Heibert Week of August 26-30th

August 26, 2013 English IV

Bellringer: Subject/Verb Consistency (both sites are linked to my webpage) View: http://prezi.com/42fj_aluk_h4/subject-verbconsistencypunctuation/Complete: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/sv_agr_quiz.htm

AP English IV August 26th

0 Poetry Responses:

ACT Prep August 27

0 Semicolons (the second most test punctuation mark)

0 Use the IPAD to research the 5 Semicolon Rules. 0 You will have 10 minutes.

0 Once we have worked individually, we will build a class list just as we did with comma’s.

0 Use your rules to complete the work on this interactive webpage: http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/practice_semicolon_quiz.htm

0 Now work on your own and check your understanding: 0 http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Semicolons%20-%20practice

%20quiz.pdf

English IV August 28, 2013

0Bellringer: Rewrite the sentence, correcting all o the subject/verb agreement errors. You will only correct the verbs. When you are finished count the number of verbs you had to fix.

0Everyone who go to horror movies have some reason for spending good money on a bad experience. And nobody denies that those two hours in the theater feels, in fact, perfectly ghastly. Most of the people who comes out looking dazed and paranoid eagerly agrees that the movie were really awful and that they can't wait for the next one. Why do they do this to themselves?

Today is the last day we will work with sub./verb problems. Tomorrow comma vs. semicolons.

AP English August 28, 2013

0How was yesterday? 0 Any words or phrases that we need to add to our list?

0 “The Destructors” 0 Finish the group work that we started on Monday.

0Discussion questions on page 124: 4, 5, 6, 7( first part only).

0Plot and Structure Discussion

Plot and Structure Discussion

0 In your group complete the following: (1) Consider each type of conflict. Provide a short story or novel

title that makes use of each type of conflict and briefly explain the plot as it relates to the conflict.

(2) As a group describe one COMMERCIAL work in which you have felt cheated by the ending.

** Why do we react negatively to implausible endings? (3) In your group come up with three story titles that you have all

read. For each story list the protagonist, the antagonist, one conflict, and the type of ending.

Make sure you know: 0Artistic Unity:

0Plot Manipulation:

0Deux ex machina (latin):

0Ultimately, why is plot so important?

ACT Prep August 28, 2013

0Reviewing Semicolon Rules: 0On a sheet of paper (to turn in for grade): write a sentence that

is an example for each Semicolon Rule we discussed yesterday in class.

0Check your work from yesterday.

0Complete the Interactive Semicolon Rule Quiz.

ACT Prep College Ready?

0Bellringer: Using the IPAD, complete the following activity: 0 http://www.quia.com/quiz/300690.html0 You may reach this website through my links on my webpage.

0Activity #2 0College Search: Where do you want to go?

0 What should you know about this school?0 Let’s make a list.

English IV – 3rd PeriodAugust 29, 2013

0Bellringer: (1) go to and read:

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/comma.html(2) Complete:

http://www.chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/commas01.htm

(3) Finish your Edgenuity Pretest. (4) If you are finished, start the vocabulary activity.

English IV – 4th Period 0Bellringer:0Reviewing Comma Rules: Write the “hard” ones on your

bellringer sheet.

0Continue to Analyze Nonfiction – Paying attention to word choice.

English IV August 30, 2013 0 Honors Bellringer:

0 http://www2.ivcc.edu/eng1002/practice_comma_quiz.htm0 You must understand the difference between a restrictive and nonrestrictive

clause. 0 Understanding the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive

clauses. 0 The suspect in the lineup who has red hair committed the crime.

0 The suspect in the lineup, who owns a red car, committed the crime.

Restrictive means ESSENTIAL. The information following the subject is essential to the meaning of the sentence. If a clause is restrictive it DOES NOT require commas. Remember a comma hug means that the information can be removed and the meaning of the sentence is not changed.

ACT Prep August 30, 2013

0Review the Rubric for your College Poster.

0Continue to complete research. 0Be sure to take careful notes; you will only have one

day at a computer to actually print. 0 You need to know what to type and print when you have

access to a computer.