The Final

Today you write a final in-class essay.

You hand in your last paper.

Have a good break!

Working on Research Journal

Today you finish up your research journal papers.

Tomorrow will be the final in-class essay and last class.

Check your grade in Moodle to see the results of the grammar test.

Work Day

Today you work on your research paper.

Thursday is another work day.

Friday the paper is due; you also have an essay final to write during the class period.

Grammar Review and Research...

Questions? The grammar final is tomorrow!

Time for the research paper....

Working on Research

Grammar review and research....

Begin the Last Paper

We review a bit more grammar, and you begin the last paper.

The Last Paper and Grammar

I return your papers, and give you the last assignment. You need to decide on a topic by class tomorrow, so we can get started.

We check the grammar work from yesterday.

Homework:

1. Decide on a topic for your last paper.

Grammar Practice

We work on grammar for the final.

Grammar Practice

We work on practicing for the grammar final.

Brushup?

Summary/ Response Due

You hand in your papers.

We do some grammar review.

Work on Revising

Revising your drafts due tomorrow.

Do a grammar review as well.

Homework:

Final Version of your Summary/ Response paper due tomorrow.

Peer Review

We read drafts.

On Monday I'll have practice test questions for you.

Drafting

We check Brushup.

We go over the quiz.

You work on your drafts.

Homework:

Draft 1 due tomorrow.

Working on Summary/Response

We discuss "On Dumpster Diving."

You take notes and begin to write a summary. Draft 1 due Friday.

Homework:

1. Do Tests 3 and 4 pages 169-170 in Brushup.

2. Begin writing your Summary/ Response to "On Dumpster Diving."

Dumpster Diving?

You take a quiz.

We check answers about Ch. 15.

Homework:

1. Have Tests 1 and 2 ready to check, pages 167-168 in Brushup.

2. Complete the Quiz over Dumpster Diving.

Taking Notes

We go over Ch. 15.

You have time to take notes in your daybook over "Dumpster Diving" using the chart on page 588.

Homework:

Be ready for a quiz over "Dumpster Diving."

Summary Paper Due

Your summary of "How Much is that Kidney in the Window" is due.

We start Ch. 15 in Brushup.

Read "Dumpster Diving."

Homonyms and Review

You do Test 6 Apostrophe and hand it in.

We go over the homework--homonyms.

I pass out the assignment sheet for the next paper.

On Tuesday there will be a quiz over the reading; the work in Brushup will be on the blog.

Homework:

1. Final Version Summary paper due.

2. Finish Tests 5 and 6 over Homonyms pages 151-152 in Brushup.

Apostrophes

We work on apostrophes.

You start Ch. 13, Homonyms page 143.

Homework:

Do up to page 150 in Brushup, Tests 1-4.

Draft 1 Summary Due

Today we read drafts.

We look at your vocabulary exercise from yesterday.

We review apostrophes.

Homework:

1. Do Tests 1, 2 and 3 on pages 107-109 in Brushup.

Apostrophes and the Article

We talk about your article notes; correct commas. More about apostrophes.

Summary Time

I pass out the assignment sheet.

We correct the commas handout.

You work on taking notes about the article.

Homework:

1. Finish taking notes over the article. Begin writing your summary. Draft 1 is due Tuesday, Nov. 12.

Return of Cause and Effect/ Summary

I return your papers.

You begin reading "How Much is That Kidney in the Window?" page 531-534 in Pattern.

http://organdonor.gov/about/data.html

http://www.kidney.org/transplantation/livingdonors/infoqa.cfm

Also, we start on correcting the comma handout.

Homework:

1. Take notes on all of the reading.

More About Commas

We check your tests.

Commas

We work on comma rules.

Cause/ Effect Paper Due

You hand in your papers.

We correct Brushup. And go on.

Homework:

Complete Tests 1-3 on pages 95-97.

Working on C/S and RO

We correct Brushup.

You get out your description papers.

Homework:

Finish the Cause/Effect paper, due Monday.

Draft 2 Cause and Effect Due

We read Draft 2 of Cause and Effect.

We do some more work on c/s and run-ons.

Homework:

1. Have Tests 4, 5 and 6 done, pages 78-80 in Brushup.

2. The final version of your cause and effect paper is due on Monday.

Run-ons and CS

We work in Brushup.

You look for ro and cs in your last paper, and write the corrections in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Have Draft 2 ready (typed) tomorrow.

Draft 1 Due Cause/ Effect

We exchange papers.

We go over Brushup practice exercises.

I collect daybooks at the end of class.

Homework:

1. Work on getting your Draft 2 ready for Thursday.

2. Complete Tests 1, 2 and 3 for tomorrow. Brushup pages 75-77.

More about Thesis Statements

Your current paper. Draft 1 Cause and Effect is due tomorrow. Be sure to follow your organization plan (chart).

Grammar: Begin Chapter 6 and go to p. 74.

Homework:

1. Draft 1 due. 

2. Brushup completed to p. 74.

Thesis Statement

We discuss thesis statements.

Begin writing your Cause/Effect paper with your thesis statement.

Homework:

1. Draft 1 is due Tuesday. Get working on it.

Causes OR Effects?

I give you the assignment sheet for your Cause/Effect paper.

You work on Step 3 from the assignment sheet, and we see if you can arrive at a thesis statement.


We check Brushup and move on.

Homework:

1. Chart your paper.

2. Do Tests 5 and 6 on Fragments.

Return of Your Papers

You look at your paper.


We go over Brushup.


We talk about the reading you did.

Homework:

Fragments

We check your work so far.

We talk about cause/effect ideas.

You do some handouts.

Homework:

1. Finish Brushup Chapter 5 to page 64.  Do Tests 1 and 2.

2. Choose one of the readings and prompts about cause and effect. Read the reading and be prepared to answer questions about it in class tomorrow.

Fragments

We start on Brushup Ch. 5.


For this next paper, in order to be thinking in terms of cause and effect, please consider a problem that you are familiar with. This is something that bugs you, that you have tried to fix, or that you would like to try to fix. Goal is to pick a topic with both causes and effects you can explore. You do not have to "solve" the problem.

Homework:

1. Fill a page in your daybook with brainstorming about possible topics for the next paper.

2. Brushup:  Complete to page 62 and Practice 2.

Descriptive Paper Due

Before you turn in your papers, print a second copy of your paper. Do the following (write in daybook if needed):


1. Circle 5 coordinating conjunctions. List them in your daybook.

2. Circle 5 subordinating conjunctions. List them.

3. Underline two compound sentences. Chart them in your daybook.

4. Put wavey lines under two complex sentences. Chart them in your daybook.

5. On page 2, circle ALL the commas on the page. 

• Then go back and IF the comma is there because it's a compound sentence, put CD in the margin.
• If the comma is there because it's a complex sentence, put CX in the margin.
• Record in your daybook how many of each there are on page 2.

6. Just scanning through the whole paper, find what looks like your longest sentence. Count how many words are in it _______.  How many conjunctions are there in it? ________ 

• Is it compound or complex or both? 
• Underline every clause you can see in it, and then try to map it in your daybook using   IC for independent clause and DC for dependent clause.

If you spot any errors while doing this, you may write changes onto the clean copy.

Our next essay will be a cause and effect essay. See page 439.

Homework:

1. Read in Patterns pages 440-449. Be ready to discuss these on Monday.

2. No Brushup over the weekend.

More Practice with Compound and Complex Sentences

Hand in Tests 5 and 6.

Do the handout page I give you.

We look at your drafts.

Homework:

1. Prepare the final version of your Description Paper. Make sure you ARE describing in it.

2. The printed copy is due at the beginning of class Friday.

Checking Ch. 4 and Draft 2

We go over Tests 3 and 4.

You read your drafts.

Homework:

1. Do Tests 5 and 6 pages 57 and 58, to hand in.

2. Look through your draft from today and underline any complex sentences that you can find. Circle the subordinating conjunction.

Chapter 4 and Typing

We work on Chapter 4 and you type your drafts, due Wednesday.

Homework:

1. Tomorrow we will check Test 3 and Test 4 pages 55 and 56.

2. Bring a typed version of your describing paper.

Draft 1 Describing

We check your grammar tests.

Then you read drafts and fill out comments about each other's drafts.

Homework:

1. Do Chapter 4 Sentence Types, up to and through Tests 1 and 2, page 54.

2. There may be some class time for typing your drafts up.

Drafting Description

We check Tests 3 and 4 for S/V agreement.

You have time for working on the draft, due Monday.

Homework:

1. Finish Draft 1 of your describing paper for class Monday.

2. Complete Tests 5 and 6 Chapter 3 pages 47-48 in Brushup.

Good Description and S/V Agreement

We read "A View from the Bridge" on page 127-129.


We also spend some time on Brushup. Complete Tests 3 and 4 in the S/V Agreement chapter (Ch. 3).

Homework:

1. Tomorrow  I'll collect your daybooks and completed tests.

2. You'll have some time during class to work on Draft 1 of your Describing paper.

Description Paper and Subject-Verb Agreement

I give you the assignment sheet for the first paper.

Then we start Brushup Chapter 3. We see how far you can get...

Homework:

1. Be deciding on a topic for your description paper. Tomorrow we'll look at some more examples. You fill a page in your daybook with brainstorming notes about ideas you could write about. By Friday you should have decided on a topic.

2. On Friday I'll take your daybooks to check them -- including the tests from Brushup.

3. For tomorrow, have Tests 1 and 2 pages 43 and 44 in Brushup done.

Grammar Diagnostic

We correct Ch. 2 Tests 5 and 6 in Brushup, pages 37-38.

Today you take the diagnostic grammar test.

Homework:

1. In Seeing the Patttern, read pages 152-155, and begin thinking about what you might want to write the first paper about.

Subjects and Verbs Some More

We check your homework tests.

Now take your account of your drive, and mark the subjects and verbs of the first 3 sentences. Put them on the board.

We watch a video about hot chilis -- sort of...

Believe it or not, that ties in to our reading in Seeing the Pattern on pages 144-146.

This is an example of a descriptive essay, the first kind of essay you'll be writing.

Homework:

1. Brushup: Do Chapter 2  More about Verbs. You may skim through because I expect you do know much of it. You only HAVE to do Tests 5 and 6 FOR ME (pages 37-38). You do whatever it takes to be ready for those two tests.

Diagnostic Essay

We check Tests 1 and 2.

Then you take the rest of class time to write a short essay on the topic I'll hand out. This is just to see what you already know; if you are familiar with the five paragraph essay, think of doing that for this assignment.

Homework:

1. Do Tests 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Brushup, pages 23-26.

2. In your daybook, keep writing the description of the route you drive to get here. Fill at least one page, and keep going until you arrive at Milford.

Subjects and Verbs

In your daybook, please write a paragraph that describes what you see when you walk in the door at your home. Start like this "As I walk in the door, I...." As you write, skip lines.

Next your will put an N, PN, V, LV, or HV above any that you can find in your paragraph.

Now you do the preposition section in Brushup, pages 7- top of 9.  Then label any prepositions you can find in your own paragraph.

Now it's time to move into Chapter 1. You do pages 17. We do the next few pages together.


For the last 5 minutes of class, please write a description of your route that you drive to get to Milford each day. Include as much detail as you can.

Homework:

Do Tests 1 and 2 pages 21 and 22 in Brushup.

Read pages 4-12 in Seeing the Pattern.

Welcome

We introduce ourselves, and look at Moodle and the blog.

We compare schedules.

We begin Brushup. Do you see any errors?

1. Please dont put children in our shopping carts, they are unstable. And can fall over easily.
2. The soldiers in the civil war often weared rags, on there feet that were torn from scraps of old clothing.
3. Profit's at the company has doubled in the passed 3 months its been our best sales performance in several yrs.
4. This June I will graduate. With twenty-four hours of courses in accounting. I have alot of previous experience. One was as a clerk in the school bookstore, the other doing data entry for ryder truck rental.

We keep going...

For tomorrow, have all your supplies.