Unpack Your Adjectives

 Watch this introductory video - mostly for fun - before learning more about adjectives!

Then, complete page 26 if you did not finish all 10 sentences in class.

Read page 27 to understand its teaching.  Use page 27 as your reference if needed as you complete the first 7 sentences in the exercise on page 28.

Study your Root Cards 9 - 16 for your next quiz in class on Tuesday.

Positions Practice and Studies

Complete pages 23-24 carefully.  Do your very best.

Study the Root Cards, especially all the newer ones!

Memorize the Linking Verbs in the order given to you; Memorize the Helping Verbs in their order also!  Remember that both of these are listed on the "Verb" Page on the right of this blog.

More Noun Work

Complete pages 21-22.  If there are sentence parts you need to review first, please use book pages 15 and 17, and any notes and diagrams written down from class.  Think through what you are doing rather than just focusing on accomplishing the task of completing the work.  Build on the progress we made in class to become a master of noun sentence parts!

Complete your card for the root "sonus" and study it.

Diagramming & Root Study

Complete the worksheet handout of diagramming you received in class today.  Do as much of it as you possibly can, but all the parts covered in class today should certainly be completed.

Study all of your root cards for a test this Friday.  Understand the derivatives and what they mean, becoming very familiar with them, but their meanings do not have to be memorized word for word.

I am proud of your attentive work in class today; keep up the good work in your homework studies!

Practice and Study

Practice creating sentences while recognizing the parts of a sentence by doing exercise D on pages 19-20.

Study all your root cards after making sure you have completed the list of derivatives and their meanings on the backs of them.  You will be tested on all root cards next Friday, September 21st.

Much To Do With Nouns!

Read page 15.

Do page 16 after reading page 15.

Read page 17 thoughtfully.

Review all tenses and forms for verbs found on page 5.

Review your new root cards, completing writing the derivatives and their meanings on the backs of them.

Practice and Study

Due Tuesday, September 11, 2012 : pages 7-8 of Stewart's text, using the Past and Future Tenses only once out of the ten sentences, and using all other tenses twice out of the ten sentences.

"WINK" ~ hint, hint!

Study all 4 of your root cards: know the roots on the fronts of the cards with their meanings, and be able to match the derivative words with their meanings.  Study these as if you were going to have a quiz.

Word Study and Grammar

Finish copying the derivatives for the first 3 Greek root words on the back of your cards.  Thoughtfully read the cards every day, memorizing the Root Words with their meanings.

Complete pages 3-4 in Priniciples Plus.  Also, read page 5.  When you get to the bottom of this page, notice how the main verb of each sentence is italicized.  Would any other action words in those sentences have tricked you, causing you to think they were the verbs instead of the true main verbs?  Make sure you understand from those examples how to locate the main verb words in a sentence.

Also, make sure you know the names of the 6 verb tenses:  Past, Present, Future, Past Perfect, Present Perfect, and Future Perfect.

English ~ From the Roots Up!

Bring both text books to class where I will see you tomorrow!