LA CAFÉ
Tuesday, October 16, 2015
Tutorial is tomorrow
Please turn in your Reading Log to the appropriate lit bin
Appetizer: DGP Week 8 Day 1 & 2
Sentence: her voice was musical but unlike that of either
of my friends
Sentence origen: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Directions: Identify parts of speech and identify the simple and complete predicate and
subjects, the phrases: prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, gerund phrases, identify the verb
as transitive or intransitive, the predicate nominatives or adjectives, objects of prep, or
direct/indirect object. A noun of direct address is set off from the rest of the sentence by a
comma and is the person the rest of the sentence is directed to.
Instruction:
 Note that “That” can be many parts of speech
depending on how it is used in a sentence: a
demonstrative pronoun, a relative pronoun, a noun
clause indicator
 A Predicate adjective can consist of an entire
adjective prepositional phrase
Soup: Grammar Phrases
Assignments: Error Analysis of p. 150 Ex 6; p. 154 Ex
10/11 due Wed. (10-14); p. 157, Rev. C due Thurs. (1015); Quiz on Verbals Fri. 10-16
Instruction:
Active Nightly Rehearsal:
Salad:
Vocabulary Unit Review 1-3 All exercises are due on
Friday, October 16 and Test is Tuesday, October 20.
Directions:
 P. 42 and 43 Before you read and annotate p. 43, skim the
questions and the answers. This is a test taking strategy: by
reading over the questions before reading the selection, you can
slow your reading down when you get to the answer embedded in
the selection.
 You probably think I am as “mad as a March Hare”! What type of
expression is this, and what does it mean?
 Although idioms are expressive and used in our oral language
pervasively, they are to be avoided in formal written
communication. Hence, please add this to your list of Quarter 1
Nefcas.
 Denotation and connotation Review: words have shades of
meaning and are used deliberately to invoke a feeling or an
emotion.
o For example: If you were to advertise a new Home
Monitoring System for the company you work for, which
slogan works the best?
 Our software watches over your fine possession.
 Our software vigilantly protects your fine possessions.
 Our software spies on your fine possessions.
Active Nightly Rehearsal:
Create a sentence with a word using the root Vers or Vert