2.
Vocabulary Quiz #2 (5-9)
The Hunger Games
In-Class Writing: Temporal
Transitions and Verb Tenses
AGENDA
3.
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.
6. 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.
7. 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 narrative
Covers 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
8. 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.
9.
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.
10.
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.
11.
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
