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Bell-ringer Activity: Appositives

Copy the following definition of an appositive An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. Copy the following phrases and underline the appositives: 1. The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table.

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Bell-ringer Activity: Appositives

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  1. Copy the following definition of an appositive • An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. • Copy the following phrases and underline the appositives: • 1. The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table. • 2. A hot-tempered tennis player, Robbie charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man’s skull with a racket. Bell-ringer Activity: Appositives

  2. 1. What is an appositive in a sentence? • 2. Why do writers add appositives to their sentences? • Add appositives to the following sentences. • 1. Billy scored three touchdowns in the second quarter of the game. • 2. My car is a heap of junk. • 3. My history teacher loves to read science-fiction. Bell-ringer activity: appositives

  3. Announcements: • You will have a quiz on poetry March 4th(Monday) • Agenda: • Today: poetry analysis = form Announcements and Agenda

  4. Poetic Elements Writing prompt: Respond to the following writing prompt in your notebooks by listing three phrases. Why is poetry written?

  5. Why is poetry written? Class discussion

  6. Poetry is the art of expressing one’s thoughts in verse • It uses few words to convey its message. • It is meant to be read aloud. • Poetry evokes our emotions.

  7. Poems use imagery or figures of speech to explain feelings or to create a mental picture or idea. • Such imagery and figures of speech suggest action or mood. • Many poems have a specific rhyme scheme. • Poems can rhyme or not rhyme.

  8. Draw three large columns on one page into your notebooks. • Make them large The Meaning of a Poem

  9. 1. Ms. Stokes, please read the poem aloud • 2. Students: read the poem to yourself again • 3. Answer the attached questions in either groups of two or (independently) Maxine Kumin’s “Morning Swim”

  10. Write five sentences of your own containing appositives. • 1. • 2. • 3. • 4. Bell-ringer activity: appositives

  11. Bell-ringer: review of vocabulary

  12. Objective: identify the following vocabulary words by filling the blanks. Identify the definition. These are the words that will be on your vocabulary quiz one week from today: • _ _ _ _ain Definition: _____________________________ 2. B_ _ _ _ _ Definition: __________________________ 3. En_ _ _ _ _ _ Definition: _________________________ 4. _ _ _ _ _ _ _th Definition: ________________________ 5. _ _ce_ _ _ _ _ _ Definition: ________________________ 6. T_ _g_ _ _ _ • Definition: _______________________________ Bell-ringer: review of vocabulary

  13. Using the word bank below, match the correct vocabulary word to its sentence using context clues. • COPY EACH SENTENCE FOR FULL CREDIT! A. Abrasive: rough; coarse; harsh B. Abstain: desist; go without; withdraw C. Billow: swelling; fluttering; waving D. Credulous: gullible; ready to believe anything E. Enshroud: cover 1. All of a sudden the village was __________ in fog. 2. Avoid using ____________________sponges or scouring creams: you could permanently damage your new entertainment center. 3.Sam sold miracle cures to desperate and _______ clients. Bell-ringer: vocab review

  14. Bell-ringer Activity: vocab review. Copy the sentence and the correct answer

  15. Copy the following and complete each definition or sentence with the correct vocabulary word. • 1. To have a deep cut on your arm or leg is to have a _____________ • 2. To hurry or quicken in step is to _______________________ • 3. To believe anything especially fortune tellers is to be __________. • 4. Corn mazes at Fall festivals can be amazing ____________ if skillfully put together. • 5. Miss Handford’s desk is full of ______________ items: there’s a vase of flowers, a folder, a sewing kit and a hotdog! • 6. It’s important to __________ from speeding on the highway otherwise you will get a ticket! • 7. Johnny is always going off on random __________ that have nothing to do with the topic of conversation. • 8. To be coarse is to be _____________ • 9. To completely cover is to ____________ • 10. to flutter in the wind is to _____________ Bell-ringer: final vocab review

  16. Correct these sentences IF they are a sentence fragment. Identify what they are missing: subject, predicate, complete thought. 1. Liked clothes that were half one color and half another. 2.Was a way of displaying wealth. 3. So I was scared. 4. And I couldn’t breathe. 5. Anthony loved eating Snickers bars. Bell-ringer: review of sentence fragments

  17. Bell-ringer Activity: Ambiguous Pronouns

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