Language Arts 5-23-14

Today we heard presentations about various genocides throughout history.
We wrote down a study guide for our Grammar Final on Tuesday.
We handed in poems and Literature Portfolio Covers.

Homework:
Study!
Lessons 77, 78, 79, 80 in Simple Solutions will be collected on Tuesday 5/27

Tuesday is the last day for makeup/absent work in Writing.

EXTRA EFFORT due Tuesday.......
Road to Grammar exercises 106, 128, 130, 242


STUDY GUIDE:

Parts of Speech (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, interjection, conjunction, preposition, article)
   (use your Simple Solutions help pages to be able to define each & pick them out in a sentence).
Gerunds -- verbs ending in "ing" that act as nouns     Running is my favorite physical activity.
Participle -- verbs that act as adjectives       My running shoes are very comfortable.
Appositive -- An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words.
Adjective clauses/phrases
Adverb clauses/phrases

Be able to label the words in a sentence.
    Tom threw the ball.
   (noun) (verb) (article) (noun)

Be able to label the parts of a sentence.
    Tom threw the ball.
(Subject - Tom)
(Simple predicate - threw)
(Direct Object - ball)



8th Grade News:
    MEMORY BOOK SURVEYS deadline extended to Tuesday.  Thirty-nine 8th graders won't be in the Memory Book because they haven't turned in their survey.