You will need a quizlet.com account for Tuesday's class. Create a new one here: if you do not already have one. We will be using Quizlet to supplement our word study units. Many of you should have already used Quizlet from 6th grade. You may use that account.
Monday: Correlative Conjunctions (Grammar) - Writing Warrants (Research Based Writing)
Tuesday: Ethos - Pathos - and Logos (You already know what this is, but you just don't realize it yet.)
Wednesday: Writing Effective Claims
Thursday: Are you 'for' or 'against' a 1:1 labtop program in schools?
Friday: Parallel Structure ASSESSMENT - Make sure you have looked over the study guide (Attached your Unit 4 Grammar doc. Parallel Structure after session 3)
I am missing Memoirs from these students: Min Jung, Luke, Lukas, Sam, Olivia G., Chris, Elena, Alexa. B - Some students handed their work in without names. If your name is here, email me your work again to make sure you get it graded before the break. Check in with me if you do not see your grade in powerschool. - Yes - grades are live!
Kudos to Jackson Reeves who asked to retake his 'Opening and Delayed Adjectives/Adverbs test and moved his grade up to an 'A'
Effective research writers make sure that they explain the quotes that they find using quote sandwiches.
EXAMPLE TEXT:
In the 2004 article titled Pushing too Hardpublished on the nbcnews.com website, Dr.
Jordan Metzlargued that“Kids
sports have become much more competitive.”As a medical director at the of
the Sports Medicine Institute for Young Athletes in New York, Metzl must
certainly hear about hundreds of cases of sporting injuries caused through
excessive practice or over intense training sessions due to the competitive
nature ofschool sports programs
nowadays.
Writing
Reminder: Make sure you have read a minimum of x4 sources and taken notes. Make sure some of your notes contain 'quote sandwiches'. Due: Thursday (G/H class. We will learn about quote sandwiches next week)
What can words do? - Will YOU be for your first debate?
