Friday, October 10, 2014

 

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 27

 

Collect homework: Questions 1 – 9 (Cask of Amontillado)

 

Quiet study time for today’s Prefix test (during attendance)

 

Take fill-in-the blank Prefix test #2

What do the following 7 words have in common?

1.                                       Banana

2.                                       Dresser

3.                                       Grammar

4.                                       Potato

5.                                       Revive

6.                                       Uneven

7.                                       Assess

No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters….

·         Watch short videos of “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe (Flocabulary, short film pts. 1&2)

 

·         Take out a clean piece of paper…

 

Sentence structure unit – DWL: Lesson 5, 6

 

Begin classwork, TO BE COLLECTED NEXT WEEK:

DIRECTIONS: Write a 3-word sentence (doer-doing-done to) like:

“Bayle collects shells” or “Jon hit the ball.”

LABEL the 3 parts: A, B, C

RULE: You may not ADD and A or a B or a C.

Next, expand it into a sentence of 15 words without losing the doer-doing-done to structure.

 

As an example, here is a 15-word expansion for “Jon hit the ball.”

            In the middle of the sixth inning, Jon, the league leader, hit the curve ball.

NOTE: Writer answered WHEN (sixth inning)? WHO (the league leader)? WHAT KIND (curve)?

ENGLISH homework:

 

·         None