Warm-ups

1. Warm-ups Week of Jan. 23, 2012

2. Monday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • The event probably did not happen quite like Whittier told it, although Barbara Frietchie had been a real person. • She did wave the flag but apparently she waved it at the Union troops, not at General Stonewall Jackson. • Skills practiced: correct use of conjunction as, verb tense compatibility, use of comma before coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.

3. Tuesday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • Whether literally true or isn’t, the story of Barbara Frietchie makes a point about standing up for ones beliefs. • The old woman be a symbol of courage, patriotism, and justice. • Skills practiced: elimination of faulty parallel construction, use of apostrophe to show possession, correct use of verb to be.

4. Wednesday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • You can visit Barbara Frietchie’s house at 154 West Patrick St Frederick Maryland. • Today, it’s one of many museums that attract visitors. • Skills practiced: use of period with abbreviation, correct use of commas with address in a sentence, subject and verb agreement.

5. Thursday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • O Captain, My Captain is a dirge, or funeral poem, wrote by Walt Whitman. • Whitman experienced the Civil War firsthand and wrote many poems about it. The poems were vivid and moving. • Skills practiced: use of quotation marks with title of poem, correct past participle of irregular verb, combining sentences.

6. Friday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • From 1863 to 1865 Walt Whitman was an army nurse, caring for sick and dying soldiers in a hospital in Washington, D.C.. • He wrote newspaper articles to get money to buy necessitys for the wounded men. • Skills practiced: use of comma after introductory prepositional phrase, correct end punctuation in sentence ending in abbreviation, correction of spelling: base words with final y.

7. Monday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • The highwaymen, who people feared, waited on the side of the road. • The highwayman in this poem is a dashing romantic figure. • Skills practiced: correct pronoun case, use of comma with coordinate adjectives.

8. Tuesday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • The two main characters in the poem, the outlaw and Bess. • People here the highwayman riding through the night. This is a regular occurrence. • Skills practiced: correction of sentence fragment, correction of commonly confused words, combining sentences.

9. Wednesday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • Bess loves the highwayman. She is the landlord’s black eyed daughter. • She waits anxious for him every night. • Skills practiced: use of appositives to combine sentences, use of hyphen with compound adjective, use of adverb to modify adjective.

10. Thursday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • Edgar Allan Poe is the author of the poem annabel lee. • Poe 1809-1849 was born in Boston and had a hard life. • Skills practiced: capitalization of important words in a title, use of quotation marks with title of a poem, correct use of parentheses.

11. Friday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • The first line of the poem “Annabel Lee” is “it was many and many a year ago.” • Annabel Lee was loved by the speaker very much. • Skills practiced: capitalization of first word in a line of poetry, use of active voice to improve style.