Advisory Schedule. Link to Slides.
Copy homework into planner:
- KBARR ! Read 15 minutes M-Th, get chart signed (in notebook),
respond 1 page (in notebook) by Friday. (Here are some more ideas for responding.) - Vocabulary due Tuesday, Thursday.
- Defns. from LearnersDictionary due Tuesday.
- SMYK’s due Thursday.
“Warm Up, 9/9.”
- If you are absent from this class on a Wednesday, what should you do at home? Be very specific.
- If you are absent on a Monday, what extra step do you need to take?
- If you are absent on a Friday for a test, what should you do if at all possible?
Name the Subject/Predicate combo for each sentence. - The ending of the The Llama Movie was lame.
- With a wink of his eye, the llama suddenly disappeared up the chimney.
- After that night at the movies, Pony’s life was never the same.
“Sentence Combining, 9/9.” Combine each group of short, choppy sentences into one smooth-sounding sentence. This time, 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 ++!)
1. a) Chuckie bounces wildly in his desk. b) He is the class clown. c) He clucks like a chicken. (Hint: Use “-ing.”)
2. a) His fingers make sounds. b) The sounds are scratching. c) They claw the desktop. d) The desktop is battered. (Hints: What kind of sounds are they? Use the word “as.”)
3. a) Then a voice freezes his behavior. b) The voice is stern. c) The behavior is disturbing. (Hints: You can eliminate all but one word in b and c. What kind of voice? What kind of behavior?)
The Outsiders…