Week 1
The dog (bark/barks) at the boy running away.
When we are writing, what is a hook and why should we try to have one?
A hook is something we use to get the reader's attention. We use it because we want them to keep reading our story or essay.
True or False.
When we write an essay, we want to be telling a story to help convince the person reading to agree with us.
True
True or False
You should think about how you want the listeners to feel when they listen to your song to help you write the song.
True
Describe a hurricane.
Very big, lots of water, has an "eye" in the center, windy
Pick the correct verb for the following sentence to make the sentence past tense.
The bird (flies/will fly/flew) down and picked up a worm yesterday.
Which of the following sentence should you use in your essay?
A. Football is my favorite sport because it can help you exercise.
B. Football is my favorite sport because it can help people exercise.
B. "Football is my favorite sport because it can help people exercise."
Remember we want to avoid using 2nd person perspective (words like you and your)
Where can you put in commas to use them correctly for the following sentences?
The fruits I like are apples oranges and bananas.
We should put commas in between "apples" and "oranges" and "oranges" and "and".
The fruits I like are apples, oranges, and bananas.
True or False
When we are writing a song, we do not need to have a story.
False
We should try to have a story as it'll help the listeners be able to understand the song better.
Why do we have day and night?
We have day and night because of the Earth rotating. If one side is facing the sun, then that side is day time and the other side is night time.
Pick the correct words for the sentence.
The (boy's/boys) decided they will focus on achieving (their/they're/there) goals before getting girlfriends.
boys
their
When we write an essay, what is the purpose of the body paragraphs?
The purpose of the body paragraphs is to help us explain more about the points or reasonings in our thesis sentence.
Which punctuation should we replace the "_" with in the following sentence?
There are some numbers I really like_ 1, 2, and 3.
We should use a colon. ":"
Remember that colon can be use to introduce a list. Our list in this case is "1, 2, and 3".
Why is it important that we should have an idea of who we are writing the song for and why before we actually start writing the song?
Knowing who we are writing the song for and why will help us write a song, or a story for the song, to be more understandable.
Why is reading important?
Answer can vary. An example answer is
Reading is important because it lets us see how different punctuations are used, it introduces us to new words, and it can be a fun way to learn English.
Which of the below is an independent clause and a dependent clause?
A. When the boys dance.
B. There are many people walking around tonight.
"When the boys dance" is a dependent clause.
"There are many people walking around tonight" is an independent clause.
When we write a conclusion, what should we try to include in it?
We should try to include the following:
-Restate our thesis sentence
-end with something interesting to help them remember our essay
-give a short summary of our body paragraphs
What is a metaphor?
A literary device. Something we use to compare 2 things without using "like" or "as".
True or False
Having a long title is good because it can be descriptive and it can tell people what the song is about.
False
Remember that we want a short title that contains an idea about the song. For example, "Fake Love" contains the idea of the singer not wanting fake love anymore and "Spring Day" contains the idea of the singer wanting to relive his spring days again or hopes for new spring days.
Describe how a black hole is formed.
2. If the star is big enough, then it explodes in a super nova.
3. If the star is big enough, then it collapses on itself to form a black hole.
Come up with either a complex or a compound sentence.
Varies on the student's answers.
Complex sentence has both a dependent and an independent clause.
Compound sentence has only independent clauses.
What is a thesis sentence? Give an example.
Thesis sentence is a sentence that tells the reader what your essay is about. Generally in the form of "Topic and stance on the topic because reasoning1, reasoning2, and reasoning3."
Example: I believe everyone should be educated because it can give us perspectives, it can lead to a better job, and it can let us know more about the world.
Which of the following sentence uses double quotes (" "), single quotes (' '), brackets ([ ]), and ellipses (...) correctly?
A. The [leader] says, "Tonight we will have a 'party'..."
B. According to the author, "he [Houa] is unable to dance...his doctor claims 'your bone is broken.' "
C. "When the time comes...the boy will be a man," the father said.
B. This is the correct answer because remember that we use quotes when we are writing someone else's words.
We use brackets to provide clarification in the quotes. Here we use brackets to let the reader know that "he" is referring to someone call "Houa."
We use ellipses when we want to skip over someone else's words and we use single quotes inside double quotes when someone else talks.
Imagine you are writing a song. What will the song be like? Who is the song written for? How do you want the people listening to it to feel? What is the story in the song?
Answer varies.
Who is the song written for? Pick an audience such as parents, siblings, girls, boys
How do you want the people listening to it to feel? Pick an emotion such as happy, lonely, sad
What is something new that you learned over the past 4-5 weeks?
What is the most interesting thing you learned the past 4-5 weeks?
What is something you wish you could've learned more about?
Answer varies, anything goes.