Monday, May 16, 2011

Bell-Ringer:  Finish your conjunction packet pages, and start on prepositions and adverbs.
Here is the packet you could download:   Sub Conj Prep Adverbs Packet.doc
There are extra blank pages which I was unable to delete.  You could just select the other pages to print.

A1 corrected the adjectives and conjunctions packet and made hallway signs using verbs and adverbs.   They learned about FAN BOYS and the WHITE BUS.
A2 corrected the adjectives and conjunctions packet, and learned about conjunctions.   They learned about FAN BOYS and the WHITE BUS.
A3 
A4 corrected adjectives and conjunctions, and learned about conjunctions.  They did not yet receive their White Bus papers.  

Extra Credit:  See the back of the handout listing FAN BOYS conjunctions and WHITE BUS conjunctions.  You may earn up to 12 points for 6 sentences.

Other Packets for Parts of Speech: 
Parts of Speech 2001 p 1-4 .doc  -- Verbs

noun pronoun pages.doc

adjectives conjunctions packet.doc
 There are extra blank pages which I was unable to delete.  You could just select the other pages to print.

Stand Tall  
More of Stand Tall by Joan Bauer -- contemporary realistic fiction novel
A1 -- 5 to page 14 to page 26, page break
A2 -- 18 to page 26 break  -- Do you agree or disagree that "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"?  Explain and tell how that applies to your life?  to page 33
A3 -- 14 to page 26 break -- Didn't yet do the comp. book prompt. Do you agree or disagree that "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"?  Explain and tell how that applies to your life?  to bottom of page 33.
A4 -- 12 to top of page 21 -- wrote about grandparents  to  page  31


No more late, revised, or make-up work will be accepted after May 27.
 
 

For Parts of Speech Practice:  
 More Grammar Games and Activities:  http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la-grammar.html 

Lyrics to Conjuction Junction:  http://www.postdiluvian.org/~gilly/Schoolhouse_Rock/HTML/grammar/conjunction.html

Parts of Speech test -- May 24. You will need to both recognize parts of speech and create sentences using them.

Parts of Speech:
Noun
Pronoun
Adjective
Verb
Adverb
Preposition
Conjunction
Interjection -- Wow!  Darn!  Oh!  Ah!  Alas!  
    Grammar Rock's Interjections on YouTube 
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHpJ45_zwM

January 20/21, 2010

January 20/21, 2010

1. Review some Parts of Speech  -- especially ADVERBS

2. Extra credit for the -ly test:  On the new mural in the commons, look for the three verb/adverb phrases.  If you can write those down, you will receive a point of extra credit for each phrase.

3. Look at writing about themes -- as you will do on the 26th/27th.
    See these posts: 

Sample Theme Essay on Words By Heart

Examples of Writing About Theme -- For your Book-of-the-Month Assessment

4. Play "In the Manner of the Adverb"
   A list of Adverbs -- mostly using -ly 
 

5. The Giver

B1 -- to page 64  Disc 2, Track 4, 6:45  Jonas, Jonas, Jonas

B2 --  to page 67, Disc 2, track 5, 2:20   to The evening meal . . .


B4 -- to page 70 disc 2, track 6, 3:49  to "Rereading rule number 6, . . .




A1 --page 44, Track 12, 5:00 to  page 47, bottom of page



A2 --  page 50, beginning of Chapter 7 to page 62, disc 2, track 4  1:49



A4-   page 47, Track 13-- 2:49  to disc 2, track 2, 4:33 -- page 55 "But the next morning, he had done it again."