Success Spiral Thursday November 29

Thursday November 29, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 9 1 st period: Work through the question.

Thursday November 29, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 9 2 nd period: Go over the work you did during first and discuss answers and strategies. First, let’s read sentences 17 in the original. Notice anything weird about it? If so, you can mark your answer. Otherwise,

Thursday November 29, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 9 2 nd period: Go over the work you did during first and discuss answers and strategies. let’s plug in the possible changes to sentence 17 in the original. hisself Bad idea. “Hisself” isn’t a word. It would be incorrect to change “himself”, so let’s ditch A.

Thursday November 29, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 9 2 nd period: Go over the work you did during first and discuss answers and strategies. Now, let’s read B. we Is it, “he taught us” or “he taught we”? “We” can’t be an indirect object. It would be incorrect to change “us”, so let’s ditch B.

Thursday November 29, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 9 2 nd period: Go over the work you did during first and discuss answers and strategies. Let’s read C. each other. The usual way to say this would be “one another” or “each other” but not “each another”. “Each other” is an improvement over the original, so we know D isn’t the answer. That leaves C as the correct answer.

Thursday November 29, “"My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 10 3 rd period: Work through the question.

Thursday November 29, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 10 4 th period: Go over the work you did during 3 rd and discuss answers. First, let’s read sentence 21 in the original. Notice that the original is a run-on sentence. You can’t join 2 sentences with only a comma.

Thursday November 29, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 10 4 th period: Go over the work you did during 3 rd and discuss answers. Let’s see if choice A corrects the run-on or is any kind of improvement over the original. protects Choice A does not correct the run-on. It also uses the present tense. This whole paper has been about what grandfather did, rather than what he does now, so changing to the present tense would be an unwise option.

Thursday November 29, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 10 4 th period: Go over the work you did during 3 rd and discuss answers. Let’s see if choice B corrects the run-on or is any kind of improvement over the original. fed me Choice B corrects the run-on! We know it is better than the original, so we can mark out D.

Thursday November 29, "My Hero" Lesson 31, question # 10 4 th period: Go over the work you did during 3 rd and discuss answers. Let’s see if choice C corrects the run-on AND is an improvement over B. has kept Choice C does not correct the run-on! B it is!!!

Strategy Review 1.Read the question and come up with an answer before you read the answer choices. 2.Plug answer choices into the passage. 3.Eliminate obvious wrong answers. 4.Read aloud. 5.Attack the test. Highlight or circle key words in the question and in the passage. 6.Delete one part at a time (opposite of plug-in)

Thursday November 29, “How to Make an Omelette" Lesson 32, question # 1 5 th period: Work through the question.

Thursday November 29, “" Lesson 31, question # 2 6 th period: Go over the work you did during 5 th A. Should we misspell goal? No.

Thursday November 29, “" Lesson 31, question # 2 6 th period: Go over the work you did during 5 th B. Should we spell restaurant right? Yes. 

Thursday November 29, “" Lesson 31, question # 2 6 th period: Go over the work you did during 5 th C. Are we talking about a person who cooks (chef) or a person who leads an Indian tribe (chief)? 

Thursday November 29, “" Lesson 31, question # 2 6 th period: Go over the work you did during 5 th D. Does any change need to be made to the original? Yes. We need to spell restaurant right. 

Thursday November 29 “How to make" Lesson 32 7 th period: question # 2 2. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 2? A.Remove the comma in Child’s B.Remove quotation marks and put in italics The Joy of Cooking C.Change mysteries to mysterys D.No change needs to be made to the sentence

Thursday November 29 “How to make" Lesson 32 8 th period: question #2 2. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 2? A.Remove the comma in Child’s B.Remove quotation marks and put in italics The Joy of Cooking C.Change mysteries to mysterys D.No change needs to be made to the sentence A.That’s not a comma, it’s an apostrophe. B.Yes, titles of books need to be italicized. (If you’re writing in handwriting instead of typing, you underline book titles.) Quotation marks are for short things like poems, articles and stories. Italics (or underlining) are for long things like novels and movies. C.No, don’t misspell mysteries. D.Wrong! A change does need to be made to the sentence. 