Monday, September 22, 2008

10 BONUS POINTS!

To earn 10 bonus test points have your parent initial your grammar class notes. Notes are complete and ready for initialing when they have skill definitions, examples, are dated and titled with the grammar skill.

Grammar Skill
7th grade - Subject Verb Agreement
6th grade - Transitive and Intransitive Verbs, Helping Verbs
5th grade Verb Tense and Irregular Verbs
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

New Testing Dates

All test scheduled for Monday will be postponed until later in the week.

The testing schedule is as follows:

Seventh Grade will test on Friday, September 26
Verb tense (Perfect Tense and Subject/Verb Agreement)

Fifth Grade will test on Thursday, September 25
Verb tense, Regular and Irregular verbs

Sixth Grade will test on Wednesday, September 24
Helping Verbs, Transitive and Intransitive Verbs (Linking Verbs)

The homework for this week in all grades will consist of skills related to the test. In addition to the homework assignments, continue to review and study for upcoming test.
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Sentence Structure Unit

Sentence Structure Unit November - December

Our new Language Arts unit is sentence structure. Students will explore the various forms of sentence structure such as simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compund-complex sentences. The unit will begin with understanding subject and predicate and writing simple sentences, then progress to compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.

Our Georgia Standards Focus
5th grade ELA5C1
6th grade ELA6C1
7th grade ELAC1

Sentence Structure Definitions

  • Complex Sentence - is a sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate(dependent) clauses.
  • Compound Sentence - contains two independent clauses
  • Sentence - word or group of words that have a subject and a predicate and express a complete thought
  • Simple Sentence - contains one independent clause
  • Complete Subject - ALL the words that tell who or what the sentence is about
  • Simple Subject - the main word or words that tell who or what the sentence is about
  • Complete Predicate - the verb and ALL the words that describe the verb and complete the sentence meaning
  • Simple Predicate - the word or words that tell what the subject is doing. The simple predicate is the VERB

Don't be fooled by a Subordinate (dependent clause)

Subordinate (dependent) Clause

A subordinate clause does not express a complete though and cannot stand alone as a sentence.

Subordinate clauses DEPEND on an independent clause to make a sentence and express a complete thought.

BE CAREFUL subordinate clauses can contain a subject and predicate.

Parts of Speech Unit

Parts of Speech Unit September - November
Since the beginning of school we have been working on parts of speech. This is a lengthy skill, where each grade level has a different aspect of the eight parts of speech to focus on. The depth and complexity of the skill depends on the grade. Please follow our journey through parts of speech at http://www.georgiastandards.org/ The website will give you a description of the standard and the topics covered. We are are projected to complete parts of speech by November. The unit will end with a parts of speech performance assessment.
Our current Georgia Standard focus
5th grade ELA5C1
6th grade ELA6C1
7th grade ELA7C1
The next unit for all grades will be Sentence Structure

End of Year Project

Students have the option of making a powerpoint of their end of the year project. All powerpoints must be mailed to jada.byron@imagineschools.com

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