Warm Ups 4.7 #1Monday, May 18, 2015

• Write a paragraph in response to this prompt:

Have you ever heard life compared to a journey or a road? How is life like a journey? What other metaphors could be used to describe life?

Warm Ups 4.7 #2Tuesday, May 19, 2015

• Copy the passage from Crash by Jerry Spinelli. Circle the commas. Underline the contraction.

We weren’t really mad at each other. It was all just part of football. Football, see, is a violent and emotional game.

Warm Ups 4.7 #3Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Copy this passage from Slam by Nick Hornby. Circle the apostrophe. Underline the three words someone would be most likely to spell wrong.

There were loads of people in the Health Care Center. A lot of the people in there were parents with sick-looking kids, kids with coughs, kids with a fever, kids who were just slumped over their mothers’ shoulders.

Warm Ups 4.7 #4Thursday, May 21, 2015

Copy this passage from The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo. Circle the comma. Underline the possessive noun.

When Mrs. King offered to accompany the children to school, Sade assure her that they would be fine on their own. Neither child spoke as they walked except when Sade said good-bye outside Greenslades’ high wire fencing.

Warm Ups 4.7 #5Friday, May 22, 2015

• Copy the passage from Stolen Children. Underline the plural proper possessive noun. Circle the example of onomatopoeia.

In the second that she hesitated, trying to decide, she heard a vehicle roar into the Edgertons’ driveway.