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)