Monday, September 21, 2015
Corrections: using the right word, subject-verb agreement,
reflexive pronoun, comma to separate phrases and clauses
Using it’s lungs to breathe the walking catfish move
themselves over land from one body of water to
another.
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Using the Right Word
• Rule: When you mean it is or it has, use an
apostrophe.
• When you are using its as a possessive, don’t use the
apostrophe.
• A possessive indicates possession or ownsership.
Example:
It’s your right to refuse the invitation. (it is)
The furniture store celebrated its tenth anniversary.
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Bellwork/Rule
Vocabulary Packets
Binder Checks (Test Grade) Continue
Read Dinner Party in Literature Textbook
Review Plot Diagrams
Dinner Party Plot Diagram - assessment
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Corrections: possessive apostrophe, comma splice, using the
right word
A mosquitos wings beat about 1,000 times a
second, an annoying hum comes from it’s beatng
wings.
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Possessive Apostrophe
• Rule: There are four ways to use the apostrophe to show ownership or
belonging.
1. Add apostrophe s to the end of a singular noun that does not end
in s:
the manager’s room
2. Add apostrophe s to the end of a singular noun, even if it ends in s
(this practice may vary in some places):
Doris’s scarf
3. Add apostrophe s to the end of a plural noun that doesn’t end in s
the children’s bag
4. If the plural noun ends in s, just add the apostrophe
my friends’ car
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Today We Will:
• Bellwork/Rule
• Vocabulary flash cards
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Corrections: hyphen in a single thought adjective, using the right
word, numbers
A full grown lion can eat seventy-five pounds of
meet in one meal.
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Hyphen in single thought
adjectives
Rule: Two or more adjectives before a noun
that act as one idea (one-thought adjectives)
are connected with a hyphen.
Example: First-class decisions require clearheaded thinking.
First-class is one adjective describing the
decisions.
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Today We Will:
• Bellwork/Rule
• Vocabulary Packets due tomorrow!
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Corrections: using the right word, comma between independent
clauses
Male lions way several hundred pounds and are
vary strong but they prefer to stay home with the
cubs while the females to the hunting.
Corrections: hyphen in single thought adjectives, pronoun antecedent
agreement, comma to separate adjectives, subject-verb agreement
When a llama get mad, it spits thick bad smelling
saliva into their enemy’s face.
Comma to separate
adjectives
Rule: Use commas to separate two or more
adjectives that describe the same noun. Be sure
never to add an extra comma between the final
adjective and the noun itself.
Example:
He was a difficult, stubborn child.
The cheesy, gooey, fattening pizza was delicious.
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Bellwork & Rule (ELA-1-M1)
Turn in Vocabulary Packets (ELA-1-M1)
Review Vocabulary Packets (ELA-1-M1)
Characterization Notes (ELA-1-M2)
~ The Cat in the Hat video/handout with
shoulder partners
~ Independent Practice – Characterization
handout
• Peer Edit – Final Drafts due today (ELA-2-M2/M3)
• Early Finishers – Flowers for Algernon vocabulary
Friday, September 25, 2015
• Bellwork: In your journal section, head paper correctly and
assignment title is Journal #7 (whole page)
• Journal to the end of the page on the following:
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Bellwork – Journal #7
Review Spelling/Vocabulary
2 sheets of loose leaf
Spelling, Bellwork & Vocabulary Test
Early Finishers – complete journal/complete
any incomplete assignments