Monday, August 25th, 2014

Journal Set 1Get a blue journal paper off the back counter and answer this question: What was the most fun thing you did this summer?

Quote “Dream as if you’ll live forever; live as if you’ll die today.” –James Dean

Word of the DayThe teacher assigned homework on a Friday because she was in a bad mood. The kids thought she was a real curmudgeon.

Curmudgeon (noun)

A bad tempered, difficult, cantankerous person

REMINDERS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

Your syllabus and AUP are due TOMORROW. PLEASE – get them signed.Subject and Predicate Worksheet due today!

Review

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Conjunctions

Conjuctions Attaches sentences to each other.

Creates a compound subject and compound predicate.

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Compound Sentences A sentence that contains two or more simple subjects joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon.

If you split the sentence in two, you should have two complete sentences.

Example: Usain Bolt ran really fast, and he won a gold medal.

Example: Usain Bolt ran in the Olympics; he also ran in the World Championships.

Compound Sentences

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh won a gold medal.

The Olympics were held in London, England, and they will be held again in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

Michael Phelps won a lot of gold medals and a silver medal too.

Gabby Douglas won a gold medal in gymastics, and she also got to meet Taylor Swift.

The U.S. Olympic Basketball Team has a lot of players from different teams like LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and Kobe Bryant.

Are These Compound Sentences?

Sentence Fragments

Sentence Fragments This does not express a complete thought. It is probably missing a subject, a predicate, or both.

Example: She doesn’t.

Example: Smells funny.

Types of Sentences

Declarative

Imperative

Makes a statement. Ends with a period.

Example: Batman is the best superhero.

Gives a command or makes a request. It ends with a period.

Example: Please, do not sing a Justin Bieber song in my class.

Example: Don’t eat yellow snow.

Types of Sentences

Exclamatory Sentence

Interrogative

Expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point.

Example: Flynn Rider rocks my socks!

Asks a question. It ends with a question mark.

Example: Who is stronger, Thor or the Hulk?

Interjections

Interjections A word or group of words that expresses strong feeling. It has no grammatical connection to other words in the sentence.

Examples: Yikes! Wow! Holy banana! Crud! Yippee! Hooray! Phew!

Example in a sentence: Hulk punched Thor in his big Norse face. Ouch!

Punctuation Makes a Difference!

Punctuation is Powerful!

Punctuating Blank Dialogue

You are going to get a piece of paper where there is no punctuation. You need to decide how to punctuate it. We will read a few of these out loud and decide what kind of punctuation fits it best.

Subject and Predicate

On one piece of paper, write ONE subject.

On the second piece of paper, write ONE predicate.

I “Mustache” You a Question!

You will be split into two teams. One person will draw from one box and with a mustache. This will have an interrogative word on it (a word that begins an interrogative sentence). You have to come up with a question that starts with that word. Period (.)– Declarative Sentence Exclamation point (!)– Exclamatory Sentence Hashtag (#) – Interjection At sign (@) – Imperative Sentence

You have 5 seconds to come up with a sentence, each time you do, you get a point. The team with the most points will not have to do a section on tonight’s homework!

The person from the other team will draw from the other box that has a word on it and must answer the question using a specific type of sentence.