1.  Using your notes, which of the 6 traits do you need to work on most?  Could be more than one.


2.  Grading and groups. 6-Traits Rubric

3.  Wesley Dukes- Mother Nature.

4.  Q

Grading with the 6 traits -  mother nature....

Day 4

1. Journal-  When have you been embarrassed?  What happened?

2.  Attendance

3.  Let's just get it over with.  Here is a big group of notes:

TAP

Topic: What it's about-
Audience: Who it's for
Purpose:  Why you are writing it?  Inform, persuade, entertain, teach, compare....

Writing Process

Invent-    Creating ideas
Organize- Planning out the essay
Draft-  Practice essay- just get it done and don't worry about grammar.
Revise-  Org, SF, WC, I/C, Voice
Edit-     Grammar-
Publish-  Publish means perfect.

6 Traits

Ideas-      the main message, what it's about- Should be interesting to others.
Organization-  The way it's planned out in paragraphs.  what's first?  What's last?
Voice-   The writer's personality.
Word Choice-  Vocab the writer chooses.
Sentence Fluency-  The way the sentences flow- Short and long.
Conventions -  Grammar.



Narrative Essay-

Personal story that you tell and you use first person.


Comma Splice- I like dogs, dogs are fun.

Run-on-  I like dogs dogs are fun

Fragment- Incomplete sentence:  I like dogs because.

Tense Shift-  I like dogs and dogs were fun.

Subject Verb Agreement:  I likes dogs and dogs is fun.

Pronoun Antecedent Agreement: I like my dog.  They are fun.

Paralellism-  I like dogs, cats and pet.

Simple Sentence:  I like dogs.  (one independent clause)

Compound Sentence-  I like dogs, and they are fun.

Complex Sentence-  I like dogs because they are fun.




4.  Narrative essay notes and assignment-  Pick an interesting story-  1 min- 30 seconds long, start in the middle of the action.

 


4.  HW-  reading Fish Cheeks-  A narrative essay.

Drafts due Wednesday  Feb 3

Day 3.

Attendance

Names

Diagnostic Essay

In Mother Tongue, language is a form of embarrassment for the author, in some sense.  Provide an example from the story that demonstrates this is true, and then go on to explain language has caused a problem in your life.

HW- 

Define the following thinking/reading terms-

Analyze
Evaluate
Elaborate
Explain
Compare
Contrast
Clarify
Connect
Identify
Infer
Interpret
Predict
Summarize
Synthesize
Define
Distinguish

1.  Names-

2.  Diagnostic Essay-


3.  Mother Tongue-

Day one

1. Syllabus

2. Introductions

3.  Names?

4.  HW-

5.