KBARR: ____/8 SMYK? Yes/No. Extra Combos:____ Other Extra Credit:
Period 1 gets +2 for Vocab Relay, All other classes get +1.
Mental Floss.
Mental Floss. (On back of test.)
Explain how I do it: “In my bedroom, the nearest lamp that I usually keep turned on is 12 feet away from my bed. Alone in the room, without using wires, strings, or any other aids or contraptions, I can turn out the light on that lamp and get into bed before the room is dark.”
What are the elusive characters; missing two letters or numbers? (In other words, what letters go into the blanks? The answer is NOT R and E.) W A T E ___ M ___ L O N
1961 was a special year. In fact, the next time a year will be this special will be the year 6009. What is so special about those two years?
If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
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) Horace tries in school to be a very good boy.
b) People who drive too fast are likely to be arrested.
c) For the Halloween party, John came looking like a radish.
“Warm Up, 9/11.” #1-5: Subject/Predicate. #6: Sentence Scramble. #7: Finish the sentence appropriately. #8: Answer using your diagram. #9: Write Adj. and Adv. and list the adjectives (2) and adverbs (3).
I like the running in PE. (S/P)
The look on his face told me everything. (S/P)
Under the bridge lived an evil llama. (S/P)
Bob’s rings glinted in the moonlight. (S/P)
Herds of llamas roam the countryside at night. (S/P)
–in fact — at all –a beast –a gentle giant –is not –that llama –he is (Sentence Scramble)
Pony’s first feeling when he wakes up in the church is ________
Which part of Plot Mountain are we on in Outsiders? _________
After the very terrible accident, the injured llama limped awkwardly homeward. (Adj:? Adv:?)
“FROs 9/11.” Fragment, Run-on, or OK?
Hide in burrows and beneath rocks.
Although the llama wandered too close to the fire.
Fighting with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, he battled the vicious llama.
Herds of fiendish llamas called dooms roam the empty countryside.
The strange life of the llama.
Jack and Jill and the llama went up the hill to fetch a pail of water then they fell down.
The llama fell down and broke his crown Jack and Jill fell in the well.
The llama went over the hills and through the wood to get to Grandmother’s house, but she wasn’t home.
The llama ate too much cheese he forgot to do his KBARR.
The llama helps me with my homework, he does a great job.
“Sentence Combo, 9/10.”
Combine each group of short, choppy sentences into one smooth-sounding sentence. You may add, subtract, or change words, but make sure to keep the meaning of all the parts.You will have to punctuate as appropriate. (Bonus: Write more than one combination of each for ++!)
a) His teacher appears unamused. b) His teacher is a woman. c) She is quiet. d) She has karate experience. (“His teacher, a what…with what, appears how…)
a) She advances down the aisle. b) Her advance is slow. c) Her advance is quiet. d) Her advance is dangerous. (Turn the adjectives into adverbs!)
What’s wrong with the following “sentences”?
The llama in the field.
Every day after school.
Whenever the llama sings.
The llama who is so smart.
What about these?
I love that llama he’s so sweet.
I saw a llama yesterday it was purple.
It’s too far to walk, let’s ride a llama.
Fragments and Run-ons. (FRO’s) How do we fix them? How do we avoid them?
“FRO’s Practice I, 9/10.” For 1-8 write Fragment, Run On, or OK for each word group. For 9 and 10, name the Subject/Predicate combo.
Laughing at the comedian’s act.
Chief Wiggum, the doughnut-eater and chief cop.
The wagon was loaded with food it was pulled by two teams of llamas.
There are llamas all over the beach let’s collect some!
On his back, the llama wriggled his little legs.
Is this a fragment?
Up the mountain we hiked.
Because the llama ate too much cheese, he forgot to do his KBARR.
