WEEK 3

 Good morning!

Your work for the week...

But first... 

1) Don't resolve comments! I need to see those when I re-grade work. I'll resolve them if I need to.

2) You write everything in single or 1.15 spacing. In fact, I'd prefer it. I may have changed your google doc to that spacing. If not, go ahead and do it yourself.

3) Your google doc is divided into two parts (look for the highlighted words): a place for essays and a place for everything that's not an essay. Move stuff around now if you need to.

4) A word about essay draft grades. No matter which draft it is, I always grade them on the final-draft scale, so a 50/100 doesn't mean you wrote an E paper. It just means you're about half way in the revision process. I rarely give first-draft grades any higher than a 75/100. They're usually in the 50-70 point range. So you over-achievers, don't panic.


Now here's your work...


1.  video on commas. 


Your task...
watch the video and write A SET OF NOTES ON THE 5 RULES I COVER. INCLUDE IN YOUR NOTES... 

• THE RULE ITSELF
• ONE EXAMPLE THAT I USE FOR EACH RULE
• ONE ORIGINAL SENTENCE (that means a sentence of your own creation) THAT DEMONSTRATES EACH RULE.

ORGANIZE YOUR NOTES BY THE RULES, SO THAT YOU HAVE FIVE SECTIONS, EACH SECTION CONTAINING THREE ITEMS. 



2. Everyone's got 2nd drafts of the descriptive essay to work on. That's the HARD work for this week. And many of you will be tearing your writing down to its bare bones and (almost) starting over. That's normal revision, and we need to get comfortable doing it. REMINDER: When you're writing about a thing, what's the real point? (Every essay should have a point; otherwise...what's the point?)

3. LBGB. Read chapter 2 and do the following: 

a) Look at the opening paragraphs. Consider both metaphors: the sentence as a truck and the sentence as a stage. Explain how each metaphor works.

b) Define and provide a sentence example for each: subject, verb, complement, action verb, linking verb, state of being verb.

c) Flip these sentences (if it's active make it passive; if passive make it active):

i. "The ball was thrown threw the window by me."

ii. "Billy washed all the windows."

iii. "My cats killed four moles last week."

d)  Write correct sentences using each of these (you may model my examples):

i. less

ii. fewer

iii. immigrate

iv. emigrate

v. imply

vi. infer 

EVERYTHING IS DUE FRIDAY at midnight.


Have a great week, guys!


"Revision is the worst and best part of writing."

                                   ~ me