Warm-ups Week of Jan. 23, 2012

Monday, 8 th Grade Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. The event probably did not happen quite like Whittier told it, although Barbara Frietchie had been a real person. She did wave the flag but apparently she waved it at the Union troops, not at General Stonewall Jackson. Skills practiced: correct use of conjunction as, verb tense compatibility, use of comma before coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.

Tuesday, 8 th Grade Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. Whether literally true or isn’t, the story of Barbara Frietchie makes a point about standing up for ones beliefs. The old woman be a symbol of courage, patriotism, and justice. Skills practiced: elimination of faulty parallel construction, use of apostrophe to show possession, correct use of verb to be.

Wednesday, 8 th Grade Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. You can visit Barbara Frietchie’s house at 154 West Patrick St Frederick Maryland. Today, it’s one of many museums that attract visitors. Skills practiced: use of period with abbreviation, correct use of commas with address in a sentence, subject and verb agreement.

Thursday, 8 th Grade Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. O Captain, My Captain is a dirge, or funeral poem, wrote by Walt Whitman. Whitman experienced the Civil War firsthand and wrote many poems about it. The poems were vivid and moving. Skills practiced: use of quotation marks with title of poem, correct past participle of irregular verb, combining sentences.

Friday, 8 th Grade Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. From 1863 to 1865 Walt Whitman was an army nurse, caring for sick and dying soldiers in a hospital in Washington, D.C.. He wrote newspaper articles to get money to buy necessitys for the wounded men. Skills practiced: use of comma after introductory prepositional phrase, correct end punctuation in sentence ending in abbreviation, correction of spelling: base words with final y.

Monday, 7 th Grade Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. The highwaymen, who people feared, waited on the side of the road. The highwayman in this poem is a dashing romantic figure. Skills practiced: correct pronoun case, use of comma with coordinate adjectives.

Tuesday, 7 th Grade Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. The two main characters in the poem, the outlaw and Bess. People here the highwayman riding through the night. This is a regular occurrence. Skills practiced: correction of sentence fragment, correction of commonly confused words, combining sentences.

Wednesday, 7 th Grade Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. Bess loves the highwayman. She is the landlord’s black eyed daughter. She waits anxious for him every night. Skills practiced: use of appositives to combine sentences, use of hyphen with compound adjective, use of adverb to modify adjective.

Thursday, 7 th Grade Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. Edgar Allan Poe is the author of the poem annabel lee. Poe was born in Boston and had a hard life. Skills practiced: capitalization of important words in a title, use of quotation marks with title of a poem, correct use of parentheses.

Friday, 7 th Grade Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. The first line of the poem “Annabel Lee” is “it was many and many a year ago.” Annabel Lee was loved by the speaker very much. Skills practiced: capitalization of first word in a line of poetry, use of active voice to improve style.