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Month: October 2016

Monday, 10/10: Copy Homework, SAWs, Debrief/Correct Test #7, Outsiders

Copy homework into planner.

“SAWs, 10/10.”
access, civil, despite, integrate, promote
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  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. You are supposed to _____ four vocabulary words into your perfect paper.
  5. ______ all the preparation he did, he lost the match because his adversary was better.
  6. Right now you can see a lot of signs ______(ing) various candidates for various elections.
  7. Even though they didn’t like each other, the two political opponents were able to act ____ to each other in the debate.
  8. I didn’t have ______ to my e-mail because I couldn’t remember my password.

 

Warm Up, 10/10: Apostrophes I. COPY the underlined parts and fill in the blank with the correct answer.

  1. Spend as long washing ____ hands…  a) you’re b) your  c) your’e    d) Something else: write it.
  2. …as it takes to say the _____.   a) ABC’s  b) ABCs  c) Something else: write it.
  3. ______ suggestion was good. a) Carlos’s  b) Carlos’  c) something else   (His name is Carlos, not Carlo.)
  4. She is part of the ______ team.  a) womans’  b) womens’  c) women’s  d) womens’s
  5. We had four ______ in class.  a) Jake’s  b) Jakes’  c) Jakes’s  d) Jakes
  6. The ____ clothes are on the second floor.   a) children’s  b) childrens  c) childrens’  d) childrens’s
  7. Five ____ parents will be guests of honor.  a) student’s  b) students’  c) students’s

Debrief/Correct Test #7.

The Outsiders

 

 

Friday, 10/7: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #7

Prep Sheet for Test #7:
KBAR: ___/40 (Enter B if you blogged.)
Vocabulary Homework: ____/20
Vocab Practices: 10/4: ____/12    10/5: ____/15
Warm Up 10/3: ___/7
Other Extra Credit:  Per1 +3, Per6 +2, Per3 +1 for Vocab Relay.

 

Mental Floss.

  1. Supply the missing four words to make a famous expression. (No, you don’t get to ask any questions.)
    “Failure ____  ____  ____  ____.”
    Options: a) Success  b) Victory  c) Triumph  d) Accomplishment
  2. In each sentence below, an animal is concealed. For example, the sentence, “What shall I do, Gertrude?” has the word dog concealed. Find the hidden animal in each sentence.
    • a) He used his powers of persuasion to summon key people to the meeting.
    • b) Did I ever tell you, that at camp in the fall, I once found a ten dollar gold piece?
    • c) Asking nutty questions can be most annoying.
  3. A man made up a seven-character password (letters and numbers only) for his e-mail  account, and he wanted to write it down somewhere in case he forgot it. But he didn’t want to write down the actual password, so he wrote this sentence: “You force Heaven to be empty.”  What was his password?
  4. What number is always found in the middle of the telephone directory?
  5. What famous saying is represented here?
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  6. A pen and a pencil together cost $1.10. The pen costs exactly $1.00 more than the pencil. What does each cost? (Not a trick, just math.)

 

Test #7.

Doodle Theme: 2066!

Wednesday, 10/5: Perfect, Vocabulary, Story Time, Outsiders

Checking Show-Me-You-Knows.

“Warm Up, 10/5.” Is It Perfekt II?

“Vocab Practice II, 10/5.” More than one possible on some.
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  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____ (Not aplomb this time.)
  5. confused : savvy :: bored : ______(ed)
  6. His feeling of accomplishment was ______(ed) when he found out that EVERYONE received an A on the test.
  7. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This means that whoever is doing the _____(ing) is the one judging how beautiful something is.
  8. She speaks both French and German with equal ______.
  9. His political ____(s) tried to prevent him from winning the election.
  10. Which word best captures the Soc’s attitude  (attitude!) toward the greasers? ____
  11. He was ___(ed) to his room until his homework was finished.
  12. As the snowfall ____(ed), we were finally able to see the road.
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  13. ***______     14. ***_____   15.***_____

 

VOCABULARY RELAY!!!

 

Sample Stories. Fictional this time.
(4)Purpose/Organization: What’s the point, BME, the story itself.
(4)Development/Elaboration: The details, the telling of the story.
(2)Conventions. Punctuation, spelling, etc.

 

Outsiders

Tuesday, 10/4: Vocabulary, Story Examples, Outsiders

“Warm Up, 10/4.” Is It Perfect? #1
List all the mistakes you find and how to fix them. +1 point for each correctly found and fixed, -1 for each missed and/or each wrongly corrected.

Checking vocab definitions.

“Vocab Practice I, 10/4.” All pics!

Story examples w/scoring.
(4)Purpose/Organization: What’s the point, BME, the story itself.
(4)Development/Elaboration: The details, the telling of the story.
(2)Conventions. Punctuation, spelling, etc.

3-3-2 or better is the goal for all!

The Outsiders.