October 22/23, 2008
The term ends this Friday!
Please let me know if you work on your personal narrative at home, so I can update your grade.
We talked about creating complete sentences.
Independent clauses each have a subject and a verb, and can be a complete sentence.
Dependent clauses each have a subject and a verb, but cannot stand on their own as complete sentences.
Complete Sentence: They didn’t watch the baby very well.
Not a complete sentence: That they didn’t watch the baby very well.
Not a complete sentence: Because they didn’t watch the baby very well.
Complete Sentence: She is mean and hates Harry.
Not a complete sentence: That she is mean and hates Harry.
Not a complete sentence: Even though she is mean and hates Harry.
Not a complete sentence: Because she is mean and hates Harry.
We talked again about the October Book-of-the-Month Assessment.
Be ready next week -- on the 28th for B-Day, and on the 29th for A-Day.
We read from The Outsiders:
B1 -- t0 page 145
B2 -- to page 152
B3 -- to page 164
A1 -- to page 145 (A1 didn't talk about complete sentences.)
A2 -- to page 138? (Students, is this right?)
Students had some time to spend on their own novels -- preparing for the assessment.
