Week 5
Homework for Week 5
This week is a transition week!
We finish Unit 1 and begin Unit 2.
Please turn in any late work next week.
We don't penalize for late work, so just keep plugging away!
Specific Homework:
We read the Intro to Unit 2 in class today! Woo hoo!!!
We completed all of Week 5 Day 4 in class today. Yippee.
Voice Recording for Meet Amy Green
This week is a transition week!
We finish Unit 1 and begin Unit 2.
Please turn in any late work next week.
We don't penalize for late work, so just keep plugging away!
Specific Homework:
- Remember to check the boxes on the Daily Schedule as you complete each assignment.
- We completed Module 4.9 in class, but it was confusing to some students. See below.
- Complete the Mastery Test (4.10). It can be completed open book. Please read the instructions, and make each sentence about you with a superpower or about your archenemy.
- Please turn in your final draft of the When I Was Young assignment (3.11) if you haven't yet.
- Read 4.11 and check the DONE boxes on Checklist 4.
- Listen to the voice recording for Meet Amy Green.
We read the Intro to Unit 2 in class today! Woo hoo!!!
We completed all of Week 5 Day 4 in class today. Yippee.
Voice Recording for Meet Amy Green
Simple, Complete and Compound: Types of Subjects and Predicates
Noun: A person, place, thing or idea. The subject of the sentence is a noun.
Verb: What the subject is doing or being.
Subject: A fancy word that tells who or what the sentence is about.
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Simple: one word.
Complete: a string of words that tells all of the details.
Compound: more than one subject or more than one predicate.
Includes a Coordinating Conjunction.
Noun: A person, place, thing or idea. The subject of the sentence is a noun.
Verb: What the subject is doing or being.
- Action verbs: things that the subjects can actually do.
- Helping/Linking verbs: is, are, was, were, have, has, has, could have, should have, would have, etc.
Subject: A fancy word that tells who or what the sentence is about.
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Simple: one word.
- Simple subject: the 1-word noun that the sentence is about.
- The dog barked at the noisy, gray squirrel.
- Simple predicate: the 1-word verb that tells what the subject is doing OR being.
- The dog is brown.
- The dog barked.
Complete: a string of words that tells all of the details.
- Complete subject: the part of the sentence that includes the noun and fully describes the subject..
- The dog with the blue collar barked at the noisy, gray squirrel.
- Complete predicate: the part of the sentence containing the verb that fully describes what the subject is being or doing. The dog with the blue collar barked at the noisy, gray squirrel.
Compound: more than one subject or more than one predicate.
Includes a Coordinating Conjunction.
- Coordinating Conjunction: (FANBOYS) for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. Words that link 2 or more item
- Compound Subject: 2 or more nouns that the sentence is about. Contains a coordinating conjunction.
- Mary and Joseph.... New York, Detroit, or Chicago.... peas and carrots.... faith and reason.....
- Compound Predicate: 2 or more verbs that tell what the subject is doing or being.
- ...skipping, running and jumping ...is and was