This Week - Narrative Week

I have added a number of useful posts on the blog today to help you with work for next week. You will need to scroll down this first page to find the following information:

• Homework Sheet (click on link toward bottom of the page)
• Links for Southeast region region (use for note-taking on your famous person)
• Videos on Famous person (Use to gain an insight into settings/time period)
• Subjects and Predicates test Practice (Use to begin reviewing for Friday's test)

Remember: Lunch with an author competition - Due Date: Fri 19th (or before)

Subjects and Predicates - Test Review (Test is on Friday )

Use these resources to practice for the test on Friday.  Spend between 5-10mins reviewing each link over the next 5 days. Make notes of any questions you don't understand or ones you can't get correct.

Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjc9PXJKEck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qKjKC5RFhg&feature=related

Games
http://fen.com/studentactivities/SinkOrSwim/SinkorSwim.html
Use arrow keys and space bar to catch fish

Subjects+Predicates
http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?Grade=5&Unit=1-2&Topic=Cumulative+Review%3A+The+Sentence%2C+Nouns&x=19&y=10

Subjects and Predicates Online questions and games
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisesubjpred2.htm
http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html
http://www.quia.com/rr/36764.html
http://www.quia.com/quiz/673842.html?AP_rand=1501518670


http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/55.asp
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/braingames/iknowthat/TagAWord/TagAWord.cfm?Topic=SubjectsPredicates

http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/cshope/Grammar%20lessons/subject%20predicate%20quiz.htm
Print out this test and complete it

Southeast Region Narratives

Watch the videos below to get more information on your southeast region person for your narrative:

Wright Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3beVhDiyio
Eli Whitney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C_3RYmKggw&feature=related
Robert Fulton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFi-vbOyuo&feature=related
(not a long video, but at least a little extra info)
George Washington Carver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKSE1_ujTs8

Decide fromn  whose point of view you will be writing your narrative
e.g.  a slave in the field, an observer of the flight,  a passanger on the steamboat etc.

Homework Week 3 Tri 2

Click the title above to see your H/W for next week.

Feel free to work ahead if you would like.
I had added an exercise on 'time shift sentences for further practice

http://odl.vwv.at/english/odlres/res8/Grammar/grammar_exercises/tenses/past_perfect/pastperf3.htm
http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/Tenses/PastPerfectTest.htm

Watch this video on time shift, past perfect, sentences!


VISITING AUTHOR COMPETITION DEADLINE:  8 Days

Subjects and Predicates - RECAP

Watch these videos to review today's lesson on Subjects and Predicates



This video is  an IMPORTANT simple recap on compound subjects and predicates



Try these online exercises for further practice.
http://harcourtschool.com/activity/predicate_coaster2/index.html
http://www.kwiznet.com/p/takeQuiz.php?ChapterID=2294&CurriculumID=16
Subjects and Predicates Test will be  Fri. Nov 19th