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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Relative Clauses: Intro

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Add 'seeing Les Miserable LIVE'  to your bucket list- "It's not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments that take your breath away"  - One Day More

Feature Article: What topic are you an expert on?


Today, we learned the last type of clause: relative clauses. Relative clauses add details to sentences which often makes writing more precise. (Can you spot the relative clause in the last sentence?)

Grammar:  H/W All Classes
Write 5 sentences that contain relative clauses. Write sentences related to the topic you wrote about today in the Feature Article unit. (The sentences should be written in your Unit 8 grammar file in the H/W box (Due: Thur)

Finish class work
Finish your "Writing as an Expert" topic from class today. You can 'kill two birds with one stone' by simply highlighting 5 relatives clauses in this piece. Due: Thur


Writing H/W
Homework Task: As you are watching T.V./ browsing the web over the next couple of days, choose 5 concepts that you wonder about or would like to delve deeper into. Make a list of those concepts topic in your Feature Article H/W box : Due Thur

Tiger Tales: Step 2

It is VERY IMPORTANT you follow these guidelines for publishing your TigerTale article. This is a different slideshow then yesterday. Make sure you follow the submission instructions clearly or your piece will not be accepted for publication.

Reading Classes - Reminder: Your 3rd Reading Response is due this FRIDAY!

Late Start Tomorrow!

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do we have to do the TIGER TALES?

Anonymous said...

No. It is optional but recommended (check yesterdays blog post)
Today was a class that I learned so so much in. About Relative Clauses and NF writing. I really enjoyed it.

Unknown said...

Looking forward to learning about your faith J.

Hope you are feeling better Jess.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Buxton
Is it possible for you to send me some links so I can learn a bit of what everyone learned in class to day. I am not sure when I will be back in school. I just want to stay on top of everything.
Thanks

Anonymous said...

All the information is basically on the blog Jessie. Relative Clauses which is on the Unit 8 grammar Part 1 and then the feature article is on the first mini lesson for Feature Article Non-Fiction

Anonymous said...

Thanks Jordan

Unknown said...

Jordan gave the prefect answer. Also look at the new grammar units and writing units lesson 1

Anonymous said...

Thank You :)

Anonymous said...

which often makes writing more precise.

that is a relative clause!

Anonymous said...

Nice Kira :D

Unknown said...

You are all so smart!!!

Unknown said...

You are all so smart!!!

Unknown said...

You are all so smart!!!

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