Please finish the Daily Grammar Review.  Be ready to go over it as a team on Monday!

Have a great weekend!

Do not forget to check you have done all of these things before you hand in your writing assignments, whether they are written by hand, or typed on your device.  Remember, you can always ask a friend in class to help you check!

1. Is my assignment double-spaced?
2. Is my assignment in Times New Roman font in size 12?
3. Is my assignment in a document that can be read on all types of computers?
4. Does my assignment include my first and last name, the block, and the date?
5. Do all of my verbs agree with the rest of my sentence?
6. Have I checked for plural and proper nouns?

Here is the assignment we will be working on in class.  Save it to your computer just in case the WiFi is not cooperative!

Forms of Yes, No, & Information Questions (Azar)

Now that we have become better at creating our sentences, we are going to start taking some of our smaller sentences and joining them to sentences.  One of the ways we can do this is through Adjective Clauses.

Introductory Terms:

CLAUSE: A group of words containing a subject and a verb.
INDEPENDENT CLAUSE: A complete sentence.  It contains the main subject and verb of a sentence.  It is also called the “Main Clause.”
DEPENDENT CLAUSE: Is not a complete sentence.  It must be connected to an independent clause.
ADJECTIVE CLAUSE: A dependent clause that modifies a noun.  It describes, identifies, or gives further information about a noun.  This is also sometimes called a “Relative Clause.”
ADJECTIVE CLAUSE PRONOUNS: An adjective clause uses pronouns to connect the dependent clause to the independent clause.  The Adjective Clause Pronouns are: who, whom, which, that, and whose.

Another word you will see in your assignment is “modifies.”  I want you to think of the word “modifies” as “changes.”

Please complete the following assignment on a lined piece of paper.  Please remember to put your first and last name, the block, and the date.  You may use your device to help you translate some of these words, but you must use your computer or tablet, not your phone.

Assignment: Azar – Adjective Clauses.

Remember: don’t rush!  Take your time, and ask lots of questions!  =)

(Azar, 2002: pp. 268-269)

A thesaurus is something we use when we want to find a different word that means the same thing as another word.  Make sure you check to make sure that word fits – not all synonyms can always be changed with others!

www.thesaurus.com

Bad (ill-behaved)          Careful          Cruel          Fair          Foolish          Funny          Generous

Good (well-behaved)          Illogical          Impolite          Irresponsible           Kind           Lazy          Logical

Loud           Nice           Noisy          Patient           Pleasant          Polite          Quiet

Responsible          Rude          Serious           Silly          Unfair         Unkind         Unpleasant

(Azar, 2002: p. 17).

Good afternoon everyone!  As promised, here is the list of terms we need to make sure we all know for Monday’s class.  Most of you probably know a lot of these!

1. Verb.
2. Adjective.
3. Noun.
4. Proper Noun.
5. Preposition.

Please make sure you write down your explanation in one complete sentence for each term.  You can email them to me, or bring a hard copy to class.

Have a wonderful weekend.  Enjoy the sunshine!

Please remember to finish filling your new story into the Short Stories Chart by tomorrow’s class.  Remember, class starts at 9am, so that means your assignment is due at 9am.

Here is a copy of the chart if you need it: Short Story Analysis Chart.

See you tomorrow!  Have a great day!

Don’t forget your “homework” (because it is too fun to be homework) over the break!

Take 8 photos of what you are doing on Spring Break and explain what is happening in the picture in two complete English sentences.

If you left early (before Friday), you have a different version of this assignment, so please do the one that I gave you before you left.

See everyone in a few weeks!

First, we will be working on our comparison paragraphs.  Practice organizing your three points first BEFORE you write your paragraph.

Afterwards, we may be using our vocabulary in some sort of game…

Have a fantastic and safe Spring Break!  Don’t forget to keep your Photo Diaries!  =)