Ms. Hudgins

1. Ms. Hudgins English III AP/Dual Credit MHS

2. Welcome to English III AP/ Dual Credit • Please finish filling out your student information card • If you do not know some of the information, just leave it blank

3. Paperwork • Campus Paperwork • Dual Credit Enrollment

4. Syllabus • AP Syllabus • AP Contract • My website • http://www.midlandisd.net/17692013956813/site/default.asp

5. Summer Reading • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass • Bless Me Ultima • Summer Reading Assignment due Wed, Aug 31 (daily grade) • Summer Reading Test (major grade) • Part 1 – Frederick Douglass, Wed, Aug 31 • Part 2 – Bless Me Ultima, Thurs, Sept 8

6. Procedures • Bell work • Passing in papers • Classroom Expectations • Cell Phones • Restrooms • Food and drink • Supplies • Turning in papers • Missing Assignments

7. Why Writing is Vital 2004 report by the National Commission on writing found that: • Writing is a threshold skill for both employment and promotion. Half of the companies surveyed indicated they take writing into consideration when hiring • People who cannot write and communicate clearly will not be hired and are unlikely to last long enough to be considered for promotion

8. Why Writing is Vital • Two-thirds of all salaried employees in large American companies have some writing responsibility • Half of all companies take writing into account when making promotion decision • National Commission on Writing for American’s Families, Schools, and Colleges. 2004. Writing: A Ticket to Work…Or a Ticket Out: A Survey of Business Leaders. New York: The College Board.

9. Why Writing is Vital Right Now • 4 College Entrance Criteria • GPA • Involvement on high school campus • Involvement in community • Writing How will you stand out?

10. 6 Word Memoirs • Earnest Hemmingway’s six word story • “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” • Middle School Memoirs

11. 6 Word Memoirs • Take out a sheet of paper • Write six word memoir • Share what you have so far with your partner • When you are satisfied with your memoir, write on construction paper

12. 6 Word Memoir Assignment • Tomorrow, we will share our 6 word memoirs with the class

13. 6 Word Memoir • 30 second partner share • Class share

14. Writing Territories • Areas in which you are an expert • Ms. Hudgins’s writing territories • Make your list

15. Writing Territories • 20-minute “sneeze” • Everything you can get out about that topic in 20 minutes. • Share you “sneeze” with your partner

16. Things that bug you • Like your writing territories, make a list of the things that bug you • 20 minute “sneeze”

17. DGP • the man kicked the mosquito • Monday – parts of speech • Tuesday – sentence parts and phrases • Wednesday – clauses and sentence types • Thursday – punctuation and capitalization • Friday – diagramming • We’ll do this basic sentence together next week

18. Monday – Parts of Speech • Noun • Pronoun • Adjective • Adverb • Preposition • Conjunction • Interjection • Verb (action, linking, helping) • Verbal • Every word gets a label!!

19. Linking Verbs – link 2 words together “English is fun” • Is • Am • Are • Was • Were • Be • Being • Been • Feel • Taste • Look • Smell • Appear • Grow • Remain, stay, turn • Seem • Sound • Become, prove

20. Helping Verbs – “helps” action or linking verb • If a verb phrase has 4 verbs, the first 3 are helping, if 3, then 2 are helping … • Is, be, am, are, was, were, been, being, will, would, can, could, shall, should, may, might, must, have, has, had, do, does, did • “We have been taking notes all day (taking is action) • Helping verbs must go with action or linking verbs, linking verbs stand alone

21. Tuesday – Sentence Phrases and Parts • Simple subject • Complete subject • Simple predicate/verb • Complete predicate/verb • Complement • Direct object • Indirect object • Predicate nominative • Predicate adjective • Appositive and (appositive phrase) • (Prepositional phrase) and object of preposition • Noun of direct address

22. Tuesday – Sentence Phrases and Parts • (Infinitive phrase) and object of infinitive • (Gerund phrase) and object of gerund • (Participle phrase) and object of participle • Objective complement • Every word is either part of the complete subject or the complete verb • Put phrases in parentheses

23. Wednesday – Clauses and Sentence Type • Independent clause • Dependent clause • Sentence Types • Simple • Compound • Complex • Compound-Complex • Sentence Purpose • Declarative • Interrogative • Imperative • Exclamatory

24. Thursday - Punctuation • Capitalization • Semicolon • Colon • Apostrophe • Underlining/italicizing • Quotation marks • Hyphen • Dash • Comma

25. Friday - Diagramming Subject transitive verb direct object • Add articles under the words they describe

26. Topic Blast – Reading Harry Potter After Everybody Else Saw the movies first and thought they were dumb Best part: epilogue Didn’t like fantasy Now see movies as visual supplement Loved J.K. Rowling’s writing style History repeats itself in Harry’s generation Knew the endings except for 7 Read the first three in two weeks while playing in a pit orchestra Class and race issues

27. For Tuesday: • Hand write at least three pages on your topic blast (fronts only!) • We will revise them as a class next week • Major Grade 1 – due Friday, Sept 2