Good morning Pre-AP!

1. Good morning Pre-AP! • In your voice lessons packet, please turn to page xii, and read the definition for detail. • Once you have done this, please turn to page 25. • Individually, complete the exercise concerning detail. • We will share and discuss in approximately fifteen minutes. • Have fun! 

2. English II Bell work, 08/25 Identify whether each of the following word groups are complete sentences or fragments. Write “sentence” or “fragment.” If the word group is a fragment, please correct it. • What the fastest-growing spectator sport in the United States is. • It is stock car racing, according to NASCAR. • The sport in the 1930’s on dirt tracks in the Southeast. • Did you know that today it’s a two-billion dollar a year industry? • That’s a lot of money!

3. Writing/Grammar Pre-Test • The open response has not yet been graded. • We should have these back to you by next Monday. • Please check your answers as we go over the questions. • You may use a highlighter or marker to make corrections.

4. Verbs • A verb is a word that expresses action, condition, or state of being. • An action verb tells that something is happening, has happened, or will happen. It may describe physical or mental action. • A crowd gathered at the embassy. • A linking verb, sometimes called a state of being verb, links the subject with another word or words in the predicate. • The parking lot appears full.

5. Examples of linking verbs • Forms of be: • Am, is, are, was, were, being, can be, have been • Appear • Become • Feel • Grow • Look • seems

6. Practice finding and identifying the verb. Is it action or linking? • Through the sky streaked a comet with a long, bright tail. • A peacock strutted along the garden path. • Throughout the eighteenth century, Maine was a part of Massachusetts. • Maria whisked the crumbs off the table into her hands. • Pleasant weather seems likely tomorrow.

7. 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.

8. 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?

9. Identify the subject in each sentence. • 1. The men, women, and children of the peasant class lived in terror of these landlord-warriors. • Did anyone in Japan refuse a samurai’s requests? • There they could train their children in the martial arts of ninjutsu. • Hand me the book about Japan and the ninja warriors. • A ninja gained a reputation all over Japan and was feared by the samurai.

10. Where I’m From Poem Assignment • Lyons example • Template

11. Pre-AP • AP analysis strategies • SOAPSTone • Turn to page 14 in your AP handouts

12. What is SOAPSTone? • S- Peaker • O- ccasion • A- udience • P- urpose • S- ubject • Tone • Mostly used to analyze persuasion

13. Speaker • Who is the author? Who is communicating information to the audience? • Could be a person, political party, corporation, government, group of people

14. Occasion • What has constituted the need to address the topic? • Is it a convention? A recent event? Election? Social movement or change? Personal realization?

15. Audience • To whom is the message addressed? • Americans? Female Americans? Teenagers? • Who needs to be convinced of the message?

16. Purpose • What is the author’s purpose? Of what are they trying to convince the audience? • To think a certain way? Join a group? Vote? Buy?

17. Subject • More basic than the message. • What is the topic? Health care? Self-discovery? A hot button issue?

18. Tone • What is speaker’s attitude toward the subject? • See page 15 for words that describe tone.

19. Let’s practice using SOAPSTone! • www.livingroomcandidate.org • ON a sheet of paper, make a chart using SOAPSTone.

20. SOAPSTone chart