Lesson 18

Students began the block with a comma quiz, after which they read their personal novels.

Students handed in the hard copies of their homework, and picked up the following:

  • "A Time and a Place" - I statement sheet
  • a sheet on run-on sentences, and sentence fragments
  • a sheet called "Seven Snappy Starters"
  • a sheet of transition words for use in ongoing writing

Anyone who missed today's quiz, or the sheets, should come to tutorial as soon as possible. 

For homework, students are choosing one of the three possible topics at the end of the "Seven Snappy Starters" sheet, and then writing seven snappy starters for that topic - as per the example on the sheet (regarding exercise).

Anyone wishing to get a big ahead should be thinking about the overarching theme in "The Veldt."

 


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