Monday, February 10, 2014

Subject/Verb Agreement with Prepositions

Aims:
1. IWBAT ensure that verbs agree with subjects that include prepositional phrases.
2. IWBAT cite evidence to support whether Steve Harmon is guilty or innocent of felony murder.

Why does Mr. T think this comic is funny?
If you think you know, leave a comment at the bottom of the page.


Tasks:
1. Do Now: Review the definition of prepositions and prepositional phrases:
prepositional phrase describes part of your sentence in greater detail, usually by telling you information about wherewhen, or how.
  • Every prepositional phrase starts with a preposition. A preposition is a word that connects nouns or pronouns to other words in a sentence.
  • The object of the preposition completes the description. It is the word that follows the preposition, and it always is or includes a noun.
Read through this list of commonly used prepositions:


2. Do Now (continued):  Review prepositions by playing these games (choose your own):

3. Sporcle Group Challenge: Your table group will compete against the other groups by identifying as many prepositions as you can in just a few minutes. When Mr. instructs you, click here to go to Sporcle.

4. Subject/Verb Agreement: Watch a BrainPop! video about subject/verb agreement. While you watch the video, complete the cloze notes with the words you see and hear.
  • Mr. T will show you this video. Please don't open it at school. (It slows the Internet down.)
  • If you are watching the video from home, you can use the username palmbeach and password palmbeach to access BrainPop.

5. Subject/Verb Agreement with Prepositions: Read this important note about subject/verb agreement, and then practice with Mr. T on your classwork paper.
When there is a prepositional phrase in the subject of a sentence, cross out or ignore the prepositional phrase when checking for subject/verb agreement.

6. Practice! Practice your ability to align verbs with subjects that include prepositions on Socrative (log into room number: kba).

7. Check Your Understanding! Now, test yourself by completing another activity on Socrative.

8. Read Monster: pp. 137-159 (or pp. 160-200, if time allows) (1:11:07 - 1:22:25 or 1:40:25)




If you finish early:
  • get more help on today's lesson here
  • play any of the review games listed in Task #2
  • complete today's article/activity on TeenBiz3000
  • read a book silently

Homework: "Still I Rise"



2 comments:

  1. The comic is funny because it shows the hobbit (I think?) speaking in incorrect vocabulary.

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  2. This is funny because a teacher corrects the hobbit when he uses a plural word in a singular sentence.

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