Fan the Deck

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Fan the Deck is written primarily for college-bound high school students who demonstrate a clear proficiency in writing. It builds style and more sophisticated sentence skills – coordination and subordination. It develops the writer’s awareness of his/her audience and the kind of thinking and organization for college-level writing.

Bob Cahill and Herb Hrebic co-authored Fan the Deck.

Key Features:

1. The major writing assignments are those which students will be required to write in other academic classes and college courses, e.g., definition paper, analysis paper, comparison-contrast paper, argumentative paper, and research paper.
2. Writing across the curriculum topics are suggested with each assignment.
3. A college admissions letter writing is analyzed and written.
4. A grading sheet in our teacher’s guide corresponds to the objectives listed for each assignment. We also included a six trait assessment sheet grading sheet.
5. A problem-solution research report is taught in a step-by-step sequence.
6. Our famous Sentence Opening Sheet helps students analyze and revise a composition. Review the teaching tips link on our web site for the College Board’s analysis of this practical revision strategy. You’ll love it!
7. Student think sheets assist students in focusing on the content and organization.
8. Exercises in writing in active voice and selecting concrete verbs help with verb power.
9. Correcting faulty parallelism and subordinating unimportant ideas are stressed to help with sentence fluency.
10. Checklist sheets aid in peer evaluation.
11. Student compositions serve as models.
12. Two literary analysis assignments – The Adventurers of Huckleberry Finn and The Glass Menagerie – are included.

Scope and Sequence

Oral Language:
Reading aloud – all stages of the writing process

Sentence Combining – Sentence Fluency:
Sentence lengths – SOS Sheet
Subtracting and RO’s
SOS Sheet and verbs
Parallelism and faulty
Combining with coordinating conjunctions and correlative conjunctions
Subordinating lesser ideas using verbals, relative pronouns, and subordinating conjunctions

The Writing Process:
Definition – expository
Analysis – expository
Process – expository
Compare/contrast – expository
Argumentation – persuasion
College application letter
Problem-solution report
Literature: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Glass Menagerie 

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