Create Your Blog

In class, we reviewed the causes and effects of recent plane accidents.  Homework for chapters 8 and 28 was collected along with final Classification Essays.  No new homework was assigned.  At 7 PM, we went to the library and set up our blogs.  Some students were able to put some of their essays on their blogs already.  Here is a tutorial on how to set up your google blogger.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J__39eioBNw

You Need An Outline Before You Write A Paragraph or Essay in ESL 101

Homework:  1. Read Chapter 8 in Book - Cause and Effect..... Read the entire chapter and do the questions on page 169 about Unity, Support and Coherence.
2. Investigate the reasons behind a plane accident that happened within the last year.  You will need to use the internet to research the facts.  Find the causes and effects of the accident - write it down and be ready to share in class next week.  3. In chapter 28 - pronoun agreement and reference - Do activities 1 and 2 (write them on a piece of paper not in your book).

OK - After tonight, I hope it is clear.  You MUST have an outline before writing a paper in this class.  Failure to have an outline even if that outline is called homework will result in no grade and no opportunity to write that assignment in class.  You will need to show an outline for all out of class essay assignments as well.

Return back to class 3/23/2015

Homework:
Pick your topic for Opinion paragraph
Give three reasons why
Thesis:  Statement + assertion (should/should not)

Should animals be used for research?

Are law enforcement cameras an invasion of privacy?

Should the government have a say in our diets?

Does access to condoms prevent teen pregnancy?

Should English be the official language in the United States?

Final Essays with Tutor Signature Due:  3/30
Extra Credit - March 26 from 4 to 7 PM - Student Union (cafeteria area).  Attend Cultural Diversity event from 4 to 7 pm and receive extra credit (I will take your lowest quiz or essay grade and turn it into 100%).

Class Overview:
1.  We will go over Amy Tan - Mother Tongue reading assignment - Q&A + Summary
Discuss similarities and differences with both Tan short stories
2. Grammar (in book) Page 381 / Chapter 21:  Subject/Verb Agreement, Count and Non Count Nouns, Types of Verbs (linking, helping, action), Verb Tenses, Prepositional Phrases, Independent and Dependent Clauses.  What is the difference between a clause and a phrase?
Answer:

1. If you are unsure whether a group of words is a clause or phrase, break down the words into the parts of speech to help you decide. If there is a subject and a verb with a predicate, it is a clause. If there is a noun but no verb or a verb but no noun and does not have a predicate, it is a phrase.
2. 3. Review Cause and Effect Sentences - Learning Cause and Effect
3. 4.  Creating strong opinions ...... learning the difference between facts and opinions
4. 5. Broad to Narrow topics ..... 3 narrow topics from each broad topic.
5. 6.  Reviewed transitional words. 
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3/11/2015

Trivia Question - Give answer and explain why.  Prize: Starbucks Card

Review Quiz and Classification Draft Essay.

M. Garcia - demonstrate on the board #27 from the quiz

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Review Story ..... Mother Tongue - Amy Tan
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Groups - Debate Teams
Define ....... Assertion - Give examples on the board.

Instructions:

Select 3 topics from the list below.  For each topic give 2 reasons yes and 2 reasons no.  Create a thesis statement for it and then paraphrase that thesis statement with at least 3 sentences.

Example: 1      Schools  

I.  Single sex schools are good for students.

Reason 1: Single sex schools are good for students because there are less distractions for students in single sex schools.

Reason 2:  There is less chance of teenage pregnancy in single sex schools.
Write a thesis using the topic, 2 reasons (supporting ideas) and the conjunction because: ___________________________________________________________________

Paraphrase the thesis; make sure you make the new thesis have at least 2 sentences - make it longer. ___________________________________________________________________

II.  Single sex school are not good for students.

Reason 1:  Single sex schools are not good for students because opposite sex students need to learn how to interact with one another.

Reason 2:  Single sex schools are not good for students because in the real world of work and living there exists both sexes. 

Write a thesis using the topic, 2 reasons (supporting ideas) and the conjunction because: ___________________________________________________________________

Paraphrase the thesis; make sure you make the new thesis have at least 2 sentences - make it longer. ___________________________________________________________________

 ·  Video games
The sale of violent video games should be banned.

·  Bullying
Bullies should be held legally responsible for what they do.

·  Newspapers
Newspapers are a thing of the past.

·  Diets
The promotion of diets should be outlawed.

·  Music censorship
Music lyrics glorifying criminal lifestyles should be censored.

·  Anorexia
The patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa should be force fed.

·  Advertising
Sexist advertising should be banned.

·  Motherhood
All mothers should be obliged to stay at home and care for their children.

·  Prisoners
Prisoners should have the right to vote.

·  Working hours
Weekly working hours should be legally reduced to 25.

·  Housewives
Housewives should receive salary for their work.

·  Classes
College classes should start later than 10 a.m.

·  Airlines
Excess weight fees in airplanes should be banned.

·  College
The searches of students’ lockers can be useful.

·  Police
Police should have the right to confiscate the cars of drivers who text while driving.

·  Drivers
Drivers should pay fines if they toot horns without cases of emerge

Quiz Tonight 3/9/2015

Tonight we will go over in class what will be on the quiz again.
We will review capitalization rules.
We will practice opinion =
Example:  high school students should be able to have cell phones in school.
Two reasons yes:
Two reasons no:
Example:  The drinking age should be lowered to 18
Two reasons yes:
Two reasons no:

Take a L@@K at Debate Topics - Examples Here .........http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/writing/persuasive-essay-topics/

Homework:  Read the Story Mother Tongue - by Amy Tan
http://www.olypen.com/pnkdurr/as/mother_text.htm
Answer the following questions:
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What point is Tan making with the example of her
mother and the hospital?
•
What point is she making with the example of the
stockbroker?
•
Tan says that experts believe that a person’s
“developing language skills are more influenced by
peers”; yet she thinks that family is more influential,
“especially in immigrant families.” Do you think family
or peers exert more influence on a person’s language?
•
Why does Tan discuss the SAT and her performance on
it?
•
Why does she envision her mother as the reader of her
novels?

Homework - Due 3/4 ...... Quiz 3/9

Read Amy Tan Story - Fish Cheeks and Answer the Questions:
http://www.wscschools.org/webpages/NBLASZAK/files/fish%20cheeks%20text.pdf

Print out the document with your answers written out - bring to class Wednesday.

Create a Gmail Email Account .... then email your new email address to me:  tamiesl101@gmail.com

Grammar Practice Website: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

In class,  we reviewed the cause and effect paragraphs on alcohol and daycare - discovering where new paragraphs should begin and reviewing transitional words.  We also reviewed what would be on the quiz on Monday in class and read through the Amy Tan story - Fish Cheeks.