Vocabulary Test 22

Posted on 24. May, 2012 by .

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Last week’s vocabulary test was pretty simple, so we’re going to shake it up a bit this week. This week’s Grammar Challenge is going to be a combo meal of punctuation fun! We’re going big with this one: compound-complex sentences with both adverb and adjective clauses!

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HW: Poetry – “A Poison Tree”

Posted on 20. May, 2012 by .

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Your weekly poetry assignment is nigh! We’re going back a little further in time with this one, but we are staying in the realm of old, white, English guys (don’t worry, we’ll mix it up soon enough): William Blake’s, “A Poison Tree.”

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Vocabulary Test 21

Posted on 15. May, 2012 by .

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Welcome to the wonderful world of appositives. The good news is that you’re already using appositives. The really good news is that now you’re going to learn how to do it right!

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HW: Poetry – “Invictus”

Posted on 12. May, 2012 by .

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Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! Study, write an essay, and memorize William Ernest Henley’s, “Invictus.”

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HW: Short Story – The Redemption

Posted on 08. May, 2012 by .

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Now that you have seen your graded results, do you feel like you could have done better on the HW: Short Story – Write the Story (Part 5)? Here’s your chance to prove it. If you failed to get a perfect score in the Grammar category and/or the Sentence Identification category, you have a shot at redemption.

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Vocabulary Test 20

Posted on 07. May, 2012 by .

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Out of the shallows, the almighty compound-complex sentence rears it’s ugly head once again! That’s right ladies and gentleman: it’s back!

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HW: Independent Reading – Weekly Materials

Posted on 01. May, 2012 by .

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You must conduct five reading sessions each week. We will conduct at least three of these reading sessions during class. During our reading sessions, you will have time to work on both your Reading Log and your Vocabulary Bookmark.

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HW: Short Story – Write the Story (Part 5)

Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by .

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For this assignment, you will be gathering and arranging all your short story materials, making your final edit, printing a final copy, and posting your final copy to AISBlogPals.com.

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Vocabulary Test 19

Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by .

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An introductory element is any word or group of words that precedes the main clause. When you have an introductory element, you put a comma after it. In this week’s grammar challenge, you will create introductory elements using one or more prepositional phrases.

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