Tuesday, 10/5/10 - Seventh Grade
Spelling Pretest #3: Homophones.
  1. building : __________ :: city : _________  a) capitol/capitol  b) capital/capitol  c) capitol/capital  d) capitol/capitle
  2. group : ________ :: center : _________ a) corpse/core  b) core/corpse  c) corps/corp  d) corps/core
  3. nugget : ________ :: rank : ________  a) cernel/kernel  b) colonel/kernel  c) kernel/kernal d) kernel/colonel
  4. advise : ________ :: committee : ________ a) councel/council  b) counsel/council  c) council/counsel  d) counsil/council
  5. bundle : ________ :: get the water out : ________   a) bail/bale  b) bale/baile  c) bale/bail  d) baile/bale
  6. inactive : ________ :: hero : ________ a) idole/idol  b) idel/idol  c) idle/idol  d) idol/idle
  7. Cheerios : ________ :: #25489 : ________  a) serial/cereal  b) cereal/cerial  c) cerial/serial  d) cereal/serial
  8. say a nice thing : ________ :: match up well : ________  a) compliment/complement  b) complement/complament  c) complement/compliment  d) complament/compliment
  9. administrator : ________ :: belief : ________  a) princapal/princaple  b) principal/principle  c) principle/principal  d) prinsipal/prinsiple
  10. who is : ________ :: who owns : ________  a) whose/who's  b) who's/whose  c) who'se/who's  d) who's/whos'
  11. steep : ________ :: cut ________  a) shear/sheare  b) shear/sheer  c) sheere/shear  d) sheer/shear
  12. it is : _______ :: it owns : _________  a) it's/its  b) its'/its  c) it's/its'
  13. they own : ___________ :: location : ____________  a) their/they're  b) there/their  c) their/there  d) they're/there


Pink Sheet: Commas.
Comma Rules:
*Before the but
*Three in a row
*Double adjective
*Intro
*Interruption
*I'm talking to you
*Appositive

Match each rule with an example from the top part of the sheet. Write the rule next to the example on the sheet.

Pair up. Do p193.
Bonus Questions:

  • Which sentence on p193 contains an example of an appositive? (Check the pink sheet.) Copy the part of the sentence that is an appositive.
  • Which sentence on p193 contain an example of "words that interrupt the flow of thought"? Copy just the interrupting words from the sentence.

    • (2) Which sentences on p193 contain an example of "nouns of direct address"? Copy the nouns.
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    The Outsiders.
     
     

    Tuesday, 10/5/10 - Eighth Grade
    Spelling Pretest #3: Homophones

    1. notes : __________ ::  wire : ______   a) cord/ chord  b) cored/chorde  c) chord/cord  d) cored/chord
    2. voices in a choir : _____ ::  skeleton of an underwater creature : ________  a) choral/coral  b) coral/choral  c) corale/choral  d) chora/corale
    3. percussion : ____ ::  metaphor : _____  a) simbal/cimbal  b) symbal/cymbal  c) cymbal/symbal  d) cymbal/symbol
    4. between rows : _________ ::  surrounded by water : _________  a) I'll/isle  b) isle/aisle  c) aisle/isle  d) ile/isle
    5. rising : ______ :: agreement : _______  a) assent/ascent  b) ascent/assent  c) assent/assent  d) ascente/assent
    6. unmoving : ____ :: paper : _______  a) stationery/stationary  b) stationary/stationery
    7. location :_____ :: give credit : ___________  a) sight/site  b) site/sight  c) sight/cite  d) site/cite
    8. cover the neighborhood : ______  :: heavy cotton fabric : _____  a) canvas/canvass  b) canvass/canvas  c) cannvass/cannvas  d) canevas/canvas
    9. stage : _________ :: upset : _________  a) phase/faze  b) faze/phase  c) phaze/faze  d) phase/phaze
    10. decline : _____ :: disagreement : _____  a) decent/dissent  b) descent/decent  c) descent/dissent  d) dissent/descent
    11. weight of a diamond : ______ :: proofreading mark : _____  a) carrot/carat  b) carat/carret  c) caret/carat  d) carat/caret
    12. blister : ______ :: unfeeling : ________  a) callus/callous  b) callous/callus  c) callouse/callus  d) callouse/callous
    13. healthy : ___ :: greet/honor : ____  a) hale/haile  b) hail/hale  c) hail/haile  d) hale/hail


    Technical Writing Assignment.

    Parallel Structure.
     

    NBTT.