New Site

We're making a change to the way that we release work for our classes. The main lessons (the things that we'll do in class each day) will now be found at the site "Optimal Beneficial Moreover Detrimental: Classroom." We're keeping this site, with a slightly different name, in order to release a reading a day for students to practice their reading at home. Each post will contain a link to a reading, along with a list of assignments that can be completed for that reading.

Friday, December 14, 2012

14.5. Essay Prompt (With Increased Attention to Commas

Today, we're going to compose an essay - hopefully, our recent work on commas will help you with your sentence structure and punctuation.

Here's the writing prompt:

Your science teacher has become frustrated. He (or she) keeps finding these great web-videos on YouTube and other sites to teach science concepts. However, whenever the teacher tries to show them in class, the school's web filter blocks him (or her). The teacher has asked the school principal to unblock YouTube in your school so that the science videos can be used in class, to help teach concepts on the Promethean Board and for students to use in school to do research for their assignments and papers.

Do you think that the principal should allow YouTube to be unblocked so that teachers and students can use the educational videos on it? Write a letter to the principal advocating a position. Make sure to use reasons, facts, and examples.

File title is "YOUR NAME YouTube"

After you are done -

Read your essay and try to find the following sentences:

1. An IC, FANBOYS IC sentence.
2. A DC, IC sentence.
3. An IC DC sentence.
4. An ADJ, ADJ NOUN Construction.

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