Announcements and Reminders for Wednesday/Thursday, February 7/8, 2018 :
If you have not completed your How They Croaked slideshow or your Book-of-the-Month project, do it right away!
When you get your project back, if you need to revise and resubmit, staple your revised copy to the top of the papers that were returned to you. Don't forget to study during each week for your conventions tests, and to review the materials we have already tested on. |
Targets for Today:
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Today’s Agenda:
 CSI American Fork Now Investigating: Conventions in Sentences Investigation 2. Investigation by Imitation! Your task: a. Label the page with today's date and copy this sentence into your composition book: Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them.
-- Andrew Clements, Frindle (1998)
 What do you notice? Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them.
-- Andrew Clements, Frindle (1998)
Subject predicate (verb) , (coordinating conjunction) subject predicate (verb).
Here is one imitation:
Mr. Schoonover had a case of candy bars, so he gave it to Ms. Dorsey's class.
And another:
The blue dog had a long tail, but he didn't know how to wag it.
Now, make your own imitation:
Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them.
-- Andrew Clements, Frindle (1998)
Subject predicate (verb) , (coordinating conjunction) subject predicate (verb).
3. Writing skills: Collecting evidence
Popcorn Science -- Informative
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If You Were Absent:
See above.
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Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
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