Monday, February 1, 2016
LA Café
Appetizer: DGP Week 18
Directions: Define parts of speech for every word in the
sentence with the level of specificity that has been
required of you in the past.
Instruction:
 Note this sentence has a nonessential adjective
dependent clause.
 A possessive noun is the part of speech, even though
it may act as an adjective
Sentence: at the corner of the street they met the counts
steward who was awaiting his master
Sentence from Alexander Dumas
Salad Vocabulary Unit 9
Directions: all exercises are due Thursday. Test is
Monday, February 8
Instruction: Create analogies using bequeath and
disgruntled
Active Nightly Rehearsal:
Use the noun form of predominant as the object of a the
participle “achieving” at the beginning of the sentence to
modify the subject.
For example: Achieving ________, the Carolina
Panthers bludgeoned the Denver Broncos before halftime.
Soup: Grammar Commas
Directions:
 p. 361 Ex. 2 is due Tuesday, February 2
 p. 362 Ex. 3 is due to be turned in on Thursday,
February 3
 and p. 364 Ex. 4 is due Friday, February 5
 Punctuation Project is due Monday, February 8. This
will be counted as a test grade. The rubric must be
included with the project.
Instruction:
 Please watch the two videos on Comma Drama on
my Net Text Grammar unit.
Beverages: Daily Reading Practice Week 16
Directions: All exercises Monday through Friday are due
on Friday, February 5
Instruction: Read and annotate making side margin notes,
wavy underling words you do not know. Place boxes
around dates and places indicating where nonfiction
action takes place, draw a circle around the primary
people involved in the action. Highlight any idioms,
metaphors, symbols, or similes. Then answer the Monday
questions on subject, title, author’s purpose, reader’s
purpose, and genre of literature.
Entrée: Speaking and Listening Skills and Summary
Writing
Directions:
1. Sync Ipad and open the Speaking and Listening Unit
to the News Article Summary
2. Summarize the video of the BBC article of the Pink
Lake in Senegal. This is due no later than tomorrow
morning in grammar class; however, you should be
able to write this paragraph in one class period.
Dessert: Literature
Directions: Charles test is on Thursday, February 4
Instruction: Study the following:
1. Vocabulary-words chosen in story that are bolded,
footnoted, or any word you do not know.
2. Vocabulary-Latin root –nunc-or –nounc3. Literary Element
a. What is first person point of view?
b. In what type of writing does one typically find
first person perspective?
c. What pronouns are used in first person point of
view?
d. Why is point of view important in terms of how
the story is told, what inference can be made?
e. What is subject in any story? In “Charles?”
f. How does point of view change the ending of a
story?
g. What is third person limited point of view?
What is third person omniscient point of view?
Active Nightly Rehearsal:
While using Internet tests may be somewhat helpful in
studying for these types of test, the Queen of
Grammarland suggests her loyal subjects do the
following:
 Read p. lxii in the Introductory unit of your Pearson
anthology text regarding Comprehending Complex
Texts using Multidraft Reading
o First time: read to know who, what, when,
where; find the main idea, the elements of plot
o Second time: Read to discover figurative
language, narrative structure, use of imagery,
allusion, parallel construction
o Third time: Read to identify the theme, how the
story connects to you or other stories by way of
comparing/contrasting
 Take notes in class during our discussion about the
story. Date them, place the story on the top line, write
the vocab words and the root word, write the reading
comprehension skill of focus, and the literary skill of
focus.
 Review your notes and with a pen of a different color
ink, go back and fill in thoughts, comments,
observations, inferences and other insights you
gained from multidraft reading.
 Finally, sit and just think about the story. What
would have changed if the author had chosen a
different narrator, a different setting, different
vocabulary, etc.