Ending Syntax

Over the next 2 days, all the classes will have completed their foray into syntax. While we will not be emphasizing syntax in the near future, that does not mean that syntax is off the table. You can always develop syntactical analysis - in conjunction with other strategies, such as diction, that we will be training our microscopes upon during the upcoming weeks.

1: As the document camera proved uncooperative today, we worked on a team close read from your seats and verbally. Tomorrow, we will finish up this first phase of the team close read and move onto phase two.

3: The hour began with the completion of phase 2 with your writing of the introductory and concluding paragraphs to the Alcott prompt. We commenced our instantaneous feedback as five of the groups read their work. Overall, you should be noting all the varying ways to hook the audience, analyze the strategies, and conclude an essay. Hopefully, that will inspire you to write as such in future prompts.

4: As fourth hour continues to move forward, we reviewed third hour syntax handout, and you completed the syntax quiz, which absentees have 48 hours to makeup or schedule a time for its completion. At the end of class, we reviewed the semicolon (thumbs up) and the comma splice (thumbs down). More to come tomorrow as we look at colons and move into our diction unit. Words, words, words!

7: We finished up our phrase 2 of the Alcott prompt, and you were able to hear and evaluate several introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions. Hopefully, this will inspire you to create well-organized, creative, and engaged paragraphs with your future prompts. At the end of the hour, we looked at semicolon rules, which come into play tomorrow with a punctuation review!