Grammar sites

If you want to practice the parts of speech on line, here a few sites:
1. http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/ - a quiz/game with funky gorillas
2. http://www.educates.us/stories.html - use your knowledge of parts of speech to write weird stories
3. http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001579.shtml - a site with links to lots of other sites that have to do with parts of speech

Period 3 IRB log

IRB Log DUE MONDAY
After reading 1 hour, please post:
Title and author of your book
Page number you are on after reading
Describe the conflict in the story
What point of view is the story told from? First person, third person, or omniscient?

Quiz Tomorrow (9/26)

What to study for tomorrow's quiz:

Periods 2 and 3:
Step Up to Writing (green, yellow, red sentences)

nouns
adjectives
verbs
adverbs
prepositions/prepositional phrases

30 vocab words, focusing mostly on new vocab:
prolonged
surmount
receding
disarming
protruding
impulse
diverting
invariably
unruffled
imprudent

Period 4:
Step Up to Writing (green, yellow, red sentences)

nouns
adjectives
verbs
adverbs

30 vocab words, focusing on new words (above).

Assignment due Wed 9/24

DUE WEDNESDAY 9/24:

1) Paragraph planner for Roger paragraph

2) Rough draft of Roger paragraph

3) Final copy of Roger paragraph - type and print or e-mail to ConstitutionMelville@gmail.com