Tuesday, 9/10: Sentence Combining, FRO’s, Vocab, Outsiders

 

HOW? WHERE? WHEN?

“Sentence Combo, 9/10.”
Combine each group of short, choppy sentences into one smooth-sounding sentence. You may add, subtract, or change words, but make sure to keep the meaning of all the parts.  You will have to punctuate as appropriate. (Bonus: Write more than one combination of each for ++!)

  1. a) His teacher appears unamused.   b) His teacher is a woman.  c) She is quiet.    d) She has karate experience. (“His teacher, a what…with what, appears how…)
  2. a) She advances down the aisle.   b) Her advance is slow.   c) Her advance is quiet.    d) Her advance is dangerous. (Turn the adjectives into adverbs!)

What’s wrong with the following “sentences”?

  1. The llama in the field.
  2. Every day after school.
  3. Whenever the llama sings.
  4. The llama who is so smart.

What about these?

  1. I love that llama he’s so sweet.
  2. I saw a llama yesterday it was purple.
  3. It’s too far to walk, let’s ride a llama.

Fragments and Run-ons. (FRO’s) How do we fix them? How do we avoid them?

“FRO’s Practice I, 9/10.”  For 1-8 write Fragment, Run On, or OK for each word group. For 9 and 10, name the Subject/Predicate combo.

  1. Laughing at the comedian’s act.
  2. Chief Wiggum, the doughnut-eater and chief cop.
  3. The wagon was loaded with food it was pulled by two teams of llamas.
  4. There are llamas all over the beach let’s collect some!
  5. On his back, the llama wriggled his little legs.
  6. Is this a fragment?
  7. Up the mountain we hiked.
  8. Because the llama ate too much cheese, he forgot to do his KBARR.
  9. S/P for #5?
  10. S/P for #7?

“Vocab, 9/10.”  
eating-junk-food 5321ef97c9275 determination   
dogged, indignant, conducive, wistful, implore, subside, acquit, leery, gorge, bluff

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____ (Bonus for which Greek myth character!)
  4. _____
  5. My parents were a little ______ about the crowd I was hanging out with; she didn’t trust them to make good decisions.
  6. I waited until Mom’s anger _____(ed), and then asked for forgiveness.
  7. Listening to music is not ______ to proper studying.
  8. After a long trial, he was ______(ed) and finally set free.
  9. At first, Pony thought he might be able to ____ the Socs by acting tough, but there were too many of them and they were drunk.
  10. I was ____ when Dad blamed me for breaking the lamp instead of my sister.
  11. A savvy person is usually more ____ than a gullible one.
  12. The roots of this word meant “to ask for with tears.” _____
  13. The roots of this word meant “to bring together.” _____

The Outsiders. We are in Chapter 5.

“Nothing Gold Can Stay”  (p77)
What “gold” did Pony have that didn’t stay? Soda?  Darry?