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Blog #11–  Weight Lifting

Blog #11–  Weight Lifting. Write your Grammar Book theme at the top of the blog entry. Your goal: _____lbs (pounds) – write on HW Complete practice from your grammar book (p. 21). Add these sentences to your blog.

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Blog #11–  Weight Lifting

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  1. Blog #11– Weight Lifting • Write your Grammar Book theme at the top of the blog entry. • Your goal: _____lbs (pounds) – write on HW • Complete practice from your grammar book (p. 21). Add these sentences to your blog. • Be sure to follow the instructions at the top for underlining and highlighting. • Include the pound weight of the questions you answer & the # of the questions.

  2. You’re not kids anymore…

  3. ...so be like Arnold and PUMP IT UP!

  4. Example: Blog #11 – Weight Lifting Theme: Grammar for Squirrels 3 lbs: 3. Muchin students [S], teachers [S] and advisors [S] are going[V] nuts about the EXPLORE test. (Get it? Squirrels… nuts...)

  5. Blog #12 EXPLORE my future! • 1. What are you doing this weekend to prepare for the EXPLORE & maximize your growth? What skills will you focus on? Where will you get practice? (ex: From searching the wiki? From hackerhandbooks.com/pocket? ) • 2. Why is the EXPLORE important to you personally?

  6. Using the online companion to Diana Hacker’s Pocket Style Manual

  7. Type this website: • hackerhandbooks.com/pocket

  8. Register • At the top of the page, click “Register” • Click “Student”

  9. Enter your school email address & click “Go”

  10. Fill in the “Yes” side information & click “Register”

  11. Be patient while you see this…  (Don’t click) Once this screen comes up, click “Continue”

  12. Getting Started with Practice • Click the appropriate + to open the different rules. (See the next slide to choose your quiz.)

  13. Getting Started with Practice • Which of your “Grammar My Style” chapters was hardest for you? • Click the appropriate section & number below:

  14. Saving your Scores • Click the top link on the next page to save your quiz results.

  15. Enter your teacher’s email, then click “Continue” • dgustafson@noblenetwork.org • vpietrus@noblenetwork.org

  16. Take the Quiz! • There are 10 questions. After you finish each one, click “Submit” to check your answer, then “Continue” again to go to the next question.

  17. Over the Weekend: • Want to study for the EXPLORE? • Need help coming up with good questions for your “Grammar My Style”?? • Want extra credit??? • Complete practice in any category we have covered in class and get credit for your quizzes. Don’t like your score? Take another quiz (or the same one again) to average your scores.

  18. Over the Weekend: • Go to the website (hackerhandbooks.com/pocket) • Click “Log In” at the top so your work is logged

  19. Complete any of the following: • Clarity • Wordy sentences • Shifts: person & number (pronouns) • Shifts:tense (verbs) • Grammar • Subject-verb agreement • Irregular verbs • Verb tense • Pronoun-antecedent agreement • Pronoun reference • Sentence fragments • Run-on sentences • Verb forms & tenses • Punctuation • Major uses / All uses / Misuses of the comma • The semicolon & the comma • The apostrophe

  20. And now, for our Blog of the Week…

  21. Blog #11– Weight Lifting • Write your Grammar Book theme at the top of the blog entry. • Your goal: _____lbs (pounds) – write on HW • Complete practice from your grammar book (p. 21). Add these sentences to your blog. • Be sure to follow the instructions at the top for underlining and highlighting. • Include the pound weight of the questions you answer & the # of the questions.

  22. You’re not kids anymore…

  23. ...so be like Arnold and PUMP IT UP!

  24. Example: Blog #11 – Weight Lifting Theme: Grammar for Squirrels 3 lbs: 3. Muchin students [S], teachers [S] and advisors [S] are going[V] nuts about the EXPLORE test. (Get it? Squirrels… nuts...)

  25. Blog #12 EXPLORE my future! • 1. What are you doing this weekend to prepare for the EXPLORE & maximize your growth? What skills will you focus on? Where will you get practice? (ex: From searching the wiki? From hackerhandbooks.com/pocket? ) • 2. Why is the EXPLORE important to you personally?

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