IEW-Week 18

Week 18

Faces of History Essay Project

Faces of History Essay Project

Due: April 1, 2015 (no joke :)

What is it?

For the next 3 weeks we will be working on a 3-5 paragraph essay on an historical figure from American history. On the fourth Wednesday you will present your essay dressed as your character or bring in a prop or display related to your character. This is going to be fantastic!

Optional schedule:

Week 18-Choose character and gather resources

Week 19-Rough draft of body paragraphs

Week 20-Introduction & Conclusion paragraphs and final editing

Present!

Week 18

Choose your character. Some ideas might include:

Any of the presidents

Susan B. Anthony

John Steinbeck

Mark Twain

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Louis Armstrong

Babe Ruth

Eli Whitney

Davey Crockett

Noah Webster

Lewis and Clark

Henry Clay

General Robert E. Lee

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

Eleanor Roosevelt

Jackie Robinson

Walt Disney

The Wright Brothers

Andrew Carnegie

John D Rockefeller

Henry Ford

Thomas Edison

Martin Luther King

Benjamin Franklin

The person I will write my paper on is: __________________________________

Read anything you can find about this person. Use library books, timeline cards, the Story of the World books, history books, or the internet* (I recommend sites that say “for kids”). *Only one internet source, and no Wikipedia.

Next, you need to organize your information into 3 topics or “themes” about your person.

Here are some suggestions: (others are ok, too)

Their childhood/what life was like when they were young

Their personality/quirky things they did/what made this person unique

Their clothes (if this was a big deal to him or her)

The thing that they are famous for doing

The thing that they invented

Their adult life/unusual things they did or things that happened to them

How they got to be famous

Their second biggest accomplishment

How this person affected the rest of history or science or whatever

The three themes that I think I will write about are:

________________________, __________________________________, and _____________________

Now it’s time to start taking notes in Key Word Outlines. Start with your first topic or theme. Use at least 2 sources. Three would be best but 2 will do. You can use the form provided in the packet. If you are satisfied that you have enough information from your sources, you can go ahead and fuse them. Go on to the other 2 topics. If at anytime you find you don’t have enough information, or are unhappy with your topics, feel free to find more information or change topics.

You should have 1-3 fused outlines at this time.

Week 19

Now it’s time to write our rough drafts from our KWO. It might be helpful to have a list of dress-ups and sentence openers on hand so that you can incorporate them into your essay as much as possible.

Week 20

You’ve completed the bulk of your paper. It’s easy-breezy from here. Add your introduction and conclusion paragraphs and do any final editing. Don’t forget to think about your costume, prop, or display for your presentation.

EEL-Week 18

Week 18

Complex/Imperative/S-Vt-DO-OCA/OCN

Charts A,M,N

Only 6 more weeks! Don't give up! Read Galations 6:9 for some encouragement.

This is also a great time to do a temperature check to see if we are where we should be. A great resource for that is page 282  in your Guide. I discovered that I have let the charts slide at home and need to focus on those these last few weeks.

Review:

8 parts of speech

4 purposes

4 structures

What is a complex sentence?

contains both an independent clause and a dependent clause.

What is an imperative sentence?

gives a command

Volunteers came up and labeled and diagrammed:

Make ma a saint while you make me an heir.

Make me holy while you make me loving.

All the volunteers did great. 

Imperative

Let's change these Declaratives into Imperatives.

We shall call the dog Rover.

Call the dog Rover.

The judge did rule her guilty.

Rule her guilty.

He calls me Ishmael. 

Call me Ishmael.

What is the subject in our new imperative sentences?

The understood you.

Can we determine the tense of our verbs in these sentences?

Present! Commands are given in the now. Notice that no helping verbs are used either.

Complex & Imperative

Now that we have our imperative sentences, let's make them complex. Any ideas on how to do this?

who/which clauses, www.asa.wub clauses

Call the dog Rover as he is friendly.

Rule her guilty because she stole the goods.

Call me Ishmael while I am on the boat.

We used the sentence on pg 291 on our Analytical Task sheets and went all the way to Task 5!

We played a new math game called Insomnia.

EEL week 16

Week 16

Complex/Declarative/S-Vt-DO-OCN

Today we are continuing our discussion of the Complex sentence structure and our Declarative sentence purpose, but we are adding a new element to our pattern. The Object Complement Noun.

What is an Object Complement Noun (OCN)?

We can tell by the name that it is a noun, right? If we just look at the pattern, the OCN follows the direct object. Here is where we get in to new territory. A complement completes the thought begun by the subject and the verb. The Object Complement Noun renames what the direct object has become as a result of the action of the verb. Let's look at some examples.

Jesus, who made you an heir, made me a saint. Ind. Clause- Jesus made me a saint. S-Vt-DO-OCN

God called the light day.

God called the dark night.

The Object Complement renames the Direct Object. Day renames light. Night renames dark.

So when we do our Question Confirmation and have identified the Subject, Verb, and Direct Object, we ask the question God called light what/whom? Can day replace/describe light? If yes, then it's an Object Complement Noun.  Light = day.

Here's two more examples:

We considered that car a lemon.

The class elected Tom president. 

Car=lemon and Tom=president

Since we are talking about nouns, I think it would be helpful to go over the jobs a noun can do using our Quid et Quo. Please take these out and we will look at our first example sentence. Let's start with Jesus.  Go to the noun section and let's look at what we can fill in. Answer: Noun, proper, concrete, singular, masculine.

What about the noun me? Answer: Direct Object, singular, gender is unknown unless we know who the speaker is, first person, personal pronoun, objective pronoun

Let's take our first example sentence go through our question confirmation and diagram it.

Jesus, who made you an heir, made me a saint.

SN      SP   Vt     DO AJ OCN  Vt   DO aj OCN

Jesus | made | me \ saint (I can't put in the adjectives)

who | made | you \ heir (remember the dashed line that connects Jesus to who)

Homework:

Go through the example sentences using the task sheet and/or the Quid et Quo and Review Charts

E,F, and N

IEW week 15

IEW week 15

Writing from your brain/Introductions & Conclusions/VSS

What if you're asked to write a paper on a subject without any resources? No books, no internet, no parental help? Where would you get your information?

From your brain!!

We are going to pick a subject to write about, think of some topics, choose a few topics to write about and develop a KWO based on what we know.

But before we get started, let's go over introductions and conclusions. 

Introductions give background information such as time, place, and context and states the topics.

Conclusions restate the topics and state the most important thing and why. This is also a great place to get a title idea. 

The new decoration that we are to implement is the VSS or the very short sentence. We have been working on adding to our sentences. Now to break up the rhythm and add variety, we will add a VSS to our writing.

Please refer to your TWSS for an outline of this process. 

Homework:

Write a 4-5 paragraph essay (2-3 topics, an introduction, and a conclusion) on the subject of your choosing incorporating a very short sentence.

Challenge: Utilize a dramatic opener.

EEL week 15

EEL Week 15

Complex/Interrogative/S-Vt-IO-DO/Interjection

Complex/Interrogative-pg 233 in our Guide

Let's review the different ways to make a declarative sentence interrogative.

1) Add a question mark

2) Use an interrogative pronoun such as who, whom, whose, which, what

3) Use a helping verb

 Can anyone remind me what the helping verbs are?

Do, does, did, has, have had, am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been, may, must, might, should, could, would, shall, will, can

Example:

I gave my daughter the old cell phone when I ordered myself a new one.

1) I gave my daughter the old cell phone when I ordered myself a new one?

2) Who gave my daughter the old cell phone when I ordered myself a new one?

3) Shall I gave my daughter the old cell phone when I order myself a new one?

Now that we know the purpose of this sentence, what is it's structure? Complex

How do we know? The sentence has a subordinating conjunction-when, therefore our sentence has a subordinate clause "when I ordered myself a new one."

Let's go through our Question confirmation process to identify the jobs of each word in our sentence.

Parent's-if you need to review the question confirmation, see week three in our Guide.

Shall I give my daughter the old cell phone when I order myself a new one?

Vh   SP Vt  aj     IO          aj   aj   aj     DO     C    SP Vt    IO       aj  aj    DO

Now, let's diagram this.

Interjections

What if we were to add an interjection here? Pick one

Hurray! I gave my daughter the old cell phone when I ordered myself a new one.

Let's add the interjection to our diagram.

Yippee! The sun is shining while it is snowing.

Man! Maggie ate all the cake because it was so delicious. 

What is the structure? 

Let's change the purpose to interrogative. 

Verb Anatomy-Chart N pg 424

Now don't let this chart freak you out. We are going to break it down piece by piece.

You already know the 5 parts of a verb from Foundations.

5 Parts-Infinitive, Present, Past, Present Participle, Past Participle

4 Forms-Simple, Perfect, Progressive, Perfect Progressive

3 Tenses-Past, Present, Future

Don't forget Person and Singular or Plural

Let's see who can find a verb the fastest. I'll call out a certain Form, Tense, Person, and Number and whoever locates it the quickest stand up.

Simple, Past, 1st Person, Plural

Perfect, Present, 2nd person, Singular

Progressive, 3rd Person, Plural, Present

Perfect Progressive, Future, 3rd person, Singular

Simple, Future, 2nd Person, Singular

Let's get our Analytical Task Sheets and we'll discuss Tasks 5 & 6

Example: Did Jesus, who died for me, make me a crown?

By Purpose: Did Jesus make me a crown?

By Structure

Simple- Jesus made me a crown.

Cd-Jesus made me a crown and He died for me.

Cx-Jesus made me a crown when He died for me.

Add modifiers

Wonderful Jesus quickly made me a glittering crown.

Make passive

The crown was made for me by Jesus.

Homework:
Work on the practice sentences for week 15 in the Guide and work on memorizing Chart N.