Tuesday, 10/07/03 -- Eighth Grade
Warm Up. Copy.
  1. *location : site :: agreement : _________
  2. *upset : faze :: unfeeling : _________
  3. * ascent : descent :: moving : _________
  4. *wire : cord :: metaphor : _________
  5. homonyms : sound ::  synonyms : _________
Colons and Semicolons--You need at least two of each in your next perfect paper. Copy into notebook:
Colon: Use a colon before a list of items. Also... (2 other places. EC: Where?)

Semicolon: Use to separate independent clauses (parts of a sentence that could be sentences on their own).
Practice. Supply the missing punctuation. Do not copy. Write the word before, and the correct missing punctuation mark. +1 for each correct sentence.
  1. He said there are two kinds of people in the world weird people and people like me.
  2. This boy was not a friendly boy he was a nasty mean boy.
  3. Darry is always pulling muscles he roofs houses and he's always trying to carry two bundles of roofing.
  4. Here is what I did go to the store go to the bank go home.
  5. Quiet soft-spoken little Johnny who wouldn't hurt a living thing on purpose had taken a human life.
"Flowers for Algernon" (p84-90 -- Reports 1-7) Check responding and PRs.
  • Regions of the Brain.  (p220)

  • Read aloud...Tonight: read/respond to the middle of p98. Do the P/R on p98.