HOW SUPPORTING ELLS IN FYC IS ORGANIZED
This section provides a grammar focus activity taken from the module's essay and engages students in recognizing and correcting grammatical errors. This section provides a set of target vocabulary associated with the module's essay and asks students to apply structural analysis skills.
LEARNING HOW TO TAKE NOTES
IDENTIFY YOUR BEST NOTE-TAKING SYSTEM
DISCUSSION: What are notes good for?
What methods do you use when note-taking? If none what do you use to help you understand your notes?
What is the most challenging thing about note- taking?
What would you like to improve?
INTRODUCTION TO NOTE-TAKING
How Should You Take Notes?
Make your notes work for you by identifying what you need from them ahead of time. If you focus on capturing every detail, you might miss the big picture.
Watch: The Key to Good Notes
In general, good notes aren't necessarily very detailed or very short - the important thing to remember is that good notes are.
CORNELL METHOD
QEC METHOD
CHARTING METHOD
OUTLINE METHOD
Try It: Using the Outline Method
NARRATIVE: I WENT FROM
- Understanding Academic Writing Assignments
- Read and understand college-level texts
- Develop Sophisticated Grammatical Structures
- Develop Fluency with Academic Vocabulary
- Strategies for Using Evidence in Academic Writing
Vocabulary preview: A list of challenging words and phrases from the text is specified so that students can gain vocabulary knowledge before reading the article. Reading Process Activity: This activity guides students through the reading process – previewing the article, actively reading and commenting on the text, and thinking about the meaning of the text and the reading.
PRISON TO PROFESSOR
Vocabulary Preview for “I Went from Prison to
Professor”
The part of the word according to how it is used in the article "I went from prison to professor". The sentence where the word is used in the article "I went from prison to professor".
Reading Process Activity for “I Went from Prison to
What predictions and questions do you have based on paragraphs 1 and 7. Write your predictions and questions in the margin of the article. Jot down your ideas and questions in the margin next to each section of the article.
I Went from Prison to Professor
And less than 3 percent of people released from prison each year have college degrees, compared to 40 percent of the US. What else would you like to know about the article, the author or the topic of the lecture.
Reading & Response
Develop a clear statement of your view or point of view on the ideas expressed in the article. You may also consider using a particular quote from the article in your response.
GRAMMAR FOCUS
PRISON TO PROFESSOR, PART 1
Adjective (Relative) Clauses
Editing with Adjective Clauses
Find a series of two sentences that refer to the same person or thing: Who/what does the second sentence refer to in the first sentence. The school is a Division II college football program. a) It is sufficient to say that there were people in the material world.
Reducing Adjective Clauses
The organization I lead, called From Prison Cells to PhD, helped push the change to the Common Application. However, the current Second Chance Pell pilot funding of $30 million for prisons represents 0.1 percent of the total $28 billion in Pell funds.
Adverb Clauses
Recognizing Adverb (Subordinate) Clauses
Start with: In "Article Title", writer's name + verb + main point of the article. Explain who the speaker is and what happened to them that prompted them to write the article.
Reduced Dependent Clauses
Exercise 1: Noticing Reduced Dependent Clauses
If you're not sure whether a diminutive works in your own writing, it's always best to use the complete clause. Reduced adjective clause ("appropriate"): Starting in 2019, the Common Application - (which is an online form that allows students to apply to the 800 or so colleges that use it - will no longer ask students about their criminal past not.
PRISON TO PROFESSOR, PART 2
Noticing Passive Voice
Instructions: Review a presentation on Passive Voice under “Supplemental
However, current funding for the Second Chance Pell pilot project targeting prisons is $30 million, representing 0.1 percent of the total $28 billion in Pell funds. Even if the program were expanded based on historic levels, it would still amount to half of 1 percent of all Pell funds.
Choosing Between Active and Passive Voice
The issue also risks making formerly incarcerated people feel isolated and less valuable than those who have never been in trouble with the law. More needs to be done to remove the various barriers that exist between formerly incarcerated people and higher education.
Error Correction – Passive Voice
Less than 3 percent of people released from prison each year have college degrees, compared to 40 percent of the US. Even if the program were expanded, based on historical levels, it would still account for half of 1 percent of all Pell funding.
VOCABULARY FOCUS
Vocabulary Focus
Improving a Narrative
Passage
USE OF EVIDENCE
Paraphrasing Using Passive Voice
Choose a quote from the article that illustrates each main idea you identified in column 1. Remember to use quotation marks. Paraphrase/Explanation Explain yours in your own words. understanding the main idea from column 1.
Using Sources Responsibly
Similarly, the more education a person has, the less likely they are to return to prison.
A 2013 analysis of several studies found that obtaining higher education reduced recidivism — the
Stanley Andrisse identifies that "several studies have shown that getting a higher education reduced recidivism—the rate of return to prison—by 43 percent and was four to five times less expensive than putting that person back in prison" (15). He further recognizes that education is key to improving the lives of those previously incarcerated.
IDENTIFYING THESIS STATEMENTS, CLAIMS,
Identifying Thesis
Statements, Claims, and Evidence
People's previous convictions should not be held against them in their pursuit of higher education.” People's previous convictions should not be held against them in their pursuit of higher education.” (Thesis Statement).
IDENTIFYING
DIFFERENT WRITING STYLES: PRISON TO
Identifying Different Writing Styles
Introduction
How is the structure of these sentences that support Andrisse's argument different from the structure of the sentences that describe his personal story. Pay careful attention to the placement of the subjects and verbs and his use of "I".
WRITING A PERSONAL PARAGRAPH BASED ON
34;PRISON TO PROFESSOR"
Writing about You
The obstacles could be people, time, money, lack of experience, lack of confidence, lack of information, or anything else that made it difficult to achieve your goal. Did the people involved in your story eventually listen to your idea and take it seriously, or are you still trying to get their attention?
EXPOSITORY
RESENTFUL
Overview for Instructors
Sweet, Sour, and Resentful”)
Understanding of the relationship between the assignment and the rubric (will have to be adapted to the directions/assignments for this specific module.). Reading process activity: This activity guides students through the reading process – a sample of the article, actively reading and annotating the text, and reflecting on the meaning of the text and the reading process.
Vocabulary Preview for
Sweet, Sour & Resentful”
In addition to the words in the article, you may also note down definitions and synonyms to help you while reading. The collocations and informal language in this section include the sentence from the article and the paragraph number where the words can be found in the article.
Reading Process Activity for
Follow the steps below to preview the "Sweet, Sour, and Hateful" article. Do not read the whole article while completing this activity. Pause as you read the article to check whether or not your predictions were correct.
Sweet, Sour, and Resentful
6 Because my mother did not drive, my father took her to work every Tuesday to buy ingredients. When people entered the dining room, they gasped at the sight of my mother's table.
Reflect after Reading the Article
Which ones were correct and which ones did you revise as you read the article. How learning about the author and previewing the article helped your understanding of the text.
Developing Sentence Variety
Since we were one of the few Iranian families already there, our phone didn't stop ringing. Relatives, friends, friends of relatives, friends of friends, and people whose connection we never quite figured out called us with questions about settling in this new country.
Grammar Behind Sentence Variety
To show the hospitality that Iranians value so much, my father sent a dinner invitation to everyone who called. The transition phrase shows that this sentence includes the result of the preceding sentence—and allows the writer to use a simple sentence that stands out in a paragraph that otherwise contains complex sentences.
Punctuation with Different Sentence Connectors
Since my mom didn't drive, my dad took her every Tuesday after work to buy ingredients. Every few days, while my father watched the six o'clock news, my mother gave him a dozen onions, a cutting board, and a knife.
Using the Past Perfect Tense
Much to my father's relief, I once volunteered for this task, but apparently my slices were neither thin enough nor even. As you can see, the past perfect tense can appear at the beginning of the end of the sentence.
The Past Perfect in Reported Speech
Distinguishing between the Past Perfect Tense and Similar Forms
Noticing the Past Perfect Tense
My mother insisted that the parsley, cilantro and chives for qormeh sabzi, herb stew, be finely chopped by hand. I had already tried to fill them once, but my rolls, deemed not tight enough, were immediately unrolled and then rerolled by my mother.
Using Passive Voice and Modal Verbs
My mother insisted that the parsley, cilantro, and chives for qormeh sabzi, an herb stew, must be finely chopped by hand. While all four burners were in use, Mom was mixing ground beef, rice, split peas, capesantha, and herbs for the stuffed vine leaves.
Noticing and Using
I tried stuffing them once, but my mom immediately unrolled and rerolled my rolls, which didn't seem too tight. Rice, the foundation of the Persian meal, the litmus test of cooking skills, cannot be prepared in advance.
Dependent and Reduced Dependent Clauses
Diminished Adjective Clause (“Appositive”): Our real home was Abadan, a city in southwestern Iran. Ten more full adverbial clauses (18 in total) — There are no other reduced adverbial clauses in this article, and none of the full adverbial clauses can be effectively reduced.
Sentence Structure: The Power of 3
- STRATEGY 1: Length of sentences and sentence structure: One strategy is varying the length of her sentences
- FINDING SHORT SENTENCES Please re-read paragraphs 7, 8, and 10 to find examples of
- The Power or Three: The Power of Three suggests that lists are most powerful when they contain three
- FINDING THE POWER OF THREE
- One example using verbs
- Two examples using nouns
- One example using nouns
- One example using verbs
In fact, the title itself shows the Power of Three because it consists of three adjectives. Please re-read paragraphs 5, 6, 7 and 9 to find examples of the power of three and write these examples in the space below.
Listening Activity: “Small Town” John Mellencamp
All my friends are such a small town My parents live in the same small town My work is such a small town.
USE OF EVIDENCE AND THE RHETORICAL
SITUATION: SWEET,
SOUR, AND RESENTFUL
Use of Evidence and the Rhetorical Situation
Dumas' essay does not include research, statistics, or other types of evidence that you might use in a research paper. However, the title makes a claim about Dumas' mother and uses Dumas's observations about his mother as evidence.
SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND THE POWER OF
THREE: SWEET, SOUR, AND RESENTFUL
WRITING STRATEGIES
- Varying Sentence Length
- Finding Short Sentences
- Using the Power of Three
- Finding the Power of Three
The Power of Three suggests that lists are most powerful when they contain three items. Sometimes the list consists of three verbs all at once, as shown above, but other examples use three nouns.
WRITING A PERSONAL ESSAY BASED ON
SWEET, SOUR, AND RESENTFUL
Writing a Personal Essay
Can you write a "Power of Three" sentence to help the reader understand how your family practices the custom or habit. Do you think you will continue to practice the habit or habit in your adult life.
EXPOSITORY: WHY RITUALS ARE
GOOD
Emphasis is placed on using the title and students' knowledge and experience of the content to predict ideas in the text. Summary and Response Activity: This activity provides a series of guided questions to develop a summary and reading response to the article.
READ AND
UNDERSTAND: RITUALS
Vocabulary Preview for “Why Rituals Are Good For You”
The sentence where the word is used in the article Why rituals are good for you. Using the information provided for each word, identify an appropriate definition that fits the context of how the word is used in the sentence.
Why Rituals Are Good For You”
Now that you have a basic understanding of the term ritual, consider your past experiences with rituals. The title of the article "Rituals are good for your health" indicates that rituals have positive health benefits.
