Today – See the slides below.  Tonight’s homework handout for narrowing a general topic to thesis statement with three main ideas and three concrete details for each main idea can be found here.

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Sentence Structure Analysis Practice

These also serve as a thesis statement with topic sentences created from the brainstormed main ideas supporting the thesis.  I underlined the main idea in each topic sentence from the brainstorming.

• Ally’s surgeon failed to reach the standards desired.
• First, his attention to detail before the surgery lacked the necessary effort to meet expectations.
• The follow up appointment in his office left much to be desired.
• The care provided to Ally is circumspect even though her progress seems promising as it stands now.

Sentence Structure Analysis Answers to Above

Today – Students were introduced to the process for developing ideas for a five paragraph essay.  They developed an outline as a class under the direction of Mr. Thompson and then went home with a provided thesis and will develop an outline in the same manner as we did in class.  In addition to tonight’s homework, continue preparing for the sentence structure analysis quiz planned for next week.

See the slides below for everything covered in class.

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Practice Sentence Structure Analysis

1. It already is in the mail; I believe it went out late last week on Friday with an entry for Gold Heart, Silver Heart, and two for Keeper of the Plains.
2. I guess I missed this one since I stuck you in 15s.
3. I’m not sure how I missed that.
4. I saw it when Jodi sent confirmations, so I contacted her, but she said you already looked into it and found 16s was full already.
5. I am still waiting on two more addresses to mail the last ones, and I have even reached out to the region for help since it is a close friend of the region’s.

Answers for Above Practice

Parents,

Please read everything in the image below.  Students need to continue preparation for the “Sentence Structure Analysis” Quiz #2; the intensity preparing for next week’s quiz must be at a higher level than last Tuesday’s.  We spoke again in class today about the importance of spending time outside of class working through the study methods proposed in the image below.  Please encourage your student to take this seriously; I have explicitly stated my intention to continue quizzes over this material until the skills are mastered. Kids need to ask questions if confused and seek feedback while preparing since these skills challenge them at a level not likely experienced in an English class; it is imperative each one learns to punctuate sentences and avoid run-ons and fragments.

Answers to the above.

Sample Sentences

In the above paragraph, there are two simple, one compund, and two compound-complex.  Feel free to practice on these.

Tomorrow, we begin intense preparation for our upcoming anchor paper, a five paragraph essay we will write, edit, revise, and print inside of two class periods and tentatively due next Wednesday or Thursday.