1. Youtube Tuesday!!! #LTD
Is High School really all that bad? wlQ
What is greatness? 3E

2. Re-Opener: Comma Rules!!
Please fix the sentences at the top of the page, based on the comma rules sheet.
Some may need other forms of punctuation added…some may be correct!!

3. News…… Large Quiz Friday: The following will be on the quiz:
1. Core standards work (read standard, decide the strand)
2. Terms (expository text, narrative text, genre)
3. Expository text reading strategies (ABK, Previewing, Comprehension)
4. Topic sentence (term: thesis statement)
5. Fact/Opinion/Expert Opinion
6. Style/Tone (All terms/vocabulary associated with them – subjective, objective, formal, informal, conventions)
7. Expository paragraphs: Organizational patterns

4. Today’s Objectives
Identify and describe the following organizational patterns of expository writing:
1)cause-effect;
2)compare-contrast;
3)definition/description
4)categorization/classification;
5)sequence-includes chronology, process, listing, etc.; 6)problem-solution
Explain and utilize four major comma rules.

5. Review of previous concepts
Genre (definition and examples)
Expository text (definitions and examples)
Expository text features (four)
Previewing strategies, activating background knowledge, comprehension strategies
Topic sentences
Statements of fact, opinion, and expert opinion
Style vs. Tone
Today……

6. Expository Paragraph Organizational Patterns
Definition (Description)
Chronology (Sequence)
Process (Sequence)
Cause and Effect
Classification
Compare and Contrast
GROUP WORK: Match the description of each expository organizational pattern to the correct graphic organizer and example. Then, in your learning log, briefly summarize the pattern and copy it’s organizational chart.

7. You will want this chart in your notes.
Definition (Description)
Chronology (sequence)
Process (sequence)
Cause and effect
Classification
Compare and Contrast

8. Group work in Mr. Fielder’s class
Quiet
Focused
Shared responsibilities
No “sub-groups”
At least quietly watching/listening/writing notes.

9. Closure: Skill Application
Based on the topic sentence, what is the organizational pattern?
The Enlightenment celebrated the power of reason; however, an opposite reaction, Romanticism, soon followed.
The GNP (gross national product) is an economic measure that considers the total value of goods and services that a country produces during a given year.
Large numbers of European immigrants first began to arrive in the United States in the 1920’s.