Friday, September 3, 2010

August 23-Sept. 3, 2010

Pre-AP

This week, we began our short story unit. We've completed a review of some of the basic literary elements and a word study for vocabulary associated with Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat." We also spent a bit of time preparing our notebooks so we will be organized throughout the year. If you've not yet acquired your supplies, please have them by next week.

Dual Credit

This week, we read and discussed two descriptive essays, "Flavio's Home" and "Sister Flowers." We discussed the need for a clear thesis statement that focuses the entire essay and informal topic sentences, in this type of essay, to unify paragraphs. We also reviewed basic sentence combining to avoid run-ons, comma splices, and fragments.



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