Week 3: Class 13

EWRT 1A

Vocabulary Quiz #2 (5-9) The Hunger Games In-Class Writing: Temporal

Transitions and Verb Tenses

AGENDA

QUIZ

The quiz covers the words from Chapters 5-9. You will have 15 minutes to complete the quiz. Vocabulary quizzes are worth 125 points of

your grade. There will be 5 vocabulary quizzes.

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games: Quiz Time! First players to the board

A Well-Told Story

A Sentence Strategy: Time Transitions and Verb Tenses

As you draft a remembered event essay, you will be trying to help readers follow the sequence of actions in time. To prevent readers from becoming confused about the chronology, writers use a combination of time transitions and verb tenses to help readers understand when the event occurred and when particular actions occurred in relation to other actions.

occurred when she went to the mall for “a day of last-minute Christmas sopping.” Early in her essay, Dillard identifies when the event took place: “On one weekday morning after Christmas . . .” (par. 3). You can also use calendar time to establish the time the event began; if your narrativeCovers several days, you might readers a series of time cues throughout the essay so we can easily follow the progression: “A year before his death”; “That August, I had turned 22”; and so on.

Cite calendar or clock time to establish when the event took place and to help readers follow the action over time. Writers often situate the event in terms of the date or time. Brandt, for example, establishes in the opening paragraph that the event

Use temporal transitions combined with appropriate verb tenses to help readers follow a sequence of actions. Writers can employ temporal transitions such as after, before, in the meantime, and simultaneously to help readers keep track of the sequence of actions:When I got back to the Snoopy section, I took one look at the lines. . . . (Brandt, par. 3)

In this example, when signals that one action followed another in time: Brandt did not take a look at the lines until she got back to the Snoopy section.

Here’s another example of a simple one-thing-and-then-another time progression: We all spread out,

banged together some regular snowballs, took aim, and, when the Buick drew nigh, fired. (Dillard, par. 7)

In this example, the word when together with a series of simple past-tense verbs indicates that a sequence of actions took place in a straightforward chronological order: they took their positions, made snowballs, aimed, the Buick came near, they threw their snowballs.

Some Temporal Transitions

After, afterward, before, then, once, next, last, at last, at length, first, second, etc., at first, formerly, rarely, usually, another, finally, soon, meanwhile, at the same time, for a minute, hour, day, etc., during the morning, day, week, etc., most important, later, ordinarily, to begin with, afterwards, generally, in order to, subsequently, previously, in the meantime, immediately, eventually, concurrently, simultaneously.

Read: Catch up on HG (You should be

through chapter 12.) Post #15: Write or revise a section of

your essay (likely the exposition where you explain the situation), working in clear temporal indicators of the series of events.

HOMEWORK