Team Quizlets for Grammar Games VIII

Here are your team’s 5-question quizlets.  Answer them on your GG8 team tallies and hand them in on Thursday, October 23, at the beginning of class. 

 

English 26, Section 8107, 9:00AM class team quizlets

 

Team:  BLOMS-J

Lesson plan:  Subject-verb and pronouns agreements

Members:  Brenda, Lizbeth, Samuel, Oscar, Melissa, Skyann, Jose

 

1.     Barbara went to the tore and they didn’t buy anything.

        Barbara and Samantha went to the store and they bought chips.

2.     People went to the concert, they went home late.

3.     Sam and Jack went to the concert.  They got home late.

4.     Everything made her blush while she read.

5.     Many people in Europe speak several languages.

 

Team:  The Fantastics

Lesson plan:  Parallelisms in comparison/contrast sentences and lists

Members:  Talia, Crystal, Anna, Daisy, Kenneth, Emmanuel, Leslie

 

1.     Congress needs to either reduce spending or raise taxes.

2.     You need to work quickly and decisively.

3.     The escaped man was wanted dead or alive.

4.     My mom wanted to eat, rest, and reading before the day ended.

5.     I was going to do some read before going to school.

 

Team:  Elf

Lesson plan:  Run-ons and comma splices

Members:  Edwin, Elba, Santa, Eduardo, Karen, Maria, Michelle

 

1.     I had fun this weekend I went to the park.

2.     The theme park was expensive there was a lot of kids running around.

3.     I jumped out of the plane; I almost forgot to put on my parachute.

4.     Todd jumped in front of a train believing he was invincible. 

5.     The Dodgers lost, I cried extremely loudly.

 

Team:  X-Men

Lesson plan:  Fragments such as dependent clauses and describing phrases 

Members:  Gerardo, Hubirasi, Vanessa, Kimberly, Carla, Jose, Yuriana

 

1.     Athough he was sick.  Bob still went to school. 

2.     As I was walking.  I saw the bus pass by.

3.     For dogs that are ill.  The received free shots from the vet.

4.     Since she was a child.  She loved to dance.

5.     But they only accepted cash.  I was going to pay with a credit card.

 

Team:  Fo-Hunnits

Lesson plan:  Prepositions and their phrases

Members:  Karen, Jonathan, Alvaro, Amairani, Joan, Alicia, Yefree, Pedro

 

1.     Karen Lopez was born in 1995 in Los Angeles in the country known as California.

2.     John was injured in a car accident, and Alvaro began to replace him as a teacher.

3.     Jonathan was playing in the front yard with his dog when a stranger appeared above him in the tree.

4.     The couple in the house beside ours fight loudly.

5.     While Dr. Song was playing street football, she threw the football underneath the car.

 

 

English 26, Section 8107, 9:00AM class team quizlets

 

Team:  Wolf Pack

Lesson plan:  Fragments such as dependent clauses and describing phrases 

Members:  Jose, Natalie, Mayra, Hector, Iker, Teresa, Alexandra

 

1.     What are the most common types of fragments?  (4 types)

2.     What are three dependent-words?

3.     After a careless driver hit my motorcycle.  Is this a fragment?  Yes or no?

4.     To express a complete thought and not become a fragment, what do you need?

5.     Underline the dependent-word fragment:  Whenever I spray deodorant, my cat arches her back.  She think she is hearing a hissing enemy.

 

Team:  Lucky 8

Lesson plan:  Subject-verb and pronouns agreements

Members:  Ashley, Angel, Gilberto, Luis, Claribel, Ebony, Marihtza, Jennifer

 

1.     The Prime Minister, together with his wife, (greets, greet) the press cordially.

2.     Mathematics (is, are) John’s favorite subject while Civics (is, are) Andrea’s favorite subject.

3.     There (was, were) fifteen candles in that bag.

4.     Everybody in this class has completed (his or her, their) homework already.

5.     No one on this bus seems to know (their, his or her) way around this part of New York City.

 

Team:  10:35

Lesson plan:  Misplaced modifiers and dangling modifiers

Members:  Paulina, Jose, Joana, Crystal, Felipe, Priscilla, Jandely, Stephan

 

1.     George couldn’t drive to work in his sport car with a broken leg.

2.                                                               are descriptive words that open a sentence but do not describe what the author intended them to describe.

3.     Boring and silly, I turned the television show off.

4.     Wearing his bathrobe, my grandfather prepared breakfast for his family.

5.                                                              , because of awkward placement, do not describe what the author intended them to describe.

 

Team:  Never Shout Never

Lesson plan:  Prepositions and their phrases

Members:  Vanessa, Norma, Stacy, Carmen, Eduardo, Jasmine, Arthur, Elizabeth

 

1.     The police car chased the robber through the street.

2.     Name eight preposition phrases.

3.     Don’t forget to bring some flowers with you.

4.     You can look up the word in the dictionary.

5.     Carmen was born in 1993.

 

Team:  Freedom Writers

Lesson plan:  Run-ons and comma splices

Members:  Joshua, Enriqueta, Kathia, Angel, Brizell, David, Ana Maria

 

1.     Three ways to correct run-ons are:

2.     It was a beautiful day there was not a could in the sky.

3.     I go to school my brother stays home.

4.     Since I got my smart phone I spend too much time texting my friends I hardly send emails.

5.     What is the most used punctuation that students use to correct a run-on?

 

PCW III: Causal Factors Essay

 

FD2 “Causal factors” packet due Thursday, October 31.

•  No RD1/FD1 packet will be accepted without a RD, a PCW and a FD.  All three components must be included to be accepted on the due date.
• Extra credit is awarded for packets that have officially stamped/signed slips from the Writing Support Center (either with individual tutors or attendance of workshops).

Unity:  What’s your partner’s thesis?  Is it the dominating idea throughout the entire essay?  Are essentially all sentences committed to backing up the thesis?  Read your partner’s introduction paragraph and answer the questions below.

1.  What is your partner’s event?

2.  What is your partner’s thesis statement?  In other words, WHY did your partner choose to investigate this particular event?  Answer in complete and grammatically-correct sentences.  Be as helpful as you can with your input for your partner.

3.  On a scale between 1 to 10, rate how interesting this introduction is.  Circle your choice. 

4.  Offer at least three suggestions (in complete and grammatically-correct sentences) on how to make the introduction more interesting.

 

Support:  What are your partner’s CAUSAL FACTORS?  Are these truly REASONS that lead up to the event?  Make sure they are NOT effects of the event!

5.  What are your partner’s FIVE causal factors (aka supporting reasons, aka topic sentences)?  If you cannot find FIVE causal factors, chat with your partner and write them below in complete and grammatically-correct sentences.

 

Coherence:  Organization.  The more the organized, the clearer the essay becomes.  Two different ways of organizing – time ordering and emphatic ordering. 

6.  Discuss with your partner what her/his THREE strongest causal factors are.  Circle those them above and number from 1 to 3 as to which order they will be written in the final draft.

7.  Did your partner provide convincing examples with adequate details that illustrate her/his supporting reason (aka step)?  Ask your partner for even more details that would make the example stronger.

Reason #            : 

A great example that really demonstrates the cause of the event is: 

Suggestion(s) on how to make this example even better: 

 

GPS:  Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling.  Rate each problematic on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 indicating it to be a big problem and 1 indicating it to be a lesser problem.

                          Sentence fragments

                          Comma splice run-ons

                          Fused sentence run-ons

                          Subject-verb agreement

                          Verb tense usage

                          Transition usage

 

MLA Format:  Which of the formatting guidelines does your partner need to fix before turning the polished FD1?

                          One-inch margins for the top, bottom, left and right margins.

                          Your Name, Class / Assignment / Date (see below) at the top left corner.

                          EVERYTHING MUST BE DOUBLE-SPACED.

                          All text must be in Times New Roman and in 12-point font.

                          Give your essay a title and center it.

                          Page numbers must be located ½” from top and 1” from right edge.

 

Metacommentary:  Now that you have read someone else’s essay on causal factors, what did your partner do successfully that you did not?  Mention at least three things that you learned from the process of peer critiquing your classmate’s essay.