Comma Notes

Here is the PowerPoint presentation used to take notes in class on Monday.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/powerpoint.htm

Click on "The English House of Commas" at the top of the right hand column and follow the presentation to take your notes.

Prepositions

Online Games (linked off of my blog)

http://www.cccs.k12.in.us/userfiles/10/Prepositions%20and%20Prepositional%20Phrases.swf

http://www.quia.com/ba/106541.html

Subjects

Games Online (linked off of my blog)

http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/subject/quiz244.html

http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/finding_subjects_verbs_1.asp

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/satz/subpred.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en30stru-game-verb-subject-treasure-hunt

Verbs

Helping Verb song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F2JWKY63K0

Games

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/verb/balloon_game/

http://www.arcademics.com/games/viper/viper.html

http://www.quia.com/ba/142658.html

Practice Games and Quizzes

Mrs. Groom on 8-Blue has done an awesome job of putting together lists of games and practice quizzes over the various parts of grammar we are studying.  They can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/a/lsr7.net/groomela/unit-1

Preposition Games

http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/prepositions.htm

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?Grade=6&Unit=7&Topic=Prepositional+Phrases&x=25&y=9

http://www.quia.com/quiz/298373.html?AP_rand=1223448779

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/74207.html?detoured=1

http://www.towson.edu/ows/exerciseprepphr2.htm

Yankee Doodle Preposition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuWtwzC67UY&feature=youtu.be

Parts of Speech Review

http://murielgissel.blogspot.com/p/webquest-parts-of-speech.html

Using the sites listed on the above webquest, complete your parts of speech cheat sheet.  You are expected to know these and their function in language.

Test review games/quizzes

connotation and denotation:
http://www.quia.com/quiz/1196972.html
http://wps.prenhall.com/ipractice/0,9716,1625684-content,00.utf8.html

determine meaning from context:
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/ccinfer.htm
http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/contextclues1pretest.html

figurative language:
http://www.quia.com/quiz/449371.html
http://www.missspott.com/figurativelanguage.html
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz2309931a72b00.html
http://www.quia.com/quiz/1314532.html

elements of literature:
http://www.quia.com/quiz/270936.html
http://www.quia.com/quiz/1398799.html

Using Context Clues

On your note sheet, view this document and take notes on what it means to use context clues:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1llPKVXpW5zmZbKJaVw3WOYmgiIekPBMXnG_sTK-rNoM/edit?usp=sharing

Once finished with this, set the computer aside while we discuss this as a class.


Now, let's see how much this made sense to you.  Take the quiz at the following link http://www.quia.com/quiz/1449361.html  Write your score out of 13 on your context clues note sheet.

Irony Links

http://typesofirony.com/the-3-types-of-irony/

(click on links that say "See more..." after definition of each)

http://grammar.about.com/od/d/g/dramaticironyterm.htm

http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/situationalironyterm.htm

http://fos.iloveindia.com/verbal-irony-examples.html

Irony Quiz  https://docs.google.com/a/lsr7.net/forms/d/1YerJ4aicVzEUERPFtetFdM0vtyIzQ1zOa21ol7ADD-k/viewform