Wed 2/26Grab a handout from the stool. Silently, read the

handout. Take out planner.

Objective: Edit essays for proper structure. Understand sub-verb agreement.

Agreement

•Review grammar pages 177-180

Structural Editing

•Create 2 Attention Getters

•Create 1 Bridge Sentence

•Check your thesis statement

•Check your body paragraph

Group Grammar Work

•As a group, work on the worksheets.

•Finished? Read Silently.

Tuesday 2/26

•Take out planner and grab a marker from the box.

•Objective: understand sub-verb agreement.

Homework

•Grammar pages 177 and 179 (Complete the exercises)

•177-180

•Be ready to work on paper in the lab

Agenda

•Peer Grade Test

•Self-Editing of Rough Draft

•Watch Amandala if it works

The Odyssey Grading

•You will grade someone else’s test.

•Then, you will put your name on the bottom of the test so I can verify grading.

•Lastly, give the test to the original owner who will hand the test back in to me.

Essay Editing

• Take a look at the handout.

•Write your attention getters and bridge the way I have instructed.

• Look at the sample body paragraph and make changes to yours.

Amandala Film

•Sit up right

•I will do paper conferences

•Then, we will go to the lab.

•Take notes on the tone of music and how it shifts from one scene to the next.

Tuesday 2/26

•We will begin with editing in the class and then move to the lab for editing work, conferences, film watching.

Formatting

•Heading (Left)

•Running Head (Left)

•Title (Center)

•Font (12 pt, Times New Roman)

•Spacing (Double)

• Italics (The title)

Taboo Words

•I, Me, My, You, Your, we, us, our

Transitions

• Introducing ideas and evidence

•Moving from one to the next

•Commas

Sentence Errors: Wordy/Crowded

•Wordy: Our Web site has made available many of the things you can use for making a decision on the best dentist.• (20 words)

•Concise: Our website presents criteria for determining the best dentist.• (9 words)

Sentence Errors: Run-ons

•Run-on: It was a beautiful day there was not a cloud in the sky.

• It was a beautiful day; there was not a cloud in the sky.• It was a beautiful day. There was not a cloud in the sky.• It was a beautiful day because there was not a cloud in the sky.

Sentence Errors: Fragments• lacks a verb

• The colorfully adorned circus clown.

• or lacks a subject• Tumbled across the entire length of the arena.

• or is a subordinate clause, or dependent clause, not attached to a complete sentence • Into the lap of a ferocious, hungry lion.

Placed together, these fragments form a complete sentence!

• The colorfully adorned circus clown tumbled across the entire length of the arena and into the lap of a ferocious, hungry lion.

Vary your Sentence Types

•Simple: The mood in part two is tense. It makes the reader feel anxious.

•Compound: The mood in part two is tense and makes the reader feel anxious.

•Complex: The mood in part two, which is the climax of the text, is tense and makes the reader feel anxious.

Writing the Conclusion

•Restate the major ideas you have addressed. Leave the reader with why this is important.

•Answer the “So, What” question.

Using Quotes: Several Ways• Thoreau ends his essay with a metaphor: "Time is but the

stream I go a-fishing in.“

•According to Thoreau, "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.“

• Thoreau argues that people blindly accept "shams and delusions" as the "soundest truths," while regarding reality as "fabulous."

Homework

•Edit paper

•Write Conclusion

Agreement

•Review grammar pages 177-180