Wednesday, March 5, 2014

AM 130 HOMEWORK

Finish Use of English 1-7 Suffixes

and do last night's homework as well

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

AM 130 HOMEWORK

Writing 1-2 Linking Devices Part 2

AND

Two example sentences for each of the seven categories of linking devices:

Contrast
Cause/Effect
Time/Sequence
Purpose
Addition
Example
Condition

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

HOMEWORK

Finish Use of English 11-5 Part 3 and 4

AND

Finish the sample sentences for the exercise we started in class on Friday on Formal Relative Clauses
A Good Summary

- is clear to someone who has not read the original material.

- maintains good paragraph structure, with a topic sentence identifying the title/author of the original.

- gives only the main ideas of the original.  Omit unnecessary details, dates, figures, etc. unless essential

- paraphrases, with no direct quotes from the original.

- is concise, not wordy.

- follows the same order as the original when possible.

- is objective.

Monday, February 24, 2014

130 AM HOMEWORK

Do some online research on the origins of the following customs for discussion in tomorrow's class:

Christmas Trees
Easter Bunny

AND

Use of English 11-5 Vocabulary Focus

Part 1 and 2
130 AM Essay

Why do we follow fashion?

Thursday, February 20, 2014

PM1

If art is a minority interest, should the government be spending money to support artists, museums, performance, etc, or should the money be spent on more important things?