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Teaching Notes Review: Don’t teach tense sequencing (they either get it or they don’t). Move exam up by one week. 10/2 Exam 9/30—Practice Exam & Study List Thursday, Day 9, 9/25/03 In-class 1. Homework/Cards—a few, then collect (didn’t get to this) 2. Practice Exam is up! 3. Participles: Reginald, convinced of his greatness as a poet, stored all his sonnets in a safety deposit box. Reverend Cooper, having failed to win the argument by appealing to faith, decided he had better appeal to reason. The next customer, trying to show what a wise and knowing fellow he was, insisted on telling the waitress about his investments in gold and silver. 4. Absolute Phrases The robot, his strength failing, reached for a can of spinach. His confidence broken, he doubted whether he could ever again appear before an audience. His head swimming with disjunctive syllogisms, he still couldn’t believe that formal logic had any relation to real life. 5. Verb sequences with infinitives: Identify the infinitive: Does the infinitive phrase happen before, during, or after the main verb? present infinitive = to + verb (same time or future) perfect infinitive = to + have + past participle (before) Verb sequences with participles Identify the participle verb happen before or at the same time as the main verb? present participle = base + -ing (same time) past participle = 3rd form (before) present perfect participle = having + 3rd form (before) Objectives: Understand idea of style as prescriptive rules and individual voice Identify components of a sentence Identify subjects & verbs so we can later demonstrate that you can choose them well For Tuesday, 9/30 Unit I Clarity & Correctness (Subjects & Verbs) Read SMH5 Ch. 42. Do Ex. 42.1, 42.2 Keep preparing for exam on 10/2 No cards until after the exam . . . . Tuesday, Day8, 9/23/03 In-class 1. Homework Cards 2. Suggestions Follow up (practice exam & list) 3. Example of : joining two sentences: “We can draw only one conclusion from these laboratory tests: Mr. Bentley’s fondness for homemade wine has ruined his stomach>” (Review other ways of joining. 4. Sentence Variety (inversion, antithesis0 a. A. Adjectives in apposition “The children finally came home home, exhausted and hungry.” Or “The guru sat before them for the entire morning—silent, serene, oblivious to their questions.” Or “Mark is a gullible young man, helpless against the pronouncement of every used car salesman, politician, and latter-day prophet.” 5. Phrases & clauses as subjects & objects, gerunds & participles, modifiers (adj. or adv.) or objects (nouns) 6. Exam practice a. “In other cities, the department store died from undernourishment, from white flight and the death of the inner city.” From Adam Gopnik, “Under One Roof.” b. For more than half a century, in New York particularly, department stores presided over everything from Thanksgiving Parades and patriotic lectures to Cubist exhibitions” c. The old Lord & Taylor implies a rhythm of time, of women’s time, in particular, a pace not slowed but purposeful and expansive: it takes a morning and lunch, or tea and an afternoon, to make a survey of the place.” From Adam Gopnik, “Under One Roof” NYer 9/22/03, pp. 92-94, 96, 103. For Thurday: SMHF Ch. 41. Do Ex. 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4; keep preparting for exam; no cards until after the exam. Thursday, Day 7, 9/18/03 In-class 6. Homework/Cards—a few, then collect (didn’t get to this) 7. Quiz Suggestions: a. You b. List & get a practice exam; I’ll also try to work in hw review with new material, whenever possible. 8. Groups: (papers, consent) Need to officially be enrolled in the class (didn’t get to this 9. Sentence Variety: (didn’t get to this) a. Antithesis: “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” MLK Jr. 10. Exam practice: a. Although Paula and Sara are twins, Sara says that few sisters have less in common than Paula and (she/her) b. The two violinists, Sergei and (he/him), played as though they had a single musical mind. c. Tomorrow (we/us) raw recruits will have our first on-the-job test. d. When he was twenty-one, he wanted to become a millionaire by the age of the thirty. 11. Joining independent clauses ex. Objectives: Understand idea of style as prescriptive rules and individual voice Identify components of a sentence Identify subjects & verbs so we can later demonstrate that you can choose them well For Tuesday, 9/23 Unit I Clarity & Correctness (Subjects & Verbs) NOTE: PLEASE DO ALL HOMEWORK BEFORE CLASS STARTS. We will no longer take homework done in class. Read SMH5 Ch. 40. Do Ex. 40.2 Keep preparing for exam on 10/2 . . . What do you need to work on most??? Keep checking the site for the practice exam & list of terms . . . Cards Work for more complex structures (don’t be content with the easily scanned simple sentence)! Find sentences that sound good! Side 1 = copy, parse, & classify Side 2 = imitate, parse, & classify Tuesday, Day 6, 9/16/03 In-class 12. Quiz: a. Zinsser: Without looking at your book, pick piece of advice that Z. offers or one issue that he discusses. Be as specific as possible and make clear why the advice seems sound or unsound to you b. In your own words/voice—or using examples—define the following grammatical terms: Coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, correlative conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs, Inversion c. How prepared do you feel for the exam on 10/2? What’s giving you the most grief? 13. Groups: (papers, consent) Need to officially be enrolled in the class (didn’t get to this 14. Sentence Variety: (didn’t get to this) a. Antithesis: “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appaling silence of the good people.” MLK Jr. 15. Exam practice: (a) About football, he never worried. (b) We were all told to go home. We were telling him to come clean. 16. Joining independent clauses ex. 17. Cards—a few, then collect (didn’t get to this) Objectives: Understand idea of style as prescriptive rules and individual voice Identify components of a sentence Identify subjects & verbs so we can later demonstrate that you can choose them well For Thursday, 9/18 Unit I Clarity & Correctness (Subjects & Verbs) NOTE: PLEASE DO ALL HOMEWORK BEFORE CLASS STARTS. We will no longer take homework done in class. Read SMH5 Ch. 39. Do Ex. 39.1 Continue to review Zinsser, Part I, PrinciplesKeep preparing for exam on 10/2 . . . What do you need to work on most??? Cards: Side 1 = copy, parse, & classify Side 2 = imitate, parse, & classify Tuesday, Day 4, 9/9/03 In-class 18. Groups: (papers, consent) Need to officially be enrolled in the class 19. Exam practice 20. Sentence Variety: Inversion: “We did not really expect honesty in a public official”-- “Honesty we did not expect in a public official.” 21. Groups: sentence combining prep. & infinitive phrases. 22. Review SMH5 31.8 exercises 23. Readings: a. Atwood: specialized language b. Zinsser—what interests do they have? c. Strunk & White (history) 24. Cards—a few, then collect Objectives: Understand idea of style as prescriptive rules and individual voice Identify components of a sentence Identify subjects & verbs so we can later demonstrate that you can choose them well For Thursday, 9/11 Unit I Clarity & Correctness (Subjects & Verbs) Read SMH5 pp.616-35. Do Ex. 33.4, 33.5, 33.6 Reading “Thinking about Your Own Use of Verbs” & identify a passage from your own work Start preparing for exam on 10/2 . . . Cards: Side 1 = copy, parse, & classify Side 2 = imitate, parse, & classify Thursday, Day 3, 9/4/03 In-class 25. Collect Consent of Instructor (Written questions & papers) 26. Groups: sentence combining prep. & infinitive phrases. 27. Readings: a. Atwood: specialized language b. Zinsser—what interests do they have? c. Strunk & White (history) 28. Review SMH5 31.7 exercises 29. Cards—a few, then collect Objectives: Understand idea of style as prescriptive rules and individual voice Identify components of a sentence Identify subjects & verbs so we can later demonstrate that you can choose them well For Tuesday, 9/9 Unit I Clarity & Correctness (Subjects & Verbs) Read SMH5 pp.589-591. Do Ex. 31.8 Type (classify) sentences in exercises 31.8 Combine Sentences Cards: Side 1 = copy, parse, & classify Side 2 = imitate, parse, & classify Tuesday, Day 2, 9/2/03 In-class 30. Consent of Instructor (Written questions back; collect papers) 31. Readings (many won’t have read; return to these on Thursday. Have those that have alert others about what to look for, what’s interesting, etc.; review White & Atwood, save Zinsser for Thursday. 32. Typing sentences 33. Review SMH5 31 exercises (1/2) 34. Cards—a few, then collect Objectives: Understand idea of style as prescriptive rules and individual voice Identify components of a sentence Identify subjects & verbs so we can later demonstrate that you can choose them well For Thursday, 9/4 Unit I Clarity & Correctness (Subjects & Verbs) Type (classify) sentences in exercises 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, & 31.7 Review Zinsser: Locate issues/places you want to discuss or highlight. Cards: Side 1 = copy, parse, & classify Side 2 = imitate, parse, & classify Thursday, Day 1, 8/28/03 In-class 35. Review Syllabus 36. Consent of Instructor (Written questions 37. Start work on parsing 38. Group Work (Parse/imitate sentences from Atwood); introductions Objectives: Understand idea of style as prescriptive rules Identify components of a sentence Identify subjects & verbs so we can later demonstrate that you can choose them well