Reading Check 1

Hi guys! Welcome back!

Each week, you'll be reading from our current book and answering what's called a "reading check" while you read. The questions will be posted here - you will have a week to complete the questions and turn them in. Your answers may be typed or hand-written, or sent to me via Google Docs (we will go over this process in class). Please make sure your answers:

- are complete sentences
- start with a capital letter
- end with punctuation
- avoid pronouns and use specific character names instead


Reading Check Questions, Prince Caspian: Chapters 1 & 2

1. Why are the children at the train station at the beginning of the story?

2. How do the children discover that they are on an island?

3. What do the children discover when they follow the stream away from the beach?

4. What object does Susan find near the well in the ruined castle? Why does it make her feel sad?

5. What four points does Peter list to prove to the others that they have returned to the land of Narnia and the castle of Cair Paravel?

6. What items do the children take from the treasure chamber? What item that belonged to Susan is missing?

Thinking about the story:
7. Why do you think the author decided to place his characters in a train station at the beginning of the story?

8. What words does the author use to describe the odd sensations the children feel as they wait at the station?

Friday's Assignment

Please complete the following assignment individually. These are review items for your final on Monday. (We will have a bit of review right before the final as well.)

https://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/run-ons_ex1.htm

https://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/run-ons_ex1.htm (this one is extra-hard; there will not be questions like this on your final - but I challenge you to try your best!)

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/fragments_add1.htm

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/parts_of_speech/quiz395.html

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech-quiz.htm

When you're finished you may have SSR time.

Final Study Guide

Hello! Here's a quick rundown of the things you will need to know for your final.

1. Identifying subjects and predicates
Remember, a sentence needs a subject and a predicate to be complete. A subject is who or what the sentence is about, and a predicate is what the subject is or does.

2. Identifying parts of speech
Know each part of speech and be able to identify them in a sentence:
noun
pronoun
verb
adjective
adverb
preposition
conjunction
interjection

3. Capitalization
Be sure to know which types of words need to be capitalized (always capitalize the beginning of a sentence, a person's name, and other proper nouns).

4. Punctuation
Use punctuation at the end of a sentence and use commas to separate items in a list.

5. Run-on sentences
If two or more clauses are in the same sentence, you must separate them with a comma and a conjunction.

6. Sentence fragments
If a sentence is missing a subject or a predicate (and you're left asking a question at the end of the sentence), the sentence is incomplete and is a fragment.

You will also have a short reading segment on your final and will be asked a few reading comprehension questions.

It's the home stretch, guys!

6-2 Cleopatra Questions, pgs. 124 - 150

***Due next WEDNESDAY***

1. What is the summer solstice?

2. Who is Cicero?

3. Where had Cleopatra met Cicero before?

4. According to Cicero, what does Marc Antony refer to Cleopatra as?

5. What was Cleopatra's "folly" and what is the result of such folly?

6. Give two negative facts about Crassus. 

7. Cleopatra does not know which god to pray to. What was Theophilus' response to this questions?

8. Why was Cleopatra angry at herself after her encounter with Marc Antony at the soldiers' barracks?

9. How does Marc Antony's second encounter with Cleopatra differ from the first?

10. What does Marc Antony agree to do for Cleopatra?

11. Why was Cleopatra's fatigue after visiting Ostia "most pleasant"?

12. Why does Cleopatra's opinion of Cicero change so drastically?

13. On her way back to the villa, what two truths does Cleopatra recognize?

14. Who is Octavian and what does he have in common with Cleopatra?

15. Why does Cleopatra write in Greek, instead of Hebrew, when writing to Theophilus?

16. What keeps Cleopatra and Ptolemy from leaving Rome now?

Last Creative Writing Assignment!!!

Hey guys! This is your last Creative Writing assignment for the year! Please read the details of this assignment carefully because it will be counted as a test grade.

Your story prompt is "Stranded on a Desert Island."

Here's what happened:

Our Language Arts class (if you're in 6-1, it's the entire 6-1 class, and if you're in 6-2, it's the 6-2 class) was on a plane headed for Tahiti. We were on a field trip to research wildlife on pacific islands. Unfortunately, there were some issues with the flight, and our plane went down. The pilot ejected from the plane. Your class and I (everyone survived the landing) are now stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the South Pacific. There is no WiFi or cell service. We have no idea where we are, and there are no buildings or inhabitants here. The only things we have are:

- Whatever you'd pack in a suitcase for a really cool field trip to Tahiti (no, you would not pack a machete)

- Whatever was on the plane (the plane is, to our surprise, still in tact)

Your writing assignment is a journal entry, written four weeks after the plane crash. In your journal entry, tell me what's transpired over the last four weeks. What happened after the crash? What's the current situation? Has anyone tried to signal for rescue? Has anyone gotten sick? Give me the details of what we now look like as a class four weeks after being stranded on an island.

You will be graded on:

Format (Times New Roman, double-spaced, size 12 font)
Spelling (use your resources - spell check, Google, a dictionary...)
Capitalization
Punctuation
Avoiding run-on sentences
Avoiding fragments
Evidence of proofreading (when I read your story, can I tell that you went back and read through it                                                when you were done to make sure everything made sense?)

Have fun! This is due the next time I see you for creative writing!

6-2 Cleopatra Questions, pgs. 109 - 123

1. Describe the process of crucifixion in medical terms.

2. Why is the death of an Egyptian prisoner more humane than the death of a Roman prisoner?

3. Where did Cleopatra spend her summer?

4. Cleopatra was very low in spirits. When she when for a walk along the beach, what one thing did she think might go wrong?

5. What royal decision did Cleopatra make at this point?

6. While walking back to the house why was Cleopatra saddened by the red glow she saw in the sky?

7. Why hadn't Cleopatra ever gone to the contest?

8. In the letter from Theophilus, why did he write in Hebrew?

9. Theophilus mentioned that steam ships had been invented but it was decided that they would not be made. Why?

10. What good news and bad news did Olympus share with Cleopatra?

11. What did Cleopatra learn about Puzo when she and Neva almost drowned?

12. Why did Cleopatra return to Rome? Give two reasons.

13. Why does Cleopatra "mock her father"?

14. What did Cleopatra warn Puzo and Neva about?

15. According to Julia, what were Rome's two greatest enemies?

Grammar Assignment 5/8

Correct the following run-ons or fragments. Please be sure your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization are correct.

1.   No native people on Antarctica.

2.  Because it is too cold.

3. Although scientists and other workers live in Antarctica for about a year at a time.

4. These people there to study many things.

5. Ninety-five percent of Antarctica covered with ice.

6. Antarctica approximately 70 percent of the world’s fresh water in its ice.

7. A desert an area that gets very little precipitation.

8. Antarctica receives only two inches of rain each year.

9. Also has very high winds.

10. Brown bears include the grizzly and the kodiak, the largest brown bear is the kodiak.

11. Kodiak bears weigh as much as 1,700 pounds, they grow to a height of ten feet.

12. Females give birth to as many as four cubs, the cubs stay with their mother two

or three years.

13.  Many people are afraid of bears, encounters with bears are actually infrequent.

14.  Grizzly bears are solitary animals, they do not want to interact with people.

15. Generally, bears attack only when they are surprised, or when they are protecting

their young.

16.  People should always store food and garbage properly, bears could be attracted by

the smell.

17.  Never try to outrun a bear, it can run more than 30 miles per hour.

Sentences from: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, Writing Effective Sentences