Thursday, October 25, 2012

HW for 10/25

Read Chapter 27

Do: * Practice 1A pg461
       * Practice 4A pg 463
       * Practice 7A pg 464
       * Practice 10A pg466
       * Practice 13A pg468
       * Practice 16A pg 470
       * Practice 19A pg 471

 Type your Introduction Paragraph and turn in before you leave.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

HW for 10/23

* Read Chapter 32: Pronoun Agreement

p519 Practice 1

p521 Practice 4A


Tuesday, October 2, 2012

HW for 10/2

Read Chapter 9: Process (166 - 174)

Start planning your Process Paragraph and type an outline. Your outline should have:

Topic Sentence:

I.

II.

III.

Conclusion Sentence

Thursday, September 27, 2012

HW for 9/27

Read Chapter 24 

Do the following exercises: Practice 1A on pg 426
                                             Practice 4A on pg 428
                                             Practice 7A on pg 430
                                             Practice 10A on pg 432
                                             Practice 13A on pg 434

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

HW for 9/18

Read Chapter 4

Edit your rough drafts for the FIVE sections focused on in the chapter:

1. TOPIC SENTENCE
2. DEVELOPMENT
3. UNITY
4. ORGANIZATION
5. COHERENCE 

Write your re-write (due Thursday) 

Monday, September 10, 2012

HW for 9/11

Read Chapter 28 (pages 475-488)

Do the following Practices:

Practice 1 on pg 476

Practice 4 on pg 478

Practice 7 on pg 480

Practice 10 on pg 482

Practice 13 on pg 483

Practice 16 on pg 485

Thursday, September 6, 2012

HW for 9/6

Study for Quiz on Tuesday, 9/11

Quiz is on: Chapter 22 - Phrases/Clauses 
                   Chapter 23 - Subjects/Verbs

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

HW for 9/4

Re-write your rough draft (typed). Turn in at the beginning of class on Thursday (8/6).

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Homework for 8/30

Write the first draft of your Narrative paragraph. It should at least be SIX complete sentences long.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Homework for 8/28

Read pages 107-117

Do some pre-writing (brainstorming, freewriting, etc.) on a potential topic for a narrative paragraph. We will work with the topic you come up with for yourself on Thursday in class.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

HW for 8/23

Read chapter 3 (pages 26-47)

Write a paragraph using the steps learned in the chapter:

1. Choose a topic from the slip of paper I give you

2. Choose a pre-writing activity you like best from pages 26-33 and start writing/jotting down ideas
    for the topic

3. Write a topic sentence following the guideline and examples from pages 34-38.

4. Write an outline of your paragraph following pages 39-45. Choose one way to order the details of
    your paragraph from those pages.

5. Finally, write a SIX sentence paragraph from your above steps.


Tuesday, August 21, 2012

HW for 8/21

Read pages 388 - 403

Complete the following practices:

 Practice 1 (p390)
 Practice 4 (p392)
 Practice 7 (394)
 Practice 10 (395)
 Practice 13 (p397)
 Practice 16 (p398)
 Practice 19 (p401)
 Practice 22 (p402)