Week of February 22-26
❤️❤️Monday 2/22❤️ Quick Review of Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers View these sentences View this document See this quick reminder Find your Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers packet and complete these 3 activities. I'll record the better 2 of 3 of these. 1. Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Assignment #1 at Quia Then, 2. Complete Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Quiz #2 at Quia and 3. **This is the one everyone has done the BEST on: Complete Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers #3 ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/23❤️ Mrs. Lupkes returns. Bring registration information! Focus on the Future: Complete and turn in this Listening Guide: (If absent, print this doc) 1. View: Finding Hot Careers Here is that Hot List! 2. View: Skipping School To Learn a Trade **Just added! New Scholarship Program for ALL of you! The Next Generation of Workers in SD This is FOR YOU, Class of '22!! Read this! 3. View: Training to be a Trooper 4. View: Answering the Call 5. View: Move Over Men, There's a Movement in Medicine (Features a WC graduate Class of 2010) 6. View: PowerLine ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/24❤️❤️ Finish Focus on the Future videos from. yesterday. ACT NOW!! 1. SDSU Junior Preview 2. STI Visit Days 3. USD Visits 4. Lake Area Tech Visit Day 5. Augie Visits ❤️❤️Thursday 2/25❤️❤️ MUG: Another common ACT error deals with PARALLEL STRUCTURE What is it? Multiple items of similar content in a sentence must be expressed in the same form grammatically. Incorrect parallelism: Mary likes hiking, swimming and to fish. Correct parallelism: Mary likes hiking, swimming, and fishing. or Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to fish. View: Grammar Lesson: Parallel Structure View: Parallel Structure ala Schmoop Practice first: Look at this page! 1. Read this explanation!! 2. Together do packet. Back of 1st page, front and back of 2nd page. If you are absent HERE is the packet! 3. Do this Parallel Structure exercise 4. Practice at ChompChomp--scroll down to howling dog to start! SEE the Yellow Box on the right! Parallel structure is just like equal equations in math! Parallelism with correlative conjunctions A correlative conjunction is a two-part conjunction. It consists of two words or phrases that are used to join sentence elements of equal value. The most common correlative conjunctions are the following:
Here are some examples of parallelism with these correlative conjunctions.
If time allows....Otherwise Monday ❤️❤️Friday 2/26❤️❤️ No School for State Wrestling ================================================================ Previous Weeks' Lessons: Week of February 16-19 ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/16❤️❤️ 2-Hour Late Start MUG Mini-Lesson: Pronoun REFERENCE (not agreemen!) Errors We do: View: Vague Pronoun Reference View: Pronoun Reference Errors Complete Pronoun Reference Packet You Do: 1. Pronoun Reference Exercise 4 2. Pronoun Reference Practice #2 ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/17❤️❤️ 1. Pick up YOUR manilla folder of graded work on back right shelf (2nd shelf down under Period 7). The folders are alphabetized! 2. First, take out the 2 sheets tucked in the TOP of your folder ( an essay diagram and stapled sample essay). 3. Next take out the GRADED Of Mice and Men Performance Exam on Lit Analysis essay. It should be on the top of your Of M&M tests. Some are stapled but most are 2 pieces of paper. 4. Set those 3 or 4 pieces aside to use today. 5. Now in SILENCE with no discussion, take TWO minutes to look through your work (no one else's business) in the folder. All of that work MUST stay in the folder. After you have looked through it, please get up and walk it to the back shelf again and stack in the same spot. Now we'll commence with today's lesson! 1. Lit Analysis Review Notes (If absent, here is Page 1 and here is Page 2) 2. Practice with Night Essay(s) (use the same guidelines as we did for Of M&M performance exam) Start with the essay on pg. 4--Surviving the Night If absent, click HERE for those Of M&M instructions that you'll use for Night essays If absent, click HERE for the Night Essays you will print and mark up Here is the KEY for the marked up essay Surviving Night As time allows...probably tomorrow! ❤️❤️Thursday 2/18❤️❤️ Pronoun Reference Continued Find the Who/Whom packet from last week and flip to back side for Pron Ref practice Go through THESE SENTENCES together Assignment: Complete this assignment at Quia on Pronoun Reference ❤️❤️Friday 2/19❤️❤️ MUG: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers View Dangling Modifiers View Misplaced and Dangling Modifier A misplaced modifier is one that is in the wrong place within the sentence. It is not close enough to the word it’s supposed to modify, so it causes confusion (and sometimes very funny sentences). Examples: I watched the bulls charge through my binoculars. (Bulls that charge through binoculars would give one quite a headache.) After the kids left their rooms, I cleaned them. (What was cleaned? The kids, or the rooms?) They walked into the tavern and ordered a drink that was dirty and filled with cockroaches. (I wouldn’t drink that if I were you!) Do you see how a misplaced modifier can change the whole meaning of a sentence? They are good for a chuckle—but not for good writing! Dangling=When a sentence begins with a modifying phrase, the intro must be immediately followed by a comma and then the noun it's describing. Though exhausted, it would be another hour before Zoe got to go home. There's nothing obviously wrong with this sentence, but let's think about what it's actually saying. We start with the modifier "though exhausted." That would seem to be describing Zoe, but it's next to "it," so right now, the sentence is actually saying that "it" is exhausted, which makes no sense. We need to reorder the sentence so that the modifier is next to what it's modifying: Though exhausted, Zoe wouldn't get to go home for another hour. Running toward the lake, the trees were swaying in the wind. "The trees" are obviously not running towards the lake; they don't have legs. 2 Fixes: Fix 1: Running toward the lake, I saw the trees swaying in the wind. (move the word being modified directly after the comma) Fix 2: As I ran toward the lake, the trees were swaying in the wind. (add the subject to the introductory phrase or clause) Often SINGLE words are misplaced. The most common are only, just, almost, nearly, scarcely, barely Only Cheryl eats grapes.=Cheryl is the ONLY one who eats them. Cheryl only eats grapes.=This means that Cheryl does only one thing with grapes: She eats them. She doesn’t squish them into wine, she doesn’t throw them at people. She only eats them. Cheryl eats only grapes.=This means that Cheryl eats nothing else but grapes. Hint: When a modifier begins a sentence (followed by comma), the very next thing that comes along HAS to be something that can, in fact, be modified by that phrase or clause or it's dangling. We Do: Worksheet packet You Do: 1. Exercise 1--Which ones are WRONG? Don't Skip this! 2. Screenshot Practice Quiz: Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers 3. Screenshot Dangling Modifiers 1--USE CHROME!! 4. Screenshot Grammar Bytes: Fixing Misplaced & Dangling Mods--Read instruction and click Start Here (under Monkey) It will say Congratulations! You have finished Exercise 4. See SCREENSHOT EXAMPLE on screen! Assignment: Send me 3 screenshots! If you'd like a 2nd attempt at Pronoun Reference from yesterday, you can do that starting at 2:45 in Google Classroom. I'll record the better of the two. YOU decide if you want to take it this time, knowing that you should ALWAYS challenge yourself and that the ACT is just 7 weeks away! ============================================================================================================ Previous Weeks' Lessons: Week of February 8-11 ❤️❤️Monday 2/8 & Tuesday 2/9❤️❤️ Mrs. Lupkes will be in class to begin the registration process for next year! She will record a Zoom for those who need to be absent She will return February 23rd. Paperwork due at that time!! ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/10❤️ MUG: Mini-lesson on Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose Pre-test Who's =Who is or Who has Who's in charge?=Who is in charge? Whose=shows possession Whose books are these? ============ Who=he/she Whom=him/her We do: Pretest, View Who/He trick practice packet & Cheat Sheet Now You Practice: 1. Who/Whom Quiz #1 2. Take the Who or Whom Quiz 3. Whose vs. Who's 4. Who's vs. Whose 5. Practice Who vs. Whom at ChompChomp ❤️❤️Thursday 2/11❤️ 1:30 Dismissal for PT Conferences Assessment over Mrs. Lupkes' presentation (Google Classroom) MUG: Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose You practice in Grammar Lab: Review: Grammar Lab Expectations 3. Practice with this quiz on Who or Whom 5. Take A Second Quiz on Who or Whom Now Complete these 2 assessments: I'll record the better score 1. the Who/Whom/Who's/Whose assignment at Quia (22 points) and 2. the Who/Whom assignment at Quia (22 points) ❤️❤️Friday 2/12❤️ No School ❤️❤️Monday 2/15❤️ No School-President's Day ============================================================================================================ Week of February 1-5, 2021 ❤️❤️Monday 2/1❤️❤️ MUG: Verb Tense Consistency An error tested on ACT and Common Core English tests 1. If you are absent today, view these brief videos on Shifts in Verb Tense (just through 2:59) and Verb Tense Shifts If you DON'T use correct verb tense, you'll get called out! Wrong Verb Tense Songs #1 (warning: PG) 2. We will use THIS ACTIVITY to introduce Verb Tense Consistency 3. We will also use THIS ACTIVITY to review Verb Tense Consistency 4. Review Verb Tense Consistency with THIS DOCUMENT 5. Practice Verb Tense Consistency with THIS EXERCISE Finish Worksheet Packet: "If" conditionals page and ACT passage on back. Here are the "If" conditional rules If you are absent, we will use THIS ACTIVITY in class today for practice. ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/2❤️❤️ MUG: Verb Tense Consistency We practice: Complete worksheet on BACK of packet Conditional Errors Conditionals cheat sheet If I WAS a rich girl? (1:00) Oh, Gwen. I can put up with average songs boasting about riches you (apparently) didn’t have when you recorded this song. But what I will not put up with is an incorrect type 2 conditional sentence! This is a conditional sentence which describes a hypothetical situation. When you use it, it should be “if I were” and not “if I was.” Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Was or Were in the If Clause Conditional? You Practice: 1. Start with a super simple warmup (You'll get a limited # of questions) 2. Tense Consistency Exercise 3. Consistency of Tense-(Keep scrolling all the way to bottom!) 4. English Grammar Online Quiz 5. Verb Tense Consistency Quiz (cick the blue start button) Let's see if you get this far. Using your notes packet and this conditionals cheat sheet, Complete these Assignment:s 1. Complete Verb Tense Consistency Quiz #1 at Quia and 2. Complete Verb Tense Consistency Quiz #2 at Quia We will also start Pronoun Agreement today! ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/3❤️❤️ MUG: Pronoun Agreement View: Celebrity Grammar with Ariana Grande View: Sorry! Slightly PG Amy's Lyric School: I and Me Pretest and Subject Pronouns Pronoun Cheat Sheet Grammar Lab Expectations ❤️Thursday 2/4❤️ (two hour late start( MUG: Pronoun Agreement We do: Pronoun Packet pp. 108-end ❤️❤️Friday 2/5❤️❤️ Pronouns continued! **One more tricky rule: Always use the POSSESSIVE case before an -ing word. Incorrect: I am tired of HIM whining. Correct: I am tired of HIS whining. Incorrect: The teacher was upset about HIM coming late every day. Correct: The teacher was upset about HIS coming late every day. Incorrect: Him coming late every day was annoying. Correct: His coming late every day was annoying. View: Possessive before Gerund One more tricky pronoun situation--possessive before gerund (-ing word) You do: Practice: Prounoun Case with Comparisions #1 Practic:e: Pronoun Case with Comparisons #2 Practice Quiz on Pronoun Usage Quickly review Pronoun Agreement with these two exercises: 1. Pronoun Case Exercise 2 2. Prounoun Case Exercise 3 practice ChompChomp #5 prounouns Assignment: Complete assignments at Quia You'll do 4 pronoun assessments. The best 3 of the 4 will be recorded. USE YOUR CHEAT SHEETS! Even if you get them all right on the first one, do both! USE your packet! USE your cheat sheet! 1. At Quia:Pronoun Usage Assignment #1 (20 pts) 2. At Quia: Using Pronouns Correctly #2 (20 pts) 3. At Quia: Pronouns in the Subject, Object and Possessive Cases #3 4. At Quia: Pronoun Agreement Assessment #4 ================================================================= Lesson Plans for 2020 Week of February 24-28 ❤️❤️Monday 2/24❤️❤️ MUG Mini-Lesson: Pronoun REFERENCE (not agreemen!) Errors On Friday, we Viewed: Vague Pronoun Reference We do: Go though activities in the pronoun packet You do: 1. Pronoun Reference Exercise 4 2. Pronoun Reference Exercise 5 Now do: Assignment: Complete assignment on Pronoun Reference MUG: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers View Dangling Modifiers View Misplaced and Dangling Modifier A misplaced modifier is one that is in the wrong place within the sentence. It is not close enough to the word it’s supposed to modify, so it causes confusion (and sometimes very funny sentences). Examples: I watched the bulls charge through my binoculars. (Bulls that charge through binoculars would give one quite a headache.) After the kids left their rooms, I cleaned them. (What was cleaned? The kids, or the rooms?) They walked into the tavern and ordered a drink that was dirty and filled with cockroaches. (I wouldn’t drink that if I were you!) Do you see how a misplaced modifier can change the whole meaning of a sentence? They are good for a chuckle—but not for good writing! Dangling=When a sentence begins with a modifying phrase, the intro must be immediately followed by a comma and then the noun it's describing. Though exhausted, it would be another hour before Zoe got to go home. There's nothing obviously wrong with this sentence, but let's think about what it's actually saying. We start with the modifier "though exhausted." That would seem to be describing Zoe, but it's next to "it," so right now, the sentence is actually saying that "it" is exhausted, which makes no sense. We need to reorder the sentence so that the modifier is next to what it's modifying: Though exhausted, Zoe wouldn't get to go home for another hour. Running toward the lake, the trees were swaying in the wind. "The trees" are obviously not running towards the lake; they don't have legs. 2 Fixes: Fix 1: Running toward the lake, I saw the trees swaying in the wind. (move the word being modified directly after the comma) Fix 2: As I ran toward the lake, the trees were swaying in the wind. (add the subject to the introductory phrase or clause) Often SINGLE words are misplaced. The most common are only, just, almost, nearly, scarcely, barely Only Cheryl eats grapes.=Cheryl is the ONLY one who eats them. Cheryl only eats grapes.=This means that Cheryl does only one thing with grapes: She eats them. She doesn’t squish them into wine, she doesn’t throw them at people. She only eats them. Cheryl eats only grapes.=This means that Cheryl eats nothing else but grapes. Hint: When a modifier begins a sentence (followed by comma), the very next thing that comes along HAS to be something that can, in fact, be modified by that phrase or clause or it's dangling. Worksheet packet ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/25❤️❤️ Mrs. Lupkes Returns! ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/26❤️❤️ Mug: Dangling & Misplaced Mods ACT Practice **If you will be gone Thurs & Friday, you'll take the assessments TODAY! All 7 of the others who will be gone both days have completed the assessments. Now practice: 1. Exercise 1--Which ones are WRONG? Don't Skip this! 2. Screenshot Practice Quiz: Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers 3. Screenshot Dangling Modifiers 1--USE CHROME!! 4. Screenshot Grammar Bytes: Fixing Misplaced & Dangling Mods--Read instruction and click Start Here (under Monkey) It will say Congratulations! You have finished Exercise 4. See SCREENSHOT EXAMPLE on screen! Assignment: Send me 3 screenshots! ❤️❤️Thursday 2/27❤️❤️ Find your Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers packet and complete these 3 activities. I'll record the better 2 of 3 of these. 1. Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Assignment #1 at Quia Then, 2. Complete Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Quiz #2 at Quia and 3. **This is the one everyone has done the BEST on: Complete Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers #3 ❤️❤️Friday 2/28❤️❤️ MUG: Another common ACT error deals with PARALLEL STRUCTURE What is it? Multiple items of similar content in a sentence must be expressed in the same form grammatically. Incorrect parallelism: Mary likes hiking, swimming and to fish. Correct parallelism: Mary likes hiking, swimming, and fishing. or Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to fish. View: Grammar Lesson: Parallel Structure View: Parallel Structure ala Schmoop Practice first: 1. Read this explanation!! 2. Do this Parallel Structure exercise 4. Practice at ChompChomp--scroll down to howling dog to start! SEE the Yellow Box on the right! Parallel structure is just like equal equations in math! Assignment: 3 exercises in packet. Back of 1st page, front and back of 2nd page. Parallelism with correlative conjunctions A correlative conjunction is a two-part conjunction. It consists of two words or phrases that are used to join sentence elements of equal value. The most common correlative conjunctions are the following:
Here are some examples of parallelism with these correlative conjunctions.
MUG: Complete Parallel Structure Assessments at Quia. All 25 pts. I'll record the better 2 scores. Take your time, think, and use your cheat sheet! 1. Parallel Structure Assignment #1 at Quia 2. Parallel Structure Assignment #2 at Quia 3. Parallel Structure Assignment #3 at Quia =========================================================================== Week of February 18-21 ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/18❤️❤️ Pronouns continued! **One more tricky rule: Always use the POSSESSIVE case before an -ing word. Incorrect: I am tired of HIM whining. Correct: I am tired of HIS whining. Incorrect: The teacher was upset about HIM coming late every day. Correct: The teacher was upset about HIS coming late every day. Incorrect: Him coming late every day was annoying. Correct: His coming late every day was annoying. View: Possessive before Gerund One more tricky pronoun situation--possessive before gerund (-ing word) Quickly review Pronoun Agreement with these two exercises: 1. Pronoun Case Exercise 2 2. Prounoun Case Exercise 3 Assignment: Last week you did 2 assessments. The best 3 of the 4 will be recorded. Use Cheat Sheet: 5. At Quia: Pronouns in the Subject, Object and Possessive Cases #3 6. At Quia: Pronoun Agreement Assessment #4 ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/19❤️❤️ MUG: Mini-lesson on Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose Who's =Who is or Who has Who's in charge?=Who is in charge? Whose=shows possession Whose books are these? ============ Who=he/she Whom=him/her We do: Pretest, View Who/He trick practice packet & Cheat Sheet Now You Practice: 1. Who/Whom Quiz #1 2. Take the Who or Whom Quiz ❤️❤️Thursday 2/20❤️❤️ MUG: Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose You practice in Grammar Lab: Review: Grammar Lab Expectations **Don't skip ANY of this practice that will prepare you for assessments! Your 2 screenshots should look like this. Email both in 1 email. 1. Whose vs. Who's 2. Now screenshot results when you are done with: Who's vs. Whose 3. Practice with this quiz on Who or Whom 4.Now screenshot results of Practice Who vs. Whom at ChompChomp 5. Take A Second Quiz on Who or Whom Now Complete these 2 assessments: I'll record the better score 1. the Who/Whom/Who's/Whose assignment at Quia (22 points) and 2. the Who/Whom assignment at Quia (22 points) ❤️❤️Friday 2/21❤️❤️ Friday Focus on the Future: Complete and turn in this Listening Guide: 1. View: Finding Hot Careers 2. View: Skipping School To Learn a Trade 3. View: Training to be a Trooper 4. View: Answering the Call 5. View: Move Over Men, There's a Movement in Medicine (Features a WC graduate Class of 2010) 6. View: PowerLine MUG Mini-Lesson: Pronoun REFERENCE (not agreemen!) Errors View: Vague Pronoun Reference View: Pronoun Reference Errors Complete Pronoun Reference Packet Pronoun Reference Practice #2 Now do: Assignment: Complete assignment on Pronoun Reference =================================================================== Week of February 10-13 ❤️❤️Monday 2/10❤️❤️--1:30 dismissal Go though Mrs. Lupkes Quiz Questions Share Night Character List and background ❤️❤️Tuesday 2/11❤️❤️ MUG: Pronoun Agreement View: Celebrity Grammar with Kanye West View: Celebrity Grammar with Ariana Grande View: Slightly PG Amy's Lyric School: I and Me Pretest and Subject Pronouns Pronoun Cheat Sheet Grammar Lab Expectations ❤️❤️Wednesday 2/12❤️❤️ MUG: Pronoun Agreement We do: Pronoun Packet pp. 108-end You do: Practice: Prounoun Case with Comparisions #1 Practic:e: Pronoun Case with Comparisons #2 Practice Quiz on Pronoun Usage Practice ChompChomp #5 prounouns Assignment: Complete 2 assignments at Quia This week you'll do 4 prounoun assessments. The best 3 of the 4 will be recorded. Even if you get them all right on the first one, do both! USE your packet! USE your cheat sheet! 1. Pronoun Usage Assignment #1 (20 pts) 2. Using Pronouns Correctly #2 (20 pts) ❤️❤️Thursday 2/13❤️❤️ MUG: Pronouns & Antecedents View: Pronoun Antecedent Agreement (start at 1:47) We practice: Page 4, 5, 6 in packet You practice: Complete Choosing the correct pronoun Quiz 1 Pronouns at GrammarBook.com Pronoun Case Exercise 1 Next week: Pronouns continued! **One more tricky rule: Always use the POSSESSIVE case before an -ing word. Incorrect: I am tired of HIM whining. Correct: I am tired of HIS whining. Incorrect: The teacher was upset about HIM coming late every day. Correct: The teacher was upset about HIS coming late every day. Incorrect: Him coming late every day was annoying. Correct: His coming late every day was annoying. One more tricky pronoun situation--possessive before gerund (-ing word) Quickly review Pronoun Agreement with these two exercises: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Assignment: This week you'll do 4 prounoun assessments. The best 3 of the 4 will be recorded. 5. At Quia: Pronouns in the Subject, Object and Possessive Cases #3 6. At Quia: Pronoun Agreement Assessment #4 ❤️❤️Friday 2/14❤️❤️& ❤️❤️Monday 2/17❤️❤️ No School. President' Day Break ============================================= Week of February 3-7, 2020 ❤️❤️❤️Monday 2/3 ❤️❤️❤️ Upload essay to Turnitin. Class ID: 23720304 Enrollment Key=Honors2020 MUG: Verb Tense Consistency--an error tested on ACT and Common Core English tests 1. If you are absent today, view these brief videos on Shifts in Verb Tense (just through 2:59) and Verb Tense Shifts If you DON'T use correct verb tense, you'll get called out! Wrong Verb Tense Songs #1 (warning: PG) 2. If you are absent today, we will use THIS ACTIVITY to introduce Verb Tense Consistency 3. If you are absent today, we will also use THIS ACTIVITY to review Verb Tense Consistency 4. If you are absent today, we will review Verb Tense Consistency with THIS DOCUMENT 5. If you are absent today, we will practice Verb Tense Consistency with THIS EXERCISE ❤️❤️❤️Tuesday 2/4❤️❤️❤️ MUG: Verb Tense Consistency View these brief videos on Shifts in Verb Tense (just through 2:59) and Verb Tense Shifts If you DON'T use correct verb tense, you'll get called out! Wrong Verb Tense Songs #1 (warning: PG) We practice: Finish Worksheet Packet: "If" conditionals page and ACT passage on back. Here are the "If" conditional rules If you are absent, we will use THIS ACTIVITY in class today for practice. You Practice: 1. Start with a super simple warmup 2. Tense Consistency Exercise 3. Consistency of Tense 4. English Grammar Online Quiz ❤️❤️❤️Wednesday 2/5❤️❤️❤️ Using your notes packet and this conditionals cheat sheet, Complete this Assignment: 1. Complete Verb Tense Consistency Quiz #1 at Quia and 2. Complete Verb Tense Consistency Quiz #2 at Quia NWEA-MAP testing results Register for Newsela ❤️❤️❤️Thursday 2/6❤️❤️❤️ Mrs.. Lupkes will be in class today. Please be respectful listeners! There WILL be an assessment over information she shares! ❤️❤️❤️Friday 2/7❤️❤️❤️ Mrs.. Lupkes will be in class today. Please be respectful listeners! There WILL be an assessment over information she shares! Week of February 25-March 1 Monday 2/25 (2-Hour Late Start) MUG: Pronouns **One more tricky rule: Always use the POSSESSIVE case before an -ing word. Incorrect: I am tired of HIM whining. Correct: I am tired of HIS whining. Incorrect: The teacher was upset about HIM coming late every day. Correct: The teacher was upset about HIS coming late every day. Incorrect: Him coming late every day was annoying. Correct: His coming late every day was annoying. Quickly review Pronoun Agreement with these two exercises: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 You practice: Pronoun Case Exercise 1 Pronouns Pronouns at GrammarBook.com Pronoun Case Exercise 2 =================================================================== Tuesday 2/26 (9:00 Start & Assembly) and Wednesday 2/27 MUG: Pronouns Assignments: 1. Log in to SDMyLife 2. On your dashboard or home page, scroll down to lower right corner and open Method Test Prep 3. On the Method Test Prep Student Dashboard, scroll down to week 14, Lesson 57 (Pronoun Antecedent Agreement) Read through the rules and/or watch the video. Click the "I have read and understand this concept" box at the bottom. Move on to and complete the assessment. 4. On the Method Test Prep Student Dashboard, scroll down to week 16, Lesson 66 (Unclear Pronouns) Read through the rules and/or watch the video. Click the "I have read and understand this concept" box at the bottom. Move on to and complete the assessment. 5. At Quia: Pronouns in the Subject, Object and Possessive Case #3 . 6. At Quia: Pronoun Agreement #4 (best 3 of 4 pronoun grades will be recorded) 7. Log in to NEWSELA. Read TWO of the FOUR new articles assigned. Answer the questions for each! =================================================================== Thursday 2/28 MUG Mini-Lesson: Pronoun REFERENCE (not agreemen!) Errors View: Vague Pronoun Reference View: Pronoun Reference Errors Complete Pronoun Reference Packet Pronoun Reference Practice #2 Now do: Assignment: Complete assignment on Pronoun Reference MUG: Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose Who's =Who is or Who has Who's in charge?=Who is in charge? Whose=shows possession Whose books are these? ============ Who=he/she Whom=him/her We do: Pretest, View Who/He trick practice packet & Cheat Sheet =================================================================== Friday 3/1 MUG: Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose You practice: 1. Whoever/Whomever Quiz #1 2. Take the Who or Whom Quiz 3. Practice with this quiz on Who or Whom 4. Take another quiz on Who or Whom Now Complete: I'll record the better score the Who/Whom/Who's/Whose assignment at Quia (22 points) and the Who/Whom assignment at Quia (22 points) =================================================================== Week of February 19-22 Tuesday 2/19 from Mrs. Kistler and Prom Committee: Please stop in & register for Prom by Friday, 2/22 with Mrs. Kistler The deadline will NOT be extended. If you are not registered by Friday, you will not be able to attend Prom. If your date's name changes later, that is fine, but you need to be registered by Friday. MUG: Pronoun Agreement View: Celebrity Grammar with Kanye West View: Celebrity Grammar with Ariana Grande View: Slightly PG Amy's Lyric School: I and Me Pretest and Subject Pronouns Pronoun Cheat Sheet Grammar Lab Expectations We do: Continue Pronoun Agreement packet pp. 108-end Wednesday 2/20No School ***SNOW DAY!*** Thursday 2/21 Take time to complete Mrs. Lupkes Survey! MUG: Pronoun Agreement We do: Pronoun Packet You do: Practice Quiz on Pronoun Usage Practice Choosing the correct pronoun Quiz 1 Practice ChompChomp pronouns Now Complete 2 assignments: I will record the better of the two. Even if you get them all right on the first one, do both! USE your packet! USE your cheat sheet! 1. Pronoun Usage Assignment #1 (20 pts) 2. Using Pronouns Correctly #2 (20 pts) Friday 2/22 Pronouns continue! **One more tricky rule: Always use the POSSESSIVE case before an -ing word. Incorrect: I am tired of HIM whining. Correct: I am tired of HIS whining. Incorrect: The teacher was upset about HIM coming late every day. Correct: The teacher was upset about HIS coming late every day. Incorrect: Him coming late every day was annoying. Correct: His coming late every day was annoying. One more tricky pronoun situation--possessive before gerund (-ing word) Quickly review Pronoun Agreement with these two exercises: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 You practice: Pronoun Case Exercise 1 Pronouns Pronouns at GrammarBook.com Complete Quiz on Pronoun Usage Complete Choosing the correct pronoun Quiz 1 Now submit: I'll record the better score of two--no feedback will show right away! Do both! At Quia: Pronouns in the Subject, Object and Possessive Case At Quia: Pronoun Agreement Week of February 11-13 Monday 2/11 M=1:30 Dismiss for PT Conferences MUG: Verb Tense Consistency--an error tested on ACT and Common Core English tests 1. If you are absent today, view these brief videos on Verb Tense Consistency and Shifts in Verb Tense (just through 2:59) If you DON'T use correct verb tense, you'll get called out! Wrong Verb Tense Songs #1 (warning: PG) 2. If you are absent today, we will use THIS ACTIVITY to introduce Verb Tense Consistency 3. If you are absent today, we will also use THIS ACTIVITY to review Verb Tense Consistency 4. If you are absent today, we will review Verb Tense Consistency with THIS DOCUMENT 5. If you are absent today, we will practice Verb Tense Consistency with THIS EXERCISE Tuesday 2/12 9:00 Start MUG: Verb Tense Consistency We practice: Finish Worksheet Packet: "If" conditionals page Here are the "If" conditional rules If you are absent, we will use THIS ACTIVITY in class today for practice. You Practice: 1. Start with a super simple warmup 2. Tense Consistency Exercise 3. Consistency of Tense 4. English Grammar Online Quiz Complete this Assignment: 1. Complete Verb Tense Consistency Quiz #1 at Quia Wednesday 2/13 View: WWII aircraft carrier and veteran gunner It's time to begin to prepare for the ELA (English Language Arts) portion of the Common Core. The ELA test is an untimed test that contains several different types of questions. Students answer multiple choice questions based on short passages they read and write responses to open-ended questions based on stories, articles, or poems they listen to or read. Again, drill improves skill, so we will be practicing regularly until test time utilizing Newsela, a data base of current event non-fiction stories tailor-made for classroom use. The current event stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. Real life newspaper writers rewrite a story four times for a total of five Lexile (reading) levels per story. All articles have embedded Common Core aligned quizzes that conform to the reading levels for checking comprehension. What is Newsela Join NEWSELA-- Your Class Code is WXB8W7 Read: Matching Grade level to Lexile levels in Newsela Reading Lab Expectations and Assignment: 1. Since electronic devices are not allowed during Common Core or ACT or any standardized testing, get used to that and tuck cell phones away. 2. 9 articles have been assigned to you. You MUST read the Elie Wiesel article. 3. Then choose TWO of the other nine articles to read and answer questions. 4. Log in to see the articles. 5. For each article, choose the lexile level closest to your grade level (so either MAX or one of the top 2 numbers). 6. When you finish reading, go to the activities link on top right. 7. Click the Quiz link and answer the 4 questions for each article. Results come directly to me. 8. Again, read the Wiesel article and any TWO of the other articles to read and answer the 4 questions for each. This is much like what the ELA Common Core exams will be like. Practice makes progress! Readers become leaders! Thursday 2/14, Friday 2/15, Monday 2/18 No School for Inservice and President's Day ============================================== Week of February 4-8 Monday 2/4 Mrs. Lupkes will share information on senior year Tuesday 2/5 Mrs. Lupkes will share information on senior year Wednesday 2/6 Assignment at Quia: Complete Review of Mrs. Lupkes 2-day Presentation Subject-Verb Agreement Practice Packet-Pre-test Click here for a review of ALL the rules! Rules: 1. Whenever each, either, neither, ones (someone, anyone), bodies (somebody, nobody" is the subject, the verb MUST be singular. (Also add Every and Many a or Many an Each of the girls is carrying a backpack. Every girl and boy carries... Many a girl carries a 2. Whenever "both, few, several, many" is subject, the verb must be plural Both of the girls are carrying a backpack. 3. If "some, all, any, none, most" is the subject, look inside the phrase to determine if the verb is singular or plural. Some of the cake is gone. Some of the cookies are gone. 4. Singular subjects joined by "or" take singular verb. Jason, Jen or Pat does the dishes every night. 5. Compound subjects joined by "and" take plural verbs. Jason, Jen and Pat are coming for dinner. View ACT review videos: 1. Tricky scenarios on the ACT with SV agreement Thursday 2/7 (SNOW DAY!) Friday 2/8 (2 HOUR LATE START) Find your SV agreement packet with Cheat Sheet. Go over ACT passage and last page. Do 2-sided worksheet (Handbook Section 11) together Assignment: complete these 4 assignments. (I will keep the better 22 point and the better 18 point assignment. Use the Cheat Sheet.) 1. SUBMIT S-V Agreement ASSIGNMENT #1 at Quia (22 pts) 2. Submit S-V Agreement Assignment #3 (22 pts) 3. SUBMIT S-V Agreement ASSIGNMENT #2 at Quia (18 pts) 4. SUBMIT S-V Agreement Assignment #4 (18 pts) |
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