Re-write your draft 1 and email it to me as soon as possible. I will send it back to you with some final comments. Then please re-write, print out and bring your final essay to class next week.
Today’s class
Quick review of outline:
Introduction – list all the books you read in this class this semester
Body paragraph 1 – introduce the book title, author, date of publication, setting, main characters, story summary (short, 3-4 sentences)
Body paragraph 2 – the main themes or ideas of the story
Body paragraph 3 – your personal reaction
Conclusion – repeat the main points of paragraphs 2, 3 and 4.
Choose a story from the ones we have read this semester, and write your first draft of a 5-paragraph essay about it. Print it out and bring to class next week.
Essay outline:
Introduction
Body paragraph 1 – introduce the book
title
author
date of publication
setting
main characters
story summary (short, 3-4 sentences)
Body paragraph 2 – the main themes or ideas of the story
Body paragraph 3 – your personal reaction
Conclusion
Bibliography (using APA style)
If you did not give me your homework (see here) on Friday Jan. 11th, please email it to me as soon as possible.
Today’s class
Sample outline for a 5-paragraph essay
Sample introduction and body paragraphs (see above) .
The title and some basic information to identify the book (original publication date, country, author, etc).
A short summary of the story in 2~3 sentences; you may use Wikipedia or Goodreads or Amazon to help you but do not copy and paste – use your own words).
Some background information, e.g.
about the author (if famous)
about the illustrator (if famous)
anything interesting, unusual or important about the book – things that people should know about it
Your personal response or evaluation of it.
Here is the list of books:
Emily by Michael Bedard
The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
Gotta Go! Gotta Go! by Sam Swope
Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard and James Marshall
Today’s class
“The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein. We read the story together, then wrote a simple summary of the story, then read about the book on Wikipedia.
How to make a bibliography using the APA style, with MSWord. See the resource page for details and more resources.
Write a bibliography list using the APA style (see links below and also on the resource page) for the following books we read in this class this semester:
Emily by Michael Bedard
The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
Gotta Go! Gotta Go! by Sam Swope
Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard and James Marshall
Today’s Class
For language-learning, you need:
Input (listening to or reading English that you understand 90% of)
Output (speaking or writing, using the English you have learned)
Feedback (do you get your meaning across?)
Answer these questions: In order to learn or to improve your English academic writing, what specific
Summarize the story of how Dorothy meets the Tin Woodman and his story of how or why he became a tin man. (Click the video below to watch the Tin Man episode, which begins at the 40:44 mark.)
Today’s class
Write a summary in your own words about Emily Dickinson, using the “Afterword” of the book “Emily” and the Wikipedia and other pages that we read.
We watched a bit of the movie “The Wizard of Oz” and read most of the chapter “The Rescue of the Tin Woodman”, from the book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.
No class next week (23rd). Next class will be Nov. 30th.
Write four paragraphs about these four themes in “Miss Nelson is Missing”, using your answers to the worksheet questions, as demonstrated in class:
Respect
Fear
Identity
Deception
Today’s class
Finished reading “Emily”
Complete your summary of the story.
A sample summary of “Miss Nelson is Missing” and the beginning of the paragraph about the theme of respect in that story:
“Miss Nelson is Missing” is an illustrated children’s story about an elementary school teacher called Miss Nelson who cannot control her class. One day, she comes up with a plan. The next day, Miss Nelson does not come to school and instead of her there is a Miss Viola Swamp. Miss Swamp dresses in black, is very strict, gives lots of homework and makes the kids study hard. The kids did not respect Miss Nelson, but they are afraid of Miss Swamp and do as they are told. I (do not) think this means they respect her…. (to be continued for homework).
