Week 6: Wednesday, September 24

Kirk Zieser Scribe

Schedule:

• Answer SAT questions
• Look over S/R good and examples needing improvement
• Common errors
• summary topic sentence: main idea/ big idea not plot
• concise summary
• punctuate title correctly
• response topic sentence response: why
• lead-ins
• citations
• explanations: explain quote, connect to topic sentence
• rebuttal
• How can we fix these errors?
• Plot S/R growth in writing
• Evaluate good and bad examples of S/Rs in groups
• Work on S/R Act 4

Homework:

Act 4 S/R due Monday, Meet in forum tomorrow

Essential Question:

To what extent do jealousy and betrayal rule our choices/lives or affect our relationships?

Tips for S/Rs

• Personal Words
• I
• you
• me
• my
• our
• we
• us
• Punctuating Titles
• Movie or Movie
• Book or Book
• Play or Play
• WHATEVER YOU DO, STAY CONSISTENT
• Citations
• ”(Author’s Last Name).
• ?”(Author’s Last Name).
• !”(Author’s Last Name).
• Examples
• ”(Shakespeare 2.3.7-9).
• ”(Bradbury, 79).
• Quotation Lead-in
• Doesn’t have to be “Iago says,”
• Just has to introduce quote and context
• Lead-ins ALWAYS introduce the quotation
• Lead-ins ALWAYS end with a comma
• Lead-ins are necessary because quotes are not strong enough to stand by themselves