Friday, February 10, 2012

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 42

1. Take vocabulary test (Lesson 5: jaded, gist, advocate…)
2. Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement
1. Practice the first 14 (of 20) on overhead “#25 Agreement”

                                                              i.      Review answers

3. Wrote a sentence properly using “you and I” and another sentence properly using “you and me”
1. Learned “trick” to identify which pronoun to use in sentences using “I” and “me” –
2. Practiced identifying when to use “I” and “me” in 20 sentences – also discussed the problems with “between” sentences and plural verb sentences (were – was)
4. Graded today’s vocabulary tests
5. Read from Alfred Kropp as an example of “showing” – listing 6 TELL statements that could have been used instead in the story

ENGLISH homework:

None

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PLAYWRITING – Day 42

With a partner and using Netbooks, we re-read the scripts we chose last Thursday and scripted either the scene before it or the scene after it.

PLAYWRITING homework:

None