Biography of an Author

Please post the name of your chosen author as a comment. Deadline: February 5, 2014.

Research manners in a country different from your own. What is considered polite and how does it differ from our customs? Post your report in the form of a comment on our blog. Be sure to keep track of your sources and include them.

Required Course Reading

Please read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and be prepared to discuss/write about this story on Monday, October 21. The story can be found @ http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/halloween/kids-short-stories/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow.html

Wanted: Haunted Ideas

On the hunt for creative ideas to "haunt" our hall! Please post any and all suggestions, so we can make this Halloween the spookiest of all.... :)

Check out this link. It focuses on simple, compound, and complex sentences. Remember, for tomorrow's test, you only have to worry about simple and compound sentences, not complex. You'll also be asked to identify simple and compound subjects and verbs. I expect you all to do very well on this if you have paid attention in class. :) 

http://eslbee.com/sentences.htm

Test tomorrow

Don't forget our test tomorrow!! Please remember to study. You can expect to see sentences where you must identify prepositional phrases, objects of prep phrases, and distinguish between adjective and adverb phrases. Remember, if you have a pronoun as the object of a prep phrase, you must use the objective case.

Objective pronouns:

Me
Him
Her
Us
Them
Whom
You
It

Adjective phrases modify nouns and pronouns
Adverb phrases modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs

Questions answered:

Adverb- When? Where? How?
Adjective- which one? What kind? How many?

At the end of the day this is but one test of many; therefore, don't stress please. :)

-Mrs. S

Assignment

Please notice we have a new page labeled Discussion Board. Check it out for there is an assignment posted. I forgot to add the deadline which is September 3rd.