Week 11

So sorry I missed you all this week. I had a pretty good day of rest, so hopefully I'll be back to normal tomorrow. I'm attaching our take-home sheet at the top and what follows is basically my lesson plan for class today. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Hope you have a great weekend!

Grammar

 Review - See attached crossword puzzle to print if you'd like

1. Linking Verbs.
1. Definition: A linking verb makes and assertion by joining two words. 
2. Sing Chart C Linking Verbs – The Ants Go Marching
3. (feel, become, remain, taste, seem, appear, look, sound, stay, smell, grow, am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been
2. So a linking verb must be present in 2 of our sentence patterns – S-Vl-PN (Subject, Verb linking, Predicate Nominative) and S-Vl-PA (Subject, Verb linking, Predicate Adjective). If you see a linking verb, you will know that you have one of these two following it.
3. Predicate Nominative – this is the next thing we must know.
1. Definition: A predicate nominative is a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject. 
2. So let’s define a noun: A noun names a person, place, thing, activity, or idea. 
3. And a pronoun: A pronoun replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition. 
4. Predicate Adjective – 
1. Definition – An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, qualifying, or limiting.
   Adjectives answer the questions: What kind? How many? Which? Whose?
5. So if we are looking for a word following a linking verb then this should be pretty easy to find. Then we just have to determine if it is a noun/pronoun or an adjective. 
6. Examples: 
1. Jesus is Holy.
2. The bear is a carnivore.
3. The boy is kind.
4. Our Lord is God.

New Grammar

1. Compound Sentences – remember that a Compound sentence has a FANBOYS and contains 2 or more independent clauses. 
2. And we have talked about Compound Declarative sentences – the just declare something or give information. It’s easy to turn a declarative sentence into an exclamatory sentence. What does an exclamatory sentence do? It exclaims something. So we just add an exclamation point on the end and poof – we have a compound exclamatory sentence.
3. Examples:
1. Jesus is Holy!
2. The bear is a carnivore!
3. The boy is kind!
4. Our Lord is God!

Writing

Cover 3SSS – Short, Staccato Sentences pg. 113

The name 3SSS stands for short, staccato sentences. The 3sss is simply the use of three short sentences (no more than five words each) in a row. Using short sentences in the middle of longer sentences can be a powerful way to draw attention to the short sentences, so use short sentences for important parts of a story. 

Sample: The dragon terrorized the town everyday. It swooped over the city. It spit fire. It left devastation. 

Sample from Selby's Faces of History paper last year: She was devastated. She vowed revenge. This started her pirate life. 

~JENNA

Essentials Week 10

I wanted to take a moment to discuss the Essentials portion of CC Connected with you all. Just like there are resources for Foundations on CC Connected, there are also tutorials and file sharing for Essentials. For example, there are documents including daily checklists for Grammar and Writing. If you've been struggling with a daily schedule for Essentials class, this might be a good resource. There is a separate subscription fee for the Essentials portion of CC Connected, but it might be worth a look. I'd be happy to log on during Community Day, so you could browse the site, if you'd like.

Praying you are all at peace with your schooling and with the world around us this week. May God give us focus on the important things and let us cast aside the rest. As I tell my kids...let's love what God loves.

~Jenna