It's in the cards ...

HOMEWORK: 
There is none for today, but here are some links of interest: 
  ** Idioms from playing cards
  ** Card playing idioms

Parallelism

HOMEWORK: 
Finish Parallelism Practice 01. 

Parallelism Practice 03: this is a PDF file, so write your answers in a google doc and we will go over them in class tomorrow. 

Compare & Contrast Paragraphs

HOMEWORK: 
Write TWO compare & contrast paragraphs of your choice, they can be about different topics. You need to write one paragraph for each of the paragraph maps we looked at in class (subject by subject & point by point). 

Possible compare & contrast topics: 

• books vs movies
• magazines vs comic books
• email vs letters
• Facebook vs Twitter (or other social media sites) 
• coffee vs energy drinks
• boys vs girls
• fiction vs nonfiction
• weeds vs flowers
• influence of celebrities vs influence of parents
• going to the movies vs watching a movie at home
• snowfall vs rainfall
• riding a roller coaster vs loving somebody

These are just some SUGGESTIONS, feel free to choose your own topic. 

Intro to Compare & Contrast

HOMEWORK: 
Do questions 1,2, & 3 from our readings on Spider-Man

Cause & Effect Essay

HOMEWORK: 

Finish and proofread your cause & effect essay. Make sure you share with me please. 

What's your opinion?

HOMEWORK: 
Choose a news article that interests you, it must be at least a page long, and do a news article analysis of it. Share with me when you are done!

News Article Analysis Doc. 

News Article Analysis

HOMEWORK: 
Finish W&H questions for our circus article and answer the analysis. Please share with me. 

Modifiers

HOMEWORK: 
Do the worksheet on misplaced and dangling modifiers. We will go over the answers tomorrow in class. 

Food outline

Homework:
Finish your outline for "Describe a food experience from your country or a food that has great influence over the world." Share with me when you are done. 

"Eating Chilli Peppers" - reading

HOMEWORK: 
Read again the reading "Eating chilli peppers" and answer up to question 5. 

Adj Order

HOMEWORK
Do the adjective worksheet, only do the EVEN numbers for each section . 

New start 2017!

May January 2017 be the start of something great!

No homework for today!