Compare/Contrast Paragraphs

Homework
Finish your outlines and write a compare/contrast paragraph, focus on either the subject by subject style or the point by point style. Please write your paragraph in my document. 

Compare & Contrast: Spider-Man

Homework
Create a Venn diagram for the readings about the creation of Spider-Man. We will discuss it in class tomorrow. 

Cause & Effect Essay

HOMEWORK
Write a cause and effect essay for Wednesday. Share with me once you have finished. 

Cause & Effect Essay

HOMEWORK
Reading and answer the questions for Activity 3 in the following document. (It's pages 8 - 11.) We'll discuss the answers tomorrow in class. 

Fish bone

HOMEWORK
Choose 2 (two) global issues of your choice and do two fish bone diagrams, for one of the diagrams you need to look at the causes and for the other effects. 

Wild Weather

HOMEWORK
Read and answer the questions for "Wild Weather", we'll go over the answers in class tomorrow. 

Class notes

Descriptive Writing Essay

HOMEWORK
Write an essay about one of the descriptive topics given in the slideshow. Try to write at least 500 words. Please hand in for Wednesday. 

Class notes

Adjectives

HOMEWORK
Do Adjectives (Word Order) worksheet Parts 1 - V. Please answer in MY DOCUMENT. We'll go over the answers tomorrow in class. 

Introductions

Homework
Write a full introduction for one of your hooks or choose a new one. 

Remember

• to think carefully about what kind of hook you want to use
• to have more than 3 sentences
• to have a clear thesis statement

Hooks, Thesis Statements, & Outlines

Homework
Do the the "Hook Exercises" found in our slide presentation: 

• Part I - choose 2 topics and write a hook for each
• Part II - choose 1 topic and write a hook, thesis statement, and outline for it. 

Thesis Statements

HOMEWORK

• Write thesis statements for the topics in Exercise 02 -> Student Doc. 
• If you wrote a paragraph yesterday, and would like me to look at it, please share it with me. 

Meanwhile in Vancouver ... 

Topic Sentences & Brainstorming for supporting sentences

HOMEWORK
Choose 2 topics and write 2 topic sentences for each. Then brainstorm the different things you COULD include if you were to write the paragraph. When you are brainstorming, try to think of at least 4 different things that you could include in the paragraph.
** Here's the document.

Note: St. Patrick's Day is March 17th. 

Topic Sentences

HOMEWORK
Choose 3 topics and write 2 topic sentences for each. Remember to not be too broad, too narrow or to announce your topic. Please have your topic sentences in MY document. Thanks =)

Sentence Types

Homework
Do "Types of Sentences" - Types of sentence 02 (all) & Compound-Complex sentences (first 8). 

Class notes

Editing

HOMEWORK

* Finish editing "The Biological Clock", we finished at number 14. 

* Also look at the essays/paragraphs that you shared with me and edit/proofread them. I will read them on Wednesday. 

Class Notes

Paragraph writing or RELAX?!

Unless you didn't finish your 2 body paragraphs (your position & your refutation). Make sure you share with me! 

So far NO ONE has shared their paragraphs with me :-(

Enjoy!

HOMEWORK
There really isn't any homework for today UNLESS you have not done your outlines and brainstorming. Come prepared to write at least 2 paragraphs tomorrow in class. 

Refutation

HOMEWORK

• Do up to the "stop sign" in the "Refuting an Argument" worksheet. 
• Please make sure you have done TWO outlines for two different topics you would like to discuss. 

Transitions

HOMEWORK
Do Transitions 02 & Opinion Composition (transitions 03) - exercises 1 & 2 for tomorrow. 
IF you haven't finished your outline and shared it with me yet, please do so. 

Thesis STatements

Homework
Do exercise 2 and 3 in Thesis Statement Exercise 02 (SS Copy), remember to work in your own copy.