BELL WORKAugust 18-22

BELL WORK MONDAY

Write each sentence, underlining the complete subject once and the complete predicate twice:

Example: The first gymnast completed the routine without a mistake.

1. Each of the boys on the team played his best.

2. Charles was the quarterback. 3. The horse, lean and muscular, galloped

across the field.

Repetition for Effect

SFT #2 Writers often repeat specially chosen words

or phrases to make a point, to stress certain ideas for the reader.

Repetition for Effect Examples

“Everybody else on the estate was concentrating on her – how lovely her hair looked, how lovely her dress fit, and how lovely her gold broach looked with the pearls she had had to buy for herself” (Haifley, Erin).

My dentist always asks the same questions: how old are WE now, how are WE doing in school, and how have WE been treating our little friends.

KSL #2

I will respect myself and others at all times. I will not bully or gossip.

Create some super heroes (or evil villains): Bully Boy and Gossip Girl

Good guys or bad guys? Costumes? What do they do to rescue or destroy? Tell the story of one or both . . .

BELL WORK TUESDAY

Copy the following compound sentences. Underline the complete subject in each independent clause once. Underline the complete predicate in each independent clause twice. Circle the coordinating conjunction that joins the two clauses.

Example: The tall, friendly boy smiled, and he waved at me.

1. All of us knew the answers, but we didn’t earn any points.

2. It was his first test, so he studied carefully.

MANU VOCABULARY ACTIVITY

Draw an outline of your hand on the back of your handout.

1. Give your hand a manicure. 2. Manufacture a ring and place it on your

hand. 3. Show what excessive pencil manipulation

has done to your fingers. 4. Draw an ant maneuvering on your thumb.

MANU VOCABULARY ACTIVITY (P. 2)

5. Draw a butterfly that you have just emancipated.

6. Draw a manacle around your wrist. 7. You have just written a manuscript of an

office manager’s manual. Draw a miniature copy of the manuscript and give it a mandate for a title.

GRAMMAR WORKBOOKS!!

1. Write your name on the outside of your workbook with a permanent marker.

2. Write 8C under your name. 3. Write only in pencil in your workbook. 4. Keep your workbook in your binder after

your vocabulary section. 5. Do not tear pages out of your workbook.

WORKBOOK ASSIGNMENT

Listen to the directions and follow along. Complete pages 1-3. Mrs. J will team up groups of four. Each team will number off. 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 For ten minutes numbers 1 and 2 work

together, and numbers 3 and 4 work together.

For the next ten minutes odd numbers work together and even numbers work together.

Whatever you do not finish is homework.

WEDNESDAY BELL WORK

Read each sentence. Write the simple subject and simple predicate from each independent clause. Underline subjects once and predicates twice. Write the coordinating conjunction and circle it. Example: Karen ran into the house, for Carl was chasing her with a snake.

Karen ran for Carl was chasing 1. The students did their work, so they were

rewarded. 2. The lunch menu includes pizza every

week, and the students are glad about that.

SPECIFIC DETAILS FOR EFFECT

Instead of general, vague descriptions, specific sensory details help the reader visualize the person, place, thing, or idea that you are describing.

Sensory details are details that describe how the noun looks, sounds, smells, feels, and/or tastes.

SPECIFIC DETAILS FOR EFFECT

Example: I was hoping to find a new bus, but my

wishes never come true because here came bus 33, the bus with torn seats that clawed at your clothes, a coughing, hacking engine, and holes so deep in the aisle we could see the road beneath us.

SPECIFIC DETAILS FOR EFFECT

Example #2 Chapter 9 from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

FIVE SENSES

Sight

Sound

Smell

Feel

Taste

THE LUNCHROOM

Nouns Verbs

BELL WORK THURSDAY

Clauses are groups of words containing subjects and verbs. Some clauses form complete sentences; others are fragments because they do not express a complete thought.

Write the simple subjects and predicates in the following clauses; then write S for sentence or F for fragment.

1. As the orange sun rose high in the sky. 2. He carefully chose his words. 3. After she read the book.

KSL #3 Uh, oh . . .you forgot to do your homework.

Instead of taking responsibility for your actions, you decide to make up an excuse. This is excuse is so bizarre, so wild and crazy, so amazing that you’ll get off the hook!!!! So, go ahead, what is your WILDEST EXCUSE EVER????

Remember: Skip lines Heading in the top, right corner Title on the top line Minimum of front and back

BELL WORK FRIDAY

If two sentences are not combined correctly to form one sentence, the result is a run-on or comma splice.

Example: John brought the pizza, Harry brought the drinks. Correction: John brought the pizza, and Harry brought the drinks. Compound sentences must have a comma and a conjunction.

For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So = FANBOYSWrite these run-on sentences correctly:1. Kevin loves to skateboard, Mary prefers

surfing.2. Jeff ate the pasta, he doesn’t like chicken.

GRAMMAR WORKBOOKS

Complete pages 28 – 30 after you turn in your vocabulary test.

You must work independently, following the directions exactly.

If you finish before class is over, you may work on any of your drafts in your binder OR you may read.