1.  Pick up your English binder.  Turn to “Tracking My Growth in Narrative Writing: W73c.”  Pull up your personal narrative on the laptop.  Good News! 3 rd hour is leading the English binder challenge! Organized and all in place.  6 th – not well organized.  5,6,8,9 – Not all binders put away in the proper place!

2.  Sentence pattern 4 – open with an adverb  An adverb: A word that changes a verb, adjective or another adverb by telling how something is done, when something is done, where something is done, or to what extent something is done.

3.  These adverbs are ALSO transitions! 1. Currently,10. *Sleepily, 2. Immediately, 11. Quickly, 3. Recently, 12. Carefully 4. Gradually, 5. Presently, 6. Simultaneously, 7. Briefly, 8. Finally, 9. Suddenly *Sleepily – may or may not be a transition, but will definitely work for pattern.

4. The dog was catching up. He bit my ankle while I was climbing up the fence. I finally made it out the stranger’s yard. …Finally, I made it out of the stranger’s yard.

5. Where can we add an adverb? I kept getting killed over and over again. I just wanted to throw my control out the window. I was so mad that I quit playing the game. Eventually, I was so mad that I quit playing the game.

6.  Look through your personal narrative and find a sentence that starts with a word ending in “ly.”  If you do not have a sentence starting with an adverb ending in "ly," then edit a sentence to begin with an adverb.  Done with Pattern 4 and your story?  Dialogue!  Hooks! Closings  Go to Weebly and look at more revising ideas.  Final Draft – due Friday

7.  These adverbs are ALSO transitions! 1. Currently,10. *Sleepily, 2. Immediately, 11. Quickly, 3. Recently, 12. Carefully 4. Gradually, 5. Presently, 6. Simultaneously, 7. Briefly, 8. Finally, 9. Suddenly *Sleepily – may or may not be a transition, but will definitely work for pattern.

8.  Planner – CW: Add an adverb; HW – final draft of story due Friday at the end of class.  Put your name on a Post-It. Put your Post-It on the board.  I feel great about my story being done by Friday.  I hope my story will be done by Friday.  Friday? You can’t be serious.  Log off. 9 th hour – put computers away.  Put away binders

9.  Take out a sheet of paper. Write your heading.  Write the title: Social Media Effects  After taking the quiz, write a PARAGRAPH  1 st sentence (topic sentence) – main idea of the article.  Include 3 pieces of evidence from the article.  Include: who, what, where, when, why  Last sentence – closing idea