Coming up… Today (Friday)- Sentence variety discussion and activity HW: Revise intro and need rough draft of three body paragraphs due Tuesday-- Don’t forget quotes! Also, do rough draft of conclusion for Thursday.Typed, double-spaced, printed Monday – Finish Sentence Variety; Discussion conclusion paragraph Tuesday - peer edit intro and body paragraphs HW: Bring in conclusion para. tomorrow - typed, double-spaced, printed Wednesday –review for writing test Thursday- Writing Skills Test; Peer edit Conclusions HW: Bring in entire revised essay tomorrow - typed, double-spaced, printed Friday – Peer editing on revised essay HW: Final draft of essay is due 2/3; Submit to turnitin! Bring in folder including all papers; Bring Our America to class Monday – 5 point book check Monday, 2/3 – Final draft of essay due; Begin Our America – 5 point book check
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Coming up… Today (Friday)- Sentence variety discussion and activity
HW: Revise intro and need rough draft of three body paragraphs due Tuesday--Don’t forget quotes! Also, do rough draft of conclusion for Thursday.Typed, double-spaced, printed
Monday – Finish Sentence Variety; Discussion conclusion paragraph Tuesday - peer edit intro and body paragraphs HW: Bring in conclusion para. tomorrow - typed, double-spaced, printed
Wednesday –review for writing test
Thursday- Writing Skills Test; Peer edit Conclusions HW: Bring in entire revised essay tomorrow - typed, double-spaced, printed Friday – Peer editing on revised essay HW: Final draft of essay is due 2/3; Submit to turnitin! Bring in folder including all papers; Bring Our America to class Monday – 5 point book check Monday, 2/3 – Final draft of essay due; Begin Our America – 5 point
To make your writing more interesting, you should try to vary your sentences in terms of length and structure. You can make some of your sentences long and others short. Read the two paragraphs on the next page.
Two Paragraphs Read the paragraphs below. Choose the
paragraph that is more effective.
I love living in the city. I have a wonderful view of the entire city. I have an apartment. I can see the Golden Gate Bridge. I can see many cargo ships pass under the bridge each day. I like the restaurants in San Francisco. I can find wonderful food from just about every country. I don’t like the traffic in the city.
I love living in the city of San Francisco. I have a wonderful view of the entire city from my apartment window. In addition, I can see the Golden Gate Bridge under which many cargo ships pass each day. I also like San Francisco because I can find wonderful restaurants with food from just about every country; however, I don’t like the traffic in the city.
A dependent marker word is a word added to the beginning of an independent clause that makes it into a dependent clause.
Example: When Jim studied in the Sweet Shop for his chemistry quiz, it was very noisy. (DM)
Some common dependent markers are: after, although, as, as if, because, before, even if, even though, if, in order to, since, though, unless, until, whatever, when, whenever, whether, and while.
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