What is your favorite social networking site?

In our second class this week we interviewed our partners on their personal fashion.

Describe your favorite item of clothing?

What kind of haircut would you never have? 

We got comfortable talking about our fashion and our opinions of fashion. By now you should easily be able to talk for 2 minutes about fashion.

Next, we started writing. We talked about main ideas of paragraphs.

*Remember: main ideas are the main thing the writer wants to get across to the reader.*

We looked at 6 paragraphs and figured out what the main idea was for each paragraph. Sometimes the main idea is the first sentence of the paragraph, but sometimes you have to read more of the paragraph to understand the main idea.

In our writing we want the first sentence of our paragraph to state the main idea plus two subtopics. For example:

Yeungnam University is a great university because of its excellent opportunities and fantastic teachers. 

From the beginning, I know this paragraph is going to be about how the opportunities and teachers make YU a great university.

Another example:

I love my mother because she is kind and a great cook.

From this sentence I know you are going to talk about how you love your mother because she is nice and cooks well.

Next week we will look at our outlines you did for homework and try to start organizing our paragraph about our favorite social networking site.

Until then...have a great weekend!!!