1.    Make a list of 5 rules we should follow as a class…

2.   Names, again

3.   Notes, notes, and notes.

6- Traits:

Voice:  Personality- Flavor- Interesting….

Ideas:   What it’s about… Interesting.

Word Choice:  Choosing interesting words- vocab, variety.

Organization:  Shape-  Paragraphs-

Conventions:  Grammar- usage, punctuation

Sentence Fluency:  Flow, rhythm ( mix of sentence lengths.

Topic:  What it’s about.

Audience:  Who it’s for

Purpose:  Why we’re writing it.

Writing Process: 

Inventing- creating interesting ideas

Organization- Word Web, Outline, List, Plan your work and work your plan.

Draft-  Follow your plan and write the essay

Revise: word choice, organization, SF, Voice, Ideas (?)

Edit-  Conventions.

Publish- perfect-

Essay- Try 

Punctuation

…   “as;kldjfasldkjf…asl;dkfjal;sdkfjl.”

:   equal sign-

;   sentence ; sentence

Comma Splice -  I like dogs, I like cats.

Parallelism:    

Run on:               I like dogs I like cats.

Fragment:          I like dogs; I like.

Subject Verb Agreement:   I likes dogs.

Tense Shift:   I liked dogs, and I like cats.

Pronoun antecedent agreement:  Someone has a lot of cats.  They love cats.    He is a person that….

Paragraph:  Group of related sentences.

4.   Narrative stuff, cont.

5.   HW-  Reading 3 Narrative essays:

Mother Tongue, Fish Cheeks, Salvation