Thursday, March 5, 2015

Today we completed a Study Guide to prepare for the Simple Solutions test on Friday covering lessons 56-60.
We went over our four-box structural analysis.
Princeton & Harvard discussed the Part I of our novel and recorded the second part of the vocabulary.
All sections continued the Readers' Theatre of Nothing But The Truth

Princeton & Harvard:
www.roadtogrammar.com  #240, 314, 315, 316
Sadlier Lesson 3
Continue to fill in Character Chart on Phillip and Ms. Narwin
Study for SS Test #56-60
Retakes on #14 tomorrow after school.


Yale:
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (DISCUSSION QUESTIONS #1)
1. In what ways are Phillip's and Miss Narwin's views of one another inaccurate?
2. Create a venn diagram showing how Miss Narwin and Philip Malloy are alike and different.
3. Explain why Phillip is sent to Dr. Palleni's office.  How have both Miss Narwin and Philip mishandled the incident?
4.  How is Mr. Malloy like Phillip? How has he failed to help Philip with his problems at school?
5.  Explain the irony in the novel's title Nothing But The Truth.

Sadlier Lesson 3
Continue to fill in Character Chart on Phillip and Ms. Narwin
Study for SS Test #56-60
Retakes on #14 tomorrow after school.


COPY OF THE STUDY GUIDE COMPLETED IN CLASS TODAY:

 Student _______________________________ Simple Solutions Common Core Grammar

Study Guide  #57-60

1. Choose the correct verb.

All the air on Earth (is/are) polluted.

All the stars (is/are) sparkling brightly tonight.

(Is/Are) any of the magazines about space travel?

(Does/Do) any part of the school have Wi-Fi?

2.  Write A if the verb is active; P if it is passive.

____Our team beat the Cowboys.

____ Most of the touchdowns were scored by Tom.

3. Rewrite the sentence. Correct the misplaced modifier.

Mr. Yracheta was standing in the hall with his cat wearing a jean jacket.

4.  Underline the participial phrase and circle the word it modifies.

Nurses completing their Masters degree will get a pay raise.

5. Write the plurals of these compound nouns.

Runner-up _________________________       high school __________________________

6.  Conjugate the verb leave.  Assume the subject is he.

	Past	Present	Future
Basic
Perfect

7.  Use what you know about Greek roots to match these words with their meanings.

____  cryptic                                     A)   unit of sound

____  biomass                       B) breaking out

____ eruption                        C)  secret

____ phoneme                      D) material from living things

8. Check the spelling of the words in the sentence below;  use the proofreader’s mark for “check spelling” to mark any words that may be misspelled.

The physical therapist recieved a delivery that included specal equipment for her patients.

9.  Use context clues to find the meaning of the underlined word.

Your speech is always very formal and you may find our conversation colloquial, but it has been a long time since I’ve been with people who grew up in my ethnic neighborhood.

Boring                        informal                     sad                 proper

10.  Add commas.

We studied the assassination of the Archduke the gathering of allies the declaration of war and four years of brutal fighting.