Bailey's Big News

Tues., March 28th

DOL
1.  type of sentence
2.  subordinate clause
3.  independent clause
4.  adverb clause
5.  prepositional phrase

Class NOTES
Compound-complex sentences - two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clause
Ex.  Since college is so important, Brandy has to score high on the SAT, and she also has to keep up her grades.
Subordinate clause
Independent clauses

CLASSWORK
Ex. 1, 2, 4, 5 (in class exercises on a handout)

HOMEWORK
1. Workbook pages 83-86, 96 due Friday
Here are two websites that have practice activities on sentences.
http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/pandg/exg10a.shtml
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvsntstr.html

Compound Sentences/Complex Sentences

DOL - List parts of speech for each word

CLASS NOTES
Compound Sentences - two or more independent clauses
Ex.  Students are going to Festival, and they will be eating at Stevie B's.

Compound sentences can also be written WITHOUT the comma and conjunction and REPLACED with a semicolon (;)
Ex.  Students are going to Festival; they will be eating at Stevie B's.

Complex Sentences - one independent clause and one subordinate clause
Ex.  Whenever I go to New York, I always buy a pair of shoes from the Village.

Classwork
Textbook, Pg. 446, Exercise #26
Finish Spelling, page 109 (from yesterday)

NO HOMEWORK

Mon, 3/26

DOL  corrected spelling and grammar

We took an ADVERB test (multiple choice).

HOMEWORK
Spelling sheet 110
Put any spelling word that is an ADJECTIVE in a sentence

Friday, March 23rd

DOL Quiz today
Blocks 2 & 3 worked on an INCLASS Adverb activity
Blocks 6 & 7 completed BAILEY 11 on the CRCT Practice website.

NO HOMEWORK

Thurs., March 22nd

DOL
Rewrite the sentence replacing all the adverbs with new adverbs.

Classwork
Today, we reviewed the use of ADVERBS.
Students had to underline the adverbs in the following sentences:

Sharks swim fast in the blue sea.
The animals are always quiet.
The only eat very early in the morning.

Then students had to write their own sentences using adverbs based on the three rules.
This was collected for a class grade

HOMEWORK
DOL Quiz tomorrow
Grammar text, page 353, Ex. 21

Tuesday, March 20th

DOL - List the parts of speech for each word in the DOL

Classwork
Today's LESSON - Adverbs that modify adjectives
Textbook - page 349, Students started Ex. #17.

HOMEWORK
Finish Ex.# 17, pg. 349
Take the CRCT online if you have NOT already done so....
(hard copies were given upon request)...

REPORT CARDS

Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 21st, REPORT CARDS will be given out to students during homeroom.  PLEASE make sure you sign the bottom of the REPORT CARD to let us know that you reviewed it.

Thanks,

Monday, March 19th

DOL
Correct the spelling and grammar in the DOL sentence.

he hit the ball eegerly the fence for a homrun, while hoondreds of fans yeled lowdly claped wild and stood patently on there feet.

ADVERB LESSON
Adverb - a word that modifies a VERB, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB - Grammar text 348
Today we discussed how adverbs modify VERBS.
Students completed Grammar text, pg. 348, Ex. 16
Workbook Pages 31-21

HOMEWORK
1.  Complete the practice CRCT test (Bailey10Grammar) using the 10-digit id that you used last week and kept in a safe place - password: education 
https://georgiaoas.org/servlet/a2l
2.  Finish workbook pages 31 and 32
3.  Spelling - look up spelling words parts of speech. For each spelling word that is an ADVERB, write a sentence.
Example:  accidentally -He accidentally dropped the egg on the floor.

New Spelling Words, 3/19

Here is a list of the spelling words. Test on Friday, March 30th!

laboratory, candidate, accidentally, practically, Christmas, specific, extremely, sincerely, eighth, frightened, quantity, boundary, funeral, identity, Easter, definitely, errands, threatening, supposedly, headache

Extra Credit

There have been TWO opportunities for extra credit this week:

On the Research Test, students could earn an additional (10) points for attaching their Study Guide.

Students can earn additional credit for submitting a HARD COPY of their Research summary with the STUDENT SELF-REFLECTION.  Self-Reflections were completed in class yesterday and today.

TODAY, we went to the Dell Lab and completed an ONLINE CRCT Practice Test.