03-10-14 Most American car horns beeps in the key of F, a listener with a good ear can tell a domestic made car from a foreign made car by listening to its horn.
02-25-14
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein the scientist goes out in search of their creation, whom was escaped from the laboratory.
02-20-14
Whenever the neighbor's dog trespasses on our lawn, my Mom likes to recite this line from a Robert Frost poem to my brother and I: 'good fences make good neighbors'.
02-19-14
In many companys everyone, including the President, takes their turn at making coffee.
02-07-14
JohnMuir decided to become a naturalist at the age of 30 and he hiked from the midwest to the gulf of mexico to acquaint himself with the land and with his writings he inspired the development of national parks in the U.S.
01-30-14
It was Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter who wrote the song Here Comes Sunshine but it was my friends and I who heard it preformed on July 2 1995.
Hey Elena said Steven Baron Sr. as we unpacked did you forget the grapes. You forgot the T shirts, to? Oh brother!
She closed the book and looked at the clock she had finished reading The Elder Brothers at exactly 12:04 pm
01-16-14
On our camping trip their were fireworks going off all night dogs barking all morning and music playing all day.
01-14-14
Oxygen was descovered in 1772 by the Sweedish chemist, Carl Scheele but he withheld the information until two years later when Joseph Priestly made the same descovery.
01-13-14
Instead of reading and writing the Incas used the quipu a cord with knotted strings of various lengths and colors to record every aspect of there daily lifes.
01-09-14
More then 2,000 years ago the Romans had toilets connected to sewers that carried away waist.
Switching up the game: Here's what we're going to do now! You will correct a sentence every day and at the end of the week, or when I deme necessary, you will take a quiz that is a paragraph needed for correction! So, here's sentence 1:
01-08-14
The Taenaris macrops butterfly which feeds on ripe bananas has eyespots on it's wings that flash like the eyes of a predator.
Monday, December 2nd
We thought, at the time, that it was because Pecola was having her father's baby that the marigolds did not grow.
Tuesday, November 19th
Sitting in the passenger seat of the white Chevrolet Cobalt, the 55-year-old, bookishly handsome storm chaser momentarily gapes at the video camera that the driver of the car is pointing at his face.
Monday, November 18th
The greatest storm chaser, Tim Samaras devoted his live to unlocking the mysteries of extreme weather.
Thursday, November 14th
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
Wednesday, November 13th
no one can deny his being a noble hearted young fellow
Thursday, November 7th
how can i see so noble a creature destroyed by misery without feeling the most poignant grief
Wednesday, November 6th
you talk like a noodle my friend said caderousse and here is danglars who is a wide awake clever deep fellow who will prove to you that you are wrong
Tuesday, October 29
when i went there she was a pious warm and tender hearted woman
Monday, October 28
take care of your chest and voice my good friend and leave the law to take care of itself
Friday, October 25
the description that he gave me perfectly corresponds with the features and character of the man before us
Thursday, October 24
if you consent neither you nor any other human being shall ever see us again i will go to the fast wilds of south america
Wednesday, October 23
how dreadful is the state of those that are daily and hourly in the danger of this great wrath and infinite misery
Thursday, October 17
but he found that a travler's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments
Wednesday, October 16
arthur miller who was born on october 17 1915 in new york city new york wrote the play the crucible
Tuesday, October 15
when the newly married pair came home the first person who appeared to offer his congratulations was sydney carton
Monday, October 14
send holly and me a postcard when you're visiting william faulkners house in oxford mississippi
Friday, October 11
could i enter into a festival with this deadly weight yet hanging round my neck and bowing me to the ground
Thursday, October 10
well this is the most extraordinary thing that i ever knew exclaimed the laird
Wednesday, October 9
she stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.
Tuesday, October 8 Search for the parts of the sentence. Remember transitive verbs have an answer to the question what or whom, and that is their direct object...intransitive verbs do not.
Frank had a moist sensation about the eyes his masters action touched his susceptible heart
Monday, October 7 Find the sentence parts in the following sentence. This includes subject, verb (transitive or intransitive), prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, etc...
go often to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path
Monday, September 24: Complete the following pre-test for sentence parts and phrases. This is a formative assessment.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013: This is your post test for Parts of Speech. This a summative assessment and does factor into your grade.
Friday, September 13:
Tuesday, September 10: Again, choose a sentence from one of the news apps (but choose a different app that what you chose yesterday) and find the parts of speech in the sentence. Then answer the question below and submit it.
Monday, September 9: Mixing it up a little this week! For DGP today, go to one of the News apps and choose an article. From that article, choose one sentence, screenshot it, import it into UPad and identify the parts of speech for all of the words in that sentence.
Thursday, September 5:
could i enter into a festival with this deadly weight yet hanging round my neck and bowing me to the ground
For DGP on Wednesday, September 4: Take the following quiz and submit it.
DGP 2: Week 2: Tuesday:
well this is the most extraordinary thing that i ever knew exclaimed the laird
DGP WEEK 1:
Wednesday:
she stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.
Tuesday: passepartout had a moist sensation about the eyes his masters action touched his susceptible heart
Here's how we do this electronically:
Make sure you're signed in to your Dropbox account on the iPad
Create a folder called "DGP" inside the folder that you share with me.
Then, screen shot this weeks sentence (it may already be done for you if you are not in 1st period)
Import that into UPAD app and create a note with the screenshot of this week's sentence on it.
This is where you will label what you do each day, then send it to your Dropbox folder.
Once it's in your Dropbox folder, delete it from the UPAD account.
The next day, you will have to import it from your Dropbox folder into your UPAD account again to label the dates for following day!
Good luck!!!
go often to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path