Add a semi-colon to each pair of dependent clauses below
1. A prisoner had escaped from
Azkaban the news flew through the
village like a fire.
2. The Sorting Hat paused thoughtfully
on Harry’s head at last, it shouted
“Gryffindor”!
3. The giant orange cat jumped onto
the shelf Hermione knew she had
found her pet.
4. The red envelope smoked ominously
it was a Howler.
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The excerpt from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has been rewritten into all
simple sentences. Change it to add simple, compound, and complex. Think about how JK
Rowling would have written it.
It was nearly midnight. He was lying on his stomach in bed. The blankets
were drawn right over his head like a tent. He had a flashlight in one hand. A
large leather-bound book (A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot) was
propped open against the pillow.
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Underline the prepositional phrases in the
paragraph below.
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A cold wind rustled through Hogwarts and into ______________________________________________________________
the dungeons by Snape’s classroom. Harry
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had been dreading Snape’s class for most of
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the day. Now when he stepped inside the
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room he felt ice running down his veins.
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Snape’s eyes turned dark when they landed
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on Harry. Snape charged forward with a
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sneer.
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The long e sound heard in feet can be spelled: ea, ee, ei, or ie.
The long a sound heard in wait can be spelled ai.
Read each sentence. Say each underlined word to yourself. Listen for the word with the long e sound as in feet, or
the long a sound as in wait. Write the word with the long vowel sound on the line.
1. _____________________________ When playing a team sport, everybody is responsible for a win or loss.
2. _____________________________ The pain of losing is bearable if you have the thrill of winning, too.
3. _____________________________ A dedicated athlete could, if she or he wished, play a sport during each
season.
4. _____________________________ Often communities have leagues for amateur athletes.
5. _____________________________ It is an unbelievable feeling when players work together on a team.
6. _____________________________ Often athletes aim to be number one in their sport.
7. _____________________________ Most athletes love the challenge they feel from competing.
8. _____________________________ Many consider playing sports to be their field of dreams.
Look at each blank. Does the word you wrote have a long e sound,
feet, or a long a sound, wait? Put a capital E or A to show the sound
you hear.
Several of the sentences are complex. Find one
of them and label it with stars.
Fill in each blank with a dependent clause. Start the clause with an AAAWWUUBBIS—as, although, after, while,
when, unless, until, because, before, if, since. Use a comma if the dependent clause is at the beginning. Double
check capitalization & spelling.
Since it was almost midnight, the party was ending.
Example: ___________________________________
1. The full moon gleamed ______________________________________________________________.
2. ____________________________________________________ I started to walk home.
3. I saw the face of a jack o’lantern ________________________________________________________.
4. ___________________________________________________________ dread washed over me.
5. I could see my house ______________________________________________________________.
excerpt by Michael Morpurgo
He tried. He honestly tried. Time and again he dug the edge of his flippers into the sand, but he just couldn’t move himself.
The flippers dug in again, again, but he stayed where he was. I tried pushing him from behind. That didn’t work. I tried moving his
flippers for him one by one. That didn’t work. I slapped his shell. I shouted at him. All he did was swallow once or twice and blink at
me. In the end, I tried threatening him. I crouched down in front of him.
‘All right,’ I said. ‘All right. You stay here if you like. See if I care. You see those gulls? You know what they’re waiting for? If they
don’t get you, then someone else’ll find you and you’ll be turtle stew.’ I was shouting at him now. I was really shouting at him. ‘Turtle
stew, do you hear me!’ All the while his eyes never left my face, not for a moment. Bullying hadn’t worked either. So now I tried
begging.
‘Please,’ I said, ‘please.’ But his eyes gave me the answer I already knew. He could not move. He hadn’t the strength. There was
nothing else left to try.
A sudden shadow fell across me. Granny May was standing above me in her hat.
‘How long have you been there?’ I asked.
‘Long enough,’ she said and she walked around me to get a better look at the turtle.
She told me to dig out a bowl in the sand, right under the turtle’s chin, and then she shook out her net. He looked mildly interested
for a moment and then looked away. It was no good. Granny May was looking out to sea, shielding her eyes against the glare of
the sun.
‘I wonder,’ she murmured. ‘I wonder. I shan’t be long.’ And she was gone, down to the sea. She was wading out up to her ankles,
then up to her knees, her shrimping net scooping through the water around her. I stayed behind with the turtle and threw more
stones at the gulls. When she came back, her net was bulging with jellyfish, blue jellyfish. She emptied them into the turtle’s sandy
bowl. At once he was at them like a vulture, snapping, crunching, swallowing, until there wasn’t a tentacle left.
What is the setting? _____________________________
Text clue that helped me: _______________________
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What is one inference you can make about the narrator? _________________________________
Text clue that helped me: _______________________________________________________________
What is the conflict? ____________________________________________________________________
Type of conflict (circle): man v man
man v self
man v nature
man v society
What themes do you think the author is most trying to make clear in this section? (pick 2)
Explain how you see these 2 themes.
Use the back of the page.