Thursday/Friday, March 10/11, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                    There will be no Cavetime in Mrs. Dorsey's classroom on Thursday and Friday, March 10 and 11.  Friday is the last day to hand in extra credit, late work, and revisions, including those for your argument essay -- the one on the topic you chose.   You may revise and edit the informational essay  by Wednesday, March 16.  For helps, see your Skyward grades for the informational essay, the messages attached to your essay, the comments embedded in your essay, and see the tab for Writing/Grammar here on this blog.)   If your informational essay has not been graded on Skyward, it will be soon.  Before it is graded, use your rubric and graphic organizer to make sure it has all required parts.  Also make sure it is NOT plagiarized.   See this post for Plagiarism if you are not clear about what plagiarism is. Remember to email me when you have FINISHED revising and editing your work. If you need to complete spelling make-up, the pink slips are in the handout file box.

Targets for Today: I will better understand some of the origins of our language.  I will create a study guide for the root words I will need to know.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Complete and correct page 5 of the comma packet. 2. Take the Comma quiz. 3. View a PowerPoint about the history of our language and take cloze notes on the PowerPoint. 4. Create a handy magical study guide for the root words you will need to learn.  It will look something like this: When the study guide is flat, no words can be seen on either side -- except your name on one of the side flaps. After you've folded it to form a W and opened it up, half of your root words with their meanings go on these "inside" sections. After you've folded it the other way to form a W and opened it up, the other half of your root words with their meanings go on these "inside" sections.    Magical Study Guide Directions 1. Fold your paper hamburger style and then again so you have 4 sections. 2.  Lay it out flat, and then refold it just in half. 3.  Use a ruler to measure and mark every .5 (1/2) inch.       Make a mark on the folded edge and on the open fold. 4.  Use the ruler to connect these lines with a straight pencil mark. 5.  Use scissors to cut along the straight pencil lines all the way from the folded edge to the open fold. 6.  Weave the smaller strips of paper through the cut portions.       One strip will be woven in the opposite way from the other.  7. Fold your study guide into a "W" and gently open the middle.  On each strip of the left side, write one of the following prefixes.  Opposite from that, write its meaning. 8.  Unfold your study guide, and fold it the opposite way into a "W," and gently open the middle. On each strip on the left side, write one of the following suffixes. Opposite from that, write its meaning.  Do not write anything but your name  when the study guide is lying flat. On one side -- When it is an X -- write- audi hear dict speak ject throw port carry rupt break scrib/script write spect see, look struct build tract pull vis, vid see On the other side -- When it is an X -- write- auto self bio life graph write hydro water meter measure ology study of photo light scope examine tele far therm heat

For later: These prefixes

Prefix	Meaning
anti-	against
dis-	not, opposite of
in-, im-, il-, ir-	not
in-, im-	in
inter-	between
pre-	before
re-	again
sub-	under
trans-	across
un-	not

If You Were Absent:  See above.  Here are the PowerPoint and the page for taking cloze notes on it: History of English 2015.ppt A Brief History of the En.doc http://historybuff.com/how-far-back-in-time-can-we-understand-english-p4r1DvLodoPl If you are finishing or revising your essays: For the handouts, examples, etc., see the tab above for Writing/Grammar 2015-2015.