Entry Exercise

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Entry Exercise

• What are you most excited about as you enter high
  school? What do you anticipate will be your
  biggest area of change during the coming year?
  What are you most concerned about?

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Grammar Basics Quiz

• For each of the following 10 questions, please
  write the letter and the answer beside the
  question number.
• Do not worry about a grade this is just for me
  to see how much you know about grammar and where
  we should begin.
• We will correct these in class after the quiz!

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• 1. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail
  of water.

1. Noun
2. Pronoun
3. Verb
4. Interjection
5. Preposition

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• 2. Jack fell down and broke his crown.

1. Conjunction
2. Verb
3. Adjective
4. Adverb
5. Pronoun

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• 3. Ouch! he cried.

1. Preposition
2. Adverb
3. Conjunction
4. Noun
5. Interjection

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• 4. Jill continued up the hill.

1. Verb
2. Preposition
3. Adjective
4. Noun
5. Pronoun

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• 5. She filled the bucket and headed back to where
  Jack lay.

1. Pronoun
2. Interjection
3. Noun
4. Verb
5. Adverb

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• 6. Jill balanced the bucket on her head as she
  walked.

• Verb
• Conjunction
• Adjective
• Pronoun
• Preposition

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• 7. I thought we were a team, she said to Jack,
  but I guess not.

1. Conjunction
2. Adverb
3. Noun
4. Interjection
5. Verb

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• 8. It seems that every time we come here, you
  fall, and I have to do all the work.

1. Pronoun
2. Adjective
3. Noun
4. Adverb
5. Verb

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• 9. Enough is enough! she said angrily.

1. Conjunction
2. Adjective
3. Adverb
4. Preposition
5. Interjection

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• 10. And she dumped the entire pail of ice-cold
  water on Jacks head.

1. Noun
2. Adjective
3. Pronoun
4. Conjunction
5. Adverb

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Exchange Papers

• Get ready to correct!

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1. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail
of water.

• Noun
• A noun is a person, place or thing. Water is a
  thing.

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2. Jack fell down and broke his crown.
B) Verb Verbs express action or a state of
being. Fell is an action.
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3. Ouch! he cried.
E) Interjection Ouch! Expresses pain. An
interjection is usually a short, emotional word
or phrase that can stand alone in a sentence.
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4. Jill continued up the hill.
B) Preposition Prepositions express the
relationship between two words. Up is a
preposition showing the relationship between the
continued and hill.
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5. She filled the bucket and headed back to where
Jack lay.
C) Noun Jack is a person, therefore, a noun.
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6. Jill balanced the bucket on her head as she
walked.
D) Pronoun Pronouns most often replace nouns or
other pronouns. Her replaces the noun Jill.
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7. I thought we were a team, she said to Jack,
but I guess not.

• Conjunction
• Conjunctions connect words or parts of words.

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• 8. It seems that every time we come here, you
  fall, and I have to do all the work.

• E) Verb
• Have is a verb expressing a state of being. Come
  is a verb expressing action.

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• 9. Enough is enough! she said angrily.

• C) Adverb
• Adverbs modify or describe verbs, adjectives and
  other adverbs. Angrily modifies the verb said,
  indicating how Jill spoke.

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• 10. And she dumped the entire pail of ice-cold
  water on Jacks head.

• B) Adjective
• Adjectives modify or describe nouns or pronouns.

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Timed Reading

• Each of you will be given the same reading
  passage.
• You will have one minute to read the passage.
  When the timer goes off, you must mark where you
  were on the page. Then, restart the reading at
  the beginning so that you can properly answer the
  questions.

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Anticipatory Set

• Answer the questions on the worksheet as best
  you can. For some of them, there is not one
  single answer, but several interpretations.
• We will discuss the responses when you are done.