Saturday, July 25, 2015

Text Message Reminders for Tests, Quizzes, and Homework

Students and Parents,

Please feel free to subscribe to my Remind text messages.  Remind is a safe one-way communication tool that allows teachers to send text message reminders for homework assignments, quizzes, and tests.  I will not have access to anyone's cell phone number.  This is a great resource for students and parents, and it's very easy to sign up!  For more information, go to www.remind.com or check out the free Remind app on your phone.

Text @nrlions to 81010 to start receiving Remind text messages.

Thank you!

Friday, July 24, 2015

Class Supplies 2015-2016

Class Supplies


Students will need the following supplies for English class:

  • blue or black pens 
  • #2 pencils
  • college ruled notebook paper
  • a folder for keeping all handouts and assignments
  • 1 writer's notebook (spiral notebook, composition notebook…whatever works for you!  One -subject spiral notebooks are usually less expensive)
  • your school-issued student agenda
  • textbook cover (Feel free to use a paper grocery bag)
  • helpful, but not mandatory:  index cards, highlighters, post-it notes 
Note:  I will ask you to decorate your writer's notebook during class time the first full week of school. Be creative and have fun!  Feel free to use cut-outs from magazines (pictures, words, phrases), song lyrics, photos, stickers, postcards, duct tape, art work, recycled greeting and birthday cards, print-outs from the internet, etc.  This is your writer's notebook, and you will be using it often, so have fun decorating it!

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Summer Reading 2015

Summer Reading 2015


The following link will take you to the summer reading assignment for Advanced English 2.  The due date is Wednesday, July 8, 2015.  Final work must be submitted by midnight.

Please email me at senter_m@nrschools.org if you have questions.

Your assignment should be submitted to my email via Google Docs.  Please make sure that you have given permission to view and to edit.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oUKvI8JxW40ig1BLw5yx1stb3Gs1puN6MLYbGNKMos4/edit?usp=sharing


Monday, September 22, 2014

Grammar

The following links will help you with distinguishing action verbs from linking verbs:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVDEceE3rS4&list=PLTiunWAMBb-pJg5j8LWYqrEP-BvRI18ej

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/verbs/Linking-Verbs.html

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/linkingverb.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1IJWvHZcOU

https://www.sinclair.edu/centers/tlc/pub/handouts_worksheets/grammar_punctuation_writing/verbs_linking.pdf


The following link will take you to the "Helping Verbs" jingle:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F2JWKY63K0

Need a little brushing up on prepositions?  Check out the following links:


https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/594/01/

http://www.ucalgary.ca/uofc/eduweb/grammar/course/speech/1_5a.htm

http://writingcenter.unlv.edu/writing/prepositions.html


Remember, a preposition shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in a sentence.

Example:  The sound of a jazz band filled the kitchen.
Example:  The music was coming from the radio.

Prepositions can consist of more than one word.  These are called compound prepositions.

Example:  Jazz legend Louis Armstrong sang in addition to playing the trumpet.

Prepositional phrases consist of a preposition and its object and any modifiers of the object. The object of a preposition is the noun or pronoun that follows a preposition.  Prepositional phrases often express relationships of location (by, near), direction (to, down), or time (before, during).


Diagramming Subject Complements (nouns, pronouns, or adjectives that follow linking verbs and 'link' to the subject of the sentence).

The following link will provide practice opportunities for diagramming subject complements.



More on Subject Complements (Predicate Nominatives and Predicate Adjectives)


http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/subjectcomplement.htm


https://www.sinclair.edu/centers/tlc/pub/handouts_worksheets/grammar_punctuation_writing/objects_direct_indirect_and_subject_complements2.pdf

More on Participles and Participial Phrases

The following links will help you to better understand participles and participial phrases.
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participlephrase.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJzCsTYWvHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp7irdH_Btg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na4T8jiAmu4

http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/dangling-participle.html  (dangling participles)

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/597/01/  (dangling participles)

http://www.google.com/?safe=active&ssui=on#q=participles+and+participial+phrases+powerpoint&safe=active&ssui=on

More on Gerunds:

http://www.eslcafe.com/grammar/gerunds_form_and_use01.html

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/gerund.htm

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/01/

http://www.edufind.com/english-grammar/gerund/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RLh2b_GZU24zay8KHOW7XuM1vzKEp_cHTjtJGweD-Dw/edit?usp=sharing  (There are notes on participles and gerunds)











Monday, September 15, 2014

Rambling Autobiography

Students will be writing a rambling autobiography this year.  We will read through the following examples of rambling autobiographies and discuss what we notice about these writing pieces.  The rambling autobiography will lead to students writing a personal narrative.


http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/personal_experience/article/234070/Rambling-Autobiography/

http://misterstephenson.blogspot.com/2011/02/rambling-autobiography.html

http://www.fmschools.org/files/3329/Rambling%20autobiography.pdf

https://sites.google.com/site/laclassedemmelaberge/anglais-1/rambling-autobiography


I love it when students share their writing, so I am always happy to have volunteers who are willing to read their work aloud.  If you want to share your own rambling autobiography with the class, you are welcome to do so.  Keep in mind, you may not necessarily want to write about your deepest and darkest secrets for the entire class to hear, though!  Have fun writing!