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