Due Wednesday 10/01/08 or Thursday 10/02/08

1. Study your notes on verbs and clauses.
2. Complete the worksheet that you received in class.

Due Monday 9/29 or Tuesday 9/30

1. Complete the formal outline exercise which
was handed out in class.
2. Review your notes on the grammar that we covered
in class. Type an example of a compound sentence,
a complex sentence, and a compound-complex sentence.
3. Read "Fragments" on pages 455-467. On the same page
where you typed the sentences,correct and
type the first sentence in Activity 1 on page 458;
the first sentence in Activity 2 on page 459; the
first sentence in Activity 3 on page 461; the first
sentence in Activity 4 on page 461; the first sentence
in Activity 5 on page 463; the first sentence on
Activity 6 on page 463; and the first sentence in
Activity 7 on page 464.

Due Wednesday 9/24/08 or Thursday 9/25/08

1. Correct your narrative according to the marks
that I put on your paper. If you saved the narrative,
then you can make the corrections on the screen. If
you did not save it, then you can retype the paper and
make the corrections. If there is anything marked that
you do not understand or cannot read, please see me BEFORE
the next class period so that you can have your
corrected narrative ready to hand in. Hand in BOTH copies:
the corrected essay on top, the marked copy below.
DO NOT hand in the prewriting or the outline.
2. EXTRA CREDIT - If you would like to earn extra points
to add to your test score on the Capitals, Apostropes,
and Quotation Marks test,do this: Type Review Test 2 on
page 543. Do not use any examples from the text. You will
receive three add-on points for this exercise. Type
Review Test 1 on page 555. Underline the corrections that
you make to each sentence. You will receive three add-on
points for this exercise. Type Review Test 2 on page 564.
Staple one comic strip to your paper. You will receive
four add-on points for this exercise.
3. Read page 90 "Common Methods of Introduction." Select
one of the methods and type an introductory paragraph
for this thesis sentence: The food servings at fast food
establishments should be regulated for health purposes.
The introductory paragraph should be three to five sentences
long, and the thesis sentence should be the LAST SENTENCE in
the paragraph.

due Wednesday 9/17/08 or Thursday 9/18/08

1. Rewrite the interview and correct all the items
that I had marked. If there is anything that you
do not understand, please see me. Staple and hand in your
corrected interview in this order: (1.) Corrected interview;
(2.)The original interview that I had marked.
2.First, read pages 557-563 "Quotation Marks." Next, type and
correct these sentences: (1) When the signal is given said the
director everyone start acting your parts in the scene.
(2) The biology instructor said Students, read Chapter 7
Healthy Everyday Plants and complete Exercise 1. (3) The
zoo attendent said "that visitors should not feed the
animals". (4) The short story Hands appears in the
book Winesburg, Ohio.
3. At the bottom of page 558, under the rectangular TIP
box, you have four incomplete statements. On the same page
that you typed the sentences, type only the answers that
complete the statements.

Due Monday 9/15/08 or Tuesday 9/16/08

1. Type a final copy of your narration. Yes, the one
we have been working on for the past week. Hand in
your paper IN THIS ORDER: 1. Outline 2. Final Copy
3. Draft with revisions marked on the draft 4. Pre-
writing 5. Any other related papers that you want to hand in.
2. Read "Capital Letters" on pages 537-543. Using your
book for guidance, type these sentences and make all necessary
corrections relating to capital letters.
(1) After I graduated from High School last Spring, I
enrolled in a Sociology class in waco to learn more about
the customs of the british people. (2) I bought a Sony
Cell Phone to call my Cousin in france when she attended
a Summer camp with her methodist yough group. (3) She said that
she missed the dairy queen hamburgers and her daily coke.
3. Read "Apostrophe" on pages 549-556. Using your book for
guidance, type these sentences and make all necessary
corrections relating to apostrophes. (1) Jerry lost his' gym
shoes in the mens' locker room. (2) The two boys' couldnt
stand the dogs barking at their parents house.
TYPE BOTH HOMEWORK EXERCISES ON THE SAME SHEET.

Wednesday 9/10/08 and Thursday 9/11/08

1. Select an incident that you have been involved
in that you want to write about as a Narrative.
The incident can be a happy one, a sad one, one that
taught you a leson, one that you want to forget, or
one that you want to remember. Do not write about anything
that will cause you embarrassment if others read your
paper because others in the class will read it.
2. Do the prewriting on the incident that you have selected
and prepare a simple outline: a list of details that
you want to include.
3. Using the simple outline as a guide, type a draft of your
Narrative, about two pages long. Bring the printed copy
of the draft to class. You may edit on the paper if
you wish. Remember to save what you have written.
SAMPLE THESIS SENTENCE: I will never forget the time when
Grandpa Lopez started a fire in the kitchen.
Examples of narratives in the text include
"Shame" by Dick Gregory on page 645; "The Yellow Ribbon"
by Pete Hamil on page 212; "Bombs Bursting in the Air" by
Beth Johnson on page 715; you can see other narrations
listen on page xiii.
4. Review the notes that we have taken on grammar: what is
a clause, what is a phrase, is a phrase a sentence,
what types of clauses, how you can tell what type of
clause it is,etc.

Due Monday 9/08/08 or Tuesday 9/09/08

1. Read pages 52-57 "Step 1: begin with a Point or
Thesis." Be prepared to do Activity 2, page 54 in class.
2. Read pages 57-65 "Step 2: Support the Thesis with
Specific Evidence." Be prepared to do Activity 8,
page 64 in class.
3. Read pages 202-205 "Narration." Read pages 207-213
"Developing a Narrative Essay."
4. Select a topic for a narrative essay and type a
prewriting activity for the topic. Use one of the activities
that we discussed in class. We will develop a thesis for
your narrative essay in class.
5. Most of this assignment is reading, so read the pages
very carefully.