Activator Week 15 Day 1 • Read to Self or Read to Other for 20 minutes – Points can be earned for getting into position fastest – Everyone brought a book – Silent transition
Dec 31, 2015
Activator Week 15 Day 1
• Read to Self or Read to Other for 20 minutes– Points can be earned for getting into position
fastest– Everyone brought a book– Silent transition
Reading New Words in Context
• After reading the example from p. 173 together as a large group, complete
Lesson #1 from page 175
-Number your paper 1-20
-Write the answers on your own paper
Activator Week 15 Day 2
• Read to Self for 20 minutes– Points can be earned for getting into position
fastest– Everyone brought a book– Silent transition
Activator Week 15 Day 2
• Read to Self for 20 minutes– Points can be earned for getting into position
fastest– Everyone brought a book– Silent transition
Conjunctions
CC = , for Combines two independent, and clauses into one sentence., nor, but, or, yet, so
SC = although Combines a dependent when and independent clausewhile into one sentence.unless (until) USE A COMMA WHENbecause DEP CL IN FRONT.ifsince
CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS
• ;however, Can be used to CONNECT• ; moreover, clauses, introduce ideas,• ; consequently, interrupt ideas.
1. The forecast calls for snow on Friday. It is hot on Wednesday.
2. Ice on the roads is dangerous. They may cancel school.
3. People buy extra groceries. There is a threat of bad weather.
4. You have to wake up at your normal time to find out if school is closed. You can go back to bed.
CW: Combine these sentences using either a
subordinating conjunction or a conjunctive adverb.1. I pulled out the boxes of holiday decorations.
I am going to start decorating my house.2. Pizza has cheese. People who can’t drink milk
should not eat pizza.3. My tooth broke when I bit into a walnut. I
can’t see the dentist until Thursday. 4. Some people like grits with butter. Some
people like grits with cheese.
Write your own sentences.
• Look at the details you have listed on your prewriting web.
• Use these details to write one to two sentences that use either a subordinating conjunction or a conjunctive adverb.