Quick Write #17

Please write out the following sentences.

Please circle the nouns, label the linking (LV) and action verbs (AV), underline the prepositions, and double underline the conjunctions.

Put a big “I” under interjections.

1. I walked to the store very slowly, but ran home.

2. Both Allison and Tanya will visit Chico.

3. Mark slid to home base just in time!

4. Phew! I thought neither Brycen nor Julian turned in the essay.

5. Television has changed a lot over the last fifty years

Quick Write #16

Please write out the following sentences.
Please label ALL the parts of speech.
1. Peanut scratched his dog bed ferociously.

2. I need to label my piece of paper.

3. High School is very close.

4. I sat on the broken chair.

5. Carrie Underwood will be in Sacramento Thursday!

Quick Write #15

Please write out the following sentences.

Please circle the nouns and label the linking (LV) and action (AV) verbs.

1. I can label all of the verbs.

2. My Corgi is the cutest dog.

3. His iphone is working fine.

4. I wanted that computer, but it was very expensive.

5. I like Diet Coke better than Diet Pepsi.

English 8 Agenda 5/172010-5/21/2010

Monday (05/17):

- Collect Quick Writes 12-14?
- Quick Write 15 (attached)
- Edit first draft of Travel Agent Assignments (with focus on in-text citations, works cited pages, and 5 categories/ paragraphs)
- Pass back Soundtrack Assignments (last few minutes)

Homework: None

Tuesday (05/18):

- Library?? (to type Travel Agent Assignments)

Homework: None

Wednesday (05/19):

- Library??

Homework: Finish typing Soundtrack Assignments, due Friday!

Thursday (05/20):

- Quick Write #16 (attached)
- Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe
- Listen to a dramatic reading of The Tell-Tale Heart (page 624 in Green Literature Books)
- begin worksheet for Tell-Tale Heart?

Homework: None

Friday (05/21):

- Quick Write #17 (attached)
- Finish Tell-Tale Heart Worksheet.
- Collect Travel Agent Assignments

Homework: Finish Tell-Tale Worksheet (due Monday)