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Warm-ups
Week of 30 Jan 2012
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Monday, 8th Grade
• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences:
• Whitman saw Lincoln often in Washington, D.C., and admires him tremendously.
• He felt that he represented American democracy in its best and most purest form.
• Skills practiced: verb tense compatibility, correction of unclear pronoun reference, correction of double comparison.
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Tuesday, 8th Grade
• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences:
• The assassination of president Lincoln effected Whitman deeply.
• “O Captain, My Captain” expresses the poet’s personal grief for the man who he had loved and admired.
• Skills practiced: capitalization of title before person’s name, correction of commonly misspelled words, correct case of relative pronoun.
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Wednesday, 8th Grade
• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences:
• In his poem Whitman compares the United States to a ship. He compares Lincoln to the captain who has steered the ship safely through the storm of war.
• As the people cheer the triumph, the captain lays dead.
• Skills practiced: combining sentences, use of pronoun to avoid repetition, correction of commonly confused words.
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Thursday, 8th Grade
• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences:
• Settlers who thought they found the perfect place often chose the Greek word eureka, meaning “I have found it”, as a place name.
• The following states have towns named Eureka, Alaska, California, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Washington.
• Skills practiced: verb tense compatibility, use of underlining or italics with foreign word, correct placement of comma with quotation marks, use of colon before a list.
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Friday, 8th Grade
• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences:
• English settlers took English place names, Lexington, Cambridge, Leominster, Worcester, Uxbridge to America with them.
• New York settlers gave towns dutch names like Yonkers, Rensselaer, and Watervliet.
• Skills practiced: correction of commonly confused words, use of dash to set off additional information, capitalization of proper adjective.
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Monday, 7th Grade
• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences:
• After the poet and Annabel Lee had fallen in love. Then she died.
• The angels envied both she and the poet.• Skills practiced: correction of sentence
fragment, correct pronoun case.
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Tuesday, 7th Grade
• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences:
• The poet had gave Annabel Lee their love forever.
• The speaker is sad after losing his love.• Skills practiced: correct past participle of
irregular verb, pronoun agreement with antecedent, use of precise adjective to improve style
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Wednesday, 7th Grade
• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences:
• Rhyme is a type of repetition. This is interesting to a listener.
• Because of all the repetition “Annabel Lee” has a musical sound.
• Skills practiced: use of relative clause to combine sentences, use of comma after introductory phrase.
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Thursday, 7th Grade
• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences:
• Shakespeare was born on April 23 1564 in an small town called Stratford-on-Avon.
• Shakespeare is very famous today. He was not so well known in his day.
• Skills practiced: use of comma after day and year in a date, correct use of indefinite article, use of subordinating conjunction to combine sentences.
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Friday, 7th Grade
• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences:
• Scholars think that Shakespeares father was a businessman who also served in the local government.
• We know hardly nothing about Shakespeare’s life.• Skills practiced: correct use of apostrophe to
show possession, correction of commonly misspelled word, elimination of double negative.