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26L Title: Setting Day 3. Creatively write a letter to your parents explaining why you should be allowed to stay home on your birthday give 5 clear examples. 26L Title: Setting Day 3. Label these sentences as depended or independent. (5 min) I want to score all 4s on my report card.
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26L Title: Setting Day 3 Creatively write a letter to your parents explaining why you should be allowed to stay home on your birthday give 5 clear examples
26L Title: Setting Day 3 • Label these sentences as depended or independent. (5 min) • I want to score all 4s on my report card. • Since I study independent clauses. • Even though school can be hard. • 4. Penguins cannot fly. • *Write 2 compound sentences. • HINT: use FANBOYS!
Your or You’re? • Your—possessive. This “your” indicates that something belongs to you. For example: • Your house • Your sweater • Your shoes • Your pencil (all of those items belong to you!)
You’re • You’re—”You are” Use this you’re when you want to say you are! Ex: • You’re great! (You are great.) • You’re going to regret it! (You are going to regret it.) • You’re a nice friend. (You are a nice friend.)
TIP • If you are not sure which “your” to use, ask yourself this question: “Can I replace this “your” with “You are”? If you can, then you should write “you’re” If you cannot, then you need to write “your.”
Practice • Your/You’re going to drive me insane! • Can you “You are going to drive me insane? • Move your/you’re backpack. • Can you say “Move you are backpack?”
Language of the Discipline • Plot: the literary element that describes the structure of a story. It shows the arrangement of events and actions within a story
Plot Components Climax: the turning point, the most intense moment—either mentally or in action Falling Action: all of the action which follows the climax Rising Action: the series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax Exposition: the start of the story, the situation before the action starts Resolution: the conclusion, the tying together of all of the threads
Conflict Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot.
Interpersonal Conflict Human vs Human Human vs Nature Human vs Society Internal Conflict Human vs Self Types of Conflict
The Circuit • We will finish reading the circuit and fill out the plot pyramid.
Personal Narrative • You will have time to work on your personal narrative. • Fill out the plot pyramid. • If you finish early, you may begin to work on your rough draft. • Essay must be 5 paragraphs and must answer the prompt.