Warm-ups

1. Warm-ups Week of 13 Feb. 2012

2. Monday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • Hughes was born in Missouri and growed up in Kansas. • After years of study at New York City’s columbia university, he goes to sea as a merchant seaman and sailed to Europe and Africa. • Skills practiced: correct past form of irregular verb, use of apostrophe with time phrase, capitalization of name of institution, verb tense compatibility

3. Tuesday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • Before he was reconnized as a poet Hughes held many different jobs. • He worked as a ranch hand a teacher a farmer and a nightclub cook. • Skill practiced: correction of misspelled word, use of comma after introductory adverb clause, use of commas in a series

4. Wednesday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • Hughes putted his work experiences to use in poems that expressed the hopes and dreams of ordinary hard-working African Americans. • Into his poetry he wove the rhythms of African American music. The kinds of African American music he used were jazz and the blues. • Skills practiced: correct past form of irregular verb, use of comma with coordinate adjectives, combining sentences

5. Thursday, 8th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues 1926 won him a wide audience. • It established him as a major figure in the harlem renaissance, a period of great creativity among African American writers in New York City in the 20’s. • Skills practiced: correct use of apostrophe to show possession, correct use of parentheses, use of commas around an appositive, capitalization of name of historic period, use of apostrophe to show part of date has been omitted.

6. Monday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • “Fog” is a very short poem it has only 6 lines. • The first line of the poem is “the fog comes in on little cat feet.” • Skills practiced: use of semicolon between main clauses without a conjunction, spelling out numbers under one hundred, capitalization of first word in a line of poetry

7. Tuesday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • Sandburg uses figurative language to make his point. Figurative language is the use of words that are not meant to be taken literally. • Sandburg make a comparison between fog and a cat. • Skills practiced: use of appositive to combine sentences, subject and verb agreement

8. Wednesday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • The fog is over the harbor. • Makes the poem vivider. • Skills practiced: use of vivid word to improve style, correction of sentence fragment, correct comparative form of an adjective

9. Thursday, 7th Grade • Please come in, sit down quietly, and correct the following sentences. • The fog drifts in, looks of the harbor, and then is moving on. • I like Sandburg’s poems. My friends like Sandburg’s poems. • Skills practiced: elimination of faulty parallel structure, correct spelling: ie/ei, combining sentences