Week 8 in Review and Forecast of Week 9

Students,

*B-Day students completed Unit 1 Post-Test Review

*We began our 3-Day Writing Plan -   establishing FOCUS in the Introductory portion of an Essay.

*Reviewed sample effective Expository Introductions and analyzed each sentence for purpose and sentence relationship

* Learned effective engaging beginnings: Descriptive Language, Anecdote, Important Statement used to Segway ideas that contrast.

 Week 9 in Preview

Unit 2 Pre-Test

Upcoming Benchmarks:

1.      Identifying Author’s Purpose and/or Perspective and Bias

2.      Recognizing Text Structures

3.     Compare and Contrast Ideas and Text Structures Across Texts