Monday, November 18, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 54

 

·         Completed ex. 7 from Writer’s Choice book page 638 (include SURE or UNSURE)

·         Next, we discussed and took notes on the trick for deciding when to use “who vs. whom”

·         We returned to ex. 7 and checked our answers using the who, whom trick

 

·         Did the same for Whoever, Whomever…took additional notes on the trick to determine proper use of “whomever vs. whoever” – practiced identification with overhead “Exercise 8: Whoever and Whomever”

 

·         Watched short clip from “The Office”

 

·         Why don’t writers always write chronologically? For each of the 5 organizational methods listed below, tell when you think a writer would choose it when writing an essay? In other words, what might the writer be writing about?

 

1.      Chronological order

2.      Spatial order (“space”)

3.      Cause and effect

4.      Comparison/Contrast

5.      Order of importance

 

·         Complete handout: “Writing: Patterns of Organization”

 

·         Complete handout: “Methods of Organizing Paragraphs for Specific Paragraph Types”

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Use study guide to review for exam.

 

For online practice, try these links:

·         Apostrophe practice: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/39.html

·         Plural practice: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/288.html

o   And http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/391.html

·         Author’s Purpose: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/practicetest?TUAG7034

·         Fact or Opinion: http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/factopquiz.html

·         www.my.hrw.com

o   Username – rfc2017

o   Password – onlinebook