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Foundations of Language Arts Week 14 Agenda. Monday: Computer Lab -- Essay Tuesday: Fragments/Run-on Wednesday: Vocabulary Building Thursday: Reading Test # 5 Friday: MPR. NEW Seating Chart – Language Arts 7 th Period. Ramadan & Yonis Aisha & Abdullahi Abdullahi Abdirisaq & Hafsa
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Foundations of Language ArtsWeek 14 Agenda • Monday: Computer Lab -- Essay • Tuesday: Fragments/Run-on • Wednesday: Vocabulary Building • Thursday: Reading Test # 5 • Friday: MPR
NEW Seating Chart – Language Arts 7th Period • Ramadan & Yonis • Aisha & AbdullahiAbdullahi • Abdirisaq &Hafsa • Salma S. & Jabir • Volunteer #1 (walking around) Front/Teacher’s Desk Front/Door • Muna & Abdulqadir • Zakariye & Fatma • Kamal • Abdikarim & Asha • Abdijabar & Idil • Abdikalik & Habso • Abdullahi Farah & Saynab • Salma Y & Ayanle • Volunteer #2 (walking around)
Monday:Computer LabEdit your work for: Punctuation & Capitalization errorsAt LEAST 4-8 sentences per paragraphAdd sentence varietyAsk questions! You have Me and three volunteers!E-mail Me your finished 1strough draft.
A sentence fragment is a group of words that don’t state a complete thought.Sometimes a fragment is missing a subject, and sometimes a verb. Other times, afragment has a subject and a verb, but the thought still isn’t complete.
These are Fragments • Took the books. • My mom and dad. • A puppy crying in Matt’s backyard.
Completing the Fragments Carlos took the books. Now we know who took the books. My mom and dad bought a new car. Now we know what my mom and dad bought A puppy is crying in Matt’s backyard. Now the sentence has a complete verb.
Sometimes a writer makes a fragment look like a complete sentence. The writer starts the fragment with a capital letter and ends it with a period, but the fragment is still a fragment.It does not express a complete thought.
Make these fragments into sentences: • Wrote a long letter to Granddad. • To the store on the corner. • Forgot his sister’s birthday. Think about what is missing in each fragment. What you could add to make each fragment a complete sentence ?
A run-on is two or more sentences put together without the correct punctuation or capitalization. A reader cannot tell where one sentence ends and the next one begins.
Rafael is watching television his sister is going skating. This is a run-on sentence. It is two sentences put together. One sentence tells about Rafael. The other sentence tells about his sister. There is no punctuation between the two sentences, and there is no capital letter to show where the second sentence begins.
How can we rewrite the sentence? Write two sentences: • Rafael is watching television. His sister is going skating. Use a conjunction to connect the sentences • Rafael is watching television, but his sister is going skating.
Which of these are run-on sentences ? Make the run–on a grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence is correct, write correct. 1. My cousin works at the mall she sells jewelry. 2. Frankie went to the movies on Saturday. 3. My friend Caleb has a pet snake its name is Emerald. 4. Leo can’t play outside today it is raining. 5. We have a soccer field on our school playground. 6. Bats hang upside down they do this when they sleep.
10 mins: Worksheet on fragments & run-ons • Go through as a class. • Hand it in before you leave!
Get into groups for vocab game! • Saynab • Fatma • Abdullahi F. • Abdirisaq • Yonis • Salma S. • Abdijabar • Abdikarim • Ayanle • Habso • Muna • Zakariye • Asha • Aisha • Ramadan • Abdullahi A. • Salma Y. • Idil • Jabir • Abdikalik • Kamal
15 minutes: Game on words • Website: http://www.vocabulary.com/ • When I say “Time” hold up your answer (A,B, C, or D). • I’ll use the majority answer to answer it online. • Write down the word and definitions on a separate piece of paper.
Separate into two groups: Those of you who haven’t emailed me your 1st draft, and those who have. • Haven’t: come with me & the volunteers to the computer lab. • This is your THIRD and final chance to e-mail me. Otherwise, you need to e-mail me on your own or it turns to a zero by Friday. • Have: stay here with Sister Amena and create BINGO cards for the new words we learned.
Friday: Current Events Day! • Every Friday for the next few weeks selected students will share something they read in the news or heard about. • Next Friday these students will share something (be prepared with a one-two paragraph summary of your headline): • Salma S. • Ramadan • Zak • Ayanle • Habso • Read some headlines & listen to a MPR podcast: • http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/12/06/politics/fiscal-cliff-lobby/?refid=0&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MPR_NewsFeatures+%28News+%26+Features+from+Minnesota+Public+Radio%29 • Take notes while you listen to the podcast! Turn in for credit. • Play trivia on current events! • http://www.newseum.org/newsmania/