1. October 3rd, 2011 Writing: Supporting a Point with Specific Evidence Grammar: Parts of Speech Quiz

2. Housekeeping Next Monday, October 10th is a holiday – no class! Introductory Writing Assignment (Substantive Assignment) Review Sign Give it back to me! I will give you a copy of the original next week. Editing Marks Handout

3. Housekeeping Homework Guidelines backups file format and names Website Gradebook Uploading Work Grammar Questions?

4. Grammar Questions Hossein’s question: Althoughshe gave hundreds of zucchini away the enormous mound left over frightened her. subordinating conjunction

5. GrammarQuiz – Parts of Speech /5 Which part of speech is underlined in each sentence? [Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Preposition, Interjection, Article, Conjunction, Pronoun. ] Directions: Write the part of speech in the space provided. Keep your paper for now.

6. Grammar Quiz Int. Verb Adv. Conj. Article Pronoun Prep Adj. Noun Adj.

7. Writing Support for Paragraphs, p. 49 Last class we read two paragraphs about Family. The strongest was about “Changes in the Family,” p. 47, because it had a clear topic sentence easy to find reasons specific examples for each reason See outline on p. 49

8. Writing Support for Paragraphs, p. 50 Let’s look at another paragraph, “Goodbye Tony,” p. 50 What is the author’s point? What three reasons does she give for her point?

9. Activity 3, p. 53-54 Each question has four statements. Identify which is the main point (P) and which are supports (S) as shown in the example. P – The apartment has some real drawbacks P – Some people have poor eating habits P – Children are at risk at the school. P – There are definate advantages to having a cat as a pet P – Ron might be having a heart attack.

10. Writing Suppport for Paragraphs, p. 50 The other thing the writer of “Goodbye Tony” does is give us specific examples for each reason. For example, Reason 2: He was bossy Example 1: He refused to see the Chris Rock comedy in favour of an action movie. Example 2: Told me to just close my eyes during the bloody parts. Specific examples help us to “see” and imagine the writers details and examples

11. General vs. Specific General: I bought a new car. Specific: I bought a red, 2005, 4-door Toyota Echo Hatchback.

12. Writing Support for Paragraphs, p. 51 Let’s look at some more sample paragraphs on the same topic that will show us how specific details make a paragraph easier to understand, more interesting, and more convincing. Read paragraph A and B on p. 51 and 52.

13. Writing Support for Paragraphs, p. 53 Paragraph B gives us clear reasons and specific examples for being in school. Reason 3: “To fulfill a personal goal: to finish something.” Example: I quit high school Example: dropped out of job-training program Example: gave up on my high-school equivalency Paragraph A gives only vague, general reasons. Reason 2: “to fulfill my dream.” Example: need an education Example: need courses for the position I think I can handle

14. Activity, p. 58-59 Each of the five points is followed by two possible details. For each point, we will take turns reading the choices aloud. We will discuss which choice provides specific details.

15. Activity, p. 58-59 b a b b a

16. Handout, Activity, p. 61 Rewrite the sentences, replacing the underlined words with more specific words. Student Sentences: At the shopping center, we visited several stores. . . .we visited an accessory store, a supermarket, and the movies. . . . clothing store, jewellery store, shoe store, and some cosmetic stores. . . . Zara, BeBe, Coach, and Giorgio Armani

17. Activity, p. 61 Sunday is my day to take care of chores. . . . to take care of laundry, washing my car, sorting out the recycling and mowing the lawn . . . cleaning up the garbage, laundry, warehouse and parking garage. . . . car cleaning, repairing my daughter’s bicycle Lola enjoys various activities in her spare time. . . . Lola enjoys reading novels (specific), watching action movies, meeting up with friends, chatting on the phone and several other things. . . . . . .watching tv, surfing on the internet, and hanging out with friends in . . . . . . . sports, painting, and reading (what? – how can we make it more specific) . . . soccer, oil-painting, and reading Shakespeare

18. Activity, p. 61 I spent most of my afternoon doing homework. . . . . school essay, looking up words in the dictionary and finishing my physics assignment. . . . my grammar exercises, reading short stories and writing a small paragraph . . . my parts of speech practice, reading “The Guest,” . . . my math exercises, writing the English assignment, and studying for the law course on Tuesday We returned home from vacation to discover that several pests had invaded the house. . . . a few rats, skunks , racoons, and cockroaches invaded the house . . . bedbugs, mice, cockroaches, and fleas . . . snakes, spiders, scorpions

19. Homework For Next Week Review of Sentence Types - Online Lesson and Practice Read Organizing and Connecting Evidence, p. 84-88 (English Skills)