Announcements and Reminders:
Behaving well for the substitute will earn extra credit.
I will send in book orders this Friday, May 2, then again May 9. Order online or bring the order form and a check.
If you order online, use the Class Activation Code: GKLJW
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Today’s Agenda:
1. Independent Reading (for about 20 minutes) 2. Sentence Imitating
Complex Sentence:
"Because of plagues, poxes, and every other unimaginable nightmare that doctors didn't know how to cure, people dropped like flies." p. 60 How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg
A Complex Sentence to Imitate:
"If I hadn't gone outside, I don't know if I would have heard the scream." Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver, p. 38
Imititations:
If I hadn't eaten the cake, I wouldn't have found the saw inside it. -- Ms. Dorsey
If I hadn't read that book, I wouldn't have understood what my students were talking about. -- Ms. Dorsey
Follow this pattern:
If I hadn't _________________, I wouldn't have _________________.
Dependent clause, Independent clause.
[This is a complex sentence.]
3. Practice with Prefixes and suffixes.
4. Listen to and Read along with The Giver.
B1 page 60
B2 page 56
B3 page 51
B4 page 63
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If you were absent:
See above.
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