Warm-ups

1. Warm-ups Week of 17 January 2012

2. Wednesday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal. • Unquestionable, Paul Revere’s ride was a turning point in American history. • What I mean to say is that no Revolutionary figure deserves lasting fame more than him. • Skills practiced: use of adverb to modify verb, correct pronoun case, revision of wordy sentence.

3. Thursday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal. • Barbara Frietchie is a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, a quaker poet. • Whittier often wrote about faith the dignity of common folk and social justice. • Skills practiced: use of quotation marks with title of a poem, capitalization of religious terms, use of commas in a series.

4. Friday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal. • Whittier based “Barbara Frietchie” on a story that Union soldiers told and retold during the civil war. • Deeply commited to the anti-slavery cause, Whittier turned the tale into a stirring, patriotic poem. • Skills practiced: capitalization of name of historical event, correction of spelling: doubling final consonant

5. Wednesday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal. • In the poem they had some sad lines. • The blacksmith is kind and decent and also has courage. • Skills practiced: correction of they or you without a clear antecedent, correction of faulty parallel structure.

6. Thursday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal. • The poem tells we readers that we should forget the sad days and that we readers should go on with life. • Longfellow is considered by many people to be one of America’s best poets. • Skills practiced: correct use of pronoun case, correction of wordy sentence, use of active voice.

7. Friday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal. • What I want to say is that Alfred Noyes is a man who was a writer who wrote alot of poems and articles. • Legendary figures from English history were written about by Noyes. • Skill practiced: revision of wordy sentence, correction of commonly misused words, use of active voice to improve style.