Announcements and Reminders:
A. Your SAGE Writing Test begins next time -- argument and informative writing.
In preparation for taking the test, you might want to look again at: Writing Argumentative and Informational Essays.
Take to the computer lab on testing days:
- Your own headphones, if you wish to have the passages read to you and do not want to use the school headphones.
- A pencil.
- Nothing else
- There will be blank paper there.
B. Your book assessment is due February 11. There are samples on the bulletin board.
C. Parent-Teacher Conference is next Thursday, February 12.
Test Taking Tips
1. Individual Reading Time
2. Conventions in Sentences Investigation
Title it: Combining to Imitate February 5, 2015
Directions: Combine the sentences below to create a single sentence that has the same order of sentence parts as the model. You may eliminate some words to do so. then write your own imitation of the model.
Notice: You could combine these sentences into the MODEL sentence: a. The children were shouting. b. The children were screaming. c. The children came charging back. d. The children came into their homeroom.
1. Copy the MODEL: The children, shouting and screaming, came charging back into their homeroom. -- Rosa Guy, The Friends
2. Combine these sentences to create a single sentence that has the same order of sentence parts as the model.
a. The ponies were neighing.
b. The ponies were pawing.
c. The ponies came bolting out of their stalls.
3. Create your own sentence, imitating the model.
Ms. Dorsey's imitation:
The puppies, barking and growling, came scrambling out of the doghouse.
Underline the subject of each sentence once.
Circle the verb (predicate) for each sentence.
|
3. Practice Citing Sources with excerpts from interviews with S.E. Hinton
4. Read from The Outsiders from page 47 "Big Time Socs, all right, . . . " to page 54 "The blue Mustang was circling the park slowly."
