Week of March 29-April 2
Monday 3/29 FFA Gone Self-Guided Grammar Lab: Last Unit of the Year!! 1. You will do well on Wednesday's assessments ONLY if you do will with today's SELF-guided FOCUSED Grammar Lab! 2. Pick up Words Commonly Confused Packet 3. Take 10-15 minutes to work through it ON YOUR OWN. Answers are on the back of each page. FOCUS! THESE PAIRS WILL ALL SHOW UP ON ASSESSMENTS! 4. Now practice and Email 4 SCREENSHOT RESULTS Requested BELOW All of these pairs will be on assessments, so don't skip any of the practice! Notorious Confusables: fewer/less and farther/further Use fewer with countable objects (fewer desks, books, students). Use less with non-countables (you can't add -s to these words) like less salt and less sand and less volume. A. Practice Fewer vs. Less B. Practice Farther or Further #2 Notorious Confusables: its/it's and there/their/they're C. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice Its/It's D. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice there/their/they're Notorious Confusables: Lose vs. Loose A. Practice Lose vs. Loose B. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice Lose vs. Loose #2 Notorious Confusables: accept/except and affect/effect A. Practice Affect/Effect B.Practice Accept/Except C. SCREENSHOT RESULTS AT THE BOTTOM OF Practice here Tuesday 3/30 SD College Fair Wrap Up & Reflection in Google Classroom Notorious Confusables Continued: Last grammar lessons of the year! Notorious Confusables: lie/lay and sit/set (worksheet) Today I will... Yesterday I In the past I have/has/had rest/recline lie down lay down lain down put/place lay the book laid the book laid the book Trick: Ask yourself if the sentence means REST or PUT 1. Practice Lie/Lay Notorious Confusables: everyday/every day (worksheet) We use our everyday dishes every day. Everyday is an adjective meaning "daily" or "average." Jogging 3 miles is an everyday occurrence. Every day is a time expression that means "each day." I jog 3 miles every day. 1. click the blue Start button to Practice Here already/all ready 2. Another practice! Notorious Confusables: among/between between=TWO among=more than 2 1. Practice HERE Notorious Confusables: advise/advice My trick: advise means to give advice. Advise has an "s" that reminds me that advise means to say or give advice. 1. Practice HERE Wednesday 3/31 FFA Gone Use Cheat Sheets and FOCUS! These are always good scores! Assignment: Commonly Confused Words Assignment #1 at Quia Complete: Commonly Confused Words Assignment #2 at Quia Thursday 4/01 April Fool's Day! 1. Don't be a fool! Check Inf. Campus to make sure you have NO missing work! Any missing work will turn to zero at the end of the day since we have had LOTS of class time to make up work. NO FOOLING!! 2. Complete the College Fair Wrap up/Reflection and upload to Google Classroom. 3. PRINT a copy to give to me. Go to the library to pick up! Be sure your NAME is on it! Slide it under the door. 4. PLEASE sit and work quietly until the bell! Happy Easter! Friday 4/02 No School Easter Break Monday 4/5 No School Easter Break ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️. ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️. ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . Week of March 22-26 Monday 3/22 FFA Gone WC's post-high planning exploration day changed from next Wednesday (FFA day) to this Friday. We will attend IN CLASS. If you are out of the building, log in during your English class time. If you are absent, you will log in during English class before March 31. There will be several activities that will go in the gradebook in connection with this exploration. Assignment: Objective: Reading Informational Text Finish Exploring Educational Opportunities in South Dakota Booklet. Turn in completed activity--slide under my door. Leave stapled booklet on back shelf for use by other classes. You'll also need this Council on College Admission in SD Presentation Here is this organization's website with direct links to admissions at each school. (Click in the BLUE box) You'll also need to use this Build Dakota Site Here is the Dakota Corps Scholarship Info Tuesday 3/23 Track Gone Quickly Finish and TURN IN Educational Opportunities Booklet Activity. Be sure name is on it and slide under door. 2nd to Last MUG Unit! Parallel Structure What is parallel structure? 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 Practice first: 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. 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.
Wednesday 3/24 College Fair Prep Activity 1. View How to Make the Most of the Virtual College Fair 2. FAQ's about the Fair (go through handout) 3. Updated List of Attendees (last page of handout) 4. While you are IN the session, you'll do AT LEAST 3 screenshots to turn in for attendance at the fair. The screenshots should be of any 3 college or tech school or military sites you visited. You'll attach those screenshots to a reflection activity after we attend. Visit at least ONE school you're seriously considering Visit ONE school you know nothing about Visit ONE other non-school site (military, mapping your future, etc. 5. See Demo SDSU SD Air Natl Guard Southeast Tech 6. College Comparison Activity (next week) Thursday 3/25 1. Do a Quick Review of Parallel Structure HERE. 2. Do one more Quick Review of Parallel Structure HERE. 3. Practice at ChompChomp--scroll down to howling dog to start! 4. Now, find cheat sheet packet if you need it. Also remember the X and Y rule on the chart to the right. 5. Complete 3 Parallel Structure Assessments at Quia. All 25 pts. I'll record the better 2 scores. Take your time, THINK, use your cheat sheet and the chart to the right! Please don't talk or disturb others once you finish! Let others focus! Thanks! 1. Parallel Structure Assignment #1 at Quia 2. Parallel Structure Assignment #2 at Quia 3. Parallel Structure Assignment #3 at Quia Slide SD Education Opportunities Worksheet under my door WITH name on it! Work quietly to prepare for tomorrow's virtual college fair when you finish. You can go to the virtual fair site (link below) to fill out the FRONT of that single-sided worksheet so you know WHERE you want to visit when you log in tomorrow! Friday 3/26 Attend Virtual College Fair! Mrs. Lupkes will be here to assist. Click HERE to get back to site ------------------------------------------------------- Week of March 15-19 Monday 3/15 Snow Day! Tuesday 3/16 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 this SCREENSHOT EXAMPLE Assignment: Send me 3 screenshots! Wednesday 3/17 Happy St. Patrick's Day! LAB and ASSESSMENT DAY EXPECTATIONS: 1. Silence 2. Focus 3. Best Effort Step 1: Complete these THREE Kahoots to prepare for THREE assessments. (Completion Grade so don't skip!) 1. Dangling Mods @ Kahoot; Game PIN: 04382978 2. Misplaced Mods @ Kahoot; Game PIN: 0832732irsc-asc.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/8/1/31813909/036_modifiers_-_dangling_misplaced.pdf 3. Misplaced & Dangling Mods @ Kahoot; Game PIN: 04869843 Step 2: Use Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers packet on table. Here is another CHEAT SHEET Complete ALL 3 assessments below. 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 Thursday 3/18 Every negative or destructive thing that happens in my classroom reflects poorly on me. I got a visit today from the maintenance staff about the fact that the floor guards on the chairs in this classroom are disappearing or being found lying around the room or in the hallways. Checking the legs of all of the chairs every class period is something I just really don't have time to do. I'm busy enough cleaning pen and pencil marks off desks and picking up the piles of spit wads and paper balls thrown around every day. I can't say that I've had this issue in my classroom for years. I'm asking you to please please be respectful of the time that it takes to keep our rooms clean. WCHS will be virtually attending the South Dakota Spring College Fair on March 31st during our English classes. To attend, we must all register HERE very soon. Assignment: Once you register, you will receive a confirmation email. Forward that email to me NOW so Mrs. Lupkes and I can keep track of who has registered. Mrs. Lupkes will join us in class on that day. HERE is the list of colleges & military branches registered to attend that day. There will be opportunities to live chat. We'll be using THIS SITE as well. Assignment: Objective: Reading Informational Text Explore Educational Opportunities in South Dakota Booklet You'll also need this Council on College Admission in SD Presentation Here is this organization's website with direct links to admissions at each school. (Click in the BLUE box) You'll also need to use this Build Dakota Site Here is the Dakota Corps Scholarship Info Friday 3/19 No School-BB Tourney ---------------------------------------------------- Week of March 8-12 Monday 3/8 We do: 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 View Possessive Gerunds Possessive Gerund Practice Worksheet You do: Review Pronoun Agreement with these exercises: 1. Pronoun Case Exercise 2 2. Prounoun Case Exercise 3 3. practice ChompChomp #5 prounouns Tuesday 3/9 Now take 4 Pronoun ASSESSMENTS at Quia. Use packets and cheat sheet! Go to Google Classroom to access 4 assessments. I'll record the better two of four PROVIDED that you show effort on all four. If you have 2 really great ones and 2 where it's obvious you didn't even try, I'll average your scores. BEST EFFORT EVERY TIME. Wednesday. 3/10 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 Grammar Girl on Who/Whom View Who/He trick practice packet & Cheat Sheet Thursday 3/11 MUG: Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose Finish last page of packet You practice in Grammar Lab: Now You Practice: 1. Take the Who or Whom Quiz 2. Who's vs. Whose 3. Practice Who vs. Whom at ChompChomp 4. Take A Second Quiz on Who or Whom Now Complete these 2 assessments: I'll record the better score unless both scores benefit everyone's grade. This SHOULD be an EASY GOOD score. 1. the Who/Whom/Who's/Whose assignment at Quia (22 points) and 2. the Who/Whom assignment at Quia (22 points) Friday 3/12 No School Previous Weeks' Lessons Below: Week of March 1-5 Monday 3/1 MUG: Verb-Tense Consistency A. Pick up Verb Tense packet on back shelf. B. Put in earbuds. C. Focus and work independently. Remain seated throughout class. Put packet somewehre safe for Tuesday. D. Now follow these step by step instructions CAREFULLY: ======== Be sure you are logged in to your K12 Google for videos to work! 1. View this brief videos on Shifts in Verb Tense (watch just through 2:59) 2. View this brief video on Verb Tense Shifts (1:58) 3. If you DON'T use correct verb tense, you'll get called out! View: Wrong Verb Tense Songs #1 (1:00 warning: PG) 4. Turn to the first page of your packet( THIS ACTIVITY) and click to OPEN THIS audio clip (2:49) as you follow along and answer questions on this first page of worksheet. To play the clips, click the ► button! 5. Now turn to the back of the first page ( THIS ACTIVITY and scroll down) Click to open THIS AUDIO CLIP (2:51) as you follow along on this page and answer the questions. 6. Turn to the next page of the packet called Recognizing Verb Tense Shift Errors. If you are absent, here is that page: THIS DOCUMENT Click to open THIS AUDIO CLIP (6:06)as you follow along on this page and mark it up. 7. Turn to the 3rd sheet of paper in packet (THIS ACTIVITY). Click to open THIS AUDIO CLIP (6:13) as you follow along and complete this page and the back side. 8. Turn to the 4th sheet of paper in the packet (THIS ACTIVITY) Click to open THIS AUDIO CLIP (4:24)as you follow along and complete this page and the back side. 9. NOW set your packet aside for tomorrwo and PRACTICE with: A. Start with a super simple warmup (You'll get a limited # of questions) B. English Grammar Online Quiz C. Verb Tense Consistency Quiz (click the BLUE START, NEXT, and CHECK buttons!) D. Verb Tense Consistency Practice. This one is at Quia but it's not mine. You don't have to enter your name to play. Just put anything in the name boxes to get started. Look at the answers when you finish! E. Try this GO Conqr Verb Tense Shift Quiz When you finish, see your score, then click Check Answers to see the ones you might have missed. Tuesday 3/2 MUG: Verb Tense Consistency 1. What is it? See these examples. 2. Now look at this 2-sided sheet of paper on your tables. Note the KEYWORDS on the back that help determine tense. LEAVE this guide on the table when you go! 3. View Verb Tense ACT 4. Continue with packet (5th sheet of paper) on the page of ACT Verb Tense Practice Questions. We'll substitute the (6th sheet of paper) "Verb Tense in If Clauses" with a single sheet on back shelf that looks LIKE THIS Do both sides of last (7th sheet of paper) page of packet Now Practice: 2. Tense Consistency Exercise 3. Consistency of Tense-(Keep scrolling all the way to bottom!) Wednesday 3/3 Using your notes packet and this conditionals cheat sheet, Complete these Assignments, also in Classroom: 1. Complete Verb Tense Consistency Quiz #1 at Quia and 2. Complete Verb Tense Consistency Quiz #2 at Quia MUG: Pronoun Agreement View: Celebrity Grammar with Ariana Grande Pretest and Subject Pronouns Pronoun Cheat Sheet Grammar Lab Expectations Thursday 3/4 Girls and Boys State with Mrs. Lupkes View ALB&GS (start at :31) MUG: Pronoun Agreement View: Sorry! Slightly PG Amy's Lyric School: I and Me We do: Pronoun Packet pp. 108-end 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) Friday 3/5 Finish last couple pages of packet. You do: 1. Screenshot Practice with Choose the Correct Pronoun Case Screenshot will look like the first one with #10 and score showing 2. Screenshot Practice with Pronouns Quiz at Grammarbook Screenshot will look like the second one--final score/11 3.Screenshot Practice: Prounoun Case with Comparisions #1 Screenshot will look like the 3rd one 4. Screenshot: Pronoun Case with Comparisons #2 Screenshot will look like the 3rd one only with a #2 instead of #1 5. Screenshot: Practice Quiz on Pronoun Usage Screenshot will look like the first one with #10 and score showing These screenshots are like a quiz. They are due TODAY IN CLASS! Monday 3/8 Quickly review Pronoun Agreement with these two exercises: 6. Pronoun Case Exercise 2 7. Prounoun Case Exercise 3 8. practice ChompChomp #5 prounouns Now take ASSESSMENTS at Quia. Use packets and cheat sheet! Lessons below for this week are Under Construction! DON'T start until Monday! Lessons may not be complete!! For that reason, remember to restart computer daily, restart Chrome, refresh! Monday 3/30 and Tuesday 3/31 Total estimated time for completion of activities for this story=approx. 80 minutes 1. Intro Video just below turns on at midnight Sunday Night! It will say PRIVATE VIDEO until that time! View: Teacher Introduction to this week & today's Lesson (12:00) 2. Grab your phone and set up Remind Text Messaging. CLICK HERE to get directions for step-by-step instructions for signing up! (3:00) This is an assignment. You WILL get points for joining!! Can't figure it out? ASK!! All of my Ind. Reading students signed up last week. 3. Essential Questions for today: •How do we judge if a sacrifice is worthwhile when the outcome is unknown? •What truths can we learn about ourselves in extreme, dangerous, or unusual situations like we're experiencing now? 4.. View this SNEAK PREVIEW to set the scene. (1:45) 5. Read "All Summer in a Day" HERE as you 6. LISTEN to "All Summer in a Day" Here (15:03) 7. Now View "All Summer in a Day" (28:15) 8. Listen carefully as you View this QUICK analysis of story (3:30) 9. Before you open the assessment to demonstrate your understanding, be sure you have completed ALL of the above activities! 10. Complete Assessment at Quia on "All Summer in a Day" Average time in assessment for previous classes was 13:00 Assessment will open at 10:00am on Monday 3/30 & close at midnight Tuesday 3/31 Jump to the April 2020 Tab! Open on Tuesday! 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 LAST WEEK: Week of March 23-27, 2020 Welcome Back!! WE CAN DO THIS!! We will continue with the Science Fiction Unit we introduced when we were last together. Our Science Fiction ELA Unit Objectives include these "I will..." statements:
Here are MY Teacher Notes that we took together last week on all of the characteristics of science-fiction. You'll need these as you analyze the works we'll explore and also for assessments. Sorry about the less than perfect penmanship! Monday 3/23, Tuesday 3/24, and Wednesday 3/25 Total estimated time for completion of all activities for this story=approx. 2hrs 45 min I have included the time needed to complete each activity. You could do a part of this lesson each day or do it all in one chunk! What's important is that you DO complete ALL of the activities! Follow these steps in order: **If any of the YouTube videos don't work, shoot me a text or an email. I may have forgotten to APPROVE some for K12 use! 1. View Teacher Introduction to Today's Lesson (11:00) 2. View: "The Veldt" Trailer #1 (1:02) 3. Read "The Veldt" HERE and follow along as you listen: The Veldt (29:00) **Note that I have included #s that correspond with answers to questions in activity #5 below. 4. After reading, view Response to Literature (3:19) 5. Open this 2-page document. Review it AND answer questions on the 2nd page on a piece of notebook paper. There will be a video below where we go over the answers to the questions. (10-15 min) **Note: You'll find the answers close to the #s I wrote in the text. 6. Now View "The Veldt" movie (23:43) someone text or call me right away if this doesn't work. There are more online versions out there! (929-6528) Remember the original title of this story: "The World that the Children Made" and listen for those words as you now... 7. View Veldt anime trailer (3:05) 8. View Teacher video on responses to questions in #5 activity above. (12:00) 9. Before you complete the assessment to demonstrate your understanding, be sure you have completed ALL of the above activities! Now Open MY Teacher Notes at the top of the lesson to use to... 10. Complete Assessment at Quia on"The Veldt" Assessment will open at 10:30 on Monday and close at midnight on Wednesday, March 25. Average time spent in quiz for 320 previous students was 20:00 minutes *Note: To protect the integrity of the assessments in this online environment, there will be no feedback provided, students will see just one question at a time, and there will be just one attempt of each assessment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday 3/26 and Friday 3/27 Total estimated time for completion of activities for this story=approx. 90 minutes or 2 class periods. First, in Complete Sentences, fill out THIS SURVEY Now follow these steps in order: 1. View Teacher Introduction to Today's Lesson (9:00) Isaac Asimov’s vision of computerized education in 2157 comes close to today’s reality, in which students can take classes on the Internet. How fitting for what we are experiencing right now! 2. Be able to answer these Essential Questions: 3. Read the 1951 short story "The Fun They Had," including the introductory and concluding materials. Follow along as you listen to "The Fun They Had." (5:55) 4. Carefully Read "The Fun they Had" Analysis (2:00) Remember that Dystopian fiction is a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where people live dehumanized lives because of deprivation, oppression, or terror 5. Look at another sci fi story on the same theme of education in the future: "Examination Day" was written in 1958 during the Cold War. During this time, Americans became more aware of the nature of totalitarian (communist) governments, where EVERYONE must be equal and treated the same. What kind of government would want to dispose of highly intelligent children? 6. Open THIS Examination Day handout and answer questions (on paper or in your head!) as you Read "Examination Day" and also be able to answer the questions on the last page of the story. (15 min) 7. Now View: Examination Day, a dystopian short story brought to life in a Twilight Zone episode. (10:24) 8. Finally, review these answers and this summary(3:00) 9. Before you complete the assessment to demonstrate your understanding, be sure you have completed ALL of the above activities! HEY! I just added this amazing video on Weds. night! It really relates to "Examination Day!" 9.5 Watch: Inside the Mind of Jaxon Cota, an 11-Year Old Kid Genius After you watch this, think about these questions: How does Jaxon see the world? How do his parents react to his exceptionally high intelligence? What do you think are the advantages and challenges of being a kid genius? Why might a kid like Jaxon be someone a government, like the one in the story, fears? 10. Now, Complete Assessment at Quia on "The Fun They Had" & Examination Day Assessment will open at 10:00 am on Thursday and close at midnight on Friday, March 28. Average time spent in quiz for 320 previous students was 15:00 minutes Previous Weeks' Lessons below: 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 Week of March 16-20 Monday 3/16 No School--Coronavirus. Stay Safe! Practice Social Distancing! Tuesday 3/17 No School--Coronavirus. Stay Safe! Happy St. Patrick's Day! Wednesday 3/18 No School--Coronavirus. Stay Safe! Keep Reading! Thursday 3/19 No School--Spring Break Friday 3/20 No School--Spring Break 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 Week of March 9-13 Monday 3/9 and Tuesday 3/10 The 1950s in Literature: Intro to Science Fiction 1. Take notes on the 1950s & Sci Fi 2. Take notes on Key elements of Science Fiction--Notes for Keynote on SciFi 3. View: Sci Fi Movies in the 1950s (10:55)-take notes on the 7 elements of the Sci Fi Recipe outlined in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers 4. Science Fiction: It's Out There (8:23)-take notes on the themes mentioned here Analyze this Slate article: "The Purpose of Science Fiction" Complete Activity on this short article Read this article "How America's Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future." At your table, discuss 5 key ideas from this article. If time allows: View 1984 Summary See Article on 1984 Wednesday 3/11 and Thursday 3/12--no school View: "The Veldt" Trailer #1 (1:02) and "The Veldt" Trailer #2 (2:30) Listen as we read The Veldt (29:00) Before you read, open This Document. Follow the prompts! After reading, view Response to Literature 3:19 View last 5 minutes of movie 5:00 View Veldt anime trailer (3:05) Take Quiz over "The Veldt" Thursday 3/12 and Friday the Thirteenth!--no school In the 1951 short story "The Fun They Had," Isaac Asimov’s vision of computerized education in 2157 comes close to today’s reality, in which students can take classes on the Internet. Essential Questions: What are the benefits and disadvantages of technology in the modern world? What is the best system of education? How does a prediction of the future reflect the circumstances of the present day? "The Fun they Had" Analysis Dystopian fiction: a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where people live dehumanized lives because of deprivation, oppression, or terror View: Examination Day, a dystopian short story brought to life in a Twilight Zone episode "Examination Day" was written in 1958 during the Cold War. During this time, Americans became more aware of the nature of totalitarian (communist) governments, where EVERYONE must be equal and treated the same. What kind of government would want to dispose of highly intelligent children? Take Quiz over "The Fun They Had" & Examination Day 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 Week of March 2-6 Monday 3/2 MUG: Parallel Structure View: Grammar Lesson: Parallel Structure View: Parallel Structure ala Schmoop Practice first: Assignment: 3 exercises in packet. Back of 1st page, front and back of 2nd page. 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.
Tuesday 3/3 MUG: Parallel Structure Go over packet--page with 20 questions/fix italicized phrase 1. Read this explanation!! 2. Do this Parallel Structure exercise 3. Practice at ChompChomp--scroll down to howling dog to start! 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! X must = Y 1. Parallel Structure Assignment #1 at Quia 2. Parallel Structure Assignment #2 at Quia ================================================= Wednesday 3/4--GRAMMAR LAB!! Take 3. Parallel Structure Assignment #3 at Quia The Last Grammar Lessons of the year!! MUG: Refer to Words Commonly Confused Sorry--Just discovered that many of these practice activities no longer provide the answers, so here are those answers. Keep the doc open on the side so you can check your answers as you go! Notorious Confusables: its/it's and there/their/they're 1. Practice #1 here and 2. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice #2 Here 3. Practice with there/their/they're Notorious Confusables: Lose vs. Loose 1. Practice #1 here 2. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice Lose vs. Loose #2 Notorious Confusables: accept/except and affect/effect 1. Do the accept/except worksheet and affect/effect worksheet (check answers on back) 2. Practice with accept/except 3. Practice with affect/effect 4. Affect/Effect 5. Accept/Except 6. . SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice here Notorious Confusables: fewer/less and farther/further Use fewer with countable objects (desks, books, students). Use less with non-countables like salt and sand (you can't add -s to these words) 1. Practice with fewer/less 2. Fewer vs. Less 3. Practice with farther/further 4. Farther or Further #2 TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT: 1. Email the 3 SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF #2, #2 and #1 above. ==================================================== Thursday 3/4 Notorious Confusables Continued: Last grammar lesson of the year! Notorious Confusables: everyday/everyday (worksheet) We use our everyday dishes every day. Everyday is an adjective meaning "daily" or "average." Jogging 3 miles is an everyday occurrence. Every day is a time expression that means "each day." I jog 3 miles every day. 1. click the blue Start button to Practice Here Notorious Confusables: lie/lay and sit/set (worksheet) Today I will.. Yesterday I In the past I have rest/recline lie lay (has, have, had) lain put/place lay laid (has, have, had) laid Trick: Ask yourself if the sentence means REST or PUT 1. Practice Lie/Lay 2. More practice with lie/lay 3. More practice with sit/set already/all ready 1. Practice here--read the rule at the top 2. Another practice! Notorious Confusables: among/between between=TWO among=more than 2 1. Practice here Notorious Confusables: advise/advice My trick: advise means to give advice. Advise has an "s" that reminds me that advise means to say or give advice. 1. Practice here 2. Advise vs. Advice ========================================== Friday 3/6 Now complete--using your cheat sheets Commonly Confused Words Assignment #1 at Quia Commonly Confused Words Assignment #2 at Quia Intro to the 1950s--Scavenger Hunt (print if you are absent). You'll get hard copy from the sub. Read the Information under each heading at THIS SITE. Open this 1950s site in another window because you'll keep going back to it to read each section. None of the links in the site work anymore, so use the sites I linked below to answer the question(s) in each section: Korean War US Launches Satellites Polio #1 Polio #2 The Cat in the Hat (Hey! It's Read Across America this week!) GO HERE to find the answer! Tail Fins and Chrome Desegregating Public Schools--Brown vs Board Interactive Map Drive In Movies Drive ins in South Dakota Drive ins in Minnesota Stock Car Racing--Just Google for these answers! Rock 'n Roll Hall of FAme I Love Lucy ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Week of March 25-29 Monday 3/25 View Why I Chose This Topic Examples Complete the Why I Chose This Topic Section in Google Doc Think about sentence variety as you write. Watch overuse of "I" at the beginning of sentences. Vary openers! ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Tuesday 3/26 (9:00 Start) View What I Already Know Examples Complete the What I Already Know Section in Google Doc Think about sentence variety as you write. Watch overuse of "I" at the beginning of sentences. Vary openers! Register for Post-High Planning on April 10. If you are going to Close-Up, you won't be here! Follow these instructions at this site: Click to Go to Register for Post-High Planning Here Put a ✔️ in the 5th box down--USF, April 10, 12:30 Click Register Now Complete the registration process. Be thorough! Print out the bar code, put in career folder, bring the bar code to the fair. The bar code is the method that the colleges, vo-techs, reps, etc. will use to get your information. If you stop at their booths, they'll scan your card. **You need to SHOW me your printed bar code before putting in folder. On that Weds., you'll retrieve the printed bar code before we leave. ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Wednesday 3/27 View What I Want/Need to Know Examples Complete the What I Want/Need to Know Examples *Add ONE topic-related text-wrapped IMAGE to your introduction. Think about sentence variety as you write. Watch overuse of "I" at the beginning of sentences. Vary openers! ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Thursday 3/28 and Friday 3/29 If you are absent, view the Research Journey Lesson Here (1:55 to 4:27) or HERE Writing Lab and Peer Review of 1st three sections. Use this revised Peer Edit Checklist In order to get credit for this Peer edit assignment, your document must be SHARED with AT LEAST one other junior or senior who has used the "Suggesting" function and left visible comments in the document. Friday 3/29 Reminder: There are 2 separate grades in the gradebook for Peer Editing To get full credit for these 2 assignments: 1. Your own Google Doc MUST SHOW the MINIMUM 5 comments/edits required by the Peer Edit Checklist (#5, 6, 8, 9, 10). Make sure your peer editor does his/her job! 2. YOUR OWN NAME must appear in someone ELSE'S document as an editor who has done those 5 things (#5, 6, 8, 9, 10). Make sure YOU do your job! Be prepared to work bell to bell today in class. If your 1st 3 sections aren't complete, that's priority #1. If they ARE complete, volunteer to be an editor for more than one paper. It's a great way to improve your own writing skills! It's also a really good idea to ask MORE THAN 1 person to edit your paper! And PLEASE REMEMBER: Don't RESOLVE the edits in your paper until I have a chance to look at them to give credit to your Peer Editor! It's time to focus! ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Smarter Balanced Practice Calculators for Smarter Balanced If you are absent, watch the Research Journey Lesson Here or HERE If you are absent, PRINT THIS ACTIVITY to complete as you watch the lesson. **This video walks you through the requirements of the paper, setting up EasyBib, determining what is a reliable source, logging in to the Siouxland Library site, accessing the databases, locating articles, and exporting the article citations into EasyBib. Here are links to the documents referenced in the video. The Research Journey begins Website Evaluation Guide Website Evaluation Checklist ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Previous Weeks' Lessons: Week of March 18-22 Monday 3/18 Notorious Confusables Continued: Last grammar lesson of the year! already/all ready 1. Practice here--read the rule at the top 2. Another practice! Notorious Confusables: everyday/everyday (worksheet) We use our everyday dishes every day. Everyday is an adjective meaning "daily" or "average." Jogging 3 miles is an everyday occurrence. Every day is a time expression that means "each day." I jog 3 miles every day. 1. click the blue Start button to Practice Here Notorious Confusables: among/between 1. Practice here Notorious Confusables: advise/advice 1. Practice here 2. Advise vs. Advice Notorious Confusables: lie/lay and sit/set (worksheet) Today I will.. Yesterday I In the past I have rest/recline lie lay (has, have, had) lain put/place lay laid (has, have, had) laid Trick: Ask yourself if the sentence means REST or PUT 1. Practice Lie/Lay 2. More practice with lie/lay 3. More practice with sit/set Now complete Commonly Confused Words Assignment #2 at Quia ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Tuesday 3/19 I-Search Background Review previous topics At this point, your most potent weapon is your own curiosity. Choose something that you have a real interest in; pick a subject you’re hungry to know more about; seek knowledge that will benefit you in some way. As Ken Macrorie (who invented ISearch) puts it, “The I-Search project asks you to scratch a genuine itch until you’ve quieted it.” ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Wednesday 3/20 and Thursday 3/21 Get Research folder 1. Explanation of I-Search Paper (hard copy in folder) 2. Review I-Search Structure (hard copy in folder) 3. See Sample (Bison--first 3 sections) 4. See & add to the I-Search Topic Google Doc At this point, your most potent weapon is your own curiosity. Choose something that you have a real interest in; pick a subject you’re hungry to know more about; seek knowledge that will benefit you in some way. As Ken Macrorie (who invented ISearch) puts it, “The I-Search project asks you to scratch a genuine itch until you’ve quieted it.” 5. Complete the Analysis Activity of 3 sample I-Search essays 1. Asthma I-Search Example--start in class together 2 Ceramics I-Search Example 3. Public Speaking I-Search (hard copy) ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Friday 3/22 1. Friday Focus on the Future: Avera Medical Moment 2. Look at Grade Book for Deadlines 3. Take 2 minutes to Find I-Search template in Google Docs. Follow the instructions to get paper set up. Read through each section. SHARE THE DOC WITH Mrs. Renner!! [email protected] 4. Take I-Search Introduction Quiz at Quia 5. Enter Topic Idea in Your Class Topic Google Doc 6. Assignment:: A. Fill in I Search Topic Google Doc B. Write the Why I Chose this Topic section for Monday by end of class. 2. Register for Post-High Planning on April 10. If you are going to Close-Up, you won't be here! Follow these instructions at this site: Click to Go to Register for Post-High Planning Here Put a ✔️ in the 5th box down--USF, April 10, 12:30 Click Register Now Complete the registration process. Be thorough! Print out the bar code, put in career folder, bring the bar code to the fair. The bar code is the method that the colleges, vo-techs, reps, etc. will use to get your information. If you stop at their booths, they'll scan your card. **You need to SHOW me your printed bar code before putting in folder. On that Weds., you'll retrieve the printed bar code before we leave. Week of March 11-14 Monday 3/11 MUG: Parallel Structure *If you were absent last Thursday, pick up a packet! Correct the 3 10-point exercises on 1st and 3rd sheets of packet. 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! Assignment: 3 exercises in packet. Back of 1st page, front and back of 2nd page. 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.
☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Tuesday 3/12 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 ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Wednesday 3/13 The Last Grammar Lessons of the year!! MUG: Refer to Words Commonly Confused Sorry--Just discovered that many of these practice activities no longer provide the answers, so here are those answers. Keep the doc open on the side. Notorious Confusables: its/it's and there/their/they're 1. Practice #1 here and 2. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice #2 Here 3. Practice with there/their/they're Notorious Confusables: Lose vs. Loose 1. Practice #1 here 2. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice Lose vs. Loose #2 Notorious Confusables: accept/except and affect/effect 1. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice here 2. Practice with accept/except 3. Practice with affect/effect 4. Affect/Effect 5. Accept/Except Notorious Confusables: fewer/less and farther/further Use fewer with countable objects (desks, books, students). Use less with non-countables like salt and sand (you can't add -s to these words) 1. Practice with fewer/less 2. Fewer vs. Less 3. Practice with farther/further 4. Farther or Further #2 TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT: 1. Email the 3 SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF #2, #2 and #1 above. 2. Commonly Confused Words Assignment at Quia ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Thursday and Monday Notorious Confusables Continued: Last grammar lesson of the year! already/all ready 1. Practice here 2. Another practice! Notorious Confusables: everyday/everyday (worksheet) We use our everyday dishes every day. Everyday is an adjective meaning "daily" or "average." Jogging 3 miles is an everyday occurrence. Every day is a time expression that means "each day." I jog 3 miles every day. 1. click the blue Start button to Practice Here Notorious Confusables: among/between 1. Practice here Notorious Confusables: advise/advice 1. Practice here 2. Advise vs. Advice Notorious Confusables: lie/lay and sit/set Today I will.. Yesterday I In the past I have rest/recline lie lay lain put/place lay laid laid Trick: Ask yourself if the sentence means REST or PUT 1. Practice Lie/Lay 2. More practice with lie/lay 3. More practice with sit/set Now complete Commonly Confused Words Assignment #2 at Quia ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Week of March 4-7 Monday 3/4 (2 Hour Late Start) Please do a quick post HERE for Mrs. Lupkes. 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 3/5 (2 Hour Late Start) REMEMBER ACT PREP CLASS TONIGHT @ 5:30! MUG: What is the difference between Misplaced and Dangling? Now practice: 1. Exercise 1 2. Practice Quiz: Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers 3. Dangling Modifiers 1 4. Exercise A: Dangling Mods (Smiley face=correct; % is in top left) 5. Grammar Bytes: Fixing Misplaced & Dangling Mods--Read instruction and click Start Here (under Monkey) Assignment: Send me a screenshot at the END of this last practice exercise. It will say Congratulations! You have finished Exercise 4. ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Wednesday 3/6 MUG and NEWSELA LAB: First, 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 Next, choose TWO of the 5 or 6 new NEWSELA articles to read and respond to. Choose the articles with the March 6 assiged date. Readers become leaders! ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Thursday 3/7 1. Girls and Boys State with Mrs. Lupkes and Officer Albers View ALB&GS (start at :31) 2. Did you complete 2 Newsela articles yesterday? 3. 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! Next Week: Register for Post-High Planning Here ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Friday 3/1 Finish Who/Whom packet MUG: Who/Whom, Whoever/Whomever, Who's/Whose WhoHe, WhoHe, WhomHim,WhomHim You practice: 1. Whose vs. Who's 2. Who's vs. Whose 3. Practice with this quiz on Who or Whom 4. Practice Who vs. Whom at ChompChomp 5. 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) ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Wednesday 3/28 Smarter Balanced Practice Calculators for Smarter Balanced Go to South Dakota Smarter Balanced to complete a Training Test in English. The point is simply to prepare you for the kinds of questions you will see next week. Remember that your performance on these exams are directly linked to your Open Campus privileges next year. Even MORE important is that if you don't/didn't achieve a 20 on Math ACT and 18 on English ACT, a proficient or advanced performance on the Smarter Balanced Common Core tests can be substituted so you won't have to take remedial courses in college! --For completion points, you will be sending me a screen shot of your responses for the passage about the Iditarod Annual Dog Sled Race (the last question). --WAIT to email the screen shot until you finish the Math training test Go back to the Smarter Balanced Practice page to select Math training test -- When you finish the English Training test, you will be doing a Math Training Test. Work your way through these questions. Do a screen shot of this question: The graph of x + y=-9 AFTER you use the Add Point and Add Arrow tools on the graph. --Send me the TWO screenshots you captured. Is your research question in Google Doc? Have you started writing the first 3 sections? Previous Days' Assignments: Monday 3/26 1. Review I-Search Structure 2. Take 2 minutes to Find I-Search template in Google Docs. Follow the instructions to get paper set up. Read through each section. 3. See & add to the I-Search Topic Google Doc At this point, your most potent weapon is your own curiosity. Choose something that you have a real interest in; pick a subject you’re hungry to know more about; seek knowledge that will benefit you in some way. As Ken Macrorie (who invented ISearch) puts it, “The I-Search project asks you to scratch a genuine itch until you’ve quieted it.” 4. Complete the analysis of 3 sample I-Search essays 1. Asthma I-Search Example 2 Ceramics I-Search Example 3. Public Speaking I-Search (hard copy) Assignment: Write the Why I Chose this Topic, What I Already Know and What I Need to Know sections for Wednesday. Blue 1: Turnitin Reflection Get essay. Read comments carefully, then log in to Turnitin. Read the instructions. Complete the Essay Reflection in Google Drive or a new document, then upload as PDF or .doc. ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Thursday 3/22 Grammar: Notorious Confusables Continued: Last grammar lesson of the year! already/all ready 1. Practice here 2. Another practice! Notorious Confusables: every day/everyday (worksheet) We use our everyday dishes every day. Everyday is an adjective meaning "daily" or "average." Jogging 3 miles is an everyday occurrence. Every day is a time expression that means "each day." I jog 3 miles every day. 1. click the blue Start button to Practice Here Notorious Confusables: among/between 1. Practice here Notorious Confusables: advise/advice 1. Practice here 2. Advise vs. Advice Notorious Confusables: lie/lay and sit/set Today I will.. Yesterday I In the past I have (has, had) rest/recline lie lay lain put/place lay laid laid Trick: Ask yourself if the sentence means REST or PUT 1. Practice Lie/Lay 2. More practice with lie/lay 3. More practice with sit/set Now complete Commonly Confused Words Assignment #2 at Quia When you finish... Reading: (last articles!) Go to Newsela. Read two (2) of the 4 new articles I assigned to your class: Writing: Review I-Search Structure See Sample #1--use red boxes! Break into groups Here are 3 Student Examples of the I-Search Paper. 1. Asthma I-Search Example 2 Ceramics I-Search Example 3. Public Speaking I-Search ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Tuesday 3/20 Today's Topics=Grammar, Reading & Writing Grammar: The Last Grammar Lessons of the year!! MUG: Refer to Words Commonly Confused Use this link above! Read the rules at the top of each page! Notorious Confusables: its/it's and there/their/they're 1. Practice #1 here and 2. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice #2 Here 3. Practice with there/their/they're Notorious Confusables: Lose vs. Loose 1. Practice #1 here 2. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice Lose vs. Loose #2 Notorious Confusables: accept/except and affect/effect 1. SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF Practice here 2. Practice with accept/except 3. Practice with affect/effect 4. Affect/Effect 5. Accept/Except Notorious Confusables: fewer/less and farther/further Use fewer with countable objects (desks, books, students). Use less with non-countables like salt and sand (you can't add -s to these words) 1. Practice with fewer/less 2. Fewer vs. Less 3. Practice with farther/further 4. Farther or Further #2 Please don't sit next to anyone. Now complete 1. Email the 3 SCREENSHOT RESULTS OF #2, #2 and #1 above. 2. Commonly Confused Words Assignment at Quia Reading: Then Go to Newsela. Read 2 of the 4 new articles I assigned to your class: 1. On Twitter, Fake News spreads faster than Real News 2. The World's Most Progressive Farm Animal Welfare Law 3. After Parkland, one of the Largest Student Protests in Decades 4. Paralympics in South Korea Writing: When you finish with 2 Newsela articles, come to me to get essay. Read comments carefully, then log in to Turnitin. Read the instructions. Complete the Essay Reflection in Google Drive or a new document, then upload as PDF or .doc. Assignment: Work Quietly on something AND... Bring Idea(s) for I-Search Paper for Thursday! If you were gone, read.... I-Search Background Explanation of I-Search Paper ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Thursday 3/15 I-Search Background Explanation of I-Search Paper Assignment: Log in to Newsela and choose TWO articles today! Read TWO (2) of the 5 choices: Blue 3 & 4 do Parallel Structure Assignment #2 at Quia ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Tuesday 3/13 Blue 3 & 4: Register for College & Career Fair on Wednesday, April 11. That is a testing day also. We'll test in the morning and go to USF at noon. Follow these instructions at this site: Click to Go to College Fair Registration Put a ✔️ in the 5th box down--USF, April 11, 12:30 Click Register Now Complete the registration process. Be thorough! Print out the bar code, put in career folder, bring the bar code to the fair. The bar code is the method that the colleges, vo-techs, reps, etc. will use to get your information. If you stop at their booths, they'll scan your card. **You need to SHOW me your printed bar code before putting in folder. On that Weds., you'll retrieve the printed bar code before we leave. 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. Read: Parallel Structure as a Literary Device 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! Now Complete **remember the tricky not only/but also combo Whatever comes after not only must also come after but also! not only that.....but also that Both 26 pts. I'll record the better score--we'll do 2nd on Thursday Parallel Structure Assignment #1 at Quia Thursday 3/8 Reminder: All missing work/make up work must be completed by Tuesday 3/13 at 3:30! No exceptions. Blue 1=Print Career Fair ticket (see instructions below from Monday) Blue 3 & 4: Dangling & Misplaced Mods 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) Skim this for review! Thorough Review of Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers (look at only, barely, just, hardly, scarcely) Complete self-eval. D&MM ACT packet Now practice: Dangling Modifiers Which one is incorrect? Then, Complete Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Quiz #2 at Quia and Complete Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers #3 ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Monday 3/5 (early dismiss for snow) Register for College & Career Fair on Wednesday, April 11. That is a testing day also. We'll test in the morning and go to USF at noon. Follow these instructions at this site: Click to Go to College Fair Registration Put a ✔️ in the 5th box down--USF, April 11, 12:30 Click Register Now Complete the registration process. Be thorough! Print out the bar code, put in career folder, bring the bar code to the fair. The bar code is the method that the colleges, vo-techs, reps, etc. will use to get your information. If you stop at their booths, they'll scan your card. **You need to SHOW me your printed bar code before putting in folder. On that Weds., you'll retrieve the printed bar code before we leave. MUG: Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers Review: 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) Skim this for review! Thorough Review of Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers (look at only, barely, just, hardly, scarcely) Complete self-eval. D&MM ACT packet Now practice: Dangling Modifiers Which one is incorrect? Then, Complete Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Quiz #2 at Quia and Complete Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers #3 Assignment: Log in to Newsela and choose TWO articles today! Read TWO (2) of the 4 choices: Guns @ Dick's & Walmart, Supreme Court and DACA, Global Warming, Florida Teens If everyone is here, do Intro to I-Search Paper (Guidelines, Requirements, Timeline) I-Search Background I-Search Paper Guidelines ☘️ ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ . ☘️ Thursday 3/1 MUG: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers View Dangling Modifiers View Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Get your groove on and view Grammar Bytes Presents... 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! 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 only does 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. What is the difference between Misplaced and Dangling? Misplaced Modifiers Exercise 1 Dangling Modifiers 1 Exercise A: Dangling Mods Practice Quiz: Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers Exercise 1 Grammar Bytes: Fixing Misplaced & Dangling Mods--Read instruction and click Start Here (under Monkey) Now Complete Dangling and Misplaced Modifier Assignment at Quia before you go. Assignment: Log in to Newsela and choose TWO articles today! Answer the quiz questions. 4 Articles include: -Black Panther movie -Powerful new antibiotic found in DIRT -Frozen on Broadway -Orangutan's in Borneo |
→March Madness has begun and will continue through the end of the year! FFA, Track, Golf, Music Contests, the musical, etc., will take LARGE numbers of you out of the classroom several times a week from here to the end of the year.
→That makes it all the more important that you check the homework page EVERY day! Similar to what I did for remote learning last year, I'll put EVERYTHING you need on the homework page. It will be your responsibility to stay on top of work on the days you're gone. →Getting behind at this time of year is easy to do--especially as it gets warmer outside. PLEASE don't let that happen! I'm here every day after school and available Period 1, 2, 4 (when I have Supervised Learning, not ACT), SRB and after school every day.
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