CLASS WORK

HOMEWORK

COMMENTS

WK 1

• SYLLABUS

• COMPETENCIES

• purchase and bring all materials to NEXT class

• Essay Exam

• PRACTICE STATE EXAM FORM BD

•  Pencil and Scantron form needed for the test

read ELECTRONIC WRITING

read NARRATIVE  Outlines 

read EXPOSITORY Outlines

read NARRATIVE ESSAYS

read SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY

read and PRINT  OUTLINE FORM

read and PRINT INTRO METHOD

PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS TO IMPROVE THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT UNWILLING TO IMPROVE THEMSELVES; THEREFORE, THEY REMAIN FOREVER BOUND. 

James Allen

WK 2 AND 3

• Exam results returned

• WRITING PROCESS CHART

• EX A: THESIS STATEMENT

• EX B: THESIS STATEMENT
• EX C: THESIS STATEMENT
• INTRO PARAGRAPH ACTIVITY
• THE ESSAY

NO CLASS MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH

read THESIS STATEMENT

exercises MAIN IDEA

HANDOUT

read EXPOSITORY INTRO SAMPLES

read SAMPLE STUDENT INTROS 

READ Blog entry on Sample Intro Paragraphs

READ Blog entry on Thesis Statement

Read Blog entry on Attention Getters

Complete  OUTLINE PRACTICE ACTIVITY (HW1)

Complete  INTRO PARAGRAPH ACTIVITY(HW2) )

Don't underestimate yourself or your possibilities. 

Donald J Trump

WK 4 AND 5

• SENTENCE STRUCTURE REVIEW F1 and I2

• SENTENCE CHART

• RUN-ON CHART

• FRAGMENT CHART

• online review TRANSITIONS

• on line review PARALLELISM 

• practice quiz PARALLELISM

• on line review MODIFIERS

• practice quiz  MODIFIERS

GO TO ROOM 2151 ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 17

GO TO ROOM 3204 -----ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18 AND FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25

read simple, compound and complex 

read coordinating conjunctions

practice quiz coordination

read subordinating conjunctions

practice quiz #1 subordination

practice quiz #2 subordination

practice quiz adverbial conjunctions

practice quiz semicolons

read fragments

practice quiz #1 fragments

practice quiz #2 fragments

practice quiz #3 fragments

practice quiz #4 fragments

read run on and comma splices

practice quiz comma splices

practice quiz #1  run-ons

practice quiz #2  run-ons

practice quiz #3 run-ons

practice quiz #4 run-ons

• Click here to practice more on fragments or comma rules
• Read  and PRINT F1
• Read  I2  Complete SIMPLE, COMPOUND AND COMPLEX ACTIVITY(HW3) 

• Read and participate in the Six Word Short Story

YOU HAVE TO  EXPECT THINGS OF YOURSELF BEFORE YOU CAN DO THEM.    

  Michael Jordan

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. 

Helen Keller

WK 6

• QUIZ #1SENTENCES
• TIMED WRITING #1  directions
• LIBRARY VISIT 11am-11:50am on Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Room 2225. hosted by Deborah Keeler
• QUIZ #1 REVIEWThursday
• Quiz #1 retakes Friday

Read Blog entry Proofreading Backward

It is what you know that is your greatest wealth.  It is what you do not know that is your greatest risk.

 Robert T. Kiyosaki

WK 7

• Review capitalization and comma rules 

• "Mr. Jesus Capo
  Chief Financial Officer
  El Dorado Furniture" Tuesday, October 6^th at 11:15 a.m. Go to Room 2158

•  TIMED WRITING #2   (Thursday) 

review  CAPITALIZATION

practice quiz #1 CAPITALIZATION

practice quiz #2 CAPITALIZATION

practice quiz #3 CAPITALIZATION

practice quiz #4 CAPITALIZATION

exercises/review O1 Comma Rules

review on line COMMA RULES

FAILURE IS THE TUITION  YOU PAY FOR SUCCESS.

Walter Brunell

You have to move to another level of thinking which is true of me and everybody else.  Everybody has to learn to think differently, think bigger, to be open to possibilities.  Oprah Winfrey

WK 8  

• TIMED WRITING #3   (Tuesday) practice quiz  COMMAS
• TIMED WRITING #4 direction (Wednesday)
• Go to room 2147 (Thursday)
• (Friday) Retakes, final assignments for ENC 0020

GRADES on www.mdc.edu

 WK 9

TR meet in regular classroom

Read and PRINT C20

READ  C5 and C29

practice quiz  S/V AGR

practice quiz #2 S/V AGR

practice quiz #3 S/V AGR

practice quiz #4 S/V AGR

practice quiz #5 S/V AGR

practice quiz TENSE SHIFT

practice quiz VERB TENSE

practice quiz PAST PARTICIPLE

practice quiz IRR VERBS

practice quiz #1 IRR VERBS

practice quiz #2 IRR VERBS

practice quiz #3 IRR VERBS

online review S/V AGREEMENT

exercises PREPOSITIONS

online review VERBS

practice quiz PREPOSITIONS

READ AND REVIEW  PREPOSITIONS

Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right. 

Henry Ford    1863-1947

WK 10 AND 11

• VERB  REVIEW C5, C20, C29

• SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT CHART

• IRREGULAR VERB CHART

• REGULAR VERB CHART

Discuss and Prepare Student Presentations: VERBS

• Sample Student Power Point presentation on Tense Shift
• Sample student Power Point presentation on Indefinite Pronouns
• Sample Student Power Point on Prepositional Phrase
• QUIZ #2 VERBS  

HOW TO STUDY HANDOUT

If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your hand. 

Bob Proctor

You can start with nothing and out of nothing and out of no way, a way will be made. 

Michael Bernard Beckwith

WK 12

• Quiz #2 results returned Monday
• Essay Review
• TIMED WRITING #1  Tuesday
• NO CLASS Wednesday
• PRACTICE READING TEST Thursday
• REVIEW OF READING TEST Friday

READ  B1, B2, and B3

READ SAMPLE ESSAYS

There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise.

 Donald J. Trump

There are many definitions for intelligence. One of the more practical ones I learned from my rich dad is intelligence is the ability to solve problems.  

   Robert T. Kiyosaki

WK 13

• TIMED WRITING #2

• TIMED WRITING #3   

online review NOUN PLURALS

review PRONOUN AGREEMENT

review PRONOUN SHIFT

review PRONOUN CASE

review PRONOUNS GENERAL INFO

practice quiz#1 PRONOUNS

practice quiz #2 PRONOUNS

practice quiz PRONOUNS

IF YOU CAN TELL ME WHO YOUR HEROES ARE, I CAN TELL YOU HOW YOU'RE GOING TO TURN OUT IN LIFE. 

Warren Buffet

WK 14

• TIMED WRITING #4 
• TIMED WRITING #5   

NO CLASS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26TH AND 27TH

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought. 

Lin Yutang

WK 15 AND 16

• WRITING STATE EXAM DECEMBER 1, TUESDAY

• PRONOUN REVIEW B1, B2, and B3

• pronoun shift

• pronouns agreement

• vague pronoun reference

• QUIZ #3 PRONOUNS

STATE GRAMMAR EXAM (this site offers an analysis and review of questions) 

Take an online practice test from Valencia Community College

• practice quiz CONFUSED WORDS

• practice quiz #1 WORDS

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. 

  Amy Tan

EXAM WEEK

GRAMMAR STATE EXAM  

Grades on college site www.mdc.edu

Best Wishes to you all.............MC

SO INNER HAPPINESS ACTUALLY IS THE FUEL OF SUCCESS.

John Hagelin  TP/TP