January 25, 2011 Good Morning!

1. January 25, 2011Good Morning! • Write down your homework! • Grab your composition notebook. • Respond to the following: • “How do you feel about the Blue Diamond you took last week? What things do you think went well? What do you still need to work on? • 1st Period- MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A #2 Pencil. Today’s Agenda: ~Review/Complete Blue Diamond ~Review Quiz ~Review Subject and Predicates

2. Subject and Predicates Review Identify the SIMPLE SUBJECT. • There is a fly in your soup. • Fly • Soup • Your • There • 2. This dictionary has a red cover. • Red • Cover • This • Dictionary

3. Identify the SIMPLE Predicate 3. Yesterday Somally and Johanna tutored Monica for an hour. • Somally and Johanna • Tutored • Hour • Yesterday 4. Venus and Serena Williams play professional tennis? • Professional • Venus and Serena • Play • Tennis

4. Identify the SIMPLE Subject in the Following: 5. The purple mountains appeared misty in the distance. • Mountains • Appeared • Distance • misty • 6. Thirteen pink candles decorated Lisa’s birthday cake. • Lisa • Birthday cake • Candles • decorated

5. Identify the COMPLETE SUBJECT 7. A big raccoon crawled out of the table. • Out of the table • A big raccoon • Crawled • Raccoon 8. The Snake River flows through southern Idaho. • Flows • Idaho • Snake River • Through southern Idaho

6. Identify the Complete Predicate 9. All of the class goes to the safety assembly. • Class • Safety Assembly • Goes to the safety assembly • All of the class 10. Many of Lisa’s friends were in the choir. • friends • Were in the choir. • Lisa • Many of Lisa’s friends

7. Homework: • Write 10 sentences and identify the SIMPLE SUBJECT and the SIMPLE PREDICATE! Ex. Ms. Lightfoot is a great dancer. Subject Predicate

8. Evaluation Essay Review

9. in your own words, tell me what it means to write an evaluation essay? • To act like a critic • To describe something’s value, significance, impact in a greater context, strengths and weaknesses • To present an opinion and support it

10. Evaluative Essays use criteria to: • Form an _________________________. • Prompt the readers to ____________________ their own values. • ______________ convince the reader to see things like the ______________________.

11. Vocabulary standard • Criteria: a ___________________ by which something can be judged or decided. judge • Evaluate: to ______________ using criteria. effect • Impact: the overall _________________ of an argument on the reader. supporting • Facts and Opinions- these _______________________ ________________ lend credibility to an ________________________. details argument short • Anecdote: a ________________________, _________________ tale. entertaining

12. Vocabulary Continued… last • Thesis: this is typically the _________________ _________________ of the introductory paragraph. It states the ____________________ _____________________ and sets up the body paragraphs. • Grabber/Hook: this is the ______________ ___________________ in the _________________ _____________________ that gets the readers’ attention. sentence argument author’s first sentence introductory paragraph • Transition Words: these words are used to ____________________ from one thought to another. transition

13. 2- 10 minute conferences Peer Conference Time! • How does the beginning of the paper capture the reader’s attention? • How can the writer improve the beginning? Give at least one specific suggestion. • How does the writer clearly explain topic and his/her judgment? • How can the writer improve the description of the topic and criteria? Give at least one specific suggestion. • Is the writer clear on his/her argument? Give specific criteria from the essay. • How can the writer improve the end of the essay to really impact the reader? • Other concerns, suggestions, or comments Stopwatch

14. Homework: • Continue to edit and revise your essay. • Your final draft is due Wednesday. • Who can remind me of what a final draft looks like? • Let me know if you have questions!