Browsing Archive: January, 2012
Posted by Lori Knapp on Tuesday, January 31, 2012,
Root word vocab is due this Thursday, and we will take a quiz Friday.
The majority of your homework this week is to revise your literary analyses. I spent a great deal of time giving you individual written feedback on these, and I hope you take this opportunity to earn points toward your grade, but, more importantly, to improve your writing skills. Yesterday's model and today's practice with on-demand were designed to help you improve your ability to maintain focus and organize your writing, w...
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Friday, January 27, 2012,
Please be sure to memorize the list of linking verbs, practice identifying those in sentences with the worksheets of sentences from the past few weeks, and know the rules of checking linking verbs. The test is on Monday.
Have a nice weekend!
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Wednesday, January 25, 2012,
Use the packet from last night and do the following to the sentences:
Label helping verbs with HV
Label main verbs with MV
In the margins, indicate LV for a linking verb or AV for an action verb. Don't forget to have your vocab ready for tomorrow!!!
Have a good night! Ms. Knapp
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Tuesday, January 24, 2012,
Your root word vocab. is due Thursday, and we will quiz on it Friday. Use google to search the root words in addition to prefixsuffix.com and learnthat.org
Today in class we continued to look at "Nikki Rosa" by annotating Giovanni's diction, imagery, and use or lack of punctuation and capitalization for effect. Your assignment is to write a narrative poem about your upbringing that reveals your character in the style of Giovanni's poem and Lauryn Hill's song. This typed and annotated original ...
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Sunday, January 15, 2012,
We will be in the library completing ILP on Wednesday and Friday this week, so your literature analysis is due Thursday instead of Wednesday. Please come to your regular classroom on Tuesday.
Additionally, be sure to read and annotate the essay about poetry. The writer offers fabulous ideas that can inspire you to be more aware of your surroundings and to investigate and think about the world around and within you.
Have an excellent weekend!
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Thursday, January 12, 2012,
Tonight you should implement the revisions worked on in class today during peer review. Bring the REVISED copy to class tomorrow, and you can go through the editing process with the revised copy. Also, please remember that vocab is due tomorrow.
Have a great night!
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Monday, January 9, 2012,
Today we began the poetry unit by closely reading the unit overview, final assessment, and rubric. Students decided the following terms are necessary to learn in order to succeed on the assessment:
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Friday, January 6, 2012,
The work given to you by the sub today should be completed during class and over the weekend. You will need to study the irregular verb forms for the quiz on Monday. Pay close attention to the troublesome verbs sit/set, raise/rise, and lay/lie. Remember we are trying to break old habits of incorrectly using these verbs. Studying and practicing are the only ways to break these habits and progress to use correct grammar.
The weekend homework is to write the 5 paragraph (minimum) literary analysi...
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Posted by Lori Knapp on Wednesday, January 4, 2012,
Please remember that root words are due tomorrow:
apt/ept
aug/auc
cad/cid
carn
cav
clemen
clin
cog/gno
cumul
dext
dorm
err
eval
feb
ferr
The vocab. quiz is on Friday, and the quiz on verb forms is on Monday. Tonight, tomorrow night, and over the weekend you should work on writing the literary analysis now that your thesis is in order.
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