LAMP English

1. LAMP English Opening Assignments

2. Making Inferences • (Always title and date your O.A.) On your paper: • Read the notes about making inferences and drawing conclusions. (These can be found in your O.A. folder on the cabinet. • Answer the following: • Write the definition for inference as a statement (i.e. To make an inference means…)

3. Making Inferences #2 Every day after work Paul took his muddy boots off on the steps of the front porch. Alice would have a fit if the boots made it so far as the welcome mat. He then took off his dusty overalls and threw them into a plastic garbage bag; Alice left a new garbage bag tied to the porch railing for him every morning. On his way in the house, he dropped the garbage bag off at the washing machine and went straight up the stairs to the shower as he was instructed. He would eat dinner with her after he was “presentable,” as Alice had often said. 1. Make an inference: what type of job does Paul work? ____________________________________________________ 2.) How do you know this?

4. Making Inferences #3 • Read the passage “Social Networking Sites- the Good, the Bad, the Ugly.” It’s in your O.A. folder! • Answer the two multiple choice questions. Write the question and your complete answer. DO NOT WRITE ON THE PASSAGE. • Remember to title and date your O.A.

5. Making Inferences #4 • During the California Gold Rush of 1849, the world’s supply of gold more than doubled, and hundreds of thousands of people rushed to California to find their share. Boomtowns popped up to accommodate the visitors. A boomtown is a community that receives sudden and explosive growth and development. San Francisco had around two-hundred residents in 1846, and about 36,000 in 1852. The few merchants in these boomtowns sold goods for more than ten times what they cost back East. For example, a single pound of flour sold for as much as $17. Not everyone who joined in the California Gold Rush got rich, but most of the boomtown merchants did. 1. Make an inference: Why were boomtown merchants able to sell their products for so much money?   2. How do you know this?

6. Inference Quiz -On a clean sheet of paper, write you name, the date, number it 1-4, and title it – Inference Quiz

8. Word Crimes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

9. There, Their, They’re • There – to show location • Their – possession – belonging to • They’re – contraction of They + are • Write the notes from above. Use each correctly in a sentence about babies.

10. its OR it’s • its: belongs to/possession • it’s: contraction of it + is Write the notes from above. Use each correctly in a sentenceabout a lost dog.

11. TO / TWO / TOO • Two : number • To: • Preposition (location) • Before the verb of an infinitive • Too: • Also • show excessiveness • USE THEM ALL IN SEPARATE SENTENCES! YOU SHOULD HAVE 3 SENTENCES! • Also, please notice how “separate” is spelled above. Learn it. There is “a rat” in the middle of it.

12. Your vs. You’re • Your: possessive • You’re : contraction of you + are Write the notes from above and use each in a sentence about manners.

13. EFFECT VS. AFFECT • Effect is a noun • Affect is a verb Write the example. Then make a sentence of your own for each word.