Begin Informative Essay

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to decide on the focus for our informative essay

Reading: Your next book review will be on March 2nd.

Agenda:

1. Install the Easybib addon for Google Docs
2. Learn one new sentence type.
1. You can join sentences using a semi-colon
1. This car looks as if it has been wrecked; therefore it's not a good buy.
2. Here is a new semi-colon pattern you may not know.
1. Bill played a musical number; Joan, Beethoven.
2. The mother and child each had a goal; hers, educational; his, recreational.
3. For many of us, the new math teacher was a savior; for others a pain.
4. His mother told him to rent a car; his sister, to pack the suitcases.
3. Start your informative essay.
1. We will decide what to focus on for this essay.
2. We will write the introduction and the first body paragraph.

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 50% due next Monday.