Thursday, November 13, 2014

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 51

·         Practice next set of plural and possessive worksheets

·         Take notes on modifiers…

a.       Took notes on Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers (in Writer’s Choice book pgs. 670-671)

b.       Practiced fixing sentences with misplaced and dangling modifiers

·         When asked to write something that Roger would have said to Mrs. Jones, you wrote, I’m sorry, I’m grateful, why did you help me, the meal was good, I’ll never forget you, is there anything I could do to make this up to you…

a.       But no one said, because of what you did for me, I’m going to pass along that forgiveness to someone else. I want someone else to feel how you made me feel. what you helped me to feel.

·         Reviewed notes from our Literary Terms packet (Direct and Indirect Characterization)

·         Using your book, look through “Thank You, M’am” (Literature book pgs. 134 – 140) and  make a chart for the 2 characters that lists 10 direct and 10 indirect characterizations for each. 40 ITEMS TOTAL – to be collected

·         REVIEW (see page 4 of Exam Review Guide)

                           i.      What is a word that proves something is written in

·         1^st person

·         2^nd person

·         3^rd person

                          ii.      Name 4 school subjects that get capitalized?

                        iii.      Rewrite, then properly punctuate this sentence:

·         his girlfriend said you’re in big trouble

                        iv.      How would you properly write out these book titles:

·         the blue moon

·         nutty zombie of terror

                          v.      Write a sentence that needs a direction (north, south, east, west) to be capitalized and another sentence that doesn’t need to be capitalized.

                        vi.      We make words plural by adding –s or –ies to words.

·         List 4 exceptions?

·         How do we make these two words plural?            

a.        “brother-in-law” and “attorney-at-law”

                       vii.      We add apostrophes to words to show possession.

·         What if a car belongs to both Carol and Sue?

a.        Carol and Sue car got a flat tire.

ENGLISH homework:

Finish 1 – 40 (see above)

Use study guide to review for exam.

For online practice, try these links:

·         Apostrophe practice: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/39.html

·         Plural practice: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/288.html

o    And http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/391.html

·         Author’s Purpose: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/practicetest?TUAG7034

·         Fact or Opinion: http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/factopquiz.html