1. British Literature Welcome back on this marvelous Monday! March 24, 2008 Ms. Cares

2. Agenda: 1.Welcome Back Reflection – How was the packet? Where do you need and plan to go from here? -- I will then share my game plan for the next 30 days. 2.Thumb Rule – Non-essential phrases and clauses. 3.English Practice Set – Putting our strategies to continued use.

3. Reflection: Please respond to the following questions on a blank sheet of paper. I will collect this along with your packets in a mere 10 minutes. ~How did you approach the packet? Did you take each section at a time or break the sections into 9 minute intervals? ~Were you pleased with your scores on the different sections? What were your scores? On what sections did you do best and feel the best? ~What is your game plan for the next 30 days? What do you plan to do outside of class?

4. Thumbs UP for the Thumb Rule! The Thumb Rule is an English strategy that can work alone or in conjunction with Look Left and STOP/GO. In other words, it deserves a thumbs up! The THUMB RULE helps you to identify when commas or dashes are needed to identify non-essential clauses. Non-essential clauses are those “interrupters” that often appear between the subject and verb of a sentence.

5. Thumb Rule – How does it work? Place your thumb over the information that you think is non-essential and look at the parts of the sentence that are not covered by your thumb. Answer the following two questions: 1. Can I take out the information? 2. Should I take out the information? If the answer is YES, then you surround the “stuff” under your thumb with either commas or dashes.

6. For Example: My sister, the one who constantly borrows my shoes, looks quite a bit like me. My other sister, however, has completely different taste and looks nothing like me.

7. Homework Finish the reverse side of this handout. Review all of the ACT English Rules. Do some practice questions online. “What are you prepared to do?”