Expository Writing-- Research First

Use the following links to help you gain more knowledge about climate change.  Remember to stay focused on finding facts that support your thesis.  Use the T-chart given in class to record facts and quotes that you think you may want to include in your essay-- be sure to site your data (tell where- page, article, author, website or URL, etc.). 

Climate Change
Activities to test your knowledge-- Climate Change

Combining Sentences

Match the sentences
Combining Sentences

Quiz

Sentence Types

Exclamatory -- shows excitement (ends with an exclamation point)
Imperative-- a command or order
Interrogative-- a question (ends with a question mark)
Declarative--- a statement

Practice game

Verb Tenses

Verb Tenses -- PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

Verb Tense Game -- Helping Verbs
Verb Tense Practice
Verb Tense -- Partner Practice
Verb Quiz #1
Verb Quiz #2
Verb Quiz #3 -- Challenging

Homophones

Homophones are words that sound the same, but have DIFFERENT spellings and DIFFERENT meanings.

Homophone Game
Homophone Practice
Homophone Practice #2
Homophone Quizzes -- Ms. Clancy will tell you which level you will need to complete.

Antonyms

Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings.

Antonym Matching Activity
Antonym Game
Antonym Practice Quiz
Antonym Quizzes -- Ms. Clancy will need to pick your level before you start.

Synonyms

Synonyms are words that have the SAME or SIMILAR meanings.

Synonym Game
Synonym Quiz #1
Synonym Quiz #2

Language Arts- Nouns

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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite nouns

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite nouns

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite nouns

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite nouns
And then I don't feel so bad.

Concrete Nouns-- nouns that you can "experience" with your senses.
Abstract Nouns-- nouns that express feelings, qualities, and concepts that CANNOT be experienced with your senses

Nouns

Language Arts- Run-On Sentences

Run-On sentences can be a problem when writing. They effect the flow/fluency of your story or piece. Click on the links provided in order to review run-on sentences. After you have reviewed the definition and practiced identifying and correcting run-on sentences, take the two quizzes. QUIZ 2 is a little tricky, so be careful. Be sure to show your results to Ms. Clancy (if you have to print, then do so).

Definition and Examples
Practice
Practice 2
Quiz 1
Quiz 2--- Show Ms. Clancy the score!

IE- Language Arts: Synonyms

Play Synonym Sam's Lab game to practice using and identifying synonyms.

Synonym Sam's Lab Game

IE- Language Arts: Comparative and Superlative Adj.

Play the game and practice using and identifying COMPARATIVE and SUPERLATIVE adjectives.

The Best Trampolini Game

Language Arts and Reading- Main Idea

The story below is similar to the one we read in class today, Purple Prose. Using 'colorful phrases' as your MI (main idea), create a bubble map of all of the colorful phrases you heard in this story. Remember, a key part of your SD (supporting detail) has to be what color phrase means!

Yesterday I Had the Blues

Create another bubble map that has EMOTIONS as the MI and the SD's are emotions that you have felt and a specific time that you have felt that emotion.

Example of a SD----- Nervous = getting on the plane and heading to Azerbaijan

IE Adjective Practice

Listen to the story Spicy Hot, and write down all of the ADJECTIVES that you hear. Remember, adjectives are words that DESCRIBE!!

Spicy Hot

stoRy MappiNG and CharaCter AnalYsis

If you didn't finish reading the stories in class today.... here is a link that has a few stories that you could read. You will need to have a few stories read in order to complete your homework properly.

CINderElla

foLk LitERaTure

As we continue our discussions about Folk Literature, it would be a good idea for you to explore some stories that you may not have heard before. Some of the stories have not been categorized, so you will have to use your knowledge about legends, myths, folktales, folklore, tall tales, and fairy tales, to determine their genre. Just click on the links provided and have fun reading!! Can't wait to hear about your discoveries!

foLk LitERaTure
AMerIcan FoLK LiteRAtuRE
LeGenDS
MayAN FolKTaleS
MyTHs

SeNTEnceS

Click on the links below and you will be taken to sites that will allow you to practice the skills we are covering this week. Read the information carefully; it will help you make your way through each of the activities. Use this site as a way to practice and learn more about sentence construction.

SuBjeCT/prEdicaTE
SeNTEnceS
IdEntiFying SeNteNCe TypeS- GAME
sENtencE PoweR- GAME

ClauSEs- GAME