Warm-ups

1. Warm-ups 9 January 2012

2. 8th Grade, Monday • Please come in, sit down quietly, retrieve your journal from the front of the room, and correct the following in your warm-up journal. • “Paul Revere’s Ride,” one of the best loved poems in American Literature, begins “listen, my children, and you shall hear.” • It’s speaker is an old person who remembers the American revolution. • Skills practiced: Use of hyphen with compound adjective, capitalization of the first word in a line of poetry, correction of commonly confused words, capitalization of name of historical event.

3. 7th Grade, Monday • Please come in, sit down quietly, retrieve your journal from the front of the room, and correct the following in your warm-up journal. • The poem The Village Blacksmith made Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famous. • This here poem is real long, but it is easy to read. • Skills practiced: Use of quotation marks with the title of a poem, avoiding here and there after a demonstrative adjective, use of adverb to modify adjective.

4. 8th Grade, Wednesday • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • Throughout “Paul Revere’s ride,” Longfellow keeps up a pounding beat with four stressed syllables in each line. Echoing the sound of hoofbeats. • Longfellows galloping rhythm helps give the poem excitement and power. • Skills practiced: capitalization of important words in a title, correction of sentence fragment, correct use of apostrophe to show possession.

5. 8th Grade, Thursday • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • Longfellow growed up hearing Revere’s story, born more than thirty years after Paul Revere made his ride. • He added some details to create suspense and drama. He rearranged other details to create suspense and drama. • Skills practiced: correction of misplaced phrase, correct past form of irregular verb, combining sentences to eliminate redundancy.

6. 8th Grade, Friday • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • On the night of April 18 1775 there was actually three riders. • Because Paul Revere was stopped by British soldiers and Williams Dawes fell off his horse, dr. Samuel Prescott only reached Concord. • Skills practiced: use of comma after the day and year in a date, subject and verb agreement, capitalization of title before person’s name, correction of misplaced modifier.

7. 7th Grade, Wednesday • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • The blacksmith is more stronger then the other people in the town. • The poem starts with the words “under a spreading chestnut tree.” • Skills practiced: correction of double comparison, correction of commonly confused words, capitalization of first word in a line of poetry.

8. 7thGrade, Thursday • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • The blacksmith work from morning until night he never take a break. • After working all day, a rest was what the blacksmith had earned. • Skills practiced: subject and verb agreement, use of semicolon to correct run-on sentence, correction of dangling modifier.

9. 7th Grade, Friday • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • In the poem they had some sad lines. • The blacksmith is kind and decent and also has courage. • Skills practiced: correction of they and you without a clear antecedent, correction of faulty parallel structure.