Quarter Three Warm Ups Mrs. Militello

Warm Up #1 Write a letter to yourself about your hopes, dreams, and goals for 2017! This should be about one paragraph long. Happy New Year!

Warm Up #2 ■ Verb (Tense), Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Albert Einstein discovered that the faster things move, the heavier it became.

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Warm Up #3 Bonus! ***What are Santa’s elves called? 1. Define a complex sentence. In your definition, be sure to use the terms independent clause and dependent clause. 2. Write three subordinating conjunctions.

The cucumber and the tomato isn’t vegatables, there fruits. Warm Up #4 ■ Comma Splice, Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement, Spelling The cucumber and the tomato isn’t vegatables, there fruits.

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Warm Up #5 ■ Parallelism, Comma (Series), Run-On Sentence, Adjective (Articles) Honey is sweet, nutritious, and spoilage is never a problem it’s an favorite food of bears badgers and humans like it, too!

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Curiosity may of killed the cat, but satisfaction brought them back. Warm Up #6 1. Edit and revise the sentence: ■ Nonstandard Language, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Curiosity may of killed the cat, but satisfaction brought them back. Turn the compound sentence above into a complex sentence! Begin the sentence with the word WHILE. Write the sentence on your warm-up paper underneath #1 *Please place your homework (author organizer) on your desk also*

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Answer for #2 While curiosity may have killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back. Note: the coordinating conjunction “but” needed to be eliminated.

Warm Up #7: ■ Period, Comma (Dialogue), Quotation Marks Mt Whitney Ms Williams reminded the class is the highest mountain in the continental United States (apart from Alaska).

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Warm Up #8 The herbiveris dinosaur in unisin with the T-Rex decided to exclud some of the other dinosaurs from the birthday party that night, in conclution its not nice to distorte the truth.

Answer The herbivorous dinosaur, in unison with the T-Rex, decided to exclude some of the other dinosaurs from the birthday party that night. In conclusion, it’s not nice to distort the truth.

Warm UP #9 ■ Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Numbers, Capitalization, End Punctuation wow, the empire state building has 10,000,000 bricks in their structure

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Warm Up #10 ■ Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Subject-Verb Agreement, Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Abbreviations Of all the states in our country AK have the most longest coastline and the smallest population.

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■ Subject-Verb Agreement, Capitalization, Spelling Warm Up #11 ■ Subject-Verb Agreement, Capitalization, Spelling The boot of italy looks as though it “kick” the iland of sicily.

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Warm Up #12: GLR 29-30 Review! Directions: Write the question number and its answer. You do not need to write the question. Spell the answers correctly! You may use your GLR sheet. 1. The __________________ was sent on a mission to China. 2. In _______________, I see how I should have made a better choice. 3. I should _________________ that I’d like soy milk in my iced coffee—not cream. 4. Please send your ___________________ to Verizon for this month’s cell phone bill. 5. The cost of ____________________ to the movie theater for two tickets is $20. 6. In science class, we had to ___________________ the owl pellets. 7. I can ______________ my perfect weekend: a cozy blanket, a good book, and a cup of coffee.

Check your work! 1. The emissary was sent on a mission to China. 2. In retrospect, I see how I should have made a better choice. 3. I should specify that I’d like soy milk in my iced coffee—not cream. 4. Please send your remittance to Verizon for this month’s cell phone bill. 5. The cost of admittance to the movie theater for two tickets is $20. 6. In science class, we had to dissect the owl pellets. 7. I can envision my perfect weekend: a cozy blanket, a good book, and a cup of coffee.

■ Plurals, Misplaced Modifier, Period Warm Up #13 ■ Plurals, Misplaced Modifier, Period The face of Theodore Roosevelt wears eyeglass’s carved into Mt Rushmore.

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Warm Up # 14 (quiz review!) 1. List ALL of the coordinating conjunctions! 2. List five subordinating conjunctions. 3. Choose one of your subordinating conjunctions from above. Then, write a complex sentence that uses one of those subordinating conjunctions. You may work with your partner.

SAMPLE ANSWERS: 1. for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS) 2. because, while, since, until, after 3. Since I love to read, I am going to the library to check out a new book.

Warm Up #15 ■ Using the Right Word, Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Run-On Sentence China has the larger population of any country in the world more than a billion people live their.

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Warm Up #16 Please answer each question in complete sentences in your notebook for today’s warm up. Why do you like or dislike poetry? Write the name of the best poem/poet you have ever read.Why do you like it or like his/her poetry? Sketch a picture of how you feel about poetry. Write a caption that explains your picture underneath your sketch.

Warm Up #17 ■ Capitalization, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Plurals If american’s carpooled regularly more than 600,000 gallons of gas could be saved every day.

Topic Ideas: Introduction to… Warm Up # 18 We read “An Introduction to Poetry” the other day. Using this poem as an example, write an “Introduction to _________” (you choose the topic). You can make it positive (praising the topic) or you can be critical/sarcastic, or both. Your topic may be silly or serious. You may write it in paragraph form OR you can make a free verse poem. Topic Ideas: Introduction to… *shopping *making a YouTube video *surviving ____________ *football *being a fan of __________ *having a sibling *middle school *make your own topic! *being an only child

■ Using the Right Word, Double Subject, Numbers Warm Up #19 ■ Using the Right Word, Double Subject, Numbers The United States it looses three point five billion tons of topsoil each year because of erosion.

Warm Up # 20: There are seven errors to correct!

Warm Up # 21: Find and correct five errors!

Warm Up #22: Find FIVE errors!

Warm Up #23: Find five things to revise or add.

Warm UP #24: Find EIGHT errors!

Warm Up #25 1. Write the names of the coordinating conjunctions 2. Write five subordinating conjunctions. 3. Fill in the blanks! A complex sentence has a ________________ conjunction and is made up of one ________________ clause and one or more _______________clauses.