Monday, November 5

1. Monday, November 5 Copy into your Relay Section: The DIRECT OBJECT A DO is a noun or a pronoun A DO completes the meaning of the sentence A DO is located after a transitive verb To find the DO ask “What?” or “Whom?” after the verb John passed Tim the book in English class. IO DO

2. November 6, 2012—Journal Writing Today is election day. Some believe it is a constitutional right of all who can vote should vote. In Jonas’s world they no longer have elections, the Committee determines everyone’s fate in life. There are few choices. Think about your life. Do you feel you have choices? Do you feel you have power in your opinion? Do you feel safe to express your thoughts? Do you have the right to gather as a group for religious purposes? After thinking about how significant today is in the lives of millions, including your own, write a few lines into your relay section expressing how you view your life as an American. Were the freedoms worth the fight or would it be easier to just have “sameness”?

3. November 7, 2012--Copy into your RELAY section: Indirect Object (IO) • An IO is a noun or a pronoun • An IO always comes between the transitive verb and the DO • To find the IO ask “To Whom or What?” or “For whom or what?” after finding the DO • The IO receives what the DO names • An IO means someone or something different from the DO

5. November 8, 2012 Copy into your RELAY section When writing sentences, the subject and verb have to agree in number (singular/plural) and tense. You must ask yourself is the verb referring to the past, present, or future? (yesterday, today, or tomorrow)

6. November 9, 2012 Copy the following sentence into your relay section and label every word in the sentence as to its part of speech. YOU ONLY NEED TO COPY THE SENTENCE: above each word, use the following abbreviations to label its part of speech N=noun ADJ=adjective V=verb ADV=adverb P=preposition CONJ=conjunction P=Pronoun INT=interjection A person can also see in low light because the pupil enlarges.

7. MAJOR project is due today…3 different parts…3 different grades… signed report cards ?????November 12, 2012 • A modifier is a word or a group of words used to modify or limit the meaning of another word. EXAMPLES: He is a wealthy man. We need skilled men. He was a short, square-built old fellow.

8. November 13, 2012 Write each verb from the following paragraph. Label each verb/verb phrase as present, past, or future tense. Jonas reached the opposite side of the river, stopped briefly, and looked back. The community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him.

9. November 14, 2012--Wednesday GRADE last weeks RELAY…so if you never completed it, you need to get a dictionary and do it NOW. You have five minutes. A person can also see in low light because the pupil enlarges.

10. -5 for every one left blank or incorrectly labeled. A ADJ=article/adjective Person N=noun Can V=verb Also ADV=adverb See V=verb In P= preposition Low ADJ=adjective Light N=noun Because CONJ=conjunction The ADJ=article/adjective Pupil N=noun Enlarges V=verb

11. November 15, 2012Write in your relay section:STUDY FOR YOUR MAJOR EXAM

12. November 16, 2012--Friday Holidays offer an opportunity for people to relax and celebrate the life given to them; however, for some it is just another day of sameness. Jonas never received a Thanksgiving memory. If you could transfer a memory to him, what would your memory be? Just dive in, and pretend you are editing a new version of the novel. You write the paragraph using your version.