Do Now

•Hand in last night’s homework (“The Giving Tree” outline)• *PLEASE make sure your name is on this

•Open up to your Grammar section and review past notes (sentence structure & types of nouns)

Types of Verbs: Terms to Know•Action verb•Direct object• Indirect object•Linking verb•Predicate noun•Predicate adjective•Helping verb•Verb phrase

Direct Object

•Answers whom? or what? after an action verb.

•EX: I wrote a letter. •Action verb = wrote, wrote what? a letter

Indirect Object• Answer to whom? or for whom? an action is done.

• An indirect object will only appear in a sentence that also has a direct object.

• EX: I wrote mother a letter. • Action verb = wrote, wrote to whom? to mother

• “A letter” = direct object (wrote what? A letter)

Linking Verb

• Connects subject of a sentence with a noun or adjective in the predicate

• EX: The dog was friendly. • Linking verb = was; connects the subject dog with the adjective friendly.

• Most common linking verbs: am, is, are, was, were (“to be”)

Predicate Noun (Linking Verbs continued)

•Follows a linking verb, tells what the subject is

•EX: She is a teacher. •Linking verb = is, subject = she, what is she? a teacher

Predicate Adjective (Linking Verbs continued)

•Follows a linking verb, describes the subject

•EX: The sky is cloudy. •Linking verb = is, sky = subject, what is the sky like? cloudy

Helping Verb• Helps the main verb tell about an action or make a statement

• Common helping verbs: be, have, and do• I was rushing to work.• She has thought about it before.• You don’t know him.

• Verb phrase: one or more helping verbs followed by a main verb• EX: They are running together in the race.

Argumentative Introduction Paragraph• Start with a general statement that relates to your paper

• Connect the broad statement to your specific topic

• Introduce your source: Title, Author, very brief summary (1 sentence, maybe 2...just enough so that the paper makes sense to the reader)

• Introduce the issue/question and state your claim/thesis

• *4-6 sentences in total

Example: “The Tell-Tale Heart”

•Thesis: The sound of the heartbeat symbolizes the narrator’s conscience.

General Statement About Topic

•Everybody has a conscience. It’s the little voice that encourages us to do what is right and haunts us after we have done something wrong.

Connect Broad Topic to Specific Essay

•Sometimes our consciences lead us to confess things that we thought we’d hidden safely in our pasts. 

Introduce the Text

• This is what ultimately happens to the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

• In this short story, the narrator kills his elderly roommate and almost gets away with it, but the relentless sound of his dead roommate’s heart beat drives him to a point of insanity and forces him to confess in the end.

Introduce Issue/State Claim

• The sound of the old man’s heartbeat at the end of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” symbolizes the narrator’s conscience because it is a sound that the narrator hears in his own mind that leads him to an honest confession, his first moral act after an entire story of madness, cruelty, and dishonesty.

Full IntroductionEverybody has a conscience. It’s the little voice that

encourages us to do what is right and haunts us after we have done something wrong. Sometimes our consciences lead us to confess things that we thought we’d hidden safely in our pasts. This is what ultimately happens to the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In this short story, the narrator kills his elderly roommate and almost gets away with it, but the relentless sound of his dead roommate’s heart beat drives him to a point of insanity and forces him to confess in the end. The sound of the old man’s heartbeat at the end of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” symbolizes the narrator’s conscience because it is a sound that the narrator hears in his own mind that leads him to an honest confession, his first moral act after an entire story of madness, cruelty, and dishonesty.