Happy Valentine's Day

Freewrite for 10 minutes--open topic.  I collected for points (this cannot be made up if you were absent).

Lecture
What is a sentence? and What is a paragraph?

A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.  All written language is based on the sentence.  In the age of texting and instant messaging, true sentence form has gotten lost by some people.  I strongly encourage you to carefully write in complete sentences, even outside of school.  This will be a huge help in developing your writing habits if you are doing this at all times.  It may seem formal to write that way in an email to your friends or in your Facebook status update, but for the sake of improvement, try to be aware of how you write everything from here on out.

A paragraph is a collection of clearly related sentences that make a point.

Sentences make up paragraphs; paragraphs make up an essay.

I started a lesson on parts of speech.

There are FOUR basic groups to which parts of speech belong and then EIGHT traditional categories/parts of speech:

. NAMING ACTING (helping/being) DESCRIBING CONNECTING . nouns verbs adjectives prepositions . pronouns adverbs conjunctions . (((((CORE OF THE SENTENCE))))))) interjections

VERB: action or state of being
NOUN/PRONOUN: doers of the action or focus of the being verb

Try not to get overwhelmed by the terminology and ask questions as needed.
****We spent some time going through our freewrite to see if we could pick out any words that fit into the naming and acting categories.

Focusing on VERBS: 

1.      Action verb—shows something happening (physically, mentally, emotionally)
                        Think: WHAT ARE THEY DOING???
Stacey is cleaning her kitchen. (action verb)
**look through your sentences and underline the action verbs***

      2.      Being/linking verb—tell about a state of being (the verb BE is the most common) its other forms are (am are, is, was, were, been, being) 
          Stacey is a clean person. (being/linking verb) or if you look back at the prev IS is linking.
         **look through your sentences and underline any action verbs**

3.      Helping verbs—help the main verb of a sentence express meaning, when combined they make a verb phrase (more than 1 word)
Common: be, have, do, may, might, must, can, should, would

Stacey should be cleaning every week.  OR  Stacey must clean every week. 

**look through your sentences and underline any helping verbs, circle verb phrases, or rewrite to include a being/linking verb AND helping verbs.  

FOR WEDNESDAY: READ PAGES 38-44 (top half of page 44) and COMPLETE ACTIVITY 3.1-3.6 (So this means COMPLETE activity 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 BEFORE class on Wednesday).