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SAT PrEP …oh yeah!. AVID III Spring 2012. Advisory. Work on anything due today or tomorrow! Practice SAT words and hand motions. Do Now: Paragraph Practice. “It’s not about how fast you get there, its not about what’s waiting on the other side. Its about the climb” -Miley Cirus
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SAT PrEP…oh yeah! AVID III Spring 2012
Advisory • Work on anything due today or tomorrow! • Practice SAT words and hand motions
Do Now: Paragraph Practice • “It’s not about how fast you get there, its not about what’s waiting on the other side. Its about the climb” -Miley Cirus • Connect this quote to your own beliefs on hard work. • Use the Hamburger method • Introduce your quote in a complete sentence using MAT.
Agenda • Do Now • SAT Vocabulary • Hook • Identifying Sentence Errors • Human Sentences • Practice Questions • Exit Ticket
SAT Vocabulary: • New Words of the Week • Grab an index card!
Identifying Sentence Errors • Why? • To make sure we’re principled and good communicators! • Success on this section is imperative so we can be college-ready writers!
That Tricky SAT… • There are several tricks the SAT attempts to throw at you in the “Identifying Sentence Errors” section. • Parallelism, Dangling Participles, Subject/Verb and Pronoun Agreement all are tricksthat we’re going to cover today. • The easiest way to combat or the secret these is to think of “balancing your sentence”.(Just like balancing an equation in math!).
Parallelism • What is it? • Using similar structures or “patterns” in a sentence • For example: Jose had to choose between watching TV or doing his homework. • (Both sides use –ing) • Here’s an incorrect sentence: • Sean had to choose between his brother’s baseball game and going to his girlfriend’s recital: • How do we fix it? BALANCE IT!
The Right Answer… • Sean had to choose between his brother’s baseball game and his girlfriend’s recital. • Why? • Going isn’t used in the first part of the sentence. • Therefore, it’s not parallel and we need to take “going” out
Check! • What is this type of sentence? • I wanted to sleep in or spend the day playing video games. • What’s wrong with it? How do we know? • How do we fix it?
Dangling Participles • Participles are verb forms that function as adjectives (adjectives describe a noun). • In present tense (happening NOW), participles end in “-ing”. For example, She is laughing, I am teaching. • Past tense participles end in –ed, en, or –t (cooked, washed, broken, written, burnt)
Example Sentence • I thought my mom was calling my name. (who’s calling your name?) • Always ask WHO or WHAT is doing the action? It needs to come right before the adjective! • Incorrect Sentence: • I thought I heard a strange rattle driving my car. • Who was driving the car? (Me, not the rattle!) • Correct: Driving my car, I thought I heard a strange rattle.
Check! • What is this type of sentence? • Staring blankly, the computer screen flickered while Joanna sat at her desk. • What’s wrong with it? How do we know? • How do we fix it?
Correct Pronoun Agreement • Pronouns replace nouns. • The noun pronoun replaces is called the antecedent. • Pronouns are “his, her, their, its,etc” • Example sentence: • Everything we do, we do it for you. (pronouns are balanced)
Examples • Incorrect Sentence: • Much of what we did this summer with our friends was not planned, but undertaken thanks to his encouragement. • What’s wrong? (we and our do not match with “his”. Who is HE anyway?) • Corrected Sentence: • Much of what we did this summer with our friends was not planned, but undertaken thanks to their encouragement.
Check! • What do we have to watch out for? • He wanted one, but they were not ready. • How do we fix it?
Subject/Verb Agreement • Subject and Verb Agreement is the trickiest of them all! • We know that the Subject, or the who of the sentence, but be in balance with the “what” or the action (the verb). • Singular must match singular, and plural must match plural!
Examples • Correct Sentence: • The bright fiberglass scriptures of Luis Jimenez have received critical acclaim not only in his home state, New Mexico, but also In New York. • (Scriptures and Have are both plural) • Incorrect Sentence: • The funny student of Ms. Lamphier do not have time to go to the movies. • How do we fix it? (student matches with…DOES)
Check! • What’s the trickiest of them all? • Ice skating, with its emphasis on technique, artistry, and discipline are one of the most demanding sports. • What’s wrong with this sentence? How do we fix it?
Last.. • Always check ALL the answer choices to make sure they are correct. • Make sure each of the answer choices is “balanced” with the rest of the sentence.
Your Turn!! • Identify the error in each of your sentences on your group’s sentence strips. ( 4 strips, one for each type of error) • Fix the sentence. • Prepare a rationale for how you fixed the error and why. • Take 5 minutes!
Independent Practice • Practice Questions • These are TRICKY! Be CAREFUL!! • Write a corrected sentence in the right margin.
Exit Ticket • Complete the exit ticket! • Write the corrected sentence in the margin. • Keep up the AWESOME WORK!!