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Descriptive Essay Day 2

Descriptive Essay Day 2. 14 March 2013 Miss Rice. I love when you are descriptive!. Warm -Up. Complete the sentence: My (put object’s name here ) is important to me because __________ . *Take out vocab. paragraph to be collected. Agenda. Suffixes Comma Rules Vobackulary

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Descriptive Essay Day 2

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  1. Descriptive Essay Day 2 14 March 2013 Miss Rice

  2. I love when you are descriptive! Warm-Up • Complete the sentence: My (put object’s name here) is important to mebecause __________. *Take out vocab. paragraphto be collected

  3. Agenda • Suffixes • Comma Rules • Vobackulary • Descriptive Essay

  4. ENG. 10 Objectives 3/14 • To reinforce meanings of new vocabulary words. • To learn and review comma rules. • To effectively use sensory imagery to describe an object of personal significance. • To write and revise a descriptive essay. • To analyze and review content of pages 1-27 in Brighton Beach Memoirs.

  5. Student of the Week • Kyra • Always tries • Volunteered to be teacher • Hard worker • So polite

  6. Suffixes • ful • Full of _____ • Adj. • ic • Having characteristics of _____ • Adj. • ing • Verb form (present participle)

  7. 7. Using commas with quotations • Commas set off a quotation from words used to introduce or identify the source of the quotation.

  8. 7. Using commas with quotations • Use a comma before a phrase that introduces a quotation. • Ex. She asked,“How many?” • A comma following a quotation goes inside the closing quotation mark. • Ex.“There will be three,” she replied.

  9. 7. Using commas with quotations • Do not use commas if you are using a quotation with a question mark or exclamation point. • Ex.“What’s a thousand dollars?” asks Groucho Marx. “Mere chicken feed.” • Your turn - see packet

  10. 7. Using commas with quotations • A) “No one becomes depraved all at once,” wrote Juvenal. • B) A German proverb warns,“Go to law for a sheep and lose your cow.” • C) “All I know about grammar,” said Joan Didion,“is its infinite power.” • D) “Out, out, damned spot!” cries Lady Macbeth.

  11. Can you find the comma mistake?

  12. Vobackulary • No list today

  13. Homework • Descriptive essay due tomorrow • Printed with rubric stapled to the front • Vocab. unit 4 test tomorrow • Comma worksheet due Monday • Brighton Beach Memoirs reading comprehension questions #1-28 in the blue packet due Monday

  14. Warm-Up • Complete the sentence: My (put object’s name here) is important to mebecause __________. This can be the first of last sentence of your essay if you need help!

  15. Descriptive Essay • Due tomorrow! Printed with rubric stapled to front. • 250-350 words • Use ALL senses (sight, feeling, smell, taste, sound) • Turn desks towards the walls • Grab the correct laptop number • Write and revise! Ask questions. • When you are finished, work on Brighton Beach Memoirs reading comprehension questions in the blue packet (#1-28)

  16. Homework • Descriptive essay due tomorrow • Printed with rubric stapled to the front • Vocab. unit 4 test tomorrow • Comma worksheet due Monday • Brighton Beach Memoirs reading comprehension questions #1-28 in the blue packet due Monday

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