Good morning Pre-AP English II!

1. Good morning Pre-AP English II! • As you came in, you should have received your daily “Voice Lessons” packet. • Once you are seated and situated, please open your packet to page xi. • Please read the definition of diction. The definition continues onto page xii. • The sign-in notebook will be passed around, please make sure you sign in.

2. On a sheet of notebook paper, • On one side, number 1-20 • On the other side, number 1-6, and then write “Reading Response.”

3. Diagnostic Test • We want to see what you know. • Please read The Grandfather by Gary Soto, then answer multiple choice questions 1-6. • Then, on your notebook paper, answer the reading response. • When finished, please bring the reading test materials up to the desk, and pick up the writing test. Please answer questions 1-20.

4. Word Power • Begin reading on page xv. • “How to use this book for maximum benefit” • Continue to “Part One: Getting off to a good start.” • Please have read through page 25 by Wednesday. • Your first word power test will be over sessions 1-3, date TBA.

5. Good morning English II students! • When you come in, please have a seat, and find a sheet of paper for bell work. • Please write a well-developed paragraph over the following: • It’s sometimes incredibly boring to listen to other people talk about their dreams, but always incredibly fun to talk about your own. Now’s your chance: Describe your most terrifying nightmare, your recurring dream, and the dream you wish had been real.

6. Sentence or Fragment? • Grammar book page 513 • A sentence is a word group that contains a subject and a verb and that expresses a complete thought. • The weary executive had left her briefcase on the train. • Wait!

7. Sentences • Sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, a question mark, or exclamation point. • However, these qualifications alone do not make a sentence.

8. Sentences vs. fragments

9. Practice Identifying and Correcting Fragments • Exercise 1, page 514 • Some of the following word groups are fragments. If a word group is a fragment, revise it to make a complete sentence. If the word group is already a complete sentence, write C. • Page 531, Exercise A, #’s 1-5

10. Seminar: • Welcome! • When you come in, please make sure you have/get a book, newspaper, or magazine. • SSR happens from 10:40 until 10:55. • Afterward, those that have not completed the handbook test will need to do so.

11. Subjects and predicates • The subject tells whom or what the sentence is about. • The predicate tells something about the subject. • The predicate is usually a verb. • Lightning struck. • Everyone enjoyed reading the story. • The seeds sprouted.

12. Finding the subject • First, find the verb. • Then, a simple way is to ask Who or What after the verb? • The crew of the racing yacht worked hard. • Who worked hard? • Waiting at the harbor was a huge, cheering crowd. • Who was waiting at the harbor?

13. Practice identifying subjects and verbs • Page 519 • Exercise 2 • #’s 1-10 • Identify the subject, and the verb