November 4, 2016 -- Friday

On the board
1. spelling hell (plurals)  -- circle or highlight new information
2. B. the G.  Ch 5 -- Patterns of organization (see handout)
3. "Process"

[Circle or highlight any information that is new to you!]          NEIU 097-6    Nov. 4, 2016

Spelling hell: have fun (or not)

No wonder the English language is so very difficult to learn.
I sometimes wonder how we manage to communicate at all!

We’ll begin with a box and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.

The one fowl is a goose but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may found a lone mouse or a whole set of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?

If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why should not the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural wouldn’t be hose.
And the plural of cat is cats and not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say Mother, we never say Methren,

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim,

So English, I fancy you will all agree,
Is the funniest language you ever did see.

Two examples of strange plurals/conjugations

mouse          mice                          mouses
                    (animal)                     (technological item)

fly                flew                           flied (out)
                    (birds and planes)      (baseball player)

READ 097-6      November 4, 2016      Friday   Handout

(Some)  Patterns of Organization   Chapter 5

1. simple listing    page 220

2. definition   page 221

3. time order/sequence/narration  page 222

4. comparison,  comparison and contrast   page 223

5. cause and effect   page  224

6. classification   page 225

7. addition   page 225

8.  summary   page  226

9. location and spatial order   page 226

10. generalization and example  page 227

11.  mixed  (omg)  page  233

page 228 -- patterns of organization and signal words

exercise 5.3 on page  229

Upcoming in-class writing

Process writing, using transition words for time/narration and cause-effect -- possible (appropriate) topics

how to buy a car

how to bake a cake

how to vote in a national election

how to change the oil in a car

how to tie a show

how to play water polo (maybe not...too complex)

how to properly wash dishes

Process topic must have a CLEAR beginning

CLEAR steps, in (time) sequence

cause and effect

CLEAR ending

There will be an in-class writing assignment on Monday, process topic to be announced.  You will need to include certain words, and underline them.  You will need to use paragraphs and leave spaces between lines.  You will  write on the paper supplied to you in class.  This assignment will take the entire period and will end when the class ends.  Your writing assignment will be handed in at the end of the class.

Homework:

Reread chapter 5 of B. the G., focusing on transition vocabulary