After completing our vocab quiz - which will need to be made up by absentees this week - you wrote down the next 10 words, which we will commence on Friday's class. Then, we finished up our definitions for the grammar prep.
Returning from lunch, we spent some quality time with your descriptive essays. First, the addition of specific, mature active verbs aids the level of diction every time. Removing "to be" verbs, familiar ones (uses, says), and redundant choices creates a better presentation for your writing. Second, eradicate the usage of second person from your formal essays. Third, formal writing requires full words, so spell out those contractions! After two rounds of conferences, we spent the last ten minutes reviewing capitalization rules.
Do not forget your deadline for the descriptive essay is 3:30 p.m. on Friday in hard copy!
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