Transcript Teaching Rhetorical Grammar Erin Jones

You will need:
1) Semester 1 Binder
2) Rhetorical Grammar Pretest in folder
3) Post-it notes to tab grammar sections
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Teaching Rhetorical
Grammar
With your group, discuss:
• Do you teach grammar formally, systematically,
and on a regular basis, or do you approach
grammar organically, teaching elements of
grammar when problems arise or opportunities
come up?
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• How do you teach grammar in your classroom?
Guidelines for Teaching
Rhetorical Grammar
• Pages 3-4 have some good hints for providing editing
feedback.
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• Flip to Guidelines for Teaching Rhetorical Grammar tab in the
front of your semester 1 binder.
Editing Pretest
• Pages 7-12= Key
• We also made a copy of the pre-test and put it in your binder
so that you can write on it.
• The pretest can also be found on the online community under
MODULES. It is a PDF called Guidelines Teaching Rhetorical
Grammar.
• How to use the pretest. How it is aligned to the units.
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• Pages 13-16= Blank test
Pretest/unit alignment
• Sentence Fundamentals– Complete and Incomplete Sentences
• What’s Next?
• Run-on Sentences
• Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page
• Misplaced Modifiers, Parallel Structure, Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participial Phrases
• ?????
• Subject Verb Agreement
• Verb Problems
• Racial Profiling & Value of Life
• Punctuation
• Good Food/Bad Food
• Noun/Pronoun Problems
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• Problems with Incorporating Texts
• Into the Wild
• Editing in Context
• Review of all modules
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• Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page
• http://writing.csusuccess.org/wcop_modules?noCache=872:1
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• http://writing.csusuccess.org/uploads/uP/je/uPjekAKQaJekyw
QW-YR3lQ/Rhet_Grammar_Editing_Posttest_Student.pdf
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• Post Test for Semester 2 is on the on-line community as well
under Modules, Semester 2 pdfs files.
Looking at the layout of a grammar unit
• Flip to the first unit, “What’s Next?”
• Grammar is integrated into the unit itself.
• Page 22= Activities 2-6- Teaching & Activities
107-116 RG: Teacher Version
• Page 54= Activities 7-9- Editing Activities
116-118
• Student Version pages 119-127
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• Page 6= RG= Activity 1- Guided Composition
106 RG: Teacher Version
Putting a unit into action:
• Flip to “Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page”
• Some people (Like Kathy) do an activity daily.
• Here’s how I did it:
DAY 1 (10 minutes)
• Page 5 Activity 1: Guided Composition
page 94
DAY 3 (Whole period)
• Page 11 Teaching + Activities 2-4
pages 96-104 (Copies of mini-packet)
Day 4 (Short period)
• Group vocabulary + grammar review: Write an original story using 10 vocabulary words
plus the 4 ways to combine sentences. Label these sentences.
Day 5 (30 minutes)
• Vocabulary + grammar test
Day 6 (TBD– 30 minutes?)
• Pass back quiz & Page 47 Editing activities 5-7
pages 105-107
Optional Day 7 Extension Activity
• Related SAT sentence corrections with punctuation errors or subject/verb agreement errors
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DAY 2 (Preview on my weekly Discussion Board/website)
http://jonesventura.wordpress.com/
Go through the remaining units
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• Tab corresponding pages
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Questions? Concerns?
Comments?