Warm-ups Week of 17 January 2012

Wednesday, 8 th 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, 8 th 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, 8 th 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, 7 th 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, 7 th 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, 7 th 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.