Transcript WC8 Daily Language U08-12 - CMS-Grade8-ELA-Reading-2010

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Daily Language
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Units 8-12
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What a creepy poem “Annabel Lee” is!
Have you ever read it?
If you haven’t read it, you should.
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My favorite writer of all time is the great author
Edgar Allan Poe. His creepy, scary stories are
fun to read.
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In the library are many great English novels.
There are two entire bookcases filled with them.
My favorite of all is Dickens’s book Great
Expectations.
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Sam and I tried to locate the subjects in
sentences.
It was a challenge for both him and me.
He and I found that the predicate sometimes
came before the subject.
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My sisters shovel the snow and have a good time
doing it.
Neither a shovel nor a snow blower provides fun
for me.
Skis and a snowboard are winter equipment I
enjoy using.
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In 1871 a fire burned down many Chicago buildings,
but within a week Chicagoans began to rebuild.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning
heard about the fire.
They gathered many of their own books and sent
them to Chicago for its new library.
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I was born in central Ohio but moved to the
Southwest, near Tucson, Arizona, when I was two
years old.
My family has lived on army basis in Europe and
South America.
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I can bring all the cardboard boxes you need.
My two brothers-in-law own a chain of
drugstores.
A cousin works in an ice cream store, and Mom
manages a bookshop.
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Explorers’ lives are so fascinating that their
families’ lives may seem dull by comparison.
However, a family's fears and worries can be as
challenging as an explorer’s feats.
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Joan’s on our town’s Youth Committee.
As Elm School’s representative, she presents all
of the students’ ideas on issues.
The mayor’s impressed by her and values Joan’s
contributions.
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At halftime the crowd talk among themselves as
the marching band warm up their instruments.
All at once, the band begins playing and marches
in step to the music.
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Eleanor Roosevelt, one of our greatest first
ladies, worked to promote social justice.
She was a role model for Hillary Rodham Clinton,
wife of former President Bill Clinton.
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What a great play that was!
I really enjoyed it.
What did you think of it?
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Some verbs, such as appear, are never
transitive.
There isn't ever a direct object for this king of
verb.
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Music is an important part of live theater; it can
bring a play to life. Mozart composed music for
the theater, and Leonard Bernstein did too.
Bernstein wrote the musical West Side Story; it
was made into a film.
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If you can substitute is or become for a verb, it’s
a linking verb.
When I get confused about linking verbs, I try
that trick.
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My story begins many years after Beauty has
eaten the apple and has fallen asleep.
The prince has become an old king and has
given up on finding her.
As he is about to die, Beauty's spell is broken.
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We have been rehearsing every day, and we are
getting tried.
Most of us have learned our lines by now.
We are performing the play three times next
month.
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Right now I am trying to learn about progressive
forms of verbs.
Before class started, I was just daydreaming.
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I had barely finished sweeping the stage when
the actors arrived.
For an hour now, they have been rehearsing.
After they have left the theater, my broom will
perform again.
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In fifteen years I will have finished college.
My wife and I will be building our dream house.
She will be in medical school, and I will have
published my first novel.
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My choice was active voice or passive voice.
The active voice usually sounds stronger;
however, passive voice can be effective, too.
I used the active voice in my play review; I was
writing about actors, after all.
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As rehearsal began, I realized I had left my script
at home.
Well, I kept cool, sprang onto the stage, and
made up my lines.
I wonder what Ms. Banks meant when she said
my acting brought tears to her eyes.
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My family flew to New York and saw some
Broadway shows.
Once we rode to the theater in a taxi that was
driven by an actor.
He gave us the ride of our lives, and we came
home with a good story.
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Speaking would be awkward if you didn’t use
pronouns.
Try using no pronouns, and you’ll see.
Communicating would be hard if pronouns had
never been invented.
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In Little Women, a man falls in love with Amy after
being in love with Jo and finally marries Amy.
Several movies based on the book have been
made.
In one version, Winona Ryder, my favorite actress,
playes Jo.
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The friends in the book Heidi are just like
Shawna and me.
She and I grew up very differently, but we
became best friends.
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Juliet is Romeo’s beloved, and he is hers.
True love takes its hold on their hearts.
There are modern-day tragedies like theirs.
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Many of us have childhood movies that we still
enjoy.
One of my favorites is Alice in Wonderland.
A few of my friends say Star Wars is their
favorite.
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A friend and I have been reading about Edgar Allan
Poe.
His short stories themselves are sad and scary; his
life was just sad.
We live in Philadelphia, where Poe himself lived for
several years.
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I wonder whose copy of The Old Man and the
Sea this is.
Who’s been reading Hemingway lately?
Mr. Hall will know who checked it out of the
library.
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Adjectives can be interesting, fun, and useful
words.
Adjectives may be part of the subject, part of the
predicate, or both.
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We visited an uncle and an aunt in Nogales.
My uncle lives in an Arizona town.
My aunt is across the border in a Mexican town
with the same name.
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Which painter is better, Picasso or Matisse?
Picasso was one of the greatest artists who
ever lived.
I like Matisse more, though, because his
paintings are more beautiful.
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Those paintings over there are some of Van
Gogh’s best.
This one took him less than a day to paint.
There’s so much sadness in that self-portrait.
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“Tom Swifties” are sentences that use adverbs;
each adverb is a kind of pun.
For example, a soldier could talk about his sword
sharply, or a steamroller driver could say,
“Whoops” flatly.
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Of the two of us, you handled that situation
better.
You reacted much more quickly than I did.
You were farther away, too.
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We almost always agree on music but not this
time.
Big bands sound good to me.
Louis Armstrong may not have sung perfectly, but
he was surely a great trumpeter!
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I can’t do anything musical.
I just don’t have any talent.
Nobody should have to listen to me sing.
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