Class on 5/22/17

Students took the Final Exam

Homework: Final Essay is due. We will meet 7:00 PM at the following location:

Jeffery's Hamburgers
888 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(East side of El Camino)

Class on 5/17/17

Review of Format and Content for Final Exam

Please make sure you are confident writing complex sentences using subordinate clauses. Practice Final. Here are two examples:

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Homework: 

Study for the Final Exam on Monday Practice Final

Turn in a Draft of your Immigration Essay (work on your final draft is I already corrected a draft). 

Class on 5/15/17

Review of Conclusions in Essays: pages 206-208

Review of Immigration Essay Structure and Requirements: Essays use the following forms:

I. Narrative (A personal story)
II. Logical Division (There are 3 reasons to immigrate to the US...)
III. Process (Follow these steps in order to...)

Homework: Write a draft introduction to your Immigration Essay. Pay close attention to your last sentence: it is the Thesis Sentence and it controls the content and flow of the rest of the essay.

Class on 5/10/17

Final Writing Assignment

Topic: Immigration
Options: Personal or Factual/Information
Format or Paragraph Types: Narrative, Process or Logical Division (or other?)


The format for a Narrative Essay might follow the outlines below. 

Narrative Paragraph:   
Introduction: "I remember the night before I left my home town..."
General details your Thesis Statement is too say if it was basically easy, hard, dangerous etc.  

• Body paragraph #1 First part of your story.  "First, my life changed when...."
• Body paragraph #2 Second part of your story.  "Later on I found...."
• Body paragraph #3 First part of your story.  "Importantly, I didn't give up and..."

Concluding Paragraph: Summary or final opinions or hopes/aspirations

or

Process Paragraph 
Intro: Follow these important steps to improve you immigration experiences
one (or two) steps per paragraph with details
Conclusion: If you follow these steps..

Logical Division
Introduction: There are several reason to move to the US (or several reasons not to)
Each reason is a paragraph


Homework: if you got less than a 5 on your Process Paragraph please re-write.

Class on 5/8/17

Homework: 

• Bring your Journal (goal is 20 pages)
• Read pages 202 to 204
• Complete page 205

Class on 5/1/17

Warm up:

TPR: Students practiced giving simple verbal commands to the whole class. "Stand Up, stomp your feet." etc.

Adding Subordinate clauses to your own independent clause. Whole class practiced writing unique sentences with the following prompts:

• when I get up in the morning
• after a long day at work
• because I love dancing
• if it is not raining

Students practiced placing them at the front of the sentence and using a comma or at the end without a comma

Workbook P114 and 115 (review) workbook p 116

Homework: Type your Process paragraph (draft) to be turned in on paper on Wednesday. Most students had a version reviewed by the instructor last Wednesday. Make sure your paragraph has at least three time order signals and one subordinate clause. The introduction should use "follow these steps" or something similar.