Happy Thanksgiving

As if turkey and pie weren't enough, I have an additional surprise for you...

NO VOCABULARY THIS WEEK.

However, you still will need to complete your 90 minutes of MyPath. Don't wait until the last minute! You should have plenty of free time!

Grammar Rock

If you're still having a hard time with our parts of sentences, here are some helpful videos:

Subjects and Predicates

Modifiers (adverbs and adjectives)

Predicates (verbs)

I know these videos are definitely annoying sometimes, but they are helpful!

Mad Lib

Here is the example Mad Lib we did together in class. Please make sure yours is turned in before the Thanksgiving break!

Romeo and Juliet--Prologue

Two 1._________________, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we 2. ________________ our scene,
From 3. ________________ grudge break to new mutiny,
Where 4. _________________ blood makes civil 5._______________ unclean.
From forth the fatal 6._________________ of these two 7.__________________
A pair of star-cross'd 8.___________________ take their life;
Whose 9.___________________   10.________________ overthrows
Do with their death 11.__________________ their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could 12._____________________,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears 13.____________________,
What here shall miss, our toil shall 14.____________________ to mend.

1.     Subject

2.     Predicate

3.     Modifier (adjective)

4.     Modifier (adjective)

5.     Object

6.     Object

7.     Object

8.     Modifier (adjective)

9.     Modifier (adjective)

10. Modifier (adjective)

11.  Predicate

12.  Predicate

13.  Predicate

14.  Predicate

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Blue Light Before Bedtime

Hey guys.

In seventh hour we chatted for a few minutes in class about the benefits or turning off the electronics up to an hour before bedtime and picking up a good book. I wanted to post a couple of articles about this.

Here is an article about why it is so important for teenagers to turn off the electronics well before they go to sleep.

This one talks about things successful people do before going to bed, and according to the article, "Experts agree that reading is the very last thing successful people do before going to sleep."

This article profiles a few highly successful people and explains what they read before bed (notice especially Bill Gates and Ariana Huffington old-fashioned books an for an hour before sleeping."

MyPath

Many of you will notice an increased prevalence of F's in this class. If you're failing, it's likely because you haven't been doing your MyPath homework. As I have told you multiple times, the only homework you will ever have in this class is to login and work on MyPath 90 minutes per week. This is worth 40 percent of your final grade.

If you are currently failing, I will absolutely still let you make it up! It will take considerable dedication and responsibility on your part, but I want you to be successful.

You are always welcome to come in during lunch and work on your class then. If you have any concerns, please come talk to me or email me at amanda.mitchell@washk12.org.

Thanks! You guys are awesome. :)

Week Three and Four Vocabulary

Week Three and Four Vocabulary

This week we are talking about the parts of a sentence.

There are two parts of a sentence. Before we discuss these, there are a few important terms to review.

• Verb: A verb is usually the action word. Sometimes these words are easy to identify, such as jump, skip, sing, or sleep. But not all of these action words seem so much like an action. The best example of this is the verb “be.” Forms of the be verb include: be, is, am, are, was, were, being, and been. Although these words don’t seem like an action, they are still verbs.
• Noun: The basic definition of a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Another definition is anything that you can make plural. Examples: teacher, Vermont, chair, kindness.

Every complete sentence must contain two parts. If it does not include these two parts, it is not a complete sentence.

• Subject: The subject is the thing that is doing the action. It is always either a noun or a pronoun. Examples: I moved the box. The cat ran across the room. She was tired.
• Predicate: The predicate is the verb or verb phrase that describes the action performed by the subject. Examples: I moved the box. The cat ran across the room. She was tired.

A sentence may also include other parts.

• Object: The subject in the sentence may be doing something to another noun. This other noun is the object. Example: I moved the box. The cat ran across the room. She was tired (this sentence does not have an object).
• Modifier: A modifier is something that charges the meaning of another element in the sentence. Modifiers include adjectives (describes a noun) and adverbs (describes an adjective, verb, or other adverb). Examples: I moved the heavy box. The cat ran quickly across the room. She was really tired.