Week 1

v  We start reading about media and what is it and how it works. We read about untruth and consequences.

v  Here is some new vocabulary we learned:

1.      Legitimate: valid

2.      Allege: claim

3.      Anguish: suffering

4.      Judgment: trial

5.      Scrutiny: examination

6.      Luddite: people who refuse technology

7.      Get revenge: get even.

v  We study about the functions of the parts of the body, practice what can you do with the parts of your body, for example: what can I do with my eyes: blink, cry and observe. We read a story that the professor gave us about “Peeping Tom Journalism” which explains about reporters, tabloids, journalists and paparazzo.

v  Brainstorming is perfect for writing especially if you are starting the process, it helps you organize your ideas and create new ones.

v  A paragraph is a group of sentences that are related a support a controlling idea.A summary paragraph identifies and extracts the main idea from a text, leaving out less important details. All paragraphs have a topic sentence and a controlling idea.

v  The topic sentence is an essential part of all well written paragraphs, it controls the content of the rest of the paragraph, and this control helps the writer focus on supporting ideas in the paragraphs that are directly related to the topic sentence. The first step in writing a topic sentence is to choose a topic and find a point of view or main idea about it. The next step is to narrow the main idea even more by finding a controlling idea, that is the idea you want to explain, illustrate or describe in the paragraph. It makes a specific statement about a topic.

v  We done some exercises where we complete paragraphs and answer questions about the ways the paragraphs should be written.