Thursday, September 8

Announcements

• The book we will use in class is the third edition of Writing Clearly by Janet Lane and Ellen Lange. We will begin using the book on Monday, September 19.

Classwork

• Read classmates' get-to-know-you paragraphs and guessed who wrote each one.
• Discussed subjects and predicates, and the possible words and phrases that can be found in the subject slot of a sentence. (See white handout.)
• Finished the error correction diagnostic.

Homework

• In Part 1 on page 2 of the handout, underline the subject and identify the pattern for the first 10 sentences.