- If you have not yet handed in your December Book Assignment, hand it in TODAY.
- Hand in your hall passes if you are ready to not use any more.
- If you were not here to take the post test on writing paragraphs, or the central idea post test, please see me.
- Tape the essay grading into your composition book, if you have not yet done that.
- Do not forget to complete your spelling make-up assignment if you have one.
- This term ends on Monday!
I'm grading as fast
as I can!
1. Individual Reading
1. Individual Reading
2.
 Now Investigating: Conventions in Sentences Investigation Copy this sentence into your composition book -- Under Notes and QuickWrites. Be prepared to share what you notice about it.
Keith, the boy in rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was
being watched as he entered room 215 of the Mountain View Inn.
-- Beverly Cleary, The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965) Also, write 3-5 things you notice about the sentence.
Notice everything you can about the above sentence.
No more tickets for capital letters at the beginning of the sentence
or periods at the end.
It is a correct sentence (I hope), so you are not looking for errors (I hope).
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3. Preview of Major Term 3 Goals
4. If needed, we will read from The Outsiders, so all the classes are at the same page -- the beginning of Chapter 3. Then we will watch the video to catch up to where we are in the book.
- A1: page 22 "Why don't you be nice and leave us alone?"B5: Page 25 "Okay, I said. . . " to page 31 page break --B6: Page 26 "He'd leave you along if he knew you." -- none today
B7: Page 22 "Dally merely shrugged and strolled off." to page 30, top -- to chapter 3 - B7 Watched video of The Outsiders to the point where Dally leaves the drive-in movies
5. Play Grammar Punk, if time.
The teacher will roll the sets of dice to determine qualifications for the sentences you will write.
Subject of the sentence
Use words that begin with a certain letter -- How many?
Use a particular part of speech
Use a particular punctuation mark
