Wednesday, October 20 (E10)

Today's Objective: Students will continue pre-writing their Q1 final projects, and students will differentiate between sentences and fragments.

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Today's SAT Word: Differentiate (v.)

To point out the differences between two (or more) items. To contrast.

"In today's class, we differentiated sentences from fragments."

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Today's Video: "This Is Halloween" (From "The Nightmare Before Christmas") by Danny Elfman

We have chosen this video today because it serves as a perfect introductory piece to the world of Halloween Town in "The Nightmare Before Christmas." It starts with a big, wide, shot and zooms through the town in order to introduce each of the supporting characters (briefly) before landing on the main character himself.

Today in class, we will be studying how to compose an introductory paragraph, and our introductory paragraphs should end up looking a lot like the written equivalent of the video we've watched -- moving from WIDE to NARROW in order to give a quick overview of the material we will be covering throughout the rest of our composition.

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Today's Warm-Up Question:

Create a chart like the one you see below. Then BRAINSTORM as many themes from each of the stories that we’ve read as you can possibly think of and start filling them in!

Interlopers H. Bergeron Sound of Thunder The Pedestrian Montgomery Boycott

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Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.

REMINDER: Quarter 1 summative writing project guidelines are available for pickup IN CLASS.

A digital copy of these guidelines is available for download here.


Online Extra:
Mr. Meehan has posted video walk-throughs for each stage of the essay writing process on YouTube. These will help you break down proper document formatting, introductory paragraphs, body paragraphs, and conclusion paragraphs.

To view these videos, visit: www.YouTube.com/MeehanEnglish.

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Tonight's Homework:

Continue working on your Q1 final compositions. Remember:

• Completed compositions must be submitted BOTH by printed hard copy and by e-mail to john.meehan@pgcps.org no later than FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 5 p.m.
  
• YOU MUST submit your composition BOTH as a hard copy AND as an e-mail by the assigned due date. Failure to submit EITHER one or the other will result in an automatic 50% ("E") grade for the project.
  
• This project will count for roughly 25% of your overall assessment grade for the marking period.
  
• There will be no extensions given on this project.