Warm-ups

Week of 17 January 2012

Wednesday, 8th Grade

• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal.

• Unquestionable, Paul Revere’s ride was a turning point in American history.

• What I mean to say is that no Revolutionary figure deserves lasting fame more than him.

• Skills practiced: use of adverb to modify verb, correct pronoun case, revision of wordy sentence.

Thursday, 8th Grade

• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal.

• Barbara Frietchie is a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, a quaker poet.

• Whittier often wrote about faith the dignity of common folk and social justice.

• Skills practiced: use of quotation marks with title of a poem, capitalization of religious terms, use of commas in a series.

Friday, 8th Grade

• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal.

• Whittier based “Barbara Frietchie” on a story that Union soldiers told and retold during the civil war.

• Deeply commited to the anti-slavery cause, Whittier turned the tale into a stirring, patriotic poem.

• Skills practiced: capitalization of name of historical event, correction of spelling: doubling final consonant

Wednesday, 7th Grade

• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal.

• In the poem they had some sad lines.• The blacksmith is kind and decent and also has

courage.• Skills practiced: correction of they or you

without a clear antecedent, correction of faulty parallel structure.

Thursday, 7th Grade

• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal.

• The poem tells we readers that we should forget the sad days and that we readers should go on with life.

• Longfellow is considered by many people to be one of America’s best poets.

• Skills practiced: correct use of pronoun case, correction of wordy sentence, use of active voice.

Friday, 7th Grade

• Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following in your warm-up journal.

• What I want to say is that Alfred Noyes is a man who was a writer who wrote alot of poems and articles.

• Legendary figures from English history were written about by Noyes.

• Skill practiced: revision of wordy sentence, correction of commonly misused words, use of active voice to improve style.