Day: April 15, 2024

Late Start Schedule.

Copy homework into planner:

• Do research for EVIDENCE for your argument paper. Find 2 pieces of EVIDENCE each day with a URL and Title. These should go into the chart you make on Monday.  Each should be a summary several sentences long, perhaps with a quote too.
• Vocab due Tuesday,  Thursday
  • due Tuesday – Definitions in notebook.
  • due Thursday – Copy and Finish the SMYK’s.

“Warm Up, 4/15” Try to translate this “official slang” from 1938. Copy/Translate.

1. Ground grippers (n.):
2. Crumb crushers (n.):
3. Cubby (n.):
4. Igg (v.):
5. Drape(s) (n.):
6. Gimme some skin (v.):

“Agreement, 4/15.” DO NOT WRITE THE LETTER! For 1,2,3,4 write the subject/verb combo of the correct choice.  For #5, implement the change and write the correct subject/verb combo.

1. In which sentence do the subject and verb agree?
   a) Nothing taste as good as my dad’s five-alarm chili.
   b) Most of the group’s music are playing on the radio.
   c) Several of those coats is on sale this week.
   d) Some of Meredith’s poems make me laugh.
2. Neither the trumpet players nor the drummer _____  visited our school. a) has  b) have  c) were  d) are

3. In which sentence do the subject and verb agree?
   a) The King and I were performed as the spring play this year.
   b) A short story, “The Pit and the Pendulum” seem scary.
   c) “Heart and Soul” are being played on the piano right now.
   d) “B. J. and the Martians” sounds like a funny TV show.

4. In which sentence do the subject and verb agree?
   a) Dan’s friend in the Spanish Club are going to South America next spring.
   b) Many summer camps, with lots of money to spend, has bought new equipment.
   c) The green wheelbarrow behind those bushes need a good cleaning.
   d) The tigers, their eyes gleaming, seem ready for an attack.
5. On that road next to the river sits several abandoned cars. Which is the best fix?
   a) Make cars the subject of the sentence.
   b) Change sits to sit.
   c) Change abandoned to abandons.
   d) Move on that road to the end of the sentence.

“Husker Du, 4/15.”
Period 1: Test #24 – #1-7
Period 3: Test #23 – #1-7
Period 4: Test #17 – #1-7
Period 5: Test #17 – #1-7
Period 6: Test #5 – #1-7

BOB p302. CHROMEBOOKS!

1. Start a new Gdoc. In the title box, call it either Human Exploration notes or Robot Exploration notes. DO NOT SHARE THIS WITH ME!
2. Type your claim at the top. Jazz it up fancy like the models. You can always modify it later. (Look at the examples you marked on p276 and p286.)
3. Make a table like the one on p302. (4 rows, 3 columns)
4. List your first reason as a complete sentence, the evidence you have for it, and where that evidence came from.
5. Call me over to look.
6. For the essay, each reason should have at least two pieces of evidence.