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More Instructional Presentations

Hi Folks,

Today we have a shortened schedule due to the social studies movie.  In English, we are continuing with presenting the Instructional Presentations!

Homework:  No new homework (but don't forget the adjectives/adverb homework that was assigned yesterday). 

Next up:  Review for Grammar Test (Apostrophes, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives)

Screenshots for today's lesson: Adjectives and Adverbs

Adverbs

Adjectives

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Presentations Day

Hello folks,

Today we will begin Instructional Presentations!  Many of you have worked quite diligently in the design and practice of these presentations, and what I've seen so far rocks!  I will be creating a page for you to view some of the powerpoints and videos online!

No Homework for today....but remember....

Action and Linking Verbs

Hello and welcome to the short week!

So, today's lesson is a review of some verbo-info: Action and Linking Verbs.

Action verbs show action, duh.  There is a zillion of them out there.

• sometimes you can't see the action: think, know, love, desire, understand - are all verbs.
• Action verbs can be put into two categories, transitive and intransitive.
• transitive action verbs: there is an object (noun or pronoun) that recieves the action of the verb
• ask who or what after the verb - and if there is an answer, that is the object of a transitive action verb!
• example: Andrew threw a football.

• intransitive action verbs: there is no object to recieve the action.
• example: Andrew threw up.

Linking verbs are boring.  They connect the subject to either a noun that renames it (called a predicate nominative), or an adjective that describes it (called a predicate adjective).  There aren't many of them in the English language.

• forms of "to be" are the most common linking verb.
• some of the trickier linking verbs are:
• appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, turn.
• some of those above verbs could be action verbs or linking verbs, depending on how they are used.

Homework:  Do exercises 1, 2, and 3.

Correcting Apostrophe Homework and Studying for Vocab

Hi Kids,

Today we corrected the apostrophe worksheet - many problems were highlighted as ones that you will see again in the future (wink, wink).  Vocab quiz is tomorrow.  We all created flashcards for the "bonus" words that will show up on super-challenge and extreme quizzes.

To find out what level of quiz you are taking tomorrow, you must look on Powerschool and see what level of quiz you took last time and how you did on it.  If you aced that level last time, you must take the next level up... no slacking... you're here to push your intellectual limits, kiddos!

Homework:  Study vocab.  Make us proud.  Continue to work on visual presentation.  Bring in a can.