Wednesday

Vocabulary for Friday: Bean Trees "resilient" - "endeavor"

Bean Trees audiobook of sorts on YouTube: Bean Trees

resilient, notarized, flotsam, legitimate, jetsam, befuddled, instill, quetzal, Mayas, endeavor

Write a paragraph using five of the above words in contexts

Vocabulary for Friday: Bean Trees "resilient" - "endeavor"

resilient, notarized, flotsam, legitimate, jetsam, befuddled, instill, quetzal, Mayas, endeavor

Homework: Read to the end of chapter 4 (page 86)

Friday

Vocabulary for Friday: Bean Trees "resilient" - "endeavor"

Love poems for the weekend!

Pablo Neruda Love Sonnet 17

somewhere i have never traveled

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

Thursday

Hand in Robert Frost paragraph--20 points
Do transitional sentences activity (click link to find Google Doc)

Discuss Chapter 2, The Bean Trees

Wednesday

1. Discuss chapter 1 of The Bean Trees
2. Quiet reading time. Finish chapter 2 for tomorrow (page 46)
3. HOMEWORK (20 points): Choose one of the three paragraphs that you wrote on the Robert Frost poems. Your assignment today is to completely rewrite it, adding three sentences of elaboration. To do this, you must use three different examples of the wording from our transitional sentences exercise today. Feel free to add other sentences of your own, of course, but three of them must have the words listed below. Underline those words :)

Agreement
as a matter of fact
in the light of the fact that 
to say nothing of
similarly
Adding to what's been said
moreover
of course
likewise
not only ... but also
in addition
Contradiction
although it may be true that . . .
Despite the fact that 

of course ..., but

on the other hand

Cause/effect; consequence
in order to fully understand ...

by the same token

since

given that

consequently

therefore

Example

It is important to realize

because (yes, you can start a sentence with "because")

The most compelling evidence

To put it another way

in other words

Effect; Result

under those circumstances

consequently

therefore

for this reason

Conclusion

in either case

in the final analysis

usually

in essence

given these points

Moon day

When the bell rings, write out the Robert Frost poem that you 















NOW we will work on transition sentences so that you can expand and strengthen the paragraph that you wrote on the Robert Frost poem by adding three transition sentences. Type the final paragraph and staple your original to the back. Due tomorrow, 20 points
TRANSITION SENTENCES:
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Today we will practice writing good transition sentences as we work together to write an argument that Alexander T. Wolf should not be held responsible for the deaths of the three little pigs.. We will listen to "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" and
ASSIGNMENT: Pretend you are the criminal defense attorney for Alexander T. Wolf (The True Story of the Three Little Pigs) and write seven transitional sentences arguing his case--one sentence for each of the following categories:
Agreement
Pick one of the following and write your own sentence (repeat for each heading):
as a matter of fact
in the light of the fact that 
to say nothing of
similarly
Adding to what's been said
Pick one of the following and write your own sentence (repeat for each heading):
moreover
of course
likewise
not only ... but also
in addition
Contradiction
Pick one of the following and write your sentence:
although it may be true that . . .
Despite the fact that 

of course ..., but

on the other hand

Cause/effect; consequence
Pick one of the following and write your sentence:
in order to fully understand ...

by the same token

since

given that

consequently

therefore

Example
Pick one of the following and write your sentence:

It is important to realize

because (yes, you can start a sentence with "because")

The most compelling evidence

To put it another way

in other words

Effect; Result

Pick one of the following and write your sentence:

under those circumstances

consequently

therefore

for this reason

Conclusion
Pick one of the following and write your sentence:

in either case

in the final analysis

usually

in essence

given these points

HOMEWORK (20 points): Type your Robert Frost analysis paragraph, adding three sentences of elaboration using three different examples of the wording from our transitional sentences exercise today.

Study for Friday and Monday!

Vocabulary for Friday: Bean Trees "resilient" - "materialized"

HOMEWORK: Finish chapter 2 (page 46).
Pass off one of the poems listed below:

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost

Fire and Ice

by Robert Frost "The Greatest Speech Ever" on the necessity of standing up against hatred Dust of Snow        by Robert Frost