4.C: TSW Apply Standard English Skills to Communicate, Compose, and Edit Grade Appropriate

A. Phillips 7/8 English Period 2 July 2, 2010

Objective: -4.c: TSW apply standard English skills to communicate, compose, and edit grade appropriate writing.

-2.b.1/2.b.2: The student will apply strategies and skills to comprehend, respond to, interpret, draw conclusions, or evaluate a variety of texts of increasing length, difficulty, and complexity

- 1.e: The student will apply knowledge of figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, idiom) to evaluate author’s intent.

-4.a: The student will apply Standard English grammar in composing or editing.

Materials: Teacher administered worksheets and game, pens, paper

Do Now [5 minutes]: Write down two questions or topics of anything you have not understood this week in class. Anything no matter how minute or insignificant.

Set: Today we will be reviewing for our test next period. Let’s get started with the review worksheets to see where we stand.

Procedure: 1.TTW/TSW will begin completing review worksheet together. [10 minutes] 2.TSW complete review worksheet [10 minutes] 3. TTW answer student questions provided from the “Set.” [10 minutes] 4. TSW complete/assemble review puzzle [15 minutes] (5. If students finish early they will complete worksheets reviewing Direct & Indirect Objects and Subject-Verb agreement. Pg. 76 & 184)

Closure: Restate: We should all be ready for our test now. We’ll take a bathroom break and have our exam when we come back. Ask: Any final questions before the test? State: We’re all set. You will all do well.

Objectives: See Above Informal Assessment: TTW walk around (M) and make sure that students are completing review worksheets (C).

Formal Assessment: TSW take exam (M) covering all material from the past week (C) and the grade will be recorded in the gradebook (D). Name: ______Date:______

Week 4 Review

1. What does the idiom “take the bull by the horns” mean?

A. Tell several half-truths B. Face a tough situation C. Handle something gently D. Make a great deal of noise

2. What is the definition of a simile?

A. A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using like or as. B. A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things without “like” or “as.” C. A type of figurative language that the word is spelled the same way that they sound. D. A type of figurative language that gives human qualities to inanimate objects.

3. Use inference skills to determine the meaning of the word afterthought in the following phrase. My main focus during the test was to get as many answers right as possible. Writing my name on the front page came as an afterthought.

A. A thought that comes before. B. A thought that comes slowly. C. A thought that comes after. D. A thought that comes suddenly.

4. Which of the following is an example of personification?

A. The kite danced in the sky. B. She typed really quickly. C. The kite wandered in the sky. D. All people are nice.

5. Fill in the chart with the correct pronoun-verb agreement.

Singular verb= to be, talk Plural verb=to be, talk I- We- You- You all- He, She- They- 6. Supporting details are:

A. facts the author shares to confuse the reader. B. facts that the author shares during the resolution of a story. C. facts the author shares to help prove the main idea D. the first line of every story or essay

7. What is a double negative?

8. Give an example of a double negative.

9. Correct your example from question 8.

Now spotting with his mighty eyes the source of his distress, he knew what move he had to make as masters do in chess.

10. This is one part or paragraph of a poem. What is it called?

11. What is the tone of this part of the poem?

12. Find a simile in this poem.

13. Underline the two independent clauses in the following sentence and circle the coordinating conjunction:

The pirate captain lost her treasure map, but she still found the buried treasure.

14. Are the following independent or dependent clauses?

The dog barks.

When the dog barks.