Dent's Deli

January 17, 2012

AC-Rewritten narratives are due on Friday! Your homework for this evening is to complete the complements review and Monday and Tuesday DGP.

OL- Goal setting paragraphs are due tomorrow as well as Monday and Tuesday DGP!

January 17, 2012

AC-Rewritten narratives are due on Friday! Your homework for this evening is to complete the complements review and Monday and Tuesday DGP.

OL- Goal setting paragraphs are due tomorrow as well as Monday and Tuesday DGP!

January 13, 2012

Welcome Back!

It was so nice to see your smiling faces this week! I missed you and hope you were as anxious to get back to school as I was!

OL- You have no homework over the long weekend! We will be working on complements next week, so please review your notes.

AC-Your goal paragraphs are due on Tuesday. Attached is the prompt.Download Goal Setting

December 21, 2011

A reminder to all students that your thank-you letters must be turned in by tomorrow! This will be your final grade for the second quarter:-)

I wish you all a safe and happy holiday season, and I look forward to seeing you in 2012!

December 11, 2011

OL Classes: Students received back their narrative essays! Overall, they did an excellent job. All students are able to redo their essay for a higher grade but need to submit their redo by next Friday. When students complete the redo, they must attach it to the  original and the redo must be a version of the original with the suggestions and recommendations for improvement taken into account. I will be here Tuesday morning at 8:00 to assist and student with his or her redo.

AC Classes: We graded the complement quizzes today and will continue to work on the concepts next week. Students in my  AC classes will receive their narratives back next week.

November 29th

On-Level:

This week we are continuing our study of complements of verbs,  specifically, direct and indirect objects.  We will have a quiz on these two types of complements on Wednesday.  Review your Venn diagram and workbook to help you prepare.  Our writng focus is technical writing, and will begin to work on our next technical writing product, a set of instructions.

AC:

We are completing our Folk Literature unit this week.  All unit logs, vocabulary graphs, and vocabulary projects are due.  If you did not submit these in class previously, you should do so by Wednesday.  Our  area of emphasis in grammar is direct and indirect objects, and we will continue with predicate nominatives.  Please make sure you know your linking verbs!!!!
 Download Complements (Direct Objects, Indirect Objects,

November 16

AC Classes: We are working on the Choice Board assignment and should finish it by tomorrow. Some of you have already begun generating ideas for the vocabulary portion (i.e. journal entry, advertisement slogan, etc)

OL Classes: We are working this week on direct and indirect objects. You are doing a fantastic job getting these concepts down. Below are some websites to assist you.

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/indirect_objects/quiz548.html

http://www.kwiznet.com/p/takeQuiz.php?ChapterID=2287&CurriculumID=58&Num=1.2

Adjective and Adverb Phrases Review Links

http://quizlet.com/44006/adjective-and-adverb-prepositional-phrases-flash-cards/

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/prepositionalphrase.htm

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=adjective-adverb-prepositional-phrases-8th-grade

http://www.dailygrammar.com/181to185.shtml

Verb Review Links

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/verb_power/index_pre.html

http://www.ecarter.k12.mo.us/dept/elementary/fourthgrade/ccrites/englishpage.html

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/helping_verbs/quiz520.html

http://www.gamequarium.com/partsofspeech.html

Oct. 21

My apologies. It was brought to my attention that my blogs were not being updated. They were but under the incorrect heading;therefore, you couldn't see them! I'm sorry!

The AC students need to finish their rough drafts over the weekend and please review adjective and adverbial phrases-we will work on this some more:-)

On-Level students continue working and reviewing verbs. We will begin writing  our formula poems next week. Enjoy your weekend!

This was the post from last week:

Welcome to the Deli!
In our AC classes we have just finished our pronoun unit, and students will begin, next week, writing their narrative essays! We will end our week reading a narrative piece and analyzing it with our literature circle groups. Our next grammatical focus will be adjective and adverbial phrases. There are still approximately four more grades that will be added to Pinnacle before the quarter ends this Friday.

On-Level Classes: The majority of you have finished your narratives and they look great! Don't forget to finish your preposition train tonight and complete your workbook pages. Review your song, so you have those prepositions memorized