Transcript PowerPoint, Monday, Oct. 8th

Monday, October 08, 2012
Review Session and Intro to the Rules Governing Subject-Verb
Agreement
1. Sign in and homework review in groups
2. Review of subjects & verbs; subject-
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6.
verb Agreement
Indefinite pronouns: The devil is in the
details!
Preview there sentences: tricky!
Case in pronouns: we will review this
again on Weds.
Homework Preview for October 10th
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Place your name placard on your desk so I can learn
your names. 
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Take your completed homework out and work with
one or two other people to check your work. Take
turns answering each question.
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Mary will circulate around the room, check off your
homework, and answer questions.
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More questions? See Mary after class.
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Please reflect and write about what you
remember about how to find the main verbs
and their subjects in sentences.
Two ways of finding the main verb in a
sentence: marking out prepositional phrases
and the tense test.
What is most difficulty about this?
 Forming new tenses can be problematic if you’re
not familiar with complex tenses.
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What seems most difficult about this?
 Lack of familiarity with how to form different
tenses for helping verbs.
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Notes:
 We will learn how to conjugate verbs on Weds!
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We will spend all of this week on this topic.
English has lots and lots of rules that govern
subject-verb agreement.
We will learn rules bunched because they
seem to go together .
If you have problems with these tricky rules,
please see me either during my drop-in office
hours or in a scheduled time outside of my
regular office hours. 
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Review of Homework: What sentences gave you
grief?
Discussion:
 Seems easy: Plural subjects take plural verbs, right?
The devil is in the sentence details and the intent of
what the writer wants to say! (p. 52)
WE BEGIN HERE ON WEDNESDAY
 Conjugating verbs: A practical demonstration! (Take
notes, Scholars! )
 Now you are truly ready to tackle subject-verb
agreement—or at least mostly. 
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Pls see me to schedule a 20 minute
conference this week or early next week.
We will review your Diagnostic Assessment,
your writing sample, and get a read on how
comfortable you are with subject-verb
agreement.
We will then design an individualized plan for
you. 
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Review ex. 4A, 5A, and 6A, and when you do, make a
list of questions and rules that do not seem clear.
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Read/annotate Ch 7 (p. 59-60) and complete ex 7B
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Read/annotate Ch 8 (p. 65-66) and complete ex. 8A.
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Read/annotate Ch 17 (p. 183-188) and complete ex.
17B (p. 191). Take notes on things that do not seem
clear.
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The first midterm will be on Weds., Oct. 17th