Monday, August 27 th , 2012

1. Monday, August 27th, 2012 Journal Set 1 If you can’t remember where you sit, ask Miss Salisbury. Get a blue journal paper off the back counter and answer this question: What was the most fun thing you did this summer? Quote “Dream as if you’ll live forever; live as if you’ll die today.” –James Dean Word of the Day The teacher assigned homework on a Friday because she was in a bad mood. The kids thought she was a real curmudgeon.

2. Curmudgeon (noun) A bad tempered, difficult, cantankerous person

3. REMINDERS/ANNOUNCEMENTS Turn in your syllabus, AUP, Subject and Predicate Worksheet (if you haven’t already). The notebook – remember to get it.

4. Review • Subject • Predicate • Sentence • Compound • Conjunction • Compound Subject • Compound Predicate

5. Compound Sentences A sentence that contains two or more simple subjects joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon. If you split the sentence in two, you should have two complete sentences. Example: Usain Bolt ran really fast, and he won a gold medal. Example: Usain Bolt ran in the Olympics; he also ran in the World Championships. Compound Sentences

6. Are These Compound Sentences? • Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh won a gold medal. • The Olympics were held in London, England, and they will be held again in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. • Michael Phelps won a lot of gold medals and a silver medal too. • Gabby Douglas won a gold medal in gymastics, and she also got to meet Taylor Swift. • The U.S. Olympic Basketball Team has a lot of players from different teams like LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and Kobe Bryant.

7. Sentence Fragments • Sentence Fragments • This does not express a complete thought. It is probably missing a subject, a predicate, or both. • Example: She doesn’t. • Example: Smells funny.

8. Types of Sentences • Declarative • Imperative • Makes a statement. Ends with a period. • Example: Batman is the best superhero. • Gives a command or makes a request. It ends with a period. • Example: Please, do not sing a Justin Bieber song in my class. • Example: Don’t eat yellow snow.

9. Types of Sentences • Exclamatory Sentence • Interrogative • Expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point. • Example: Flynn Rider rocks my socks! • Asks a question. It ends with a question mark. • Example: Who is stronger, Thor or the Hulk?

10. Interjections • Interjections • A word or group of words that expresses strong feeling. It has no grammatical connection to other words in the sentence. • Examples: Yikes! Wow! Holy banana! Crud! Yippee! Hooray! Phew! • Example in a sentence: Hulk punched Thor in his big Norse face. Ouch!

11. I “Mustache” You a Question! • You will be split into two teams. One person will draw from one box and with a mustache. This will have an interrogative word on it (a word that begins an interrogative sentence). You have to come up with a question that starts with that word. • Period (.)– Declarative Sentence • Exclamation point (!)– Exclamatory Sentence • Hashtag (#) – Interjection • At sign (@) – Imperative Sentence • You have 5 seconds to come up with a sentence, each time you do, you get a point. The team with the most points will not have to do a section on tonight’s homework! • The person from the other team will draw from the other box that has a word on it and must answer the question using a specific type of sentence.