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Comma: Interrupters

9/30/13

Rule: An interrupter is a word, phrase, or clause that significantly breaks the flow of a sentence. Generally, you separate an interrupter from the rest of the sentence with commas—one in front of the interrupter and one behind.

1. The girl forgot however to dance with her date.

2. Buster on the other hand went to the homecoming dance.

3. Ms. Vasich of course expects students to read every night.

4. Please take those smelly socks to the basement Lily and put them in the wash.

5. My essay to be perfectly honest flew out the bus window.

6. You just ate if you must know a squid eyeball.

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Today’s Game Plan

  • Review weekly game plan
  • Protocols for incomplete and missing essays
  • IOC & Annotation Practice

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Protocol For Incomplete Essays

If you didn’t revise your essay or resolve my comments from your rough draft, your essay is currently marked as incomplete in the gradebook.

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If you have an incomplete, you have until this week Friday, 10/4, to make revisions and resolve my comments before your essay is officially missing and cannot be made up. In the meantime, you will lose 2 points for each day that your paper is incomplete.

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Once you revise your draft and resolve my comments, send me an email letting me know you are finished and I will grade your final essay.

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If you are under the impression that your essay is complete as it stands now, please let me know (in person or via email) and I will grade it as is.

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Protocol for missing papers

You can no longer receive credit for a rough draft.

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You must have your final essay submitted to me by Friday, 10/4.

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In the meantime, you will lose 2 points for each day that your paper is missing.

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IOC & Annotation Practice

  • Let’s review the assessment criteria.
    • Knowledge and understanding of the texts.
    • Understanding of the use and effects of literary features
      • Including language, structure, technique, & style
    • Organization
      • Analysis is logical and easy to follow
    • Language
      • Incorporate terminology relevant to text type studied.
      • Formal tone and varied language.

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IOC: Organization of Content

  • You are expected to present your ideas in a sustained and organized manner.
      • No random ordering of ideas.

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  • Good idea to at one point discuss the extract as it relates to the text as a whole.
      • Even so, do not use the entire IOC as a means to “surf” the entire work. You must discuss the specifics of the extract.

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Planning

  • When receiving the extract, do some deliberate planning.
      • You MUST plan before you write!!
  • Should have an introduction.
      • Establishes main focus (thematic element)
  • Should have an conclusion.

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Content

  • Must use literary terms/jargon.
  • Must use specific examples.
  • Must not have any orphaned quotes. (that lack a follow up “so what.”)

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IOC Practice

  • You will have 20 minutes to read, annotate the passage, and prepare your main points.
  • Then, you will record yourself for 10 minutes using vocaroo.com.
  • After you record, there is an option to save. Save and email the url to yourself and to me!
    • molly.vasich@mpls.k12.mn.us

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