Thursday, February 1 - AM Advanced

Writing Power 1 pp. 124 and 125:  Proper sentence capitalization & punctuation and 3 main parts of a paragraph:  topic sentence, body, and conclusion.

1. Return paragraphs about the train station.  Discuss several with class:  Mauth opted to separate the people into those using technology and those not using technology.  Tatiania gave all 8 people names when talking about them and used humor, and Marco used a word from the morning’s vocabulary lesson taught by Monica.

2. Worksheet - 2 pages:  Choosing main idea as well as topic sentences.  Discuss why the other 3 options are not correct.

3. Writing topic sentences.  Put titles on the board: My Meal, The Concert, and The Pizza.  Discuss support you would use when writing about these topics.  Decide on a topic sentence to fit your support.  

4. Write a paragraph titled My Meal.  Brainstorm ideas as to what your main idea  will be.  Then create a topic sentence, body of about 4 sentences, and a conclusion.

5. Students give “facts” about writing paragraphs.