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Bellwork for August 25, 2015 Take any handouts from the back counter. Write in your agenda. Complete Caught’ya! Day 6. Caught’ ya! Day 6 the last member of the troop sam sagacious simply stood wisely and silently waiting for the clamor to die down. a erudite young man sam held a book in his hand the count of monte cristo by alexander dumas and he read as he waited Vocabulary sagacious— (adjective) wise; discerning; showing keen common sense. clamor— (noun) a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people erudite— (adjective) characterized by great knowledge; scholarly; educated Comma misunderstandings… Rule # 1 Comma Rule #1: Use commas with items in a series. Example: My friend Sam plays baseball, basketball, and football. *Things to remember: Make sure you put a comma before the conjunction too! Rule # 2 Comma Rule #2: Use commas with coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) to join 2 INDEPENDENT clauses. Coordinating conjunctions: AKA- FANBOYS: For And Nor But Or Yet So *Thing to remember: You put the comma before the FANBOY! •You also have to have 2 subjects, 2 verbs, and both sentences have to make sense alone! Example: Sam wanted to play rugby for the Falcons this year, but he couldn’t play both rugby and football. Rule # 3 Comma Rule #3: Use commas with standard conventions. 1. In salutations and closings of letters 2. After the day AND year in a sentence Example: The tryouts for football are Wednesday, May 10, 2013, and it will be an important day for Sam. 3. After the city and state if it is in the middle of a sentence. Example: I want to go to Dallas, Texas, because I have always loved the Cowboys. 4. Between the street address and the city in an address in a sentence Example: You attend school at 500 Red Hawk Parkway, Smyrna, Tennessee, at Stewarts Creek Middle *Things to remember: if you have a comma in the convention, you need a comma after it, too! Rule # 4 Comma Rule #4: To set off non- essential (= extra information) elements (clauses, phrases, words) These are generally the appositives. Can also be direct address. • Let’s eat, Grandma. Examples: 1. Allison, my best friend, is going on vacation next week. –Phrase 2. The teacher, who taught seventh graders everyday, was a little nervous about his new student.— Clause 3. The new student, Mark, participated in class the first day.—Word Rule # 5 Comma Rule #5: Use comma after introductory elements – Words, Phrases, Clauses Example: Mary, would you get the door please?-- Words --Phrases: Phrases do not have both a subject and verb and cannot stand alone. Types of Phrases: Prepositional, Gerund, Participial, Infinitive, Appositive Examples: • Ms. Maynard loves reading all kinds of books.-- Gerund • Without representation, a criminal will surely get convicted.—Prepositional • Hoping for a new cell phone, my brother couldn’t sleep at all the night before his birthday.—Participial and Appositive • To celebrate their victory, the coach took the team out for pizza.—Infinitive. – Clauses: Have both a subject and a verb (generally subordinate—can’t stand alone) Example: After the sun went down, the music drifted on the night air. Comma Rule #6 Comma Rule #6: When you use a series of adjectives, you often separate the adjectives with commas. You only use a comma between adjectives when the word and can be inserted between them. Examples: He is a strong, healthy man. We stayed at an expensive summer resort. You would not say expensive and summer resort, so no comma. Exit Ticket Why are commas so important to our writing? How does the understanding of the following two sentences/ phrases change when the comma placement changes? Well done steak Well done, steak! ELA Bellwork Grab any handouts from the back counter. Write in your Agenda. Write the meaning of the word analyze in your own words and illustrate what you think it looks like. This is to be done in your notebook on a new page for ELA vocabulary. Need to Know Complete the Need to Know Week 1. You will have 8 minutes. Text Features Open your notebooks to the text feature notes. We will continue where we left off yesterday. Read Open your Literature book to page 36, “Seventh Grade”, and read the story silently. I will be assigning textbooks as you do this. Bellwork for August 26, 2015 Take any handouts from the back counter. Write in your agenda. Complete Caught’ya! Day 7. Caught’ ya! Day 7 since his joke had fallen flat and no one had laughed william waggish regaled his freinds with a new limerick about girls whom wear black. brown faced with expressive dark pupils william composed mischievous poems to hide his real aspiration two be as eloquent and articulate a poet as his secret hero langston hughes there once was a strange girl from mack (Colorado) who’s hair and clothes were all black. should have said no to trying a magical act she looked like a crow, and she Vocabulary regaled— (verb) to entertain lavishly or agreeably aspiration— (noun) strong desire or longing; ambition eloquent— (adjective) having the ability to speak fluently and powerfully articulate— (adjective) expressed clearly and with effectiveness Practice Complete comma practice. Share with your table to check for correct answers. We will check together. Exit Ticket Write an example of using a comma with a gerund. Answer on a post-it note. Put on the storage closet door. Bell work part 2 August 26, 2015 Brainstorm on pg. 10 in your notebook. Title pg. 10 Story Elements Brainstorm what you think are story elements. Grab homework from the back counter. Story Elements Notes http://classroom.brenhamisd.net/users/0234/docs/ storyelements2.ppt#256,1,Elements of a Story Pg. 10-11 in your notebook. Bellwork for August 27, 2015 Take any handouts from the back counter. Write in your agenda. Complete Caught’ya! Day 8. Caught’ya! Day 8 sam sagacious put his book in his backpack and he laughed. felicia fey threatened to zap william with a spell but that didnt deter him Sam Sagacious put his book in his backpack and he laughed. Felicia Fey threatened to zap William with a spell, but that didn’t deter him. Vocabulary deter- to deter or restrain for acting or going forward with something RACES Practice Partner read the article: “Study: Ignoring background noise makes for better readers” Silently read the article again. Answer the following writing prompt using RACES. RACES Prompt Write a paragraph using the RACES format that explains the central idea of the article. Ise at least two details from the article to support your response. Make sure you have a RACES Graphic Organizer and a paragraph to turn in. Revise and edit your paragraph using CUPS and ARMS. Capitalization (first word, proper nouns) Usage (there, their, they’re) Punctuation (end, commas, etc) Spelling (dictionary) Add (More details) Remove (Unneeded information or words) Move (details to improve flow) Substitute (Better words, get a thesaurus) Comma Scavenger Hunt Complete the Comma Scavenger Hunt. What you do not finish will become homework! Bellwork # 2 Thursday, August 27, 2015 Complete the comma practice sheet/review that is on the back counter. Write in your Agenda. PLOT Read “The Dinner Party” in your literature book on pg. 32-33. Create a Plot Diagram Identify all the other story elements we took notes on yesterday.