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Semester Two!

This blog is home base for our course. We will do most of our work in OneNote and Word, but the blog remains  an indispensable resource. Let’s begin by completing a blog AND OneNote scavenger hunt. 

BLOG & OneNote SCAVENGER HUNT

Next, let’s see how many English vocabulary terms you can recall. —>Quizlet

If you don’t have a Quizlet account already, please sign-up for one and join this class.

ALWAYS USE YOUR WBE CREDENTIALS WHEN SIGNING-UP FOR NEW ACCOUNTS. 

Next, I’d like you to sign-up for Hypothesis (or log in if you already have an account). 

Go to Hypothes.is

Click on Get Started.

Then click on Free Account.

Enter your credentials.

Go to your email account and verify.

Log in to Hypothes.is

Install Chrome extension

JOIN the WHS Senior English Group

Now, we are ready to begin our first lesson: Is grammar important?

 

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Unit One: Activity Three

Time to read and conference with JB

Annotate this article. What do you agree with or not? Interact with your classmates thinking. Leave 3 comments and respond to 2 classmates.

“10 grammar rules you can forget: how to stop worrying and write proper”

Then read this perspective: Does Grammar Really Matter?

review some common errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation and think together about what’s of value

WHSENG GROUP

 

review the Common Types of Errors. Highlight the common errors that you often find in your writing and then transfer (or highlight) those errors to your Personal Proofreading Checklist (2D) Personal Proofreading Checklist (3U4U).

Every time you polish a piece of writing for publication, refer to your PPRCL to ensure that you are looking for your writing errors.

identify your own strengths and weaknesses in terms of spelling, grammar, and punctuation

 

Make a meme that displays a grammar/punctuation rule that you think is worth remembering.   Search here for a meme generator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

post the meme on your blog

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Thursday, March 3, 2016

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Today, you will consider the rules of the English Language. The lesson has been shared with you.

  1. Read two articles to extend your background knowledge on the subject;
  2. Post your thinking to your blog;
  3. Comment on at least two of your classmates posts;
  4. Create a grammar meme.

Have fun!

Tomorrow we Hangout with St. Robert Cathoic High School. Please prepare at least one question to answer either to answer yourself or to provide someone else to answer.

Hangout begins at 9:15. Who would like to be our host? How many of you would like to speak on camera?