1. Prepositions

2. Warm-Up
Take out your composition notebooks. If you haven’t done so already, write your name on the front cover.
If you don’t have one yet, then take out a lined sheet of paper.
Supplies, specifically composition notebooks, are due on Wednesday. Come talk to me if getting one by then is going to be a problem.
Sign and date the student contracts.
Pass them up to the front of your row.

3. Journal Entry #1 What did you do over the summer?
Ex: what did you eat, how much did you sleep, where did you go, what did you watch, who did you spend time with, etc.
Write for 10 minutes.

4. Why do we teach grammar in school?
Think-Pair-Share
Take a moment to think about your answer.
Pair up with someone else (your choice).
Share your answers with each other.

5. Learning Goal and Scale
Design sentences with multiple prepositions/prepositional phrases to enhance meaning of your writing.
4: I can not only do 3, but I can also teach others to use prepositions/phrases to enhance meaning in their sentences.
3: I can design sentences with multiple prepositions/prepositional phrases to enhance meaning of your writing.
2: I can identify prepositions/prepositional phrases in sentences.
1: With help I can identify prepositions/prepositional phrases.
0: What is a preposition?

6. Prepositional Phrases
1. Prepositional Phrase = preposition (P) + object of preposition (OP).
The preposition is the first word in the phrase and the object of the preposition is the last word in the phrase
Sometimes there will be other words between the two elements.
EX: to the mall; from the store; except all those

7. Prepositions: Position Words
Slot Test for Most Prepositions = The bird flew _____________ the clouds.

8. Prepositions
Preposition- A position word that shows relationships between objects and/or time frame
“The dress from the store…”
“The sword in my hand…”

9. List of Prepositions above beneath down like regarding until at before
Prepositions LIST:
above
beneath
down
like
regarding
until at
before
during
unto
across
between
near
since up
along
beside
except
upon
amid
behind
for of
throughout
among
below
from on to
with
after
beyond
over
through
within
around
but in
outside
towards
without
atop by
inside
off
about
into
under
against
concerning
past
underneath

10. Object of the Preposition
2.Object of the Preposition (OP)-- the who or what in a prepositional phrase
EX: I went by the store.
By = preposition
I went by what? The store.
Store = object of the preposition
EX: Angelica went home without her sister.