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Success Spiral

Wednesday November 28

Wednesday November 27, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 51st period: Work through the question.

Wednesday November 27, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 52nd period: Go over the work you did during first and discuss answers and strategies.

First, let’s read sentences 13 and 14 in the original.


This time, let’s read all of the answer choices because they are all so similar.


What do you notice about choice A?It combines the sentences with the help of “which meant”.There is nothing incorrect about this choice, so we have to determine if it is the best choice.“Which meant” could imply that less important information follows.


What do you notice about choice B?It combines the sentences with the help of “and”.The “and” has a comma right before it, so the sentence is punctuated correctly.“And” doesn’t show any particular relationship between the two parts of the sentence. “And” isn’t adding much meaning, but it also isn’t wrong.


What do you notice about choice C?ERROR!! This puts “we got up in the morning” BEFORE “he tended the fire” which is the wrong sequence of events. We mean to say, “when we got up we could have hot rice,” not “when we got up, he tended the fire.”


What do you notice about choice D?It combines the sentences with the help of “so that”.“So that” indicates a reason for him tending the fire (in order that we could have our hot rice). Using “so that” provides a piece of useful information. It also adds clarity.


“Which meant” didn’t contribute the same meaning. “Which meant” indicates that the two happened to coincide, not that he did it for the purpose of us having our hot rice,so D is better than A.


Is B better than D?“So that” definitely provides more meaning than “and”. “So that” indicates the purpose of him tending the fire, while “and” indicates that “he tended the fire” and “we could have our bowl” happen to both be the case.D wins!

Wednesday November 27, “"My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 6 3rd period: Work through the question.

Wednesday November 27, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 6 4th period: Go over the work you did during 3rd and discuss answers.

First, let’s read sentences 18-20 in the original.


Read answer choice A.ERROR!!! There are 2 commas missing!!!Remember, the word “and” by itself is NOT ENOUGH to correctly separate two complete sentences, and neither is the word “so”!A is a run-on!

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Read answer choice B.This one starts with “since,” uses correct punctuation, and eliminates a redundancy (“He made it”). I like it. Let’s read the other two choices in case there is something even better.

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Read answer choice C.C misplaces the phrase “Making it from wood and banana leaves” by putting it right before “we”. This placement indicates that we were the ones “making it”, which isn’t what we’re trying to say. We want to say grandfather is the one making it.

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Read answer choice D.D misplaces the phrase “from wood and banana leaves” by putting it right before “outside”. This placement is confusing and awkward. We want to say the bathroom is made from wood and banana leaves.And the winner is…

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Wednesday November 27, “My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 7 5th period: Work through the question.

Wednesday November 27, “"My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 7 6th period: Go over the work you did during 5th

Copy down the following strategy:Strategy 6: Read Aloud. Listen for pauses indicating punctuation missing, grammar errors, wordiness, and awkwardness.


Try reading the original sentence aloud.


Now read sentence 10 again with each answer choice plugged in. Not good. Changing lit to was lighting changes the tense in the middle of the sentence. You can’t change one verb and not the others.

was lighting


Now read sentence 10 again with each answer choice plugged in. Not good. Changing placed to was placed changes the tense in the middle of the sentence. You can’t change one verb and not the others.

was placed


Now read sentence 10 again with each answer choice plugged in. Not good. Changing called to calling changes the tense in the middle of the sentence. You can’t change one verb and not the others.

calling


That leaves us with the original. It’s a keeper!

Wednesday November 27 "My Hero" Lesson 317th period: question # 8


Try reading the original sentence aloud.


seems

Now read sentence 15 again with each answer choice plugged in. Not good. Changing seemed to seems changes the tense in the middle of the sentence. You can’t change one verb and not the others.


sitting

Now read sentence 15 again with each answer choice plugged in. Not good. Changing sit to sitting changes the tense in the middle of the sentence. You can’t change one verb and not the others.


Now read sentence 15 again with each answer choice plugged in. Not good. Changing worked to working changes the tense in the middle of the sentence. You can’t change one verb and not the others.

working

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