Our presential class on Sept 1REMINDER: OUR NEXT PRESENTIAL CLASS IS ON SEPT 151.We checked our tasks and then went through the contents of Paragraph UnityTHOSE WHO CAME TO THE CLASS AND ALSO THOSE WHO WERE ABSENT, PLEASE REVIEW WHAT WE DID IN CLASS BY CHECKING THE WEBSITE BELOW ( WATCH THE VIDEO INCLUDED HERE):Unity in paragraphs http://www.srjcwritingcenter.com/paragraphs/unity/unity_video.html2.We started our discussion on Plagiarism .Textbook plagiarism:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7UF04mxpIIAfter watching fragments of the video above (on plagiarism) , we noticed that the narrator spoke very fast (prestissimo), as per the Italian words for TEMPO in musical notation: http://www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca/definitions.html3.At the end , we wrote a paragraph on one of the topics below:Use the techniques for creating good paragraph unity that you have learned to write paragraphs on the following topics : 1. Write a unified descriptive paragraph about a local park, downtown street scene, or a scene at a local place, such as a supermarket. ; 2. Write a unified narrative paragraph about a time you turned out to be wrong about someone. ; 3. Write a unified paragraph about the problems caused by giving kids cell phones before they are teenagers. 4. We also went through the symbol for paragraph:The section sign (), also called the "section symbol" or "squiggly", is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. It is frequently used along with the pilcrow, or paragraph sign.The pilcrow (), also called the paragraph sign, paraph, or alinea (Latin: a linea, "off the line"), is a typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs. We had our presential class yesterday, October 13OCTOBER 20, next Tuesday, NO PRESENTIAL CLASS: we will join activities in Semana do Conhecimento.October 27 we have a mid-term essay in class (with Marine Park model). Ill give you a list of topics used for Toefl for you to choose one of them: 1-3-1 Essay.We have some tasks for November 3. In this message you have some of them.Since many people are writing portuguese, brazilian etc , let`s have a look at this video (we watched it in class):TASK: How to use Capital Lettershttp://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-use-capital-lettersThen enter the site below and go to the bottom of the page and TEST YOURSELF (on a related use of capitalization):http://grcpublishing.grc.nasa.gov/editing/CurrentWizard/quirks.cfmWrite a small report on how you fared in this test and hand it in on Nov 3.-------At the end of the class we started a one-paragraph essay on the topic:BELO HORIZONTE NOW AND THENThis is a comparison and contrast essay . TASK : while, whereas, or although (test the use of these words at the bottom of this website:http://grcpublishing.grc.nasa.gov/WizardArchive/wizard4/qrktext.htmWrite a small report on how you fared in this test and hand it in on Nov 3.Task: One-paragraph on Belo Horizonte now and then(use the words while, whereas, although)Watch the videos below and use them to contrast the two BHs.Give it to me Nov 3. Try to be creative and get some inspiration to talk about BH!Belo Horizonte in 1946: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e2rUTPPxV4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UODeUB65LSgBelo Horizonte now:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVcQJJaScUgBonus: Belo Horizonte in a song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcP-AyffyRw a. We started with a review on Gerunds and