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Transcript
SPELLING
Adding a suffix that begins with a
vowel to a word that ends with a
silent e
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: places; organizations,
religions, languages, nationalities; regions
Titles of works
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with initials
Commas: in addresses; with quotations;
with introductory material; with
appositives; with interrupters
Apostrophes: with possessives
Underlining: of titles
Quotation marks: with direct quotations;
for titles
Hyphens: with compound numbers
Semicolons: in compound sentences
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Plurals: irregular plurals; nouns ending in f or fe
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Sentence fragments
Run-on sentences
Comparison: irregular comparison
Articles: a vs. an
Demonstrative adjectives
Commonly confused verbs
Verb forms: helping verbs with participles
1. i writeing a report called the orphan trains of new york
Week 1: Orphan Trains
2. my friend les and i can learn you about this trains
3. in 1853 the children’s aid society of new york seed thousands of homeless children
4. charles l brace the founder maked a unusual proposel
5. the childrens aid society shipped thousands of childs to the midwest and west
6. yes charles brace thought that raiseing them children in gooder environments was important
7. a ad appeared in the daily record our newspaper before the orphan trains arrival
8. in dowagiac michigan forty seven children found new homes in a single week
9. les said some of the children led normal pleasent lifes with their new families
10. other children however were mistreated some were overworked others were even beaten
SPELLING
Adding a suffix that begins with a
consonant to a word that ends
with a
silent e
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: people; places; months;
titles of people; family relations
The pronoun I
First words: in sentences; in quotations
Proper adjectives
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: in dates; in addresses; for
items in a series; with quotations; with
introductory material; in direct address;
with interrupters; with appositives
Apostrophes: with possessives
Underlining: of titles
Quotation marks: with questions and
exclamations
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Pronoun case: of subjects; of objects of
prepositions; before nouns; who vs. whom
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; with
compound subjects
Articles: the vs. a or an; a vs. an
Adverbs: good vs. well
1. whom was mrs jack uncle hector asked me
Week 2: Isabella Stewart Gardner
2. mrs jack i said was the nickname of isabella stewart gardner an unusual and lovly woman
3. after her husbands death mrs gardner assembled a pricless collection of paintings statues and
other works of art
4. i said we can see these next june at the Isabella stewart gardner museum in boston massachusetts
5. my teacher told we students mrs gardner opened her museum to the public on January 1 1903
6. ms gavriel said the art treasures and the building is unique hector
7. mrs gardner loved Italian art and fenway court her museum look like a venetian palace
8. because of a statement in her will nothing in the museum can be changed or moved
9. i has heard many stories about isabella stewart gardner said adamma my friend
10. well she was certainly a unconventional and completly charming person me said to she
SPELLING
Adding the suffix –ion to words
that end with -ate
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: places; titles of people
Titles of works
The pronoun I
First words: in sentences; in quotations
Proper adjectives
Initials
PUNCTUATION
End marks: with declaratives; with
interrogatives; with indirect questions
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: in items in a series; with
quotations; with appositives; with first,
second, third, etc.
Quotation marks: for titles; with divided
quotations; within quotations
Colons: to introduce lists
Semicolons: in compound sentences; for
items in a series
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Pronoun case: of subjects; of objects of
prepositions; before nouns; who vs. whom
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; with
compound subjects
Articles: the vs. a or an; a vs. an
Adverbs: good vs. well
1. my teacher said these here facts will fuel your speculateion about the arab world
2. more than 185 million people speak arabic said ms west and mot of them are muslims
Week 3: Arab Americans
3. later i said the arab world is comprised of many different nations
4. i know arab americans whose ancestors came from five nations algeria bahrain oman syria and
the united arab emirates
5. among 1880 and 1924 the united states receive the first major wave of arab immigrateion
6. someone asked i if most of them peoples came from syria or palestine
7. i once readed a narrateion about a syrian peddler it was the laugh peddler by alice e christgau
8. then ms west said to me the author called the man a jolly lovable peddler
9. name the most faousest arab american entertainer living or dead
10. who shall i name three people immedietely come to mind first jamie farr second f murray
abraham third danny thomas
SPELLING
Prefixes and base words
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: names of people; places;
days and holidays; titles of people
First words: in sentences
Proper adjectives
The pronoun I
Abbreviations: A.M. and P.M.
PUNCTUATION
End marks: with exclamations
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: with quotations; with
introductory material; in direct address;
with coordinating conjunctions
Apostrophes: with possessives
Quotation marks: with questions and
exclamations
Colons: between hours and minutes
Hyphens: with compound numbers
Semicolons: with conjunctive adverbs
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Plurals: irregular plurals
Pronoun case: of direct objects
Sentence fragments and run-ons
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; with subjects
in unusual positions
Verb tense: past tense
Comparison: comparative; superlative
Articles: the vs. a or an
Verb forms: helping verbs with participles
1. mr wongs students studying the amazon river therefore their teacher made a special request
2. mr wong wants them to watch the special television show at 800 p m next thursday
Week 4: The Amazon River
3. the amazon river the second long river in the world carry one fifth of the worlds river water
4. each second the amazon discharjes more than six million cubic feets of water into the atlantic
ocean said karl
5. the nile river is longer than the amazon but the amazon is wide than the mississippi river
meira variety of wildlife the amazon foster more than 300 kinds of hummingbirds
6. perclaimed
what an amazing
live near this river
7. is it possible mr wong that in prehistoric times africa and south america may have been joined
asked karl
8. mr wong said well the rivers in the two continents did contain similar fish millions of years ago
9. meira told we a spanish explorer francisco orellana visit the river in 1541 and named it
10. he thinked the local warriors were like an amazons in ancient greek myths she added
SPELLING
Prefixes and roots
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: places; titles of people
First words: in quotations; of lines of
poetry
Proper adjectives
The pronoun I
PUNCTUATION
Commas: for items in a series; with
quotations; with introductory material;
with coordinating conjunctions; with
appositives; with interrupters
Quotation marks: with direct quotations;
with questions and exclamations; with
divided quotations
Semicolons: with conjunctive adverbs
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Pronoun case: subjects; objects of prepositions
Pronouns: order of; possessives vs contractions
Run-on sentences
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Articles: the vs a or an; a vs. an
Verb forms: helping verbs with past participles
Demonstrative adjectives: with kind and sort
1. my english teacher miss najjar said daedalus and his son icarus jailed by king minos
2. she said daedalus a inventor was resourceful consequently he was not dajected
Week 5: Daedalus and Icarus
3. both of they were imprisoned on an island and they could not escape by land or sea
4. daedalus said nothing however will prahibit an escape through the air
5. daedalus said i will make two pairs of wings for me and you
6. he added these kind of wings i believe will be made from feathers string and wax
7. daedalus gived his son a wings and said now i must disuade you from reckless flight
8. if you fly to high he said the sun will ruin youre wings
9. then me said icarus loved flying and he felt inspird to fly high than his father
10. yes the sun melted the wax on his wings and him fell into the sea and drowned
SPELLING
Compound words
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: names of people; places;
months; organizations, religions,
languages, nationalities; family relations;
ships, trains, aircraft, automobiles
Proper adjectives
The pronoun I
Initials
Abbreviations: A.M. and P.M.
PUNCTUATION
Commas: in dates; in addresses; with
appositives
Quotation marks: with questions and
exclamations; with colons and semicolons
Colons: between hours and minutes
Hyphens: with compound numbers
Semicolons: in compound sentences
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Plurals: regular plurals; mouns ending in s, x,
sh, or ch
Pronoun case: of subjects
Pronouns: order of; possessives vs contractions
Sentence fragments and run-ons
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Articles: a vs. an
Adverb formation: using –ly
1. one of the strangest disasters in history happened at 1241 p m on january 15 1919
2. uri and me quick learned some back ground information about a unusual flood in boston
Week 6: Boston’s Molasses Flood
massachusetts
3. the purity distilling corporation stored millions of gallon of molasses in a huge tank on the
boston water front
4. on january 14 the milero a american ship added 600000 gallons to the tank of molasses
5. suddenly exploded with a noise like the sound of a thousand machine guns my newspaper gave a
similar description
6. a flood of molasses trapped who ever was in its path twenty one people died and many others
were hurt
7. days later the boston fire department was still pumping molasses out of homes
8. just imagine wheat a video tape of that would have looked like uncle sol said
9. last august uncle sol said i and irma goed to boston for two or three days
10. aunt irma added on very hot days i was told any one on certain beachs can still smell molasses
SPELLING
Hyphenated compound words
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: names of people; places;
days and holidays; months; titles of
people; family relations; regions;
historical events, documents, periods of
time
The pronoun I
First words: in sentences; in quotations
PUNCTUATION
End marks: with declaratives
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: in dates; in addresses; with
introductory material; with appositives;
with coordinating conjunctions; with
interrupters
Colons: to introduce lists
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Pronoun case: of direct objects
Pronouns: possessives vs. contractions
Sentence fragments and run-ons
Agreement: with intervening propositional
phrases
Verb tenses: regular and irregular past tense
Articles: the vs. a or an
Verb forms: helping verbs with past participle
Demonstrative adjectives
Commonly confused verbs
1. mrs ito said both of my brothers in law is nisei these are u s citizens whose parents born in japan
2. both of theyre families she said moved from nagoya japan to honolulu hawaii one february
Week 7: Japanese Americans
3. then i said at the turn of this century the japanese maked up thirtynine percent of the population
of hawaii
4. mrs ito said yes grandfather yamasaki learned me to play the game of go at that time
5. during world war ii many japanese american families were forced to live in detention camps in
the west
6. i can name only some of them camps manzanar in california topaz in utah and granada in
colorado
7. in 1988 president ronald reagan formally apologize to a japanese americans for their unfair
detention during world war ii
8. on october 9 1990 rev eto received his formal apology and a check for $20000
9. holly said last friday evening takao learned a friend and i how to eat with chopsticks
10. then she laughed and said it was hard though because im a lefthanded person and takao is not
SPELLING
Contractions
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: names of people; titles of
people; family relations
First words: in quotations
Proper adjectives
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: for items in a series; with
quotations; with introductory material; in
direct address
Quotation marks: with direct quotations;
with questions and exclamations; with
divided quotations
Colons: to introduce lists
Semicolons: in compounds sentences
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Pronoun case: of subjects; of direction objects;
before nouns
Run-on sentences
Agreement: with intervening prepositional
phrases
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Demonstrative adjectives; with kind and sort
Prepositions: between vs. among
Adverb formation: using –ly
1. today said ms houde were going to discuss heat and temperature theyre not the same thing you
know
2. then ms houde continued molecules in motion creates heat and temperature is a measure of the
heat
Week 8: Heat
3. wont heat travel from hot things to cooler ones asked ramon
4. yes it travels in one of three ways by conduction by convection or by radiation i said
5. then heidi asked whats the difference among good conductors of heat and poor conductors
6. heat travels quick through good conductors said uncle bart and slow through poor conductors
7. ms houde said the heat from this here fire ramon isnt reaching we campers through conduction
8. youre feeling radiant heat her says late last saturday night
9. yes im the one whos got an old steam radiator said aun ida
10. then she added these kind of things heat we through convection not through radiation
Week 9: Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mt. Rushmore
SPELLING
Silent letters
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: places; titles of people;
family relations
The pronoun I
First words: in quotations
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with initials
Commas: for items in a series; with
introductory material; with appositives;
with coordinating conjunctions
Apostrophes: in contractions; with
possessives
Quotation marks: with questions and
exclamations
Semicolons: in compounds sentences
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Plurals: irregular plurals; nouns ending in o
Pronoun case: of subjects; of direction objects;
before nouns
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; of pronouns
and antecedents
Articles: the vs. a or an
Verb forms: irregular past participles
1. we americans are certainly indebted to gutzon borglum the sculptor said grandma jones
2. she added yes mount rushmore would be less interesting without his carvings
3. borglum began carving president washington president jefferson president t roosevelt and
president lincoln in the summer of 1924
4. then i asked didn’t he calmly work from a chair suspended from the top of the cliff
5. my daughter jess said certainly borglums style is strong not subtle each face on mt rushmore is
sixty feet high
6. borglums project took fourteen years and it was finished by his son on october 31 1941
7. lajos asked i didn’t eleanor roosevelt want susan b anthonys face carved on mt rushmore
8. peoples have also campained for other heros including john f kennedy john wayne and elvis
presley
9. some people condemned borglum them thought he should leave the mountains alone
10. neither harold ickes secretary of the interior nor newton drury director of the national park
service liked a carving
SPELLING
Adding suffixes to words ending
with y preceded by a vowel
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: places; days and holidays;
months; titles of people
Titles of works
The pronoun I
First words: in sentences; in quotations
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with initials
Commas: for items in a series; with
introductory material; with appositives;
with coordinating conjunctions
Apostrophes: in contractions; with
possessives
Quotation marks: with questions and
exclamations
Semicolons: in compounds sentences
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Plurals: irregular plurals; nouns ending in o
Pronoun case: of subjects; of direction objects;
before nouns
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; of pronouns
and antecedents
Articles: the vs. a or an
Verb forms: irregular past participles
1. your book when the tide goes far out conveyd much information about tides
2. now i know one difference among a neap tide and a spring tide a spring tide is higher
3. i said to mr pitts some students wondered if tides were related to the swayng of earth in space
4. he said no tides mainly results from the moons gravitational pull on earth
Week 10: Tides
5. during our last too summer holidays i and my sister took a trip to nova scotia canada
6. the most greatest tides in the world we heard is in the bay of fundy between maine and canada
7. last tuesday mr pitts explain that at low tide water retreats uncovering many fascinating sights
8. he said you can see crabs starfish urchins clams and many varieties of seaweed
9. a hermit crab for example employes an empty shell as its home mr pitts added
10. whom wants to visit old orchard beach this weekend i have a chart that tells exactly when too
expect low tide
SPELLING
Adding suffixes to words ending
with y preceded by a consonant
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: places; organizations,
religions, languages, nationalities; months;
historical events, documents, periods of
time
First words: in sentences; in quotations
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with initials; with declaratives
Commas: in dates; in addresses; for
items in a series; with introductory
material; in direct address, with
coordinating conjunctions; with
appositives
Apostrophes: in contractions; with
possessives
Quotation marks: with questions and
exclamations
Hyphens: with compound numbers
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Plurals: irregular plurals; nouns ending in o
Pronoun case: of subjects; of direction objects;
before nouns
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; of pronouns
and antecedents
Articles: the vs. a or an
Verb forms: irregular past participles
1. one of the most greatest celebritys of modern science are marie curie the discoverer of radium
and polonium
2. she worked with Pierre curie her husband together them won the nobel prize in physics for their
Week 11: Marie Curie
work with radioactivity
3. lucia asked didn’t the curies work result in the use of radiation therapys to treat cancer
4. yes lucia peoples later learn that radium could kill diseased cells
5. m curie founded the radium institute in paris france too study possible uses of radium
6. during world war i she equip and accompanied a mobile x ray unit
7. curie helped make known the benefits of radiation but she died on july 4 1934 from radiation
sickness
8. she did not no way fully understand radiums dangers or she wouldve certain modified some of
her laboratory prodedures
9. like scientists everywhere curie record her theorys processes and findings in notebooks
10. more than seventy five years later them notebooks are still to dangerous to be handled
SPELLING
Adding suffixes to words ending
with al
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: regions
Titles of works
The pronoun I
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: in quotations; with
introductory materials, in direct address;
with coordinating conjunctions
Quotation marks: for titles; with
questions and exclamations; with divided
quotations
Semicolons: in compounds sentences
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Pronouns: possessives vs. contractions
Sentence fragments
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; of pronouns
and antecedents
Articles: the vs. a or an; a vs. an
Commonly confused words: to, two, and too
Verb forms: helping verbs with past participles
1. mr jefferson did the native americans realy tell stories with ghosts as characters asked jason
2. yes they did mr jefferson said and the stories include many different kinds of ghosts
Week 12: Ghost Tales
3. of all the ghost stories mr jefferson told i personally enjoyed the cheyenne story called the ghost
owl
4. the cheyenne feared the owl they thought of them as a ghost that came back for revenge
5. in the story called the ghost owl a little girl captured by a owl
6. with the help of hawks she escape and finaly returns too her village
7. a various ghost stories show a great deal of originallity
8. a ghost often appear as a skeleton and sometimes its deeds is kindly or helpful
9. lame warrior and the skeleton is a arapaho story that features a friendly skeleton
10. too ghost tales originally told by tribes in the northwest are the girl who married a ghost and the
dance of the spirit monster
SPELLING
The suffixes –able and –ible
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: places; titles of people;
organizations, religions, languages,
nationalities
Titles of works
First words: in sentences
The pronoun I
PUNCTUATION
Commas: in addresses; for items in a
series; with quotations; with introductory
material
Apostrophes: with possessives
Underlining: of titles
Quotation marks: with direct quotations;
with questions and exclamations; with
divided quotations
Colons: to introduce lists
Semicolons: for items in a series
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Pronoun case: who vs. whom
Pronouns: possessives vs. contractions
Run-on sentences
Agreement: with compound subjects
Comparison: comparative degree; double
comparison
Demonstrative pronouns
1. mr moskowitz explained many cubans came to the united states to find greatest freedom than
they had experienced in cuba
Week 13: Cuban Americans
2. better jobs houses and living conditions was obtainable in florida and other states
3. many cuban americans settled in miami florida the citys economy benefited from theyre arrival
4. an article entitled the second havana which was written about miami appeared in a magazine
5. called the new yorker
storyofcalled
ghostand
owl
a little
girl capturedamericans
by a owl said mr moskowitz are not always
6. in
thethe
values
a newthe
group
those
of established
compatable
7. many cubans have reached the united states by boat the united states is only about ninety miles
away from cuba
8. yes it is possible to reach key west florida by sailing due north from cuba
9. whom are some of the famousest cuban americans kele asked
10. these here are just a few tony oliva a former major league baseball player Fernando bujones an
international ballet star and tito Puente a selas artist
SPELLING
The suffixes –ence and –ent
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: organizations, religions,
languages, nationalities
Titles of works
First words: in quotations
The pronoun I
PUNCTUATION
Commas: for items in a series; with
introductory material; in direct address;
with appositives; first, second, third
Apostrophes: with possessives
Underlining: of titles
Quotation marks: with direct quotations;
with divided quotations
Colons: to introduce lists
Hyphens: with compound numbers
Semicolons: in compound sentences; for
items in a series
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Plurals: nouns ending is s, x, sh, or ch
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; of pronouns
and antecedents
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Double negatives
Articles: the vs. a or an
Adverbs: good vs. well
1. have you ever heard of richard peck the prominent author of books for adolescants
2. no i havent said lily but i always like to discover a new author to read
Week 14: Richard Peck
3. pecks hometown was decatur illinois it are the setting for his book dreamland lake
4. peck never writed not one line of fiction until the age of thirty seven
5. the ghost belong to me one of pecks first successful novels won the friends of american writers
award in 1976
6. lori asked is it as well as some of pecks other excellent books
7. Richard peck waid watching television is what you do with your life when you dont want to live
it
8. one of his wishs is that students increase your vocabulary because words are a tools of writing
9. marty read father figure ghosts i have been and princess ashley when you can
10. here are three reasons first pecks plots are exciting second his tone is amusing and third his
characters are believable
SPELLING
The prefix ad—
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: names of people; places
First words: in sentences; in quotations
Abbreviations: B.C. and A.D.
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: with quotations; with
introductory material; with coordinating
conjunctions
Apostrophes: with possessives
Quotation marks: with direct quotations;
with divided quotations
Semicolons: in compound sentences;
with conjunctive adverbs
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Sentence fragments
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Comparison: comparative degree; double
comparison
Double negatives
Verb forms: helping verbs with past participles
Adverbs: good vs. well
1. mrs hwang announced today we will study the olive an important member of the fruit family
2. olives been used as cleansers medicines and even as lubricants to assist in moving pieces of the
pyramids
Week 15: Olives
3. it may be hard to comprehend the importance of olives in ancient greece said mrs hwang
4. the olive she said was the basis of the greek economy and it was cretes major export
5. a rich oil derived from olives the greeks traded it for grain and other foods
6. traders brought olive trees to spain in the fourth century b c olive trees reached france in
approximately 640 b c
7. you might assume that greece is the most largest producer of olives in the world but spain
actually produces more
8. italy also produce a largest number of olives than does greece
9. in the hot dry climate of egypt olives probably growed wild
10. the ancient egyptians did not eat no olives however they did burn olive oil in lamps
SPELLING
Hard and soft c and g
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: names of people; places;
months; family relations; historical events,
documents, periods of time
Titles of works
First words: in sentences
Initials
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with initials
Commas: in dates; for items in a series;
with quotations; with introductory
material; with coordinating conjunctions
Apostrophes: with possessives; in dates
Underlining: of titles
Quotation marks: within quotations
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Pronouns: possessives vs. contractions
Run-on sentences
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Verb forms: helping verbs with past participles;
irregular past participles
Commonly confused verbs: sat vs. set
1. lindseys grandmother set her down to tell her about the 1940s
2. lindsey stated first grandmother said i remember when pearl harbor was bombed
3. japan attacked pearl harbor on december 7 1941 the united states entered world war ii the next
Week 16: The 1940s
day
4. during the early 1940s air raid drills were holded and sitizens draped black kurtains over theyre
windows
5. at the casablanca conference in 43 winston churchill and franklin d roosevelt agreed on the gole
of unconditional surrender
6. victory over japan became a sertainty on september 2 1945 how everyone rejoiced
7. in 1949 george orwell published the novel 1984 and arthur miller published the drama death of a
salesman
8. china became the peoples republic and east germany established as a separate kountry
9. during the 1940s frank sinatra was apopular singer girls wore bobby socks and nylon invented
10. disney a magician in the field of animated cartoons made movies such as bambi dumbo fantasia
and pinocchio
SPELLING
Indistinct vowels and related
forms
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: family relations; regions
Titles of works
First words: insentences; in quotations
Proper adjectives
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with abbreviated titles; with
initials
Commas: with quotations; with
introductory material
Apostrophes: with possessives
Underlining: of titles
Quotation marks: with direct quotations;
for titles
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Plurals: nouns ending in y
Pronoun case: of subjects; who vs. whom
Pronouns: order of
Run-on sentences
Agreement: with compound subjects
Comparison: superlative degree
Demonstrative adjectives
Prepositions: between vs. among
1. cinderella and little red riding hood is familiar childrens stories
Week 17: Stories People Tell
2. a collection of tales called the grimms german fold tales edited by francis p magoun jr contains
these stories
3. aren’t there similarities among storys told in china and those told in the west
4. there is a chinese story called yeh-shen it tells about a mistreated stepdaughter whom marries a
king
5. in the story called yeh-shen magic helps the girl go to the great feast in the land
a rich oil derived from olives the greeks traded it for grain and other foods
6. there the king falls in love with these ordinary girl whom has a pure heart
7. a story about a wolf whom pretends to be a grandmother is also told in china
8. me and aretha uses our imagenations to compare this story to little red riding hood
9. in a poplar version of the chinese story the wolf wants to devour the children
10. one child says oh grandmother your hand has thorns on it
SPELLING
Review
CAPITALIZATION
Proper nouns: places; months; titles of
people; ships, trains, aircraft, automobiles
First words: in sentences
PUNCTUATION
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: with quotations; with
introductory material; with coordinating
conjunctions; with appositives
Quotation marks: with direct quotations;
with questions and exclamations; with
divided quotations
Hyphens: with compound numbers
Semicolons: in compound sentences
GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Pronouns: possessives vs. contractions
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs
Comparison: comparative degree; superlative
degree
Articles: a vs. an
Verb forms: irregular past participles
Adverb formation: using –ly
1. the galileo space craft was launched on october 18 1989 it would reach jupiter in 1995
2. officials at nasa announced that these un-manned exsplorer would study the planet for twenty two
month
3. jupiter are not an easily approachable planet, its atmosphere contains high levels of radiateion and
Week 18: Jupiter
defys entry
4.
there is no ground to stand on and the temperature at the center of the planet may reach a intensly hot
53000 degrees fahrenheit
5. isn’t jupiter the largest and more radient of all the planets in the solar system asked julio
6. well its actually 1300 times large than earth and it shines more bright than does any other planet except
venus
7. were indetted to voyager 1 and voyager 2 for much of our knowledge about jupiter said mr jones
8. with time and perseverance added ms hwang we will gain more familiarity with our huje neighbor in
space
9. jupiter have severl moons includeing ganymede the largest moon in the solar system
10. io europa callisto and ganymede jupiters four largest moons were discovered by galileo