Gettysburg Address

Watch this powerful version of the Gettysburg Address again


Gettysburg Address from Adam Gault on Vimeo.


Writing - Memories Paper

What will you do tonight to make sure your piece is the most powerful you have written so far this year? Make sure you are focusing on learning. Make sure you have strong verb, adjective, sentence fluency, and colorful descriptive ideas where possible.

Make me laugh...

Make me cry...
Make me smile ...
Make me sigh...
Show me what deeply moved you...
Show me how you truly grew...


How will you create a special theme? - AMAZE ME!!!.. please?


e.g. Survival Guide for Charlotte latin Lower School...
e.g. How to Impress your next teacher...

How will you make your paper 'unique'?

Treasures in a Box by Pamela Harazim

Come, look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I've often seen,
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, serene.


I wish I knew the people;
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.

I wonder what their lives were like.
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.


If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where, when,
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.


Could this become the fate
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories
Someday to be tossed away?


Make time to save your pictures,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.

What will your memories 'sound' like?

End of Year Grammar Review Test Practice

Use these links to practice for the Grammar Test


Subjects and Predicates
http://www.quia.com/rr/36764.html
http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html

Fragments and run-ons

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/fragments_quiz.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/run-ons_add2.htm 

Just select the subtopics from this link that we have studied
e.g. Commas, Prepositions etc...
http://college.cengage.com/devenglish/resources/writing_ace/students/

Nouns
http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/mc-plurals.html
http://www.azargrammar.com/assets/beginning/BEGVocabularyWorksheets/BEGVocab6/BEGvoc6-5.pdf
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=WCN1601

To Be
http://a4esl.org/q/j/jb/mc-be.html

General
http://a4esl.org/q/j/jm/ci-e01.html
http://anthonyhalderman.com/english/gramqz.htm  

Commas
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecomma4.htm
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecommaINTRO3.htm
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecs-fs5.htm

Adjectives - comapratives and superlatives
http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/comparisons.php
http://anthonyhalderman.com/english/compsup.htm

Check this website to reread some topics that we covered.

http://www.towson.edu/ows/index.htm

Changes to H/W sheet

Daily Editing - Booklets due in this Friday

Chains - Finish reading the whole book - By Next Monday.

Week 10 Homework

Updates

• We will work on the 4th Civil War journal entry in class tomorrow. It does NOT need to be finished before tomorrow!
• Memories paper will be due Next Wednesday
• Don't forget that Lesson 8 vocabulary Test is tomorrow
• Make sure you tackle the inference practice exercises on the blog. (You will need to scroll down to find Monday's post)