Thursday, November 1, 2012

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 41

1. Collect homework (or a pink sheet): What does “fun” look like?
2. Copy down this chart into your notebooks:

Sample Text Markings

(“What were you thinking?”) 

I love this part

*Unfamiliar words/phrases

! That’s interesting

J I agree

X I disagree

? I don’t understand

 

3. Explain PMR: Beyond the Facts
4. On a clean sheet of paper, create a PMR Response Form (t-chart)
5. Read article – following PMR strategy
6. Show good and bad examples & rubric
1. How to use EVIDENCE
7. Begin a hand-written draft of an ARGUMENTATIVE response.

a.       What is the controversy in this article?

b.      Begin your paper with a formal statement of the controversy, NOT your opinion of it.

c.       Use one of your facts (evidence) to either agree or disagree with it.

ENGLISH homework: 

Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 5: jaded, gist, advocate…)