Subject & Predicate practice.
Run-on practice.
Fragment practice.
HW (write answers on separate piece of paper):
-Subjects & Predicates (just do #1-12).
-ROs.
-Fragments.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Essay #2: Descriptive Essay
Due: October 15, 2009
Length: 5 paragraphs
For the second essay assignment, I want you to focus your efforts on description. You will still have five paragraphs, a thesis, intro, body, and conclusion, but I will be looking for vivid descriptions in the writing. Choose one of the following options:
1. Write an essay about a particular time you faced an obstacle (in school or elsewhere). In your intro, give us some background about yourself or other relevant elements, but do not begin the story until the second paragraph. Your thesis, at the end of the first paragraph, should describe how you overcame the obstacle. Your conclusion should explain what you learned from your experience. In the middle paragraphs, you are describing the obstacle and how you overcame it.
2. Choose a place to describe. This can be your favorite place, your least favorite place, a place you go often, a place where you spend a lot of your time, a place that you have only seen once, a place that you never want to return to again, a place that holds happy or sad memories for you, or a place that you dream about. It can be your bedroom, your house, your classroom, a street corner, a beach, a library, a grocery store, a park, a museum, a city, or any other place you can think of. Again, your intro should give us some background on the place, and your thesis should describe what is distinctive about it or why you chose it (e.g. "The Bellagio is my favorite place because of the Italian marble, the people, and the fountains.")
3. Chose a person to describe. (see above)
Sources:
1. Portfolios, Fifth Ed., by John Langan.
2. click
Length: 5 paragraphs
For the second essay assignment, I want you to focus your efforts on description. You will still have five paragraphs, a thesis, intro, body, and conclusion, but I will be looking for vivid descriptions in the writing. Choose one of the following options:
1. Write an essay about a particular time you faced an obstacle (in school or elsewhere). In your intro, give us some background about yourself or other relevant elements, but do not begin the story until the second paragraph. Your thesis, at the end of the first paragraph, should describe how you overcame the obstacle. Your conclusion should explain what you learned from your experience. In the middle paragraphs, you are describing the obstacle and how you overcame it.
2. Choose a place to describe. This can be your favorite place, your least favorite place, a place you go often, a place where you spend a lot of your time, a place that you have only seen once, a place that you never want to return to again, a place that holds happy or sad memories for you, or a place that you dream about. It can be your bedroom, your house, your classroom, a street corner, a beach, a library, a grocery store, a park, a museum, a city, or any other place you can think of. Again, your intro should give us some background on the place, and your thesis should describe what is distinctive about it or why you chose it (e.g. "The Bellagio is my favorite place because of the Italian marble, the people, and the fountains.")
3. Chose a person to describe. (see above)
Sources:
1. Portfolios, Fifth Ed., by John Langan.
2. click
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Assignment #1: Narrative Essay:
Due: Sept. 24, 2009
Length: Five full paragraphs, typed.
For this assignment, you will have several options. Choose ONE, and do not combine:
1. Write an essay with an introduction, support, and a conclusion that describes a celebration (holiday, ceremony, special event, religious rite, etc.). Include a thesis that states why it was or will be important to you. Be sure to include vivid details in your supporting details.
2. Write an essay about a time in your life when you learned a valuable lesson. Provide background information to help the reader understand the setting. Your thesis will state what you learned. Tell the story in the supporting paragraphs.
3. Write an essay that tells about the best experience of your life. Your thesis should state what the experience was and its significance. Relate the story of that experience as support for your thesis.
*These assignments were taken from Portfolios, Fifth Ed., by John Langan.
Length: Five full paragraphs, typed.
For this assignment, you will have several options. Choose ONE, and do not combine:
1. Write an essay with an introduction, support, and a conclusion that describes a celebration (holiday, ceremony, special event, religious rite, etc.). Include a thesis that states why it was or will be important to you. Be sure to include vivid details in your supporting details.
2. Write an essay about a time in your life when you learned a valuable lesson. Provide background information to help the reader understand the setting. Your thesis will state what you learned. Tell the story in the supporting paragraphs.
3. Write an essay that tells about the best experience of your life. Your thesis should state what the experience was and its significance. Relate the story of that experience as support for your thesis.
*These assignments were taken from Portfolios, Fifth Ed., by John Langan.
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