April 2/3, 2009
Self-Starter: Prepare to go to the Computer Lab -- For survey and introduction to our class wiki.
1. Computer Lab for a survey and learning a bit about using the Wikki!
For a copy of the handout we used in the computer lab, go to
http://cavemanenglish.pbwiki.com/
Go to the folder named "Student Pages." Open it. Click on the link to files at the bottom of the "Navigator" box. Click on "Wiki Computer Lab 1" to open it. It will upload to your computer and you could read or print it from there.
2. Test prep. practice -- editing. (If you were absent see the folders at the back of the room.)
3. Sentenced Again! We did another section of PowerPoint and completed fill-in-the-blank notes. See Ms. Dorsey's wiki for the notes page and PowerPoint. http://cavemanenglish.pbwiki.com/
4. Stand Tall -- We finished reading chapter 1 and answered some questions in the packet.
B1 and B3 have not read the rest of chapter 1 at all.
B2 read through "You give me a call. . . " on page 6.
Showing posts with label creating sentences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creating sentences. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
March 31/ April 1, 2009
March 31/ April 1, 2009
April 1 is your last day to hand in the book approval for on-time points (20 points out of 10).
QUIZ ON SUBJECTS, PREDICATES, AND IDENTIFYING DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT CLAUSES for A-Day students.
Test Preparation -- Recognizing Appropriate Sentence Construction
Students are working on this test practice in pairs.
Sentence Rehabilitation Race -- Students worked with parters to "rehabilitate" fragments, comma-splices, and run-ons into complete, correct sentences. (If you are absent, get the paper from the class folders, and do this on your own to hand in.)
Stand Tall
B2 needs to discuss pages 1 and 2 of the packet.
B-Day needs to look at the poem at the beginning of the book.
Start reading Stand Tall. We read pages 1-3, and answered the question about Mrs. Pierce in the packet. If you have lost your packet, you may go to the class wiki and print off another copy for yourself. Find it in the folder for Stand Tall.
April 1 is your last day to hand in the book approval for on-time points (20 points out of 10).
QUIZ ON SUBJECTS, PREDICATES, AND IDENTIFYING DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT CLAUSES for A-Day students.
Test Preparation -- Recognizing Appropriate Sentence Construction
Students are working on this test practice in pairs.
Sentence Rehabilitation Race -- Students worked with parters to "rehabilitate" fragments, comma-splices, and run-ons into complete, correct sentences. (If you are absent, get the paper from the class folders, and do this on your own to hand in.)
Stand Tall
B2 needs to discuss pages 1 and 2 of the packet.
B-Day needs to look at the poem at the beginning of the book.
Start reading Stand Tall. We read pages 1-3, and answered the question about Mrs. Pierce in the packet. If you have lost your packet, you may go to the class wiki and print off another copy for yourself. Find it in the folder for Stand Tall.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
More on Sentences
Go to this site for games and information! http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/sentencebasics/whatisasentence/game.shtml
And here is even more information:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/sentencepatterns.html
And here is even more information:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/sentencepatterns.html
Monday, March 23, 2009
March 23/24, 2009
March 23/24, 2009
Pick up your composition books.
1. Test Preparation exercise -- Reading for main idea and details. (If you were absent, see me for a copy of the practice test questions.)
2. When finished, write in your composition book: Whom do you consider a hero and why?
3. Receive Book-of-the-Month Approvals and Reading Logs.
Look for a book you could highly recommend to other students.
We will go to the media center next time.
4. Sentenced! (Here comes the Judge! Oh, Brother. . .)
Sentenced to the "chain gang," chaining together words and punctuation to create complete, correct sentences.
Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to yourself about what you understand and don't understand about sentences.
How much do YOU know about sentences?
Verbs -- the Core of the sentence, the most important part.
Subjects of the sentence (nouns or their replacements) -- Answer (or ask) the question who or what is the verb giving information about?
If you were absent, see me for the worksheet students filled out while watching a PowerPoint about sentences. You may ask a classmate for the answers to fill in your paper.
We played a game to practice identifying subjects and verbs.
Coming Attractions:
-- Heroes and the novel Stand Tall
Superman? Vietnam War, being different, going through hard times, helping others
Who is a hero? Why? What are the qualities of a hero? Can you be a hero?
-- What is the difference between an independent clause (a sentence) and a dependent clause?
-- More test preparation
The etymology of the word Sentence:
c.1290, "doctrine, authoritative teaching," from O.Fr. sentence (12c.), from L. sententia "thought, meaning, judgment, opinion," from sentientem, prp. of sentire "be of opinion, feel, perceive" (see sense). Loss of first -i- in L. by dissimilation. Meaning "punishment imposed by a court" is from c.1300; that of "grammatically complete statement" is attested from 1447, from notion of "meaning," then "meaning expressed in words." The verb meaning "to pass judgment" is recorded from c.1400.
Pick up your composition books.
1. Test Preparation exercise -- Reading for main idea and details. (If you were absent, see me for a copy of the practice test questions.)
2. When finished, write in your composition book: Whom do you consider a hero and why?
3. Receive Book-of-the-Month Approvals and Reading Logs.
Look for a book you could highly recommend to other students.
We will go to the media center next time.
4. Sentenced! (Here comes the Judge! Oh, Brother. . .)
Sentenced to the "chain gang," chaining together words and punctuation to create complete, correct sentences.
Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to yourself about what you understand and don't understand about sentences.
How much do YOU know about sentences?
Verbs -- the Core of the sentence, the most important part.
Subjects of the sentence (nouns or their replacements) -- Answer (or ask) the question who or what is the verb giving information about?
If you were absent, see me for the worksheet students filled out while watching a PowerPoint about sentences. You may ask a classmate for the answers to fill in your paper.
We played a game to practice identifying subjects and verbs.
Coming Attractions:
-- Heroes and the novel Stand Tall
Superman? Vietnam War, being different, going through hard times, helping others
Who is a hero? Why? What are the qualities of a hero? Can you be a hero?
-- What is the difference between an independent clause (a sentence) and a dependent clause?
-- More test preparation
The etymology of the word Sentence:
c.1290, "doctrine, authoritative teaching," from O.Fr. sentence (12c.), from L. sententia "thought, meaning, judgment, opinion," from sentientem, prp. of sentire "be of opinion, feel, perceive" (see sense). Loss of first -i- in L. by dissimilation. Meaning "punishment imposed by a court" is from c.1300; that of "grammatically complete statement" is attested from 1447, from notion of "meaning," then "meaning expressed in words." The verb meaning "to pass judgment" is recorded from c.1400.
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