Week 11, 12 and 13
Mrs. Barnett
English 1

Bell work
 ALL bell work from the second (2 nd ) nine weeks will be part of the MUG Shot(Mechanics, Usage and Grammar) .
 The student will write the bell work sentence in his/her journal and make any corrections in the sentence with a different color pen or pencil.
 Paragraph Quiz on every 5 th class day and the journal will be shown to Mrs. Barnett for grading of the other four (4) bell works.

Bell work #22
Comma (Unnecessary), Spelling, Comma (Other)
 Typewriters, originaly designed as writing machines for the blind became popular in the business world in the 1880s, and created many new jobs for women.
• Reminder:
– Label the Bell work #22
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Write the sentence and correct any problems with a pen or another colored pencil
5-minute writing

Bell work #22

Bell work #23
Hyphen, Comma (Appositive), Spelling, Using the Right Word
 Alaska, the largest state with the fewest people has one third of it’s land inside the Artic Circle.
• Reminder:
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Label the Bell work #23
Write the sentence and correct any problems with a pen or another colored pencil
– 5-minute writing

Bell work #23

Bell work #24
Comma (Unnecessary), Quotation Marks
 Humorist, Mark Twain (1835–1910) wore white linen suits in summer and in winter, because they made him feel “clean in a dirty world”.
• Reminder:
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Label the Bell work #24
Write the sentence and correct any problems with a pen or another colored pencil
5-minute writing

Bell work #24

Bell work #25
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Colon, Quotation Marks, Comma (Appositive), Spelling, Comma
(Other)
 Harriet Tubman, the former slave who became famous for her corage as a conductor on the Underground
Railroad once made this statement “On my
Underground Railroad, I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger”.
Reminder:
– Label the Bell work #25
– Write the sentence and correct any problems with a pen or another colored pencil
– 5-minute writing

Bell work #25

Bell work #26
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Hyphen, Spelling, Colon, Apostrophe
 According to a well publicized goverment report, more than half of Americas’ new jobs will be in the following industries health services, business services, and retail trade.
Reminder:
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Label the Bell work #26
Write the sentence and correct any problems with a pen or another colored pencil
– 5-minute writing

Bell work #26

Bell work MUG Shot Paragraph Quiz
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Bell work #27
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Comma (To Separate Adjectives), Spelling, Parentheses, Comma
(Other), Adverb Form
 Slow sustained streching helps lenghten tight cramped muscles increases flexibility and prevents muscle strains tiny tears in muscle fibers.
Reminder:
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Label the Bell work #27
Write the sentence and correct any problems with a pen or another colored pencil
– 5-minute writing

Bell work #27

Bell work #28
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Comma (Other), Spelling, Quotation Marks
 The largest gold nugget ever found weighed about
200 pounds was descovered in 1969 near Ballarat
Australia, and was nicknamed Welcome Stranger.
Reminder:
– Label the Bell work #28
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Write the sentence and correct any problems with a pen or another colored pencil
5-minute writing

Bell work #28

Bell work #29
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Comma (Parenthetical or Contrasted Elements), Colon, Comma
(Other), Abbreviation
 German leader Adolph Hitler born in Braunau,
Austria in 1889 took his own life at 330 pm on May
1 1945 in Berlin Germany.
Reminder:
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Label the Bell work #29
Write the sentence and correct any problems with a pen or another colored pencil
– 5-minute writing

Bell work #29

Bell work #30
Comma (To Separate Adjectives), Colon, Spelling, Apostrophe
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 I learned this when I visited my uncles farm Pigs can get sunburned just like humans. This explanes why pigs hang out in cool soft mud whenever possible.
Reminder:
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Label the Bell work #30
Write the sentence and correct any problems with a pen or another colored pencil
5-minute writing

Bell work #30

Bell work #31
Comma (To Separate Adjectives), Spelling, Comma (Other)
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 Chewing tobacco for exampel causes mouth and throat cancers as well as painful progressive tooth and gum problems.
Reminder:
– Label the Bell work #31
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Write the sentence and correct any problems with a pen or another colored pencil
5-minute writing

Bell work #31

Bell work MUG Shot Paragraph Quiz
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Thank you, M’am
Short Story – dealing with characterization

Read like a Rock Star
Student’s are to pick a book of interest to the student
Student’s book must have 150 pages and be school appropriate.

Research Paper

Topics
 How to pick a topic for your “persuasive” research paper?
 Listen and look at the topic list Mrs.
Barnett offers to the class
 Research the topic in InfoTrac – Gale
Group
 Sign up for your topic