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Warm-ups

Warm-ups. Week of Feb. 6, 2012. 8 th Grade. Please come in, sit down quietly, and begin your warm-up. Names like Sea Breeze, New Jersey, Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, Walnut Grove, Missouri, and Agate Beach, Oregon, discribe physical characteristics.

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Warm-ups

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  1. Warm-ups Week of Feb. 6, 2012

  2. 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and begin your warm-up. • Names like Sea Breeze, New Jersey, Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, Walnut Grove, Missouri, and Agate Beach, Oregon, discribe physical characteristics. • Can you see why the people in Muddy Creek, New York, voted to change the name of they’re town to Pearl River. • Skills practiced: use of semicolons in a series containing commas, correction of commonly misspelled word, correction of commonly confused words, use of end punctuation question mark.

  3. 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and begin your warm-up. • Shakespeare was probably educated at the Stratford Grammar School. He was taught latin and greek. • Although we don’t know much about Shakespeare’s life we do know he was married and had three children. • Skills practiced: use of relative clause to combine sentences, capitalization of names of languages, use of comma after introductory subordinate clause.

  4. “The Wreck of the Hesperus”Images

  5. “Sam McGee”Images

  6. 8th Grade, Wednesday • Please come in, sit down quietly, and begin your warm-up. • Many countys bear the names of Lewis and Clark. Lewis and Clark were the famous explorers of the Louisiana Territory. • The name of Council Bluffs, Iowa, honors a meeting held there between Lewis and Clark and Chiefs of the otoe tribe. • Skill practiced: correction of spelling: base word with final y, use of appositive to combine sentences, capitalization of proper adjective

  7. 7th Grade, Wednesday • Please come in, sit down quietly, and begin your warm-up. • By 1594 Shakespeare was part owner of one of the most successful theater companys in London. • By that time however Shakespeare already had a reputation as an actor and play-wright. • Skills practiced: use of comma after introductory prepositional phrase, correct spelling of plural noun, use of commas with interruptor

  8. “The Centaur”Images

  9. 8th Grade, Thursday • Please come in, sit down quietly, and begin your warm-up. • They think gold might have been found in Happy Camp, California. • From Allagash, Maine, to El Cajon, California, and from Walla-Walla, Washington, to Frostproof, Florida, American place names have alot of stories to tell. • Skills practiced: correction of pronoun without clear antecedent, correct contraction with helping verb have, correction of commonly misused word.

  10. 7th Grade, Thursday • Please come in, sit down quietly, and begin your warm-up. • Shakespeare worked read hard and built the globe theatre. • He wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets and several long poems. • Skills practiced: use of adverb to modify an adjective, capitalization of name of specific building, use of commas in a series.

  11. Quiz Intro. • Did you know that punctuation doesn’t just include commas, apostrophes, and periods, but it also covers the spaces between words and letters? Before punctuation was invented, texts were written in all caps without any spaces between words, making them hard to read.

  12. Grammar Quiz • Rewrite the following paragraph using punctuation: • ITSVERYDIFFICULTTOREADSENTENCESWHENTHERESABSOLUTELYNOPUNCTUATIONWHATSOEVERITMUSTHAVEBEENVERYHARDFORPEOPLETRYINGTOREADBEFORETHEINVENTIONOFPUNCTUATIONDONTYOUTHINKBYINSERTINGSPACESPUNCTUATIONMARKSANDLOWERCASELETTERSTHISPARAGRAPHWILLBECOMEMUCHEASIERTOREADWHATARELIEFTHATWILLBE

  13. Corrections • It’s very difficult to read sentences when there’s absolutely no punctuation whatsoever. It must have been very hard for people trying to read before the invention of punctuation, don’t you think? By inserting spaces, punctuation marks, and lowercase letters, this paragraph will become much easier to read. What a relief that will be!

  14. Friday, 8th Grade • Please come in quietly, sit down, and correct the following sentences: • Langston Hughes is one of the most important writers in American literature, best known as a poet. • He wrote: plays, short stories, novels, and childrens books as well as poems. • Skills practiced: correction of misplaced phrase, elimination of unnecessary colon, possessive form: noun with irregular plural.

  15. Friday, 7th Grade • Please come in quietly, sit down, and correct the following sentences: • Fog is the name of a poem by Carl Sandburg. • Sandburg was a newspaper reporter when he writed this poem. • Skills practiced: use of quotation marks with title of poem, correct past form of irregular verb.

  16. “Annabel Lee”Images

  17. “Annabel Lee” It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of ANNABEL LEE;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.I was a child and she was a child,In this kingdom by the sea;But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Annabel Lee;With a love that the winged seraphs of heavenCoveted her and me.And this was the reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,A wind blew out of a cloud, chillingMy beautiful Annabel Lee;So that her highborn kinsman cameAnd bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulchreIn this kingdom by the sea.

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