Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Period 6 persuasive thesis statements

Directions:
1. Read the example thesis statements
2. Read the thesis statements that need corrections
3. Pick two thesis statements to correct
4. Reply to my post with the original thesis statements and their corrections
*Please explain your thought process for making the corrections.

+10 pts

Examples:

Cell phones should be banned from school campuses.

Cell phones should be allowed at school, but they shouldn’t be used in class.

Cell phone devices should be allowed at school.

Students should be able to use cell phones on campus.

At Gunderson High School, the use of cell phones should be banned.

Gunderson High School should eliminate prohibit the use of cell phones on campus during school hours.


Correct:

Cell phones should be allowed on campus and they are not used during class.

Gunderson should not let their students use their cell phones during school.

Gunderson should keep cell phones.

We should be able to use cell phones during lunch.

We should be able to use cell phones during lunch and passing periods.

Cell phones should not be allowed in school campus.

Cell phones should be allowed on school campus during lunchtime.

Although there is an equal amount of for or against reasons, a good amount including myself would say no to cell phones on school campus.

Yes for emergencies.

Yes so students could call parents after school.

No causes distractions in class.

Period 5 persuasive thesis statements

Directions:
1. Read the example thesis statements
2. Read the thesis statements that need corrections
3. Pick two thesis statements to correct
4. Reply to my post with the original thesis statements and their corrections
*Please explain your thought process for making the corrections.

+10 pts

Examples:

Cell phones should be allowed in school.

Cell phones shouldn’t be allowed on campus.

Cell phones should be banned from all school campuses.

Correct:

Students should not use cellphone on campus.

Cellphones are allowed in school.

This topic has been an argue for long time ago, and they had accept them, but they should be removed from class.

Cellphones should be allowed in school campus for emergency only.

Cell phones should be on campus.

Cell phones should be allowed to use in school campuses.

Is a good thing because phones aren’t always just used for phone calls but for “sexting.” Which a lot students do it’s a big distraction & bad.

Many schools don’t want students to have phones.

Its not a good idea to not let students have their cell phones on campus.

Cell phones on campus should be allowed but only students should have it only we they have an emergency or may leave school for an emergency.

During our passing periods and lunch is our free time out of class. We should be able to use or cell phones.

Teachers should be allowed student to use cell phone on campus.


Mr. D.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

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9-8-09 HW Q's from Beowulf Part I Notes

Please post any questions that you have from the reading Pp. 21-28 on your blog.
Your post may include sidebar questions that you were unable to answer or are unsure about.
You can also include any other questions/misunderstanding that may be in your notes.

Beowulf Part I Vocab.

Please post the five unknown/difficult vocabulary words that you identified from Beowulf Part I.
Include the page number and line number.

Authentic Sentence Structure/Grammar Errors

Please reply with one sentence from another student's essay that seems to contain errors. You don't have to be able to identify the errors or be able to fix them, although you can try if you like.
*Also please include the sentence before and after the sentence that contains errors. Make the sentence with errors bold.

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