--Please take out your mindfully completed homework ("Controlling Idea [Theme Statement] Practice—'Nature'" sheet—explication and controlling idea sentence).
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
Mini-Lesson -- Controlling Idea
Paragraphs
--Students share
sample
sentences.
--Check out the
following link: http://www.nysedregents.org/comprehensiveenglish/812/engl82012-exam.pdf
--Discuss approach
for "attacking" this particular task.
--Students craft a controlling idea paragraph about either "The Necklace"/"Richard Cory" or "The Open Boat"/"I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing".
--Students share sample paragraphs.
HW time
--pick up the "Short Story Analysis Sheet" and Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time"
--get started together
HW
--Finish purposefully reading "Once Upon a Time" by way of the "Short Story Analysis Sheet" and be ready for a discussion in the future.
--Students craft a controlling idea paragraph about either "The Necklace"/"Richard Cory" or "The Open Boat"/"I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing".
--Students share sample paragraphs.
HW time
--pick up the "Short Story Analysis Sheet" and Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time"
--get started together
HW
--Finish purposefully reading "Once Upon a Time" by way of the "Short Story Analysis Sheet" and be ready for a discussion in the future.
