English

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Class 5: July 11, 2016

Part 1: Grammar Review

Prac?ce Test

Prac?ce Grammar Exam

1. Trade your paper with a partner.
2. Write Marked by (your name)
on the paper.
3. Correct your partners paper.
4. Ask ques?ons for clarica?on.
5. Review test note trouble areas.
6. Hand in test to me.

Tree Diagram 1

Tree Diagram 2

Tree Diagram 3

Iden?fying Subjects and Verbs

1. A\er a long, rainy winter, the woman and her husband had
become ?red of their small apartment, so they decided to drive to
a seedy part of town in search of excitement.

2. The couple had been cruising slowly down a side street, looking
for some local nightlife, when they heard music coming from a
small bar on the corner.

3. They had just le\ their car when some stray cats started gh?ng
in a side alley.

4. When a couple walked in and sat down at the bar, nobody
bothered to look up.

Iden?fying Subjects and Verbs

5. At one end of the bar, a ?red-looking woman was
languidly smoking her cigare^e and expertly blowing out
smoke rings.

6. The bartender was wiping down the counter and so\ly
whistling to himself.

7. Hunched over a table in the back corner, four men were
enjoying a friendly game of cards.

8. A sad Billie Holiday tune had been playing so\ly from an
old jukebox, but once the song was over, the room went
silent.

Sentence Fragments and Run on

Sentences
Although penguins look clumsy on land. They are graceful in the water. Their
bodies are perfectly suited for swimming and diving. They a streamlined
torpedo shape. Their wings are shaped like ippers penguins use them to
propel themselves through the water at speeds up to 30 miles per hour. Use
their webbed feet to steer. Most penguins can even swim like porpoises.

Leaping out of the water to breathe and then diving back in with one graceful
mo?on. Penguins frequently need to dive deep to catch prey. Some?mes
descending to depths of over a thousand feet. The water pressure can be
great enough to collapse lungs. Penguins special air chambers in their bodies.
When a penguin dives, the chambers squeeze, air is forced into the lungs. The
extra air keeps the lungs from collapsing. The chilly waters that penguins
prefer would be too cold for most birds, penguins are insulated by
waterproof feathers and a thick layer of fat. Penguins more than make up for
being awkward on land. By being perfectly suited for the water.

Corrected Paragraph
Although penguins look clumsy on land, they are graceful in the
water. Their bodies are perfectly suited for swimming and diving, a
streamlined torpedo shape. Their wings are shaped like ippers, and
penguins use them to propel themselves through the water at speeds
up to 30 miles per hour, using their webbed feet to steer.
Most penguins can even swim like porpoises, leaping out of the
water to breathe and then diving back in with one graceful mo?on.
Penguins frequently need to dive deep to catch prey, some?mes
descending to depths of over a thousand feet. The water pressure can
be great enough to collapse lungs, but Penguins have special air
chambers in their bodies. When a penguin dives, the chambers
squeeze, and air is forced into the lungs. The extra air keeps the lungs
from collapsing. The chilly waters that penguins prefer would be too
cold for most birds, but penguins are insulated by waterproof feathers
and a thick layer of fat. Penguins more than make up for being
awkward on land by being perfectly suited for the water.

Modier Problems
1. The sailors abandoned the badly leaking ship.
2. Driving through Europe, we saw many
cathedrals.
3. Jane drove very carefully over the mountain
road because of its numerous dangerous curves.
4. Because the party seemed like so much fun, I
was happy to have been invited.
5. Because we had apparently taken the wrong
road some miles back, the Sherman Country Lin
was nowhere in sight.

Modier Problems
6. My exam received a poor grade because I didnt
understand the text or lecture well.
7. Although my roses are well po^ed, I cannot get
them to bloom.
8. The hikers found the cabin a\er walking for
hours.
9. My uncle took me to the circus when I was a
li^le girl.
10.You must boil beets for at least a half hour in
order for them to be cooked.

Final Work Period for Scripts

Please complete your dra\ scripts.
Bring them up for me to discuss with you.
We will be in the lab tomorrow. Bring any
supplies that you might need (images/ash
drive to save your stu on)

Part 2: Narra?ve Wri?ng

Last work period for dra\ script.
Bring up for me to check.

Important Reminders
1. Bring a ash drive! These les get very large
and cant be emailed.
2. Consider recording sound at home. Well see
what we can do in the lab semng, but it
might be necessary.

Part 2: Reading
Focus: Chapters 1-9

Discussion
What do you do when you get in class reading?

Problem
High school teachers assume that:
You read faster than elementary students.
You can read a large amount of text in a short
amount of ?me.
You can gain informa?on (learn) completely from
reading.
You can read and understand very dicult
material.

Reading Reali?es
1. Fake reading
2. I read the words, but what do they mean?

Reading is THINKING
Surface Structures: visual/auditory clues for
recognizing/pronouncing words and
understanding sentence structure.
a. Graphophonic Clues: le^er/sound associa?on
b. Lexical Clues: word recogni?on
c. Syntac?c Clues: form and structure of
phrases. Are they organized? Does it sound
right?

Reading is THINKING
Deep Structures: allow reader to interpret,
analyze, and draw inferences from the text.
a. Seman?c Clues: meanings, concepts,
associa?ons related to words.
b. Schema?c Clues: Prior knowledge and
experiences. Organize new informa?on in
memory.
c. Pragma?c Clues: What is important? What
needs to be understood for a purpose?

Monitoring Comprehension
Good readers know when to stop when
a. Inner voice stops thinking and is only pronouncing
words.
b. Reader cant visualize what is read.
c. Reader starts to daydream.
d. Reader cant remember what they just read.
e. Characters are reappearing, but reader doesnt
know who they are.

Confusion Fixes
Make a connec?on between the text and:
Your life
Your knowledge of the world
Another text

Make a predic?on
Stop and ask yourself what you have already read.
Ask yourself a ques?on and try to answer it.
Visualize
Use print conven?ons
Reread
Look for pa^erns in text structure.
Adjust your reading rate.

The Truth about Lying

1. Read the ar?cle
a. Set a purpose for reading.
b. Preview comprehension ques?ons.
c. Keep track by wri?ng in the margins (ques?ons,
connec?ons to Catcher, etc.)

2. Answer the ques?ons on the handout.

Discussion

Who do we lie to?

Why do we lie?
Does everyone lie?
Is lying ever the right thing to do?

Ch. 8 Tracking Holdens Lies

Re-read the chapter. Iden?fy at least 3 lies and
complete the chart in your notebook.

Lie (pg#)

Reason

Quick Write
Is Holden a phony? Jus?fy your answer with at
least 3 references to the text. You can use your
book.

Hand it in

Novel Discussion Ques?ons Ch. 8

How does Holdens trip to the train sta?on
highlight his isola?on?
How does Mrs. Morrows impression of her
son compare to Holdens impression?
What evidence is there in this chapter that
Holden is trying to make the transi?on from
school to the adult world?

Novel Discussion Ques?ons: Chapter 9

Why must the cab driver turn around once he
has driven through Central Park?
What is it about the Edmont Hotel that
surprises Holden once he has checked in?
Although he thinks about calling several
people in this chapter, he calls only one: Faith
Cavendish. How does his phone call show
Holdens inexperience with women and
rela?onships?

Homework
Read to the end of Chapter 12
Con?nue taking Cornell notes for the chapters
Keep track of any ques?ons/problems you
may have.
Bring any supplies you might need for your
autobiographical project.