Announcements and Reminders for Monday/Tuesday, March 26/27, 2018:
Pick up your composition book and one of the pink papers at the back of the room.
If you need to revise your book project, and hand it back in, staple it to the original green sheet you handed in.
If you haven't completed and revised your genetic engineering essay, do that as soon as possible. If you already have a grade, let me know when you have thoroughly revised.   |
Targets for Today:
Today is a potpourri. We are doing several different things.
I can use commas correctly with coordinate or cumulative adjectives. I can find (and write) central ideas. I can recognize aspects of poetry and poetic devices. I can correctly use the words lie and lay. |
Today’s Agenda Monday/Tuesday, March 26/27, 2018:
1. More about Coordinate Adjectives and Commas
Print your essays if they are due today -- printing only. You will not have time to work on them. 2. Central Ideas Reading: More Samples for Nonfiction Book Project Central Idea Everything in the paragraph supports the central idea. The central idea covers everything in the paragraph.  Columbus Thorpe 3. Commonly Confused Words: Lay and Lie Create this chart in your composition book.  4. More Poetry -- Review of Poetic Devices A1 got to Alliteration - read headlines. A2 did not do this at all. B5 did not get to it either. 
(Poem #863) Frogs
Frogs sit more solid
than anything sits. In mid-leap they are
parachutists falling
in a free fall. They die on roads
with arms across their chests and heads high.
I love frogs that sit like Buddha, that fall without
parachutes, that die
like Italian tenors.
Above all, I love them because,
pursued in water, they never
panic so much that they fail
to make stylish triangles
with their ballet dancer's
legs.
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If You Were Absent:
See above. Ask for the coordinate adjective/comma handout. |
Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
 Helping Verb Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F2JWKY63K0 Helping verbs helping verbs there are 23 Am is are Was and were Being been and be Have has had Do does did Shall should will and would There are five more helping verbs May might must can could |
