LA CAFÉ
Thursday 11 February 2016
Please turn in your Guided Statements to the lit bin.
Open your DRP books to week 17
Appetizer: DGP Week 19 Thursday
Direction: Add correct punctuation and capitalization.
Instruction:
 Last week: At the corner of the street they
met the count’s steward, who was awaiting his
master. This is a nonessential clause because
it just adds description. We know which
steward it was-the count’s steward. The clause
merely added description. Since this was
nonessential, a comma is necessary.
 This week: The great man is he who does not
lose his child’s heart. This is an essential
clause. Without it, we would not know how
“he” is. We need the clause “who does not lose
his child’s heart” to describe he to know which
he it is. Since this is an essential clause, a
comma is not necessary.
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Active Nightly Rehearsal:
p. Review pp. 365-367. These pages in your Holt grammar text review the comma
rules with respect to nonessential phrases and clauses. Use a comma whenever a
sentence has a nonessential phrase or clause.
Nonessential Appositive phrase:

Miss Destinee Unknown, the famous astronaut, traveled to Mars to eat blue
cheese with buffaloes.
Essential Appositive phrase:

The famous astronaut Miss Destinee Unknown traveled to Mars to eat blue
cheese with buffaloes.
Nonessential participial phrase

Bea Kind, giving Jolly Ranchers to misbehaving students, said children need a
lot of candy, especially when they are jaunty.
Essential participial phrase
The important idea summarized by Miss Bea Kind is that children need a lot of
candy.
Nonessential Clauses:

Miss Kitty Litter, who was born in the Catskills, sang on Broadway in Cats for
what seemed like nine lives.
Essential Clauses:

Anyone who has read T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats will
appreciate the whimsy in the musical Cats.
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Salad: Grammar Essential and Nonessential phrases
and clauses
Directions: Complete numbers 1, 3, 4, 14, and 16 on p.
381 A. Chapter Review A. Correcting Sentences by
Adding Punctuation. Follow the directions in the book.
You may not print and correct directly on the page.
This is due tomorrow.
Instruction: Review the active nightly review above
and read pp. 365-368
Soup: Vocabulary Unit Review 7-9 test is Tuesday,
2/16
Beverages: Daily Reading Practice WeeK 17
Error analysis: We will review annotation, subject,
titles, author’s purpose, affixes, synonyms, antonyms,
main idea, inferences, idioms, types of writing, and
meanings of words.
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Entrée: Speaking and Listening
Instruction: Steps in Researching
 Selection of a topic and limiting the subject down
 Make a list of questions to ask about your topic.
You will eventually find answers to these questions
and organize them. Consider this the type 1 of
your outline. You can begin with the key words you
used for your guided statement type 1 and then
create questions.
 As you search for answers to these questions, you
will be researching various sources and keeping
track of these sources on note cards which are
numbered so you can reference them when you
start actually taking the notes.
 Read p. 5 in the Red Research Book to identify
various techniques to search for the answers to
your questions.
o Thesaurus/synonyms
o Use the Boolean search: use and, or, and not
to limit or to expand a search in Google. Ex.
Hunger and preschool not world
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 Evaluate your sources
o Read p. 6 in Red Research book.
o All Works cited must have at least 1-2 books
from the library
o Use the EBSCO data base from the library
o Use the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Website
o Limit the use of Google Searches
 Evaluate for accuracy, relevance, current
information from experts
 Do not use blogs unless they come from a
government website or posted by an
expert in the field
 Avoid if no author or especially if it is not
a reputable source.
 Do use Library of Congress or Smithsonian
websites
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