--Please take out your "The Grammar Hammer--Common Error: Missing comma(s) with a nonessential element" sheet. Then, find a partner and complete the following tasks in the first ten minutes of the block:
- Share your class preparation work through the lens of these questions/this prompt:
- For which sentences do you have a consensus?
- For which do you not?
- For those sentences where you do not have a consensus, talk together and see if you can come to one.
- Answer these questions:
- What is a run-on? How can a writer find and fix run-ons?
- What is a comma splice? How can a writer find and fix comma splices?
- What is an introductory element/transitional phrase? What piece of punctuation is needed following one of these? How can a writer find and fix errors related to this rule?
- What is a compound sentence? How can a writer find and fix errors related to FANBOYS usage?
- What is a complex sentence? How can a writer find and fix errors related to WUBAIS usage?
Ultimately, you are preparing to engage in grammar review as a whole class--I'll draw name cards--as preparation for today's follow-up assessment.
*AS YOU WORK, I WILL RETURN YOUR LAST GRAMMAR HAMMER ASSESSMENT AS A REFERENCE. I WILL RE-COLLECT THIS ASSESSMENT BEFORE CLASS ENDS.*
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
Review -- Essential Elements/Nonessential Elements and Other Common Errors (20-40 mins.)
FYI: The standards that we are working toward mastering read as follows:
English 10 Honors students...
- demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, and punctuation
- apply knowledge of language to make effective choices for meaning or style
- strengthen writing as needed by editing or trying a new approach
- use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.
--go over the PRACTICE via the SMART Board
--review other common errors via questions from the "Jump Off"Transition
--Pick up a copy of the "QUIZ--Restrictive Elements/Non-restrictive Elements and Common Errors" document from the front table.
Assessment -- QUIZ--Restrictive Elements/Non-restrictive Elements and Common Errors
--After carefully reading the directions, complete the assessment quietly and independently. Good luck!
--When you finish,...
- return your last grammar hammer assessment by placing it in the black basket on the front table
- pick up a copy of the "Grammar Hammer Application/Article of the Week #4 (3/12-3/16)" document from the front table. Purposefully read the directions, which I will model for you before you leave class today.
--modeling via the SMART Board
--work time
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)
--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training as directed before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 3/22. If you fail to appropriately train between now and the administration of Vocabulary Quiz #5, you will not be permitted to take the quiz until you catch up (see the "Membean Routine" document).
--Finish the "Grammar Hammer Application/Article of the Week #4 (3/12-3/16)" task as directed. Expect to turn in your best work NEXT CLASS (Tuesday, 3/20 [ACE]/Wednesday, 3/21 [BDF]).
Writing
--Your properly formatted, partially revised short story or poem is due Tuesday, 3/20 (ACE)/Wednesday, 3/21 (BDF). See your "Preparing for the GVEP Literary Contest" document for additional information.
--work time
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)
--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training as directed before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 3/22. If you fail to appropriately train between now and the administration of Vocabulary Quiz #5, you will not be permitted to take the quiz until you catch up (see the "Membean Routine" document).
--Finish the "Grammar Hammer Application/Article of the Week #4 (3/12-3/16)" task as directed. Expect to turn in your best work NEXT CLASS (Tuesday, 3/20 [ACE]/Wednesday, 3/21 [BDF]).
Writing
--Your properly formatted, partially revised short story or poem is due Tuesday, 3/20 (ACE)/Wednesday, 3/21 (BDF). See your "Preparing for the GVEP Literary Contest" document for additional information.
HW (Class Preparation)
--If you have not yet selected your final free reading book of the school year, consider doing so ASAP (with the knowledge, though, that you must read a memoir and that we will head to the library in class soon)--ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
--You are STILL not yet expected to read any further in Lord of the Flies (unless you want to!).
On the backburner:
--If you have not yet selected your final free reading book of the school year, consider doing so ASAP (with the knowledge, though, that you must read a memoir and that we will head to the library in class soon)--ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
--You are STILL not yet expected to read any further in Lord of the Flies (unless you want to!).
On the backburner:
- "Madness" done in class upon submission of revisions
Moving On with LotF (time
permitting)
· think-aloud--SNAKES
· discussion activity with Chapters 1-3
ouse "what to look for" document and quizzes
· begin reading/thinking aloud with Chapter 4
