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Is this story interesting?
Would you retell this story to another?
Is this story about a brief moment?
Does this story start en media res?
Are all of the points clearly explained?
Can you summarize and retell this story?
Is there anything missing?

Welcome:

1. Journal: Write a summary of the story that you invented, planned and organized.

2. Groups of three: 20 min... Tell your stories...

3. What I'm looking for... Rules of Thumb

4. Homework... No class Tuesday....

Notes and More Notes

Writing Process—

Invent: Think about what you’ll write about. Use a list, a web, an outline….
Organize: Set your ideas into a logical order.
Draft: Just follow your plan and get it done.
Revise: For better words, for flow, for sound, for look, for org.
Edit: For punctuation, grammar, capitalization, and etc.
Publish: This means it’s perfect.

6 Traits—

Voice: This is your style. It’s the unique way you sound.
Ideas: What your paper is about. Hopefully they are interesting
to others.
Conventions: Punctuation and grammar.
Organization: The shape or logical flow of your thoughts.
Word Choice: Picking the best word for the situation.
Sentence Flow: The way your sentences connect and sound together.

TAP—

Topic: What your paper is about.
Audience: Who your paper is for.
Purpose: Why you are writing it.



Common Grammar Errors—

Commas: In class notes.

Comma Splice: I love dogs, they are my best friends.

Run-on: I love dogs they are my best friends they love to eat food and I do
too.
That for Who: He is one that loves dogs. SB: He is one who loves dogs.

Verb Tense Agr.: They is my family. SB: They are…

Tense Shift: I was sad until I am happy.

PNA: John is like a good friend; they are always there for you.
SB: He is always….

Parallelism: I’m going to the store to eat, drink, and shopping. SB: to
eat, drink and shop.


Commas:

Introductory phrases/words like: In the meantime, Consequently,

Phrase: A group of words with no subject, no verb, or both.

Clause: A group of words with a subject and a verb.

Subject: What the sentence is about.

Verb: Action words.


Two types of clauses make up three main types of sentences:

Independent Clause: he walks his dog.

Dependent Clause: when he walks his dog Dep. Cl. Words: Since, when, while,
after, during, if, etc.



Types of Sentences:

Simple: Just an independent clause: He walks his dog.

Compound: Two independent clauses connected with ,but / , and/ , or / ; / He walks his dog, and he runs his dog.

Complex: An independent and a dependent clause in any order. If dep. goes first, then a comma. Just like the sentence you just read. It could be, Use a comma if a dependent clause comes first. Notice there is no comma that way.

Welcome...

1. Journal: Write a half a page. What's the most important thing in your life?

2. In-class diagnostic paragraph...

3. Design, Robert Frost.

4. Topic Sentence....


In Design, Robert Frost seems to question his creator.

Write your paragraph, bring it to me, and let me read it. If I like it, you can leave. If not, rewrite.

Thinking Skills….
1. Analyze: To determine the nature and parts.
2. Compare: To point out similarities
3. Contrast: To point out differences.
4. Connect: to place in relation to something else
5. Clarify: To make clear
6. Distinguish: To tell the difference between two things.
7. Elaborate: To provide further detail
8. Evaluate: To determine the worth
9. Explain: To make understandable
10. Infer: To determine based on evidence
11. Identify: To name
12. Predict: tell a future occurrence
13. Summarize: To tell in a short version
14. Synthesize To combine.
15. Interpret: To put in other words


TS Robert Frost seems to question his creator in the poem, Design.
F For Example, Robert Frost writes in line 4 that, “on a white heal-all” a spider held a moth aloft.
O This Shows That
O This Also Shows that
F In Addition
O This shows That
O This also shows that
F What’s more
O This shows that
O This also shows that.
CS In Design, Robert Frost questions his maker.