Monday, August 4

ALL GROUPS

Complete your Pages project and be ready to hand it on in class on Tuesday.

Friday, August 1st

All projects due Tuesday in class. 

Group 1

-Finish adding your FANBOYS (coordinating conjunctions) to your project. 

-Make your project perfect. 

-Add photos if you like, but make sure every photo has at least one sentence. 

Group 2

-Finish adding your WABBITS (subordinating conjunctions) to your project. 

-Make your project perfect. 

-If you add pages, make sure each page has at least 2 paragraphs with photos. 

Group 3

-Finish your personal projects (written by me in red, purple, and black ink on your paper).

-Make your project perfect.

-If you add pages, make sure each page has at least 2 paragraphs with photos. 

Friday, August 1st

HOMEWORK

Group 1:

• Insert all 7 of the coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) into your Pages project.
• Check your project for capital letters, spacing, and commas and periods.
• Add any final photos and text that you want.
• Make any finishing touches so you can hand in your project on Tuesday.

Group 2:

• Insert 5 subordinating conjunctions at the beginning of sentences and note them on your paper.
• Inset 5 subordinating conjunctions in the middle of sentences and note them on your paper.
• Check your project for verb tenses (past vs. present), spacing, coordinating conjunctions, commas and periods. 
• Add any final photos and text that you want. 
• Make any finishing touches so you can hand in your project on Tuesday.

Group 3:

• Have completed your paper and project including the 7 coordinating conjunctions, the 10 subordinating conjunctions, and the 5 transitions.
• Have addressed the individual homework that I assigned you and wrote in red on your paper.
• Add any final photos and text that you want. 
• Make any finishing touches so you can hand in your project on Tuesday.

Thursday, July 31st

Transitions in Comedy
Transitions in writing
Transitions List

HOMEWORK

Groups 1, 2, 3

• Take and add photos of our trip to the Santa Cruz Mission and the Boardwalk.

Wednesday, July 30th

HOMEWORK

Group 1, 2, 3

• Work on your Pages so that you are proud of your result next Tuesday.

Tuesday, July 29th

HOMEWORK

Group 1

• Add at least 1 page with at least 4 photos

Group 2

• Add at least 1 page with at least 4 photos and 1 paragraph

Group 3

• Add at least 1 page with at least 4 photos and 1 paragraph

Wednesday, July 23rd

HOMEWORK

Group 1

• Add at least 2 pages with at least 6 photos and 5 sentences about our San Francisco trip.

Group 2

• Add at least 2 pages with at least 6 photos and 2 paragraphs about our San Francisco trip.

Group3

• Add at least 2 pages with at least 6 photos and 3 paragraphs about our San Francisco trip.

IDEAS FOR WRITING:

• CHINATOWN: What was Chinatown like?  Did it look like your home town?  What is different and similar?  What did the air smell like?  Describe the people you saw.  Did you buy anything?  Why?
• CHINATOWN: Why do you think people built and live in Chinatown?  If you were to move to a new country, would you move to a place with many people from your home country?  Or would you move to where a mix of people live?  Why?  What are the advantages of each?
• FOOD: Where did we go to eat?  What did you have?  How did it taste?  How does it compare to other food you have eaten so far at the MVCS cafeteria or other restaurants?
• THE SYMPHONY: What did you think of the symphony?  Did you recognized any songs?  What was your favorite part of the symphony?  Would you go again to the same performance or to a different one?  Why?  Would you like to play in a symphony one day?  Which instrument would you play and what type of music?
• THE TROLLEY TOUR: What was riding on the trolley like?  Have you ever ridden on a trolley before?  What did you see?  Was the San Francisco Bridge like you have seen it in photos?  How was the weather?  What could you see from the bridge?
• THE CARTOON MUSEUM: What did you see at the cartoon museum?  What was the most interesting part?  What did you do there?  Would you like to go to school to learn how to draw cartoons?  Why?  Would you like to be a cartoonist someday?  What would you draw and write about?
• ICESKATING:  Did you also go ice-skating?  How was that experience compared to rollerskating?  Which one is easier?  Did you fall or hurt yourself?  Give details.
• SHOPPING:  Did you go shopping at Union Square, Chinatown, or in the mall?  Is shopping in the U.S. similar to shopping where you are from?  Can you compare and contrast them?  What did you buy?  Who is it for?  What did it look like?