Week 8 Homework

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) positive bias

,

(b) negative bias

• dismal
• depressing

• disheartening

• hopeless

• optimistic
• gloomy
• inspiring

• tragic

• brilliant

• remarkable

• uplifting
• courageous

• motivating
• discouraging

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Reorder the following to create a complex sentence beginning with the subordinating conjunction 'while'

• arrived home.

• While my brother

• lazily watched television,

• I busily cleaned the house

• before our parents

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

Reorder the following to create a complex sentence with an internal clause:

• and guttering replaced.

• The old church,

• which was built in 1923,

• needed it's roof

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

Proper nouns are words within sentences that indicate (a)   and therefore, they need ​ (b)  

• a name of a person, place or thing
• a reference to someone, such as: I, we, they
• a capital letter.
• no capital letter.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

Subjective language is emotive language and is used by the author when communicating their personal

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Objective language is the language of observation and

Which statement is an opinion?

• Pizza is of Italian origin.​

• Pizza are usually round.

• Most people love pineapple on their pizza.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Draw a colon

A colon can be used at the start of a list. Which sentence correctly uses a colon?

• For the party, we need three things: balloons, cake, and decorations.

• The recipe calls for just a few ingredients eggs: flour: and sugar.

• He brought everything necessary for the trip a map, a compass, and a flashlight.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B

Draw the pair of punctuation marks used to indicate direct speech