Announcements and Reminders for Thursday/Friday, February 15/16, 2018:
If needed, revise your book of the month project, print it, and hand it in stapled to the front of the rubric. If you have lost your rubric, you could download it and print it from Skyward or from here:
Jan BookoftheMonth 2018.docx If you haven't created, turned in, and presented your slideshow yet, do that immediately!
Your next book-of-the-month genre is nonfiction.
DO NOT READ for Nonfiction
Diary of Anne Frank
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
Phineas Gage*
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Targets for Today:
I can correctly spell commonly confused words.
I can explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences. I can choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas. |
Today’s Agenda for Thursday/Friday, February 15/16, 2018:
Conventions in Sentences Investigations
1. CSI: Investigation by Imitation
Copy this sentence into your composition book. What do you notice?
When the class was quiet, Gooney Bird began her Monday story.
-- Lois Lowry, Gooney Bird Greene (2002)
Here is the pattern:
Subordinating conjunction subject verb , subject verb object.
Imitations:
After the dogs were asleep, the cats chased the mice.
Because Sammy is responsible, he does his homework.
Now make two imitations of your own.
AAAWWEUBBIS
Rule: When an AAAWWEUBBIS is placed at the beginning of a sentence, it causes a comma -- as in this sentence.
Although
After
As
When
While
Even though
Until
Before
Because
If
Since
AAAWWEUBBIS's and Transitions
Relationships Among the Sentences and Sentence Parts
Is there a difference?
1. Because Suzie liked James, she baked him a pie.
2. Although Suzie liked James, she baked him a pie.
3. Since Suzie baked him a pie, James liked her.
4. In spite of the fact that Suzie baked him a pie, James liked her.
5. Before Suzie baked him a pie, James liked her.
6. After Suzie baked him a pie, James liked her.
Presentations
B5
Brown
Delaney
Meneses
Negrete
Rabines
Roseman
Saez
Taveras
B7
DoerrhoeferLacombe Lay Le Mon A2 saw only a couple of books and did not do the external text features.
Text Structures
B7 -- Tell us about an object that is important to you. Tell us about it in a way that will let us see it, almost feel, hear, smell, touch, taste (if that applies) it.
Example:
A Friendly Clown
Take notes in your composition book under Notes and Quick Writes.
A1 through Olympic problem/solution.
Add signal words to your notes. Your notes will provide you with words to use when you write, so get as many as you can.
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Teacher materials:
If You Were Absent:
If you were not here last time or the time before, you may get caught up at home by downloading the articles and notes page, and taking your notes, or by going to MyAccess, selecting the prompt "Take a Position" and spending about an hour writing your essay.
My Access Prompt - Popcorn Ethics.docx
Conventions of the Week #5.docx |
Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/subordinateconjunction.htm
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/parts-of-speech-the-preposition-and-the-conjunction/introduction-to-conjunctions/v/subordinating-conjunctions Conventions of the Week #5.docx
Labeling for Types of Sentences and Types of Clauses
Conjunctions |