Notes from English 7 today in case you were absent.
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September 2014 English
7
1.
Put highlighted text in your binder –
vocabulary section.
Lead (in a news article) – First sentence
in the article. Contains: Who, What,
Where, When
Inverted pyramid – The way information
is arranged in a news article – important facts are at the front of the
article.
Example of lead sentence: Hugh Tran is a foreign exchange student
originally from Vietnam attending St Regis Falls Central School during the
2014-15 school year.
2.
Index card:
Put your name at the top of the card.
Follow up with your first 3 choices of news articles you would like to
write for the class newspaper.
3.
Writer’s notebook: Spend 5 minutes writing what you already know
about your first choice of news articles and what you will need to find
out. Next write the lead sentence to
this news article based on what you already know and the definitions above.
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