Cindy Purpose

All the classes are operating on the same theme, but we seem to be finishing our agenda at different times! Hopefully, this encapsulates everything we did today.

*For all classes, if you miss a vocabulary quiz, rhetorical toolbox quiz, or writing prompt, you have 2 school days to make this up or schedule an appointment to make up the work. Scheduling can occur via person or e-mail.

1: Vocab Quiz 13, followed by the review of Syntax Handout 1. Then, we started reading the first chapter of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, the text that you will use later in the week for a writing prompt. During class, we read about half of the text and then jotted down purposes of each section. For homework, finish up the purposes for each section. We will discuss these purposes and then turn Cindy Purpose into Cindy Syntax, differentiating various forms of syntax and then noting the syntactical patterns throughout the text.

3: We copied down Vocab Unit 14, which we will begin tomorrow and then reviewed the answers for Syntax Handout 1. Then, we used our textbook (it does exist) to review cumulative, periodic, and inverted sentences. Not only did we review structure of these syntactical forms, we analyzed the purpose of each example - for instance, some were to describe, some to indicate cause and effect, some to provide ethos, and so on. All of this set us up to start the first chapter of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, the text that will become your dear friend for the writing prompt this week. During class - for two sections at least - we notated the purposes of each section. For homework, finish up the purposes for the assigned sections. We will discuss these purposes and then move onto Cindy Syntax tomorrow.

7: Since the majority of the class had other duties during seventh hour on Friday, we saved our vocab review for today. Guess what? Yes, your quiz will be tomorrow. Meanwhile, we finished our last meetings on the Banneker prompt and reviewed the answers for Syntax Handout #1. To continue our syntax training, we grabbed a textbook and studied cumulative, periodic, and inverted sentences even further! How so, you ask? We looked at the purpose of each syntactical form and how an author can utilize description, cause and effect, process analysis, persuasive appeals, and all kinds of discourse to further an idea.