SQUADS #2
CPW
“11th Grade English”
Learning Intentions - Today, I am going to address these College Readiness
Standards in English:
1. Conventions of Punctuation 20-23
2. Conventions of Usage 16-19
3. Organization, Unity, and Coherence 16-19
4. Word Choice in Terms of Style, Tone, Clarity, and Economy 13-15
5. Word Choice in Terms of Style, Tone, Clarity, and Economy 16-19
Success Criteria – I will I am successful if I know that dependent clauses,
at the beginning of sentences, need to be followed by a comma before
joining with an independent clause.
11th Grade English
• #1.
I grew up with buckets, shovels, and
nets waiting by the back door. After studying
science for many years my mother became a
marine biologist.
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A. NO CHANGE
B. years, my
C. years; my
D. years
11th Grade English
• #2
Our household might have been described
as uncooperative with my mother’s profession. Our
meals weren’t always served in the expected order of
breakfast, lunch, and supper. Everything was
subservient and compliant the to the tides.
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A. NO CHANGE
B. subservient
C. subservient and challenged
D. compliance
11th Grade English
• #3
I have great respect for my mother. My
mom was always waiting for a full moon, when
low tide would be much lower than the usual and
high tide much higher. I learned early that the
moon affected the tides.
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The underlined sentence should:
A. Stay where it is.
B. Go before sentence 1.
C. Go after sentence 1.
11th Grade English
• #4
Since the moon is closer to the earth
when fill, its gravitational pull is stronger.
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A. NO CHANGE
B. one’s
C. it’s
D. its’
11th Grade English
• #5.
I knew it took about eight hours for
the tides to change from high to low, eight
hours for half a cycle, sixteen hours for a
complete cycle of tides.
• A. NO CHANGE
• B. OMIT the underlined phrase
• C. sixteen hours for half a cycle
• D. eight hours for half a cycle daily
CPW 11th Grade English
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