Mt. Nebo Writing Class: Writing (Eureka Week)

Writing!

1. Read in your book pages 74-154. That's to Ally chapter 5.

2. No copy work this week! You will want to read carefully all that is required this week. There might be some generous vanguard bucks for those that are prepared.

3. Continue working on your research papers.

This week I want you to add to your papers.

Add 1-3 more paragraphs to each main point. These paragraphs should support your main ideas.
Try and have the last sentence of your last paragraph in your first point tie into the next point. Do that with each section.
Write a concluding paragraph.
Your paper should be a full outline or rough draft at this point.
You now have all of December to finish it up and have different family members read it for you and help you make corrections.
It will be due on January 7th. You will present your papers as a speech. So as you finish up your papers, practice reading it as a speech. We only have 45 minutes in class, so we will break into small groups and you will give your speech to a few others.

4. Do 2 more pages in your writing books. You should be through at least 20 pages. Bring your books to class.

5. Some fun grammar! We have previously talked about nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, subject, object and articles. We didn't have copy work, but I want you to make notecards for these terms from last time and for the new words below. They will be added to the notecard game.

Now we are going to cover; adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, clauses and phrases.

adverb - An adverb is like an adjective, but instead of describing a noun or a pronoun, it tells you more about a verb, an adjective, or even another adverb. An adverb describes how, when or where something happens.

For example: He smiled politely. Liz drives slowly. We arrived late. Jo lives there. I'm only joking.

conjunction - A conjunction is a linking word. It joins other words and groups of words together. Without conjunctions, sentences would be short and jerky.

For example: He closed his eyes. He didn't fall asleep. The conjunction but can turn these into a single sentence: He closed his eyes, but he didn't fall asleep. Some common conjunctions are: and, but, or, yet, therefore, so, because, although, while.

preposition - A preposition is a word that tells you how one thing is related to another. It is normally attached to a noun or a pronoun. A lot of prepositions show where one thing is in relation to another thing.

For example: The dog is lying on the bed.

Other prepositions show when something happens in relation to something else.

For example: Mike's parents are coming to stay before Christmas.

Here are some common prepositions: in, on, under, to, before, after, around, near, down, over, up, past, between, into.

Lots of verbs look as if they are followed by prepositions (for example, to break down, to cheer up, to break in), but in fact, in these cases, these little words are thought of as part of the verb.

clauses and phrases - Sentences can be made up of clauses (groups of words that contain verbs) and phrases (groups of words without verbs).

A sentence is a group of words that makes sense on its own. Most sentences have a subject and a verb.

We will be doing some fun stuff in class with all this new information! Be prepared by knowing what each thing is!

And now for the spelling words!

assistant - a person who helps in particular work.

extraordinary - very unusual or remarkable.

galaxies - a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction.

globular - globe-shaped; spherical.

telescope - an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer.

magnitude - the great size or extent of something, of great importance.

priorities - the fact or condition of being regarded or treated as more important.

analyzed - discover or reveal (something) through detailed examination.

information - facts provided or learned about something or someone.

originated - have a specified beginning.

frequencies - the rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or in a given sample.

usually - under normal conditions; generally.

unusual - not habitually or commonly occurring or done.

hypnotic - exerting a compelling, fascinating, or soporific effect.

apologetically - regretfully acknowledging or excusing an offense or failure.

automatically - without conscious thought or attention; spontaneously.

uncontrollably - not controllable. unable to contain.

lawyer - a person who practices or studies law; an attorney or a counselor.

mosquitoes - a slender long-legged fly with aquatic larvae.

electricity - a form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles (such as electrons or protons), either statically as an accumulation of charge or dynamically as a current.

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