Grammar Wednesday Introduction

Ms. Marshall-KraussAugust 29, 2012

Grammar WednesdayAugust 29, 2012

• Warm up: One cover page in your spiral (the one we skipped yesterday) make a web with the words English Class in the middle and at least six ideas from that about what English class means to you.

• Today’s objective is to preview the text features of the Grammar and Composition Handbook and identify known and unknown topics.

Text Features

• In groups, complete the text features worksheet.

• Glue into spiral, under warm up.

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Known/Unknown

• Preview the topics and concepts that will be presented in this book.

• On the post-its, write several that you know and several that you do not know.

• Please your post-its on the board under the correct heading.

Exit Ticket

• Write the best definition you can for the following for terms without looking at the book.– Sentence– Sentence fragment– Subject– Predicate

• Homework: Edmodo permission slip