Agenda

• HW check for Grammar Review, ALSO – have your Narrative Template out with your possible event/memory/place that contributed to who you are today
• Start working on your Narrative Essay; make sure that you utilize the resources under the heading Materials for the Narrative Essay in the Writing and Grammar Tab of the Blog

Agenda:

• Review of the last Restrictive and Non-Restrictive clauses
• Discussion of the Grammar review document – in the Writing and Grammar Tab:
  • due Monday and the test is on Tuesday, April 23
• Review and discussion of the Narrative Writing Assignment – all documents are in the Writing and Grammar Tab of the Blog

Agenda:

• Valedictorian Address – link for voting
• The vote closes at 12:30 pm today!
• check and review grammar (NR – R)
• finish the rest of it #12 – 24
• Introduction to the Narrative Essay – all documents are in the Writing and Grammar tab – below all the grammar docs
• rewrites either tomorrow lunch or after school for the Parallelism test
• there will be test on Tuesday, April 23 on the grammar concepts recently covered – review coming…

Agenda

• homework check (and discussion)  for annotations on The Opposite of Loneliness  essay – AND a thesis statement or thematic statement on the author’s purpose written at the bottom of the document
• review restricted and non-restricted clauses document and start working on the sentences:
  • practice non- essential and essential clauses
  • and more practice

Agenda

• homework check for Libraries essay questions #2 – 6
• new essay; paper copies will be handed out but here is the digital copy of it: Marina Keegan’s essay – annotate the essay for literary and rhetorical techniques – DUE on Tuesday, April 16
• new grammar concept: Restrictive and non-restrictive clauses (paper copy – digital is in the WG tab of the blog)
  • practice non- essential and essential clauses

Agenda:

Friday:

• Two homework checks: Conjunctive Adverbs and #1 – the annotations – on Libraries essay
• review the homework – work on the questions – due Monday
• Last essay: The Opposite of Loneliness – if time
  

Thursday:

• finish the discussion of A South African Storm
• we will read the next narrative: Library: Cathedrals of our Souls – you will get a paper copy but there is a digital copy in the Writing and Grammar tab
• finish the Conjunctive Adverbs worksheet for tomorrow – homework check
  • Homework =  #1 from the questions for Libraries essay – annotations and LABELING on the paper!!
• for anyone who wants to rewrite the Parallelism test, Wednesday, April 17 – either at lunch or after school – you can only re-write if you did not do well: 25/40 or less (62%) 

Agenda:

Wednesday

• homework check for SAS and discussion
• work on the Conjunctive Adverb worksheet during the check

Tuesday

• work on the narrative essay A South African Storm
  • questions are due tomorrow
• work on the Conjunctive Adverb Worksheet
  • stay tuned for when it is due

Agenda

• a bit of grammar: run-ons – start with sentences review
• go to the Writing and Grammar Tab and open the following documents under the heading Materials for comma-splices and fused run-ons::
  • Grammar Rules
  • Sentence Types – this contains info for the review assignment
  • Sentence Types Review – this is due tomorrow
• Introduction to the Narrative Essay Unit:
  • what is a narrative essay?
  • watch the Coke Ad to discuss narrative process, work on the Padlet assignment

Agenda:

Grade 12 Curricular Competencies

• Grammar: run-ons -go the Writing and Grammar Tab of the blog
  • work on the Sentences Types Review document
• Narrative Writing Unit Introduction – all materials are in the Writing and Grammar Tab of the blog