for Friday, September 28, 2012 (Time, Steps, Event or Space) fi3

Dear Class,
What did you think of the communication game we played?  Feel free to try it at home with your parents and siblings. Isn't it interesting how our words might mean something else to the recipient?  I hope you understand how important it is to speak and write clearly for understanding!  Always proofread your papers with this in mind.

Your homework is to write one chronological paragraph using transition words that will distinguish time, steps, events, or space.  You may write about your favorite day, a "how-to" topic, a visual space (like your closet or room, the Grand Canyon!), or a historical event.

Remember to include a:

• who/which clause
• one -"ly word"
• quality adjective
• strong verb

Remember to indicate these "dress-ups" with bolding and an underline in your paragraph.  I will also be looking for transition words, so please use appropriate terms for your topic (time words, location/space words, etc.). I have pasted an additional list of transition words below.

Reminders:

• FIX-ITs -  hand-write on notebook paper, neatly and legibly. Use blue or black ink or dark pencil in paragraph form (this shows paragraph changes in the text).
•  VOCABULARY WORDS - Along with your weekly submission of vocabulary words and their definitions, I strongly suggest that you begin a Word document with an accumulative and alphabetized list of vocab words. Refresh your notebook with an updated alphabetized list regularly. Sorting alphabetically can be done online at: SortMyList.com Our vocabulary list grows quickly and the open-book tests are random and unannounced. 
• ESSAYS - check your formatting (especially font size and spacing in your title block). 
• KWOs and CHECKLISTS - must be staples to the BACK of your essays.
• Be sure to use proper formatting. 
• You have one week to turn in late vocab, KWOs, FIX-ITs and checklists for half credit 
• There is a 10 points deduction per week for late essays.

FIX-IT     Week 3

to each of the young princesses the sea king bequeathed a little garden plot where they might dig and plant as they pleased, one princess arranged her flower-bed as a whale, another as a mermaid, that of the youngest contained flowers as red as the suns ray’s at sunset.

She was a singular child quiet and thoughtful, whereas her sisters would be thrilled with the marvelous things they obtained from the wrecks of vessels’ the younger princess cherished nothing, but her lovely flowers—except one thing a marble statue

Carved out of pure white stone the statue was the rendering of a handsome boy which had fallen to the bottom of the sea from a wreck, beside the statue, the youngest mermaid had planted a rose-colored, weeping willow

Splendidly it had grown, and soon hanged it’s fresh branches over the statue, enchanted by any information she might gain about the world above the sea the little mermaid made her venerable grandmother tell her all she new of the ships and towns.   

Transition Words

Words that can be used to show location/space:

above	behind	by	near	throughout
across	below	down	off	to the right
against	beneath	in back of	onto	under
along	beside	in front of	on top of
among	between	inside	outside
around	beyond	into	over

Words that can be used to show time:

while	first	meanwhile	soon	then
after	second	today	later	next
at	third	tomorrow	afterward	as soon as
before	now	next week	about	when suddenly
during	until	yesterday	finally

Time Transitions
Shortly after that	Meanwhile	Soon
Along the way	Before long	Earlier
After all of that	Later on	Eventually
An hour later	Without delay	Immediately
At that very moment	At last	Next
Later that same day	During all of this	As soon as
Not a moment too soon	While this was happening

Word that can be used to compare two things:

likewise	also	while	in the same way
like	as	similarly

Words that can be used to contrast two things:

but	still	although	on the other hand
however	yet	otherwise	even though

Words that can be used to emphasize a point:

again	truly	especially	for this reason
to repeat	in fact	to emphasize

Words that can be used to conclude or summarize:

finally	as a result	to sum up	in conclusion
lastly	therefore	all in all	because

Words that can be used to add information:

again	another	for instance	for example
also	and	moreover	additionally
as well	besides	along with	other
next	finally	in addition

Words that can be used to clarify:

that is

for instance

in other words

Information for Mrs. Cortez 
Correlation to 2011-2012 Lesson Plan: How to Climb a Fence

Correlation to 2012-2013 Lesson Plan: Falling Dominoes (The DMZ)