The document outlines an English writing class agenda, including a vocabulary activity, a time management presentation, and a lesson on using appositives and anecdotes in concept essays. Students will work on revising an essay outline and practicing a paragraph in class. The homework includes finishing a concept essay outline, finding examples in assigned reading, and studying vocabulary words.

1. CLASS 10
EWRT 1A

2. AGENDA
 Presentation: Vocabulary (14-18)
 Vocabulary: Group Challenge (1-18)
 Success Strategy: Time Management
 Presentation:
 Appositives: Explaining the concept 178-79
 Anecdotes
 Discussion:
 Reviewing The Focus
 Reviewing the Basic Features
 Reviewing the outline
 In-Class Writing: Revise outline and practice paragraph

3. The Game
• With your group, discuss the words on the next slide
for five or so minutes and prepare to compete
• Each team will send one member to the board in
rotation.
• I will read a definition
• The first team member to write the correct definition
on the board scores a point for their team.
• The team with the highest score at the end of the
game earns not only the glory of winning but also
five extra participation points.

6. College Success Strategy:
Time Management
• Build a weekly schedule
• Class time
• Work time
• Homework
• Sleep
• Commuting
• Time to eat (three meals/day)
• Exercise
• Socialize
• Relax

7. Writing
Appositives: A sentence
strategy

8. A Sentence Strategy: Appositives
177-79
 An appositive is a noun or pronoun that, along with modifiers,
gives more information about another noun or pronoun. Here
is an example from Ngo’s concept essay (the appositive is in
red italics and the noun it refers to is underlined):
Cannibalism, the act of human beings eating human
flesh(Sagan 2), has a long history and continues to hold
interest and create controversy. (Ngo paragraph 5)

9. By placing the definition in an appositive phrase
right after the word it defines, this sentence locates
the definition exactly where readers need it. Writers
explaining concepts rely on appositives because
they serve many different purposes needed in
concept essays, as the following examples
demonstrate. (Again, the appositive is in red italics
and the noun it refers to is underlined.)
Defining a New Term
 Some researchers believe hyperthymics may be at
increased risk of depression or hypomania, a mild
variant of mania (Friedman, Paragraph 5).
 Cannibalism can be broken down into two main
categories: exocannibalism, the eating of outsiders
of foreigners, and endocannibalism, the eating of
members of one’s own social group (Shipman 70).
(Ngo paragraph, 6)

10. Each person carries in his or her mind a
unique subliminal guide to the ideal
partner, a “love map.” (Toufexis,
paragraph 17)
Introducing a New Term
“Love is a natural high,” observes Anthony Walsh,
author of The Science of Love: Understanding Love
and Its Effects on Mind and Body. (Toufexis,
paragraph 10)
Giving Credentials of Experts

11. Identifying People and Things
When I was in high school I read the Robert
Browning Poem ‘My Last Duchess.’ In it, the narrator
said he killed is wife, the duchess, because . .
.(Friedman, Paragraph 2).
Giving Examples or Specifics
Some 2,400 years ago, Hippocrates proposed that
a mixture of four basic humors—blood, phlegm,
yellow bile, and black bile—determined human
temperament…(Friedman, paragraph 6).

12. Practice writing appositives:
Try to write five good
sentences
1. _______________
2. _______________
3. _______________
4. _______________
5. _______________

13. Anecdotes

14. Extended Anecdote

15. Short Anecdotes
 [S]ome South American tribes kill their victims to
be served as part of funeral rituals, with human
sacrifices denoting that the deceased was held
in high honor.
 Unlike the Bangalas, however, the Indians
sacrifice only one victim instead of many in a
single ritual.

16. Brainstorming
Write down some ideas for what
kind of extended anecdote you
might include in your essay
introduction.
Write down two or three short
anecdotes you might use to
support your body paragraphs.

17. Do you have a
plan to focus
your essay?
Take a look at what you have so
far: do you have a Concept? A
Definition? A focus for your
concept? Categories? Types?

18. Remember, choose your concept, and then limit it. For example, if
you are writing your essay about the concept of games, focus on
one kind of game, like playground games.
Then split your limited concept into two or three categories: Using
the games example, we might say games with a ball and games
without a ball.
Then identify two or three types that fall under each of the
categories. For example, you might use kids games with a ball,
teenager’s games with a ball, and adult games with a ball. You
could use the same three type for “games without a ball.”
Focusing your Concept

19. Concept: Games
Limiter: Playground Games
Category 1:
Games with a ball
Types
 Kids’ games with a ball
 Teenagers’ games with a
ball
 Adults’ games with a ball.
Category 2:
Games without a ball
Types
 Kids’ games without a ball
 Teenagers’ games without
a ball
 Adults’ games without a
ball.

20. Then provide an example of each kind.
.
Find examples of each type:
Games: Playground games:
With a ball (kids, teens, adults);
Without a ball (kids, teens, adults)
 a kids game played with a
ball (kick ball; four square;
tether ball)
 a teen game played with a
ball (basketball, soccer,
baseball or fast pitch)
 and an adult game with a
ball (slo-pitch or lawn
bowling).
 a kids game played
without a ball (tag, hide
and go seek)
 a teen game played
without a ball (kick the
can, red rover)
 an adult game played
without a ball (cribbage,
chess, checkers at the
park)

21. Concept Essay: Basic Features
 A Focused Explanation
 Effective writers narrow the general concept, providing an explanation that is
focused on an aspect of the concept likely to be of interest to readers.
 A Readable plan
 divides the information into clearly distinguishable topics
 forecasts the topics
 presents the topics in a logical order
 gives readers cues or road signs to guide them, such as topic sentences,
transitions, and summaries
 Appropriate Explanatory Strategies

22. Tips for writing your essay
 Begin with a long anecdote to draw the reader into your essay.
 Write a thesis that includes all of the categories you will discuss.
 Use examples and definitions to make your point.
 Use appositives to describe nouns and eliminate wordiness.
 Take a look at what you have so far: do you have a Concept? A
Definition? A focus for your concept? Categories? Types?
 Consider how long you need to write a paragraph in class; will
you have enough time to write your introduction, extended
anecdote, a paragraph about each of your categories and
types, and a conclusion?

23. Work on your outline for the
in-class essay at our next
meeting
Introduction
Extended Anecdote
Thesis
 Category 1
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Category 2
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Repeat if Necessary
Conclusion

24. Homework
 Read: HG through chapter 24
Post #9: Finish and post your in-class writing: Focused concept, thesis,
anecdotes, and outline
Find three more examples of your concept in HG. Endeavor to find
examples to represent your classifications or categories.
 Study: Vocab (1-18)
 Bring: A one page outline for your in-class essay, a Blue Book,
pen or pencil, and paper.