Warm Up. Click and copy.

1. Let's _________ a meeting of all the volunteers.  a) illustrate  b) correspond  c) contribute  d) convene  e) consent
2. The computer says that I have (in)_______ space to save my file; it won't fit.  a) consent  b) valid  c) justify  d) constrain  e) sufficient
3. He didn't actually say it, but he _______(ed) it very strongly.  a) contribute  b) dominate  c) justify  d) imply  e) valid
4. He lost the debate, because most of his arguments were (in)______.  a) justified  b) specified  c) dominated  d) valid  e) illustrated
5. After she left town, she still _________ (ed) with her friends back home.  a) dominate  b) imply  c) correspond  d) consent  e) illustrate
6. The _______(atic) diagram for the television covered several large pages.  a) imply  b) scheme  c) illustrate  d) outcome  e) sequence

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7. The adventurer's __________(s) made for a great novel.  a) exploit  b) incite  c) juvenile  d) delinquent  e) delirious
8. deja vu : past  ::  _______ : future   a) defunct  b) grimace  c) reminisce  d) premonition  e) circumvent

Fragments and Run-ons. (FRO's)
Copy each "sentence" and decide if it is a fragment (a piece of a sentence that can't stand by itself), a run-on (two or more sentences run together as one), or a complete, correct sentence. If it is not a complete sentence, rewrite it as one.

1. There are shells all over the beach, let's collect some!
2. Dry desert soil and hardly any water.
3. Into the hole fell he.
4. Chief Wiggum, the doughnut-eater.
5. I looked under the bed I saw a cockroach.
6. On his back, the bug wiggled his legs.

Richard Cory
 

Which character in The Outsiders could we compare Richard Cory to?
The Outsiders...

1. The part of the story where the author explains who the characters are and what their situation is.   a) plot  b) conflict  c) exposition  d) inciting incident  e) climax
2. The place in the story where something happens that really begins the story.   a) plot  b) rising action  c) exposition  d) inciting incident  e) climax
3. The part of the story where the action reaches its peak; the high point in the story.   a) plot  b) rising action  c) exposition  d) inciting incident  e) climax
4. The part of the story between #2  and #3.  a) plot  b) rising action  c) exposition  d) inciting incident  e) climax
5. Without a conflict, we can't have a story.  a) True  b) False

Thursday, 9/30/10 - EIGHTH GRADE
Due today: vocabulary sentences. Due tomorrow: academic word sentences, KBARR.
Test tomorrow: academic words (warm  ups/pretest), vocabulary (homework/pretest), sentence combining, NBTT
Warm up. Click and copy.

1. His silence spoke __________(s)... a) minority  b) volume  c) reliance  d) compensation  e) philosophy
2. ...we all understood what he was __________(ing).  a) imply  b) ensure  c) constrain  d) core  e) justify
3. The opposite of a recessive gene is a(n) __________ one.  a) constant  b) core  c) minority  d) instance  e) dominant
4. He took a tax _________ for his charitable contributions.  a) compensation  b) proportion  c) deduction  d) justification  e) convention
5. The one ________ in her ever-changing life was her twin sister.  a) proportion  b) interaction  c) constant  d) philosophy  e) instance
6. "around stand things"    a) proportions  b) circumstances  c) deductions  d) justifications  e) frameworks

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7. The ________(ing) incident in NBTT is ...  a) bicker  b) incite  c) contemporary  d) propaganda  e) gratify
8. old-fashioned : contemporary :: delirious : _________   a) vigilant  b) righteous  c) bickering  d) gratifying  e) rational

Sentence Combining. (in notebook) Use coordinating conjunctions and commas where needed to combine each of the following groups of sentences into a single, smooth-sounding sentence. Leave out repetition. You may rearrange the sentences if you wish. Write the sentence you end up for each group. What type of sentence do you end up with?

1. Other people did their homework.  Jimmy didn't do his homework.
   
   
2. My mom ate a doughnut. The doughnut made her sick. My mom doesn't eat doughnuts any more.
   
   
3. I looked through the whole tv guide. There were many shows. I could not find anything to watch.
   
   
4. The monster truck crashed. The truck was destroyed. The driver was unharmed.
   
   
5. The boy stole the cheese. The boy gave the cheese to the poor.  The boy was arrested anyway.
   
   

Sample "Perfect" Papers II?

NBTT.
What is a hypocrite? How is Phillip's father being hypocritical?
 

1. The part of the story where the author explains who the characters are and what their situation is.   a) plot  b) conflict  c) exposition  d) inciting incident  e) climax
2. The place in the story where something happens that really begins the story.   a) plot  b) rising action  c) exposition  d) inciting incident  e) climax
3. The part of the story where the action reaches its peak; the high point in the story.   a) plot  b) rising action  c) exposition  d) inciting incident  e) climax
4. The part of the story between #2  and #3.  a) plot  b) rising action  c) exposition  d) inciting incident  e) climax
5. Without a conflict, we can't have a story.  a) True  b) False