2016-07-21 Writing: adding descriptive details

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: read the paragraph on p. 111 and answer the questions below.
	also do p. 112 part A
p. 111
1 positive - “beautiful”, “spacious”, “modern”, “comfortable”
			(“comfortable” is pronounced like “comfterble”)
2 front to back
3 1 the front wall of the lecture hall - screen, whiteboard, clock, light switches, two armchairs
  2 the front (part) of the lecture hall - desk (overhead projector and computer), lectern
  3 the main part of the lecture hall - 30 rows of seats for students (details about the seats)

Title: The New Lecture Hall
Topic sentence: Our community college’s...comfortable.
A  The front wall
	1  screen
	2  whiteboard
	3  clock
	4  light switches
	5  chairs
B  The front of the hall
	1  desk
		a  projector
		b  computer
	2  lectern
C  The main part of the hall
	1  30 rows of seats
		a  description of seats
		b  folding tabletops
		c  space between rows
Concluding sentence: To sum up, our new...learn.

p. 112
1 on
2 behind
3 to the left of
4 underneath
5 against
6 at the front of
7 to the right of
8 in front of
9 on the left of
10 between

“hall” can be a very large room, or a corridor
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p. 113
Topic sentences include a topic and a controlling idea.
“Our community college’s beautiful new lecture hall is spacious, modern, and comfortable.”
topic: our community college’s beautiful new lecture hall (what is the paragraph about?)
controlling idea: is spacious, modern, and comfortable (what does it say about that topic?)

Then you need to add specific details to support the controlling idea.
p. 115 - With your partner, add specific details to each of these descriptions (to give me an idea of what it really looks like).
1 Don’t tell me he’s large, show me that he’s large.
2 Don’t tell me it’s beautiful, show me that it’s beautiful.
etc.
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Homework: add details to the two descriptions on p. 116