Last Week of the Calendar Year

You should all be able to discuss your stance and tell me the categories that you are using for your notes. (Based on the feedback from the lesson, many people were not doing this) I will be meeting with you all on Monday about your categories. Make sure you have SOME!

Next week is a 'big' week. Be ready to work hard! Below are guidelines for your non-fiction talk. Some people will  present Thur and some Fri.


Don't forget to do the comma online practice

Don't forget to being in products for Wednesday Science lesson

Mid year assessment takes place on Wed. and Thur. We have covered a lot in Math this year:

• prime factorization 
• angles 
• prime and composite numbers 
• squares and square  roots
• divisibility rules
• fraction, decimals, percent equivalents
• mean, medium, mode, range
• mixed numbers and improper fractions
• stem and leaf 

We are not allowed to review any of these topics in class. Which topics do you think you should be reviewing on IXL  this week?

Student of the Week

PaperSlide Videos

Study link 6.9
A strong idea for your paper-slide video
Work on your non-fiction writing topic
Make sure you follow the steps below. You will need a 'good' idea for your COMMAS Rules paper slide video



Will yours be better than this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWOffIiVd2U

Commas, Fragments, and Run-ons - Test Practice

H/W
Think of  a topic for your final non-ficiton writing assignment. This piece will be a mixture of a topic you know well, but it can also be a topic you can do some research on. Bring your idea to class

Study link 6.7

Spend 15 minutes each night for the next week working on these exercises.  Watch the videos first.
Comma Rules: Test Prep - Read through the information on this link and begin working through the links below. You do not have to do them all, but you should spent time looking at a number of the exercises and the videos. WINK WINK - Some of the exercises below are on the test!
http://www.towson.edu/ows/ModuleCOMMA.htm

COMMAS and Run-on Sentences
Use these videos and the links to the websites below to help you practice  the different 'uses of commas- rules''. To be successful in the test, you need PRACTICE. These online exercises are the best way to gain a lot of very quick pracitce as many of your test questions are asked in the same way as these online exercises. Spend 15 mins each night working through all of the exercises on here between now and next Tue.

MAKE A NOTE OF ANY QUESTIONS YOU GET WRONG OR ANSWERS THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND AND BRING THEM INTO CLASS FOR DISCUSSION


Introductory Phrases and non-essential clauses

http://www.quia.com/rr/242173.html
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/commas_1.asp
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecomma4.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/nova/nova1.htm
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/CommaTest.html#numone
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/nova/nova2.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/commas_fillin.htm
http://www.quia.com/quiz/300693.html?AP_rand=1335472415
http://www.chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/commas01.htm
http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/exercises/punctuation1.html

Games
http://www.quia.com/rr/82028.html
http://www.quia.com/quiz/300693.html?AP_rand=1270897854

Mischttp://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/exercises/punctuation1.html
(click where you think the error is on the underlined words or click 'no error')
http://www.chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/commas01.htm
Comma Splice

http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/comma_splices_ex1.htm
do exercise 2 also
http://faculty.valleycollege.net/apal/run-on_quiz.htm
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecomma2.htm
http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/exercises/grammar1.html
Exercise 1+2 only (exercise 3 only for experts!)

Only for experts...
http://www.chompchomp.com/csfs01/csfs01.01.htm
(Hard but fun to do!)



Fragments and Run-ons Explanation

Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4rN48QVyFQ

www.edzone.net/~wohltjen/StAIR_Fragments_Runons.ppt
http://www.uvu.edu/owl/infor/test_n_games/practice_tests/fragments.htm
http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/fragrunonpostest.html
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/writerschoice/gp/hslessons/grade9/lesson8/exercises.shtml
http://www.quia.com/rr/450895.html
http://www.quia.com/rr/450936.html?AP_rand=1888308509

REMEMBER...From now on ... Only ever write a comma if you know why you are writing the comma.

• Study link 6.6

Non-ficiton writing: Final Stages

• Type up all your notes. Tomorrow, we will insert images and add text to the pages doc. Most of the 'writing' of the article should be finished tonight. You will have 1 hr in class tomorrow to do the finishing touches and add your joint text to 'pages'
• Your paired non-fiction writing should be handed in by on Wednesday morning. You will be able to print in school if needed

The Final Countdown

Hope you all worked well and made lots of progress on your writing.

Below, I have put the last two weeks at a glance, so you are all aware what is coming. Some of the key areas to be thinking about:

Week 6
Week 7

Bring in empty food packages for next Wed

• Paired Non-fiction writing (Next Week)
• Unit 6 Math Test (In two weeks)
• Research based individual non-fiction article (in two weeks)
• Investigation 4 - Science Assessment (two weeks)
• Comma Rules test (in two weeks)
• Mid year Math Test (in two weeks)

FINISH THE YEAR STRONG - What could you gain with another 10% effort?

Student of the Week: Beatrice