Agenda

1)Goals
2)News & Portfolio
3)Grammar: Parentheses, Brackets & Ellipses
4)Wild Animals Aren’t Pets [Reason & Evidence]
5)Writing: Compare & Contrast
6)Lions of Little Rock (Chapter 12 - 15)
Goals
Specific | M_______ | Achievable | Rele___ | T________

Grammar corrections
Reading notes
Asking questions
Helping classmates
Grammar
[BRACKETS] (PARENTHESES) & ELLIPSES…
Parentheses add information or clarify an idea.
The colors green and blue seemed perfect.
Brackets help make quoted material more clear.
“Get rid of the expletive deleted contraptions!” said one disgruntled man.

Ellipses help to indicate a pause in dialogue, or omission

“We want to identify downtown parking problems ,” Chairman Joe Buck told the audience.
 Brackets
1Parentheses
1 Ellipses

2 [2]
(3 3
4) [4]
[5] 5
6 [6
(7) 7]
8
9
[10]
11
Wild Animals Aren’t Pets
Fast Five

Reason v.
Evidence
Elizabeth
Sally
What? What? What?
Evidence: Evidence: Evidence:
Why? Why?

Why?
What? What?
Evidence: Evidence:

Why? Why?
Writing Subject-by-Subject
INTRODUCTION
A1 A2 | A1 B1
Point – by – Point
B1 B2 | A2 B2
CONCLUSION
Writing
Lions of Little Rock