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- Greg Malivuk
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- Goals for Today:
- Learn the pre-writing technique of clustering.
- Review vocabulary to describe job skills.
- Create a cluster of ideas related to a particular job.
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- pre-writing = things that you do before writing your first draft
- brainstorm = list or say every idea you can think of related to some topic
- clustering = a pre-writing technique that includes brainstorming and some relationships between ideas.
- http://i.imgur.com/xK8Bg6r.png - image of the “good teacher” cluster
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- Traits and skills that help with jobs:
- creative / creativity
- dedicated / dedication
- dependable / dependability
- enthusiastic / enthusiasm
- friendly / friendliness
- intelligent / intelligence
- knowledgeable / knowledge
- organized / organization
- patient / patience
- self-confident / self-confidence
- A teacher should be patient. (adjective)
- A teacher should have patience. (noun)
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- https://books.google.com/ngrams/ - to check how common words or phrases are in English books
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- other phrases to describe skills:
- can give clear instructions
- can manage people well
- has good communication skills
- is a good public speaker
- is good at math
- is willing to work hard
- likes traveling
- works well with children
- works well with coworkers
- writes well
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- Use the above words or you own ideas to create a cluster for a different job that you know about. Add details to the important qualities and cross out any that you don’t think are so important. (You should have 3-4 main ideas at the end.)
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- Homework: finish your cluster if you didn’t in class
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