| english326 | grammar 4 teachers | fall2013|

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our stuff
Before Class WEEK 1 During Class
 

Tuesday aug20
  • intro
  • setting up blog
  • Dear John
  • patterns-of-the-week

set up blog

purchase More Nitty Gritty Grammar.

Bring $4 for coursepack.

Thursday aug22
  • setting up blog: trouble-shooting
  • blog #1: my goals
  • apostrophes/homophones
  • style sheets/"house style"

 

Before Class WEEK 2 During Class

see "my goals" assignment sheet

blog#1 "My Goals"

PATTERNS-OF-THE-WEEK

1. "generous, kind, thoughtful."

2. "generous and kind and thoughtful."

NO RESPONSE REQUIRED FOR THIS FIRST BLOG

sun-mon noon


 

Tuesday aug27
  • feedback on blogs
  • apostrophes/homophones & style sheets, continued
  • student writing: "Death"
  • "rules" posters - principles

 

Thursday aug29
  • how to bartle puzballs
  • word classes: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions
  • word classes in newspaper headlines
Before Class WEEK 3 During Class

see "dora" assignment sheet

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Tuesday sept3

  • Socratic Seminar #1 on first half of "Dora Learns to Write...," pp. 59-71 (stop at "What Older Writers Do")
  • turn in print-out after seminar (counts as blog#2 in gradebook)

see "dora" assignment sheet

 

Thursday sept5
  • Socratic Seminar #2 on second half of "Dora Learns to Write...,"pp. 71-83.
  • turn in print-out after seminar (counts as blog#3 in gradebook)
Before Class WEEK 4 During Class

blog#4 (due Sunday noon) & response(due Monday noon): post your "Dora" part 1, incorporating these Patterns-of-the-Week:

(1) punctuate title of an article; (2) eliminate all apostrophe errors; (3) use at least 3 of the following possessive pronouns: its, yours, theirs, whose

Check email for more details on POWs

Print out blog and tuck in course pack for future workshops.

sun-mon noon


 

 

Tuesday sept10

  • feedback on blogs / workshop
  • what is a "sentence"?
  • 3 sentence patterns: It's all about the verb
  • magnetic sentences

 

Thursday sept12
  • History of English assignment
  • magnetic sentences, follow-up
  • compounding elements with and
  • pronouns and case
Before Class WEEK 5 During Class

blog#5 & response

POWs:

the reason . . . is. .
Another thing . . . is . . .
This is. . .
There is/are . . .

--compounded subject ( two or more subjects joined with and)
--compounded verb (two or more verbs joined with and)

--compounded subject with two or more personal pronouns
--compounded object of preposition with two or more personal pronouns
--compounded direct object with two or more personal pronouns

--who or whoever
--whom or whomever

check email for detailed instructions

sun-mon noon


 

Tuesday sept17

  • feedback on blogs
  • faulty parallelism
  • People contest

 

Thursday sept19
  • FANBOYS
  • simple v. compound sentences
  • ,then | ,but
  • comma splices
  • run-together sentences
  • more practice
  • conjunctive syntax: "The First Day of Kindergarten"
  • Gary Provost and sentence length
  • state scoring rubrics
  • our own sentence lengths
Before Class WEEK 6 During Class

blog#6 & response

check email for patterns of the week to incorporate into your blog

sun-mon noon


 

Tuesday sept24

  • feedback on blogs
  • complex sentences: AAAWWUBBIS clauses
  • "Honey, I'm Home"
 

Thursday sept26
  • semicolons (theoatmeal.com)
  • appositive phrases & relative clauses
  • Gwen the Zen Comedienne
Before Class WEEK 7 During Class

blog#7 & response

check email for patterns of the week to incorporate into your blog

sun-mon noon


 

Tuesday oct1

  • feedback on blogs
  • image grammar: appositives punctuated 4 ways
  • more practice

HISTORY OF ENGLISH POSTER DUE. BRING TO CLASS.

Thursday oct3
  • image grammar: appositives punctuated 4 ways
  • more practice
Before Class WEEK 8 During Class

blog#8 & response

check email for patterns of the week to incorporate into your blog

sun-mon noon


 

Tuesday oct8

  • feedback on blogs
  • Student Writing Assignment
  • more practice
MID-TERM GRADES DUE

Wednesday oct9
 
 

Thursday oct10
  • image grammar: participle phrases (present & past)
Before Class WEEK 9 During Class

blog#9 & response

check email for patterns of the week to incorporate into your blog

sun-mon noon


 

Tuesday oct15

  • feedback on blogs
  • more practice

 

Thursday oct17

  • more practice
Before Class WEEK 10 During Class

blog#10 & response

Tuesday oct22

  • feedback on blogs
  • more practice
 

Thursday oct24
  • more practice
Before Class WEEK 11 During Class
 

Tuesday oct29

  • feedback on blogs
  • more practice

 

Thursday oct31
  • UNIVERSITY CLOSED
Before Class WEEK 12 During Class

STUDENT WRITING ANALYSIS: "context/Intro" and analysis of first paper DUE for feed-forward via email to bjmonroe@wsu.edu by 11:59 pm

Tuesday nov5

  • Teaching grammar: the 3Es (groups)...Amy Walker "21 Accents"
  • Another English assignment (extra credit to replace lowest blog grade)
  • Do You Speak American?

 

Thursday nov7
  • Do You Speak American?, cont'd
Before Class WEEK 13 During Class

STUDENT WRITING ANALYSIS DUE by 11:59pm

Tuesday nov12

  • Do You Speak American?, conti'd
 

Thursday nov14
  • informal reports on Another English

 

Before Class WEEK 14 During Class

 

 

Tuesday nov19

  • informal reports on Another English

 

Thursday nov21
  • Final Reflection & IDs assignment
  • Teaching grammar: the 3Es (groups)
 
THANKSGIVING nov25-29 THANKSGIVING
  Tuesday dec 3
  • informal presentations
  Thursday dec 5
  • informal presentations
FINAL REFLECTION & IDs DUE friDEC13  

 

 

 

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