Class on 10/25/17

Writing a paragraph from one of three possible questions:

What is your car washing routine?
How do you solve a problem with your partner (or girlfriend, husband, family member, friend)?
What is your morning coffee routine?

Workbook pages 54, and 55

Homework:
Pages 56 and 57, Practice #6 and #7
Write a paragraph to answer this question:
      "What do you like to do when you have spare (extra) time?"

Class on 10/23/17

Rules for Paragraphs

1. Indent
2. Use a Complete Topic Sentence and interesting controlling idea: don't go into details, don't use "because" in the first sentence
3. Stay on the Topic throughout the paragraph
4. Use 5 or more whole sentences (with correct punctuation)
5. A good ending (again don't be too specific in the last sentence or use a time order signal like "Finally, or "In conclusion," 

Homework: P. 54 2-6

Class on 10/18/17

Warm Up;
What is your favorite healthy food. Use present tense: this part of your routine.

Routine Paragraph Part 2

Students wrote the micro-steps that they usually follow when they have a headache:

• I close my eyes and breathe deeply.

The teacher rotated to read/ assist with the students examples. Then the students were given the same paragraph question to answer.

• How do you cure your headaches?

As a whole class the students wrote four possible topic sentences based off the structure they were taught (see Class on 10/16).  One examples follows:

          To cure my headaches, I follow the same routine. 

Students turned in there complete paragraphs.

Workbook pages 47, 38 and 49 

Topic Sentence Definition, examples and exercises to identify the TS.

Homework: 50 and 51 
                      Students must read paragraphs, choose the write intro or topic sentence and then 
                      re-write the whole and corrected paragraph on paper. Students will turn in these 
                      four complete paragraphs

Class on 10/16/17

Warm Up;
What is your favorite unhealthy food (your culinary guilty pleasure). Use present tense: this part of your routine.

Routine Paragraph Part 

Whole class lecture on Topic and Controlling idea.
Sports Cars are fast.   
The blue is the Subject
The yellow part is the controlling idea
Controlling ideas can be simple (as above) but must be interesting. Sports Cars are fast but too expensive to maintain. is a more complex and interesting controlling idea. Controlling ideas are bst when they are personal. 

who to turn a teacher's question into a topic sentence.


Students wrote the micro-steps that they usually follow to wake up each morning:

• I stretch my whole body.

The teacher rotated to read/ assist with the stu

Homework: re-write your Wake Up Routine paragraphs

On 10/9 and 10/11 There Is No Class!

Class on 10/4/17

Warm Up Activity: write 3 sentences about what you did last night. Make sure to use simple past tense. Wait for your name to be called and listen to your classmates answer: What did you do last night? Try to use a unique past tense in you answer.

Review of Draft #2 (about myself)

Common issues and Editing abbreviations:

Quiz #2

Work book pages 38 and 39 in class

Homework:
A) Write 25 sentences about your daily routine. Make sure to write about the morning, day and evening
B) Rewrite you paragraph about yourself. This will be Draft #3. Email the paragraph to me.
C) Workbook Page 43. Follow steps 1 and 2 only to write the paragraph
D) Read workbook pages 44, 45, and 46