Day 15Improving Paragraphs

Seating Chart: Team GlenThink carefully about the issue presented belowThe people we call heroes do not usually start as usual. Often they are ordinary people subject to ordinary humans weaknesses – fear, doubt and self-interest. In fact, they live ordinary lives until they distinguish themselves by having to deal with an injustice or a difficult situation. Only then, when they must respond in thought and action to an extraordinary challenge, do people begin to know their strengths and weaknesses.

Assignment: Do people learn who they are only when they are forced into action. Grace

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Seating Chart: Team GlenThink carefully about the issue presented belowThe people we call heroes do not usually start as usual. Often they are ordinary people subject to ordinary humans weaknesses – fear, doubt and self-interest. In fact, they live ordinary lives until they distinguish themselves by having to deal with an injustice or a difficult situation. Only then, when they must respond in thought and action to an extraordinary challenge, do people begin to know their strengths and weaknesses.

Assignment: Do people learn who they are only when they are forced into action.

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Seating Chart: Team GlenThink carefully about the issue presented belowThe people we call heroes do not usually start as usual. Often they are ordinary people subject to ordinary humans weaknesses – fear, doubt and self-interest. In fact, they live ordinary lives until they distinguish themselves by having to deal with an injustice or a difficult situation. Only then, when they must respond in thought and action to an extraordinary challenge, do people begin to know their strengths and weaknesses.

Assignment: Do people learn who they are only when they are forced into action. Adam

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Seating Chart: Team GlenThink carefully about the issue presented belowThe people we call heroes do not usually start as usual. Often they are ordinary people subject to ordinary humans weaknesses – fear, doubt and self-interest. In fact, they live ordinary lives until they distinguish themselves by having to deal with an injustice or a difficult situation. Only then, when they must respond in thought and action to an extraordinary challenge, do people begin to know their strengths and weaknesses.

Assignment: Do people learn who they are only when they are forced into action.

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Agenda Warm Up: Roll Call Strategy for Improving Paragraphs Vegas Trashketball

Overview of Improving Paragraphs

1 Passage followed by 6 Questions Most difficult and Time-consuming Skipping all 6 you can still get a 670. Focus on Big Picture elements: Style,

Organization, Syntax, clarity, Four Types of Questions:

1. Sentence Revision: Improve a sentence2. Sentence Addition3. Sentence Combination4. Essay Analysis

Five-Step Attack Process1. Skim and Summarize the Passage2. Read the Question (not the answers)3. Reread the context sentences (if

needed)4. Make your own answer5. Read the answers, use process of

elimination to pick the closest

1. Skim and Summarize (5-7 words). Don’t focus on errors.Dolphins can communicate by using a

series of clicking and shrieking sounds. Researchers off the coast of Florida have undertaken research to try to decode these sounds and come up with a comprehensive dolphin language. So far they’ve managed to translate over 100 “phrases” dolphins use to communicate.

Potential Summaries: Florida dolphin researcher 100 phrases

2. Read Questions Not Answers

3. Reread Context cluesWhat is the best way to revise the underlined part of the essay?

Her mother told Emily to make the bed. Another chore her mother told her to do was to take out the garbage. Emily reluctantly complied

4. Make Your own Revision Her mother also told Emily to take

out the garbage.

5.Read every answer and pick the closest

A. Another chore her mother told her to do was to take out the garbage.

B. Her mother additionally asked her to do the chore of taking out the garbage.

C. Also, take out the garbage, her mother asked.

D. Then, her mother told Emily to take out the garbage.

E. She also asked Emily to take out the garbage.

Partner Practice

Other Notes If asked to add sentence at start of

paragraph, make sure it’s a topic sentence that summarizes idea and relates to overall essay

When combining don’t read context sentences. Remember grammar about combining sentences.

Essay Analysis are the hardest questions, but you don’t get extra points.

Vegas Trashkeball Each Round consists of 5

questions For Each question your team

gets 1 minute. After each round you get a

chance to wager as many points as you have.

If you shoot from the 2 Point it doubles your wagered points

If you shoot from the 3 Point it Triples your points.

Turn to Page 722 Take 3 Minutes to read and answer the

questions by yourself. Then share your thoughts with your group.

Turn to Pg 660 Take 3 Minutes to read and answer the

questions by yourself. Then share your thoughts with your group.

Turn to Pg 778 Take 3 Minutes to read and answer the

questions by yourself. Then share your thoughts with your group.