Directions: Use the next five minutes to study your vocab words. At the end of the study period, your vocab materials will be collected so that the quiz can begin.
Directions: Review your transcript to make sure your information is correct.
Directions: Identify each group of words below as a phrase, dependent clause, or independent clause:
1. Throwing papers along the streets 2. While debris covered the park 3. With broken glass in the alley 4. Beside old trucks and cars 5. No one lives there 6. For lights on every corner 7. If the expense is too great 8. As he walked home 9. Dragged up the subway steps 10. Thousands of people walk every day 11. Racing against the traffic signal 12. Unless it rains 13. When a helicopter hovers overhead 14. Who play basketball in the empty lot 15. That lives in town 16. To think intelligently 17. Except Mary and Tom 18. No one cared about the party 19. After the storm ended 20. After the storm on Friday 21. While baking the bread Directions: In the following paragraph, identify ten errors that must be corrected.
Matt Groening is a Cartoonist and screenwriter best known four creating the television show The Simpsons. He allso invented the show Futurama. The members of the cartoon Simpsons family was named after Groenings own parents an sisters. Bart was named buy moving around the letters of “brat.” there have been hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons. Groening winned many awards and got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012 Directions: Use the next five minutes to review or discuss the events from last week’s reading to prepare for a reading quiz. The quiz will be open book and timed.
Directions: Answer the following questions to prepare for tomorrow’s DEJs:
1. Who is responsible for the death of William? Why? 2. Who is responsible for Justine’s death? Why? 3. Who is responsible for Frankenstein’s depression? Why? 4. Who is responsible for the way the monster has lived? Why? Then, create a new "Practice" section in the skinny box of your notes. Add your answers to the following tasks to your Phrase and Clause notes: Practice: Identify the underlined portion as a phrase or a clause. 11. For young adults, departure from their parents' home is a major step toward assuming adult responsibilities. 12. The average age of leaving has decreased in recent years as more young people live independently before marriage. 13. In 1940, eighty percent of North Americans in their twenties resided with their parents, although today only about fifty percent do. 14. Because of increased enrollment in higher education, many young adults leave home early, around age eighteen. 15. Some young people who want to escape family friction also depart early. 16. Those from divorced, single-parent homes tend to be early leavers, perhaps as a result of family stress. 17. However, leaving home very early can contribute to long-term disadvantage when it is associated with lack of parental financial and social support. 18. Nearly half of young adults return home for a brief time after initial leaving. 19. As people encounter unexpected twists and turns on the road to independence, the parental home becomes a safety net and base of operations for launching adult life. 20. Contrary to popular belief, returning home is usually not a sign of weakness, but a common event among unmarried adults. Practice: Identify these as dependent or independent clauses. 21. It seemed like yesterday 22. Despite the fact you knew 23. If we could just see eye to eye 24. Wherever he might go 25. Before we leave 26. Suppose he changes his mind 27. Because we were only a mile from home 28. Sean went fishing 29. When Justin took his first swing 30. So long as we remain in the boat 31. Before he left for his friend’s house 32. As long as we continue 33. Donna wasn’t feeling well 34. You can keep your privileges Finally, write a summary of your notes before turning them in to Ms. Bear. Directions: Identify the conjunctions used in each sentence.
1. Organisms live together in communities made up of both plants and animals. 2. Communities may be very big or very small. 3. Biomes are extensive communities that occupy wide geographic areas. 4. Not only arctic tundras but also tropical jungles are considered biomes. 5. Some animals are found in only one layer of a biome, but most animals range through several layers. 6. In a biome, some species of animals are active during the day, whereas some are active at night. 7. Since they are active at different times, many organisms can occupy the same area. 8. If there are many species in a community, it’s said to have a rich diversity. 9. After a disaster, a community will eventually restore itself and continue to operate as it did before the disaster. 10. Restoration occurs very slowly in the desert and the tundras because the climactic and soil conditions aren’t as rich or varied. 11. The polar bear is a carnivore and lives almost solely by hunting. 12. Polar bears are wonderfully equipped to exist in the wild, for a dense, white fur covers them completely. 13. Not only does fur grow between the pads on their feet, but also several inches of fat cover much of their bodies. 14. Polar bears can both gallop at a speed of up to twenty-five miles per hour and swim six miles an hour. 15. Female polar bears can breed every three years, and they give birth in snow-covered dens. Directions: Respond to the following prompt with a narrative journal written in the 3rd person point of view. Your response should be at least 150 words in length.
Directions: Use the next five minutes to discuss the events from last week’s reading to prepare for your DEJs. Starting this week, DEJs will be completed by hand on a sheet of lined paper.
When you are done with DEJs, complete your reading of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks according to the directions below: Read and summarize the following paragraphs as chunks: 14-16 17-22 23-25 26-28 29-31 32-33 34-35 Then, answer this question as #4 on the top of pg, 273: 4) Were the scientists who used Henrietta’s cells wrong to do so without permission? Why? |
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