1. AH ENG II

2. ACT minutes
Please get out your composition notebooks and date and title ACT minutes.
I will be passing out progress reports, as well as several papers back to you.
Please don’t throw anything away yet as we still need to maintain our folders.
REMEMBER, when bell rings it should be silent.

3. Week Four

4. 1. During the early morning hours of October 28, 1965, engineers stationed 630 feet about the ground made careful measurements for the days work. The results indicated a problem that threatened to postpone and delay the topping-out ceremony marking the placement of the final section between the two freestanding legs of the St. Louis Gateway Arch.
A. NO CHANGE
B , and engineers
C Engineers
D ; engineers

5. 2. During the early morning hours of October 28, 1965, engineers stationed 630 feet about the ground made careful measurements for the days work. The results indicated a problem that threatened to postpone and delay the topping-out ceremony marking the placement of the final section between the two freestanding legs of the St. Louis Gateway Arch.
A. NO CHANGE
B. days’
C. day’s
D. days’s

6. 3. During the early morning hours of October 28, 1965, engineers stationed 630 feet about the ground made careful measurements for the days work. The results indicated a problem that threatened to postpone and delay the topping-out ceremony marking the placement of the final section between the two freestanding legs of the St. Louis Gateway Arch.
A. NO CHANGE
B. had been threatened
C. will have threatened
D. threatens

7. 4. During the early morning hours of October 28, 1965, engineers stationed 630 feet about the ground made careful measurements for the days work. The results indicated a problem that threatened to postpone and delay the topping-out ceremony marking the placement of the final section between the two freestanding legs of the St. Louis Gateway Arch.
A. NO CHANGE
B. to a later time
C. by delaying
D. OMIT the underlined portion

8. During the early morning hours of October 28, 1965, engineers stationed 630 feet about the ground made careful measurements for the days work. The results indicated a problem that threatened to postpone and delay the topping-out ceremony marking the placement of the final section between the two freestanding legs of the St. Louis Gateway Arch.
The writer is considereing deleting the underlined portion. If the writer were to delete this phrase, the essay would primarily lose:
A. the writer’s opinion about the significance of the “topping-out ceremony”
B. a minor detail in the essay’s opening paragraph
C. an explanation of the term “topping-out ceremony”
D. an indication of the topping-out ceremony’s importance to the people of St. Louis

9. Answers:
1. A
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. C

10. Essential Questions/Standards & Objectives
EQ 13: I can use a colon correctly – REVIEW “…the following”
EQ 1 & 4: I can recognize and correctly write with pronoun-antecedent agreement & subject-verb agreement
This week - EQ 15: I can use transitional devices to connect ideas
EQ 9: I can use precise and vivid words in my writing.
Then, parallelism and verb tense

11. Cooperative Learning Groups
Green: Presenter
Pink: Reader
Blue: Time Keeper/Manager
Orange: Recorder

12. Exit Slip (Semicolon, colon, comma review)
Insert semicolons and commas where necessary.
1. There had been another terrorist attack in Paris six are known dead.
2. The pastel drawings are lovely however they should be sprayed with a fixative.
3. The car however still doesn’t work so I’d like you to fix it again.
4. Whales most people assume are non-vocal animals.
5. The shoes are too tight they just don’t fit.
6. The due dates are close together they don’t work in my schedule.
7. I love to read books I spend a lot of time in the library.
8. I want to eat some Hershey’s kisses they are my favorite.
9. The guest list reads as follows Rev. Bill Hinter Lady Smythe-Bottom Gordon James and Dizzy the Clown.
10. Certain people are legends Marilyn Monroe James Dean Houdini and Charlie Chaplin.
11. There were reasons for his behavior fear of the dark fear of confined spaces fear of spiders and way too much caffeine this morning.