Part. Ph / Narrative Drafting

1. Participle & Participial Phrase BELLWORK document
2. BELLWORK Key

Note from class: Your Personal Narrative must be more than a memory. It must has meaning, a message, a point. It should address a Main Idea, as well as deliver an insight or message about that Main Idea.

HW:

• Page 01 of the Participle Practice HW
• Page 02 of the Participle Practice HW
• ALSO: Write a rough draft of your Personal Narrative for peer editing tomorrow

New Phrases/Narratives (Substitute)

In my absence, I asked for the students to complete the following:

1. Finish the Phrase Notes V.02, using the purple EOL book.
2. Complete the Participial Phrase Practice: Ex. 6 on page 126:

This was it.

And here's the key:

Then students began to brainstorm their own Personal Narratives.

This is a link to the document that the I left to them, to help them start coming up with ideas for a meaningful memory.

HW for Weekend:

• Complete the brainstorming document above, and get ready to embark on writing next week!

Take Me To Casablanca; Personal Narratives

Here is a link to the document students completed today in class.

Don't have MS Word? Here's a link to the same thing, in .PDF format.

I also took a grade on students' annotations of the "Take Me To Casablanca" personal narratives.

Phrase Quiz #1: Adj./Adv. Phrases

Today was the day of the quiz. The first half was just like the Preview (Rvw B) from yesterday, and the second half was slightly harder. Speaking of which, I passed back students' Rvw B papers, and took questions before administering the Quiz itself.

If you missed it, you need to see me to make it up at your earliest convenience.

HW:

• Bring your read, and annotated, copy of "Take Me To Casablanca" to class tomorrow for Analysis Questions.
• You may wish to focus on the following:
• The eyes of the Moroccan people, and their effect on the narrator
• The feelings of guilt that the narrator feels while visiting the two cities
• The overall theme or message of the piece. Why did the author write it? What does she want us to do, or think? How does she want to change us by the end of the piece?

Brace Yourselves; A Phrase Quiz is Coming

Here is a link to the answers to last night's HW, which we checked, after attendance and a stretch.

Then, students performed a PREVIEW of tomorrow's phrase quiz. The preview was RVW B on page 121 of the purple grammar book. It looked like this:

This was graded in class, and the grade will be a x0 in GS.

Tomorrow's real Phrase Quiz will be delivered in the same format: a reading passage with phrases to identify, classify as Adj. or Adv., and discover the word(s) it modifies. The reading passage will be slightly more difficult.

Then we reviewed the 2nd Personal Narrative example: "The Long View". Click on the link to see an annotated text, as well as the answers to the questions, frequently accompanied by explanations.

HW for Tonight:

• Study for your Phrases Quiz tomorrow:
• Click here for a brief refresher on VERB PHRASES
• Click here for a brief refresher on PREPOSITIONS
• Print off (or otherwise get a copy of) Personal Narrative #3: "Take Me To Casablanca"
• Read it
• Annotate it

Focus: Phrases

First thing, we checked out the HW from over the weekend.

• Here is a key for one side...
• And here is a key for the other.

Then we completed an extremely focused (and frankly, easy) exercise that demonstrated how it is the usage of the prepositional phrase that determines whether it is an Adj. or Adv. Ph

This was the exercise:

And here are the answers:

HW for Tonight:

• Complete this Adj/Adv. Practice
• Read this sample Personal Narrative "The Long View", and answer the 10 questions that accompany it.

Phrase Pract. #2; Personal Narratives

I greeted students with a short Phrase Refresher powerpoint. Just to set the tone.

Today students completed Phrase Pract. #2, Ex. 3, on page 120. I have yet to be convinced that everyone really knows what's up with phrases.

Then students read a model of a Personal Narrative piece: "Paper Airplanes." They answered the questions that accompanied the text in their Classwork composition notebooks.

Here is a link to the text of the story!

The HW for all classes (except 6th, who ran out of time) was to answer these three follow-up questions:

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