1. Hand in “TGT” Body & Gratitude Paragraph
Underline the direct object and circle the indirect object.
They sent our family a holiday card.
Underline the linking verb. Circle the predicate word it’s linking to. Is it linking to a predicate noun or adjective?
Amy looked tired after mowing the lawn.
Underline the helping verb.
Artists are coming to give us a presentation.

2. Review
Action verb
Indirect & direct objects
Linking verbs
Predicate nouns & adjectives
Main verbs & helping verbs
Verb phrase

3. Verb Tenses Present Past Present progressive Past progressive
Perfect present
Perfect past
Future

4. Present tense: an action that happens regularly, a general truth
Present & Past Tense
Present tense: an action that happens regularly, a general truth
The mail arrives at 1:00 P.M.
Past tense: an action that already happened
Yesterday the mail arrived late.

5. Progressive Tense Helping verb + -ing
Present progressive: an action/condition that is continuing in the present
He is going. (singular)
We are going. (plural)
Past progressive: an action/condition that continued for some time in the past
She was exploring. (singular)
We were listening. (plural)

6. Perfect Tense Have/had + verb
Present perfect: action that happened at an indefinite time in the past, a past action that happened in the past and may still be happening
The dogs have barked for hours.
The dogs have been barking all day.
Past perfect: action that happened before another action or event in the past
He had just sat down when the music began.

7. Future Tense
Future: something that will happen in the future, formed by adding the helping verb “will” before the main verb
Joe will play the piano.
Time words: used with present/present progressive to show that an action will happen in the future
EX: soon, next month, tomorrow
Tomorrow we leave for vacation.
Later we are eating dinner.
Future perfect: an action that will happen before another future event begins, formed by adding “will have” before the verb’s past participle.
As of Friday, I will have worked nonstop for a week.

8. Conclusion (4-6 sentences)
(Opposite of introduction)
Re-state your thesis (claim)
“The Giving Tree is a strong/weak character because…”
Re-state the evidence (grounds) used
We examined several moments from the story…
Re-state what this evidence has shown (warrant)
These moments show us that…
Connect your claim to a larger, more general idea

9. Re-state thesis (claim)
The sound of the dead man’s heartbeat in the last scene of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is meant to symbolize the narrator’s conscience.

10. Re-state evidence (grounds)
We examined the moment in the last scene where the sound of the heartbeat lead the narrator to confess to the crime.

11. Re-state what the evidence has shown (warrant)
Since the sound of the heartbeat affected the narrator as a conscience would, pressuring him until he finally did the moral thing and confessed, the heartbeat must symbolize his conscience.

12. Connect your claim to a larger, more general idea
If we all listen to our consciences, like the narrator finally did at the end of the story, we can be sure to do the right thing, even under the worst circumstances.

13. Example Paragraph
The sound of the dead man’s heartbeat in the last scene of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is meant to symbolize the narrator’s conscience. We examined the moment in the last scene where the sound of the heartbeat lead the narrator to confess to the crime. Since the sound of the heartbeat affected the narrator as a conscience would, pressuring him until he finally did the moral thing and confessed, the heartbeat must symbolize his conscience. If we all listen to our consciences, like the narrator finally did at the end of the story, we can be sure to do the right thing, even under the worst circumstances.