the questions in it. Drag the screenshot into a Google Doc or pages document. Complete the Essay Reflection questions in Google Drive or a new document, then upload as PDF or .doc. 5. Assignment: Edit those first 3 sections, read non-fiction, be ready to start research next week. ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Tuesday 3/27 (Sub is Mr. Deutsch) Mrs. Kistler will do a non-fiction presentation. After her presentation, go to library to pick out book. Our final novel of the year will be a Vietnam-era choice starting the first week of May, so I'd like you to have a non-fiction book to read during April while we are working on research paper. At minimum, we'll do a couple of journal posts and will likely also do a brief book talk later in April. Today's Assignment: 1. In your Google Drive, go back to the document called Spring 2017 I-Search Paper Topics. 2. Scroll down to page 4 of that document. Yesterday, I added more topics & questions from last year. 3. Go to the document called Honors I-Search Topics Google Doc. I made comments on your questions! 4. Finish the first 3 sections of paper for Peer Review on Thursday (Why I Chose Topic, What I Already Know, What I Want to Know). 5. Think about sentence variety as you write. Watch overuse of "I" at the beginning of sentences. Vary openers! 6. Once you finish paper pieces, READ your new book! ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Smarter Balanced Practice Calculators for Smarter Balanced ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Previous Days' Lessons Friday 3/23 1. Review I-Search Structure 2. Take 2 minutes to Find I-Search template in Google Docs. Follow the instructions to get paper set up. Read through each section. 3. See & add to the I-Search Topic Google Doc See Sample #1 below--use red boxes! Break into groups Here are 3 Student Examples of the I-Search Paper you will analyze: 1. Asthma I-Search Example 2 Ceramics I-Search Example 3. Public Speaking I-Search (hard copy!) Use these three essays to complete THIS ACTIVITY (I'll give you a hard copy in class.) FINAL Newselsa Day. Please select three articles from among those toward the top of your list of assigned articles. Answer the 4 questions. Assignment: 1. Add topic to Google Docs for Tuesday 2. Write the 1st three sections of paper (Why I Chose Topic, What I Already Know, What I Want/Need to Know). Wednesday 3/21 Notorious Confusables Continued: Last grammar lesson of the year! already/all ready 1. Practice here 2. Another practice! Notorious Confusables: everyday/everyday (worksheet) We use our everyday dishes every day. Everyday is an adjective meaning "daily" or "average." Jogging 3 miles is an everyday occurrence. Every day is a time expression that means "each day." I jog 3 miles every day. 1. click the blue Start button to Practice Here Notorious Confusables: among/between 1. Practice here Notorious Confusables: advise/advice 1. Practice here 2. Advise vs. Advice Notorious Confusables: lie/lay and sit/set Today I will.. Yesterday I In the past I have (has, had) rest/recline lie lay lain put/place lay laid laid Trick: Ask yourself if the sentence means REST or PUT 1. Practice Lie/Lay 2. More practice with lie/lay 3. More practice with sit/set Now complete Commonly Confused Words Assignment #2 at Quia Monday 3/19 The Last Grammar Lessons of the year!! MUG: Refer to Words Commonly Confused Use this link above! Notorious Confusables: its/it's and there/their/they're 1. Practice #1 here and 2. Practice #2 Here 3. Practice with there/their/they're Notorious Confusables: accept/except and affect/effect 1. Practice here 2. Practice with accept/except 3. Practice with affect/effect 4. Affect/Effect 5. Accept/Except Notorious Confusables: fewer/less and farther/further Use fewer with countable objects (desks, books, students). Use less with non-countables like salt and sand (you can't add -s to these words) 1. Practice with fewer/less 2. Fewer vs. Less 3. Practice with farther/further 4. Farther or Further #2 Please don't sit next to anyone. Now complete Commonly Confused Words Assignment at Quia Then Go to Newsela. Read 2 of the 4 new articles I assigned to your class: 1. On Twitter, Fake News spreads faster than Real News 2. The World's Most Progressive Farm Animal Welfare Law 3. After Parkland, one of the Largest Student Protests in Decades 4. Paralympics in South Korea Assignment: Work Quietly on something AND... Bring Idea(s) for I-Search Paper for Wednesday! If you were gone, read.... I-Search Background Explanation of I-Search Paper ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Wednesday 3/14 Register for College & Career Fair on Wednesday, April 11. That is a testing day also. We'll test in the morning and go to USF at noon. Follow these instructions at this site: Click to Go to College Fair Registration Put a ✔️ in the 5th box down--USF, April 11, 12:30 Click Register Now Complete the registration process. Be thorough! Print out the bar code, put in career folder, bring the bar code to the fair. The bar code is the method that the colleges, vo-techs, reps, etc. will use to get your information. If you stop at their booths, they'll scan your card. **You need to SHOW me your printed bar code before putting in folder. On that Weds., you'll retrieve the printed bar code before we leave. MUG: *Another common ACT error deals with parallel structure. What is it? Multiple items of similar content in a sentence must be expressed in the same form grammatically. Incorrect parallelism: Mary likes hiking, swimming and to fish. Correct parallelism: Mary likes hiking, swimming, and fishing. or Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to fish. Read: Parallel Structure as a Literary Device Practice first: 1. Read this explanation!! 2. Do this Parallel Structure exercise 4. Practice at ChompChomp--scroll down to howling dog to start! SEE the Yellow Box on the right! Parallel structure is just like equal equations in math! Now Complete **remember the tricky not only/but also combo Whatever comes after not only must also come after but also! not only that.....but also that Both 26 pts. I'll record the better score. Parallel Structure Assignment #1 at Quia Parallel Structure Assignment #2 at Quia I-Search Background Explanation of I-Search Paper ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Monday 3/12 MUG: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers View Dangling Modifiers View Misplaced and Dangling Modifier A misplaced modifier is one that is in the wrong place within the sentence. It is not close enough to the word it’s supposed to modify, so it causes confusion (and sometimes very funny sentences). Examples: I watched the bulls charge through my binoculars. (Bulls that charge through binoculars would give one quite a headache.) After the kids left their rooms, I cleaned them. (What was cleaned? The kids, or the rooms?) They walked into the tavern and ordered a drink that was dirty and filled with cockroaches. (I wouldn’t drink that if I were you!) Do you see how a misplaced modifier can change the whole meaning of a sentence? They are good for a chuckle—but not for good writing! Dangling=When a sentence begins with a modifying phrase, the intro must be immediately followed by a comma and then the noun it's describing. Though exhausted, it would be another hour before Zoe got to go home. There's nothing obviously wrong with this sentence, but let's think about what it's actually saying. We start with the modifier "though exhausted." That would seem to be describing Zoe, but it's next to "it," so right now, the sentence is actually saying that "it" is exhausted, which makes no sense. We need to reorder the sentence so that the modifier is next to what it's modifying: Though exhausted, Zoe wouldn't get to go home for another hour. Running toward the lake, the trees were swaying in the wind. "The trees" are obviously not running towards the lake; they don't have legs. 2 Fixes: Fix 1: Running toward the lake, I saw the trees swaying in the wind. (move the word being modified directly after the comma) Fix 2: As I ran toward the lake, the trees were swaying in the wind. (add the subject to the introductory phrase or clause) Often SINGLE words are misplaced. The most common are only, just, almost, nearly, scarcely, barely Only Cheryl eats grapes.=Cheryl is the ONLY one who eats them. Cheryl only eats grapes.=This means that Cheryl only does one thing with grapes: She eats them. She doesn’t squish them into wine, she doesn’t throw them at people. She only eats them. Cheryl eats only grapes.=This means that Cheryl eats nothing else but grapes. Hint: When a modifier begins a sentence (followed by comma), the very next thing that comes along HAS to be something that can, in fact, be modified by that phrase or clause or it's dangling. What is the difference between Misplaced and Dangling? Misplaced Modifiers Exercise 1 Now practice: Dangling Modifiers 1 Which one is incorrect? Exercise A: Dangling Mods Practice Quiz: Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers Exercise 1 Grammar Bytes: Fixing Misplaced & Dangling Mods--Read instruction and click Start Here (under Monkey) Now spread out--sit on opposite sides of table please; I'll record better 2 of 3 of these. Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Assignment #1 at Quia Then, Complete Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Quiz #2 at Quia and Complete Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers #3 Go to Newsela. Read 2 of the 4 new articles I assigned to your class: 1. Sunshine State: Florida & Daylight Saving Time 2. One-Handed Linebacker at NFL combine 3. 1 Million Adelie Penguins discovered 4. Alexa and Voice Shopping ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Wednesday 3/7 (basketball gone) MUG: Who/Whom Whoever/Whomever Who's =Who is or Who has Whose=shows possession Who=he/she Whom=him/her We do: Pretest, practice packet & Cheat Sheet Now You Practice: 1. Whoever/Whomever Quiz #1 2. Take the Who or Whom Quiz 3. Practice with this quiz on Who or Whom 4. Take another quiz on Who or Whom Now Complete: I'll record the better score the Who/Whom/Who's/Whose assignment at Quia (22 points) and the Who/Whom assignment at Quia (22 points) Go to Newsela. Enter class code. I set up a new free account since my last trial ran out. Choose TWO articles to read and answer the Quiz questions. ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Tuesday 3/6=Snow Day! Friday 3/2 Upload Article Review Reflection to Turnitin |
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