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=(20 minutes) Bell Ringer: Complex Sentences=



=(10 minutes) Read Aloud=

=(15 minutes) Mini-Lesson: Writing Workshop= = =

Commentary Drifts from or Contradicts Claim
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 * 1) Discuss sample chunks that get off topic and drift. [Refer to hand-out given in last lesson: Give hand-out from Jane Schafer's //Multi-paragraph Essay:// "Common Commentary Mistakes" //(pp. 63-64)]//

=(10 minutes) Guided Practice= ==
 * 1) Working with your group, revise the commentary to make it stronger.
 * As role models, celebrities have a responsibility to be public servants. Billy Butler, for example, uses his prestige and pro baseball salary to support Kansas City food pantries that help feed thousands every year. Using one's fame to help others is good. Not every helps others. ||

=(10 minutes) Quick Assessment=
 * The commentary in the chunk below needs revising because it is generic or drifts from topic sentence.
 * Rewrite the two (2) commentary sentences to improve the chunk.
 * Make one of your sentences a __complex sentence__.


 * Most Americans need to look beyond themselves and do more to help the less fortunate in their own communities. Most of us have a few spare cans of food in our pantries. That could help someone a lot. Some people do enough to help the poor. ||

=(20 minutes) Independent Reading=
 * In your reading today, find either a complex sentence or a compound sentence.
 * Write your sentence on a sentence strip. Circle the conjunction (in a compound sentence) or the subordinator (in a complex sentence).

=(5 minutes) Share Time=
 * Share your sentence with a partner.
 * Is it really the kind of sentence you thought?
 * How do you know?
 * Did you circle the coordinator or subordinator?
 * Add your sentence strip to our wall chart. Don't forget to write your name on the sentence!