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4 November, 2011
We have completed the first half of our Mysteries unit, and are now looking at the second sub-topic: Fears. We started off today looking at some poetry about fears, discussed personification, and wrote a bit of our own poetry. These poems, and the questions about the poems we looked at today are DUE MONDAY. If you can't find the questions, or forgot to write them down, You can open the PDF of the Notebook presentation here:

20 September
This week we will finish going through our Mini-books, and begin our Parts of Speech Project. Stay tuned for it to be uploaded to the Project Outlines & Criteria page.
 * ==**Prepositions**== ||  || ==Adjectives== ||   ||
 * **Definition**: Prepositions show how two words or ideas relate to each other.


 * Why are they important:** They let us describe relationships of things.


 * Example**: with, on, over, under, above, beside, on top of,


 * Sentence**: My brother played __with__ a friend __on__ the jungle gym.

p9 (inside) ||  || **Definition**: Adjectives describe nouns or pronouns.


 * Why are they important:** They let us add detail and description to nouns.


 * Example**:large, small, happy, sad, tall, short, colourful, hairy


 * Sentence**: The __big__, __red__ barn was full of __loud__ animals.

p10 (inside) ||  ||

15 September 2011
We are continuing our ELA Parts of Speech Mini-books.


 * ==**Verbs**== ||  || ==Adverbs== ||   || ==Conjunctions== ||   || ==Interjections== ||   ||
 * **Definition**: A verb expresses an action.


 * Why are they important:** Every sentence MUST have a verb in it.

tackle, jump
 * Example**:run, swim, dance, play, sprint


 * Sentence**: I __jumped__ up and __ran__ to school.

p5 ||  || **Definition**: They describe verbs.


 * Why are they important:** Adverbs make sentences stronger, more exciting and more descriptive.


 * Example**: patiently, beautifully, thoughtfully, carefully


 * Sentence**: The students __thoughtfully__ completed their homework.

p6 ||  || **Definition**: They connect words or groups of words.

//Coordinate Conjunction:// Used to join individual words, phrases, and independent clauses.

//Subordinate Conjunction:// introduces a dependent clause and indicates the nature of the relationship among the independent clause(s) and the dependent clause(s).


 * Why are they important:** Conjunctions help to make sentences more complex.

//Coordinate Conjunction:// and, or, but, so, for, nor, yet
 * Example**:

//Subordinate Conjunction:// because, even though, therefore, however


 * Sentence**: I went to the store __and__ bought some chocolate, __but__ not a Slurpee.

p7 ||  || **Definition**: They show emotion and are followed by an exclamation!


 * Why are they important:**They let us emphasize words and express emotions.


 * Example**: Wow! Stop! Sweet! Hey! OMG!


 * Sentence**:OMG! GROSS! Don't eat that.

p8 ||  ||

12 September 2011
Parts of Speech Mini-Book Entries


 * ==**Parts of Speech Mini-Book**== ||  || ==**What are parts of speech?**== ||   || ==**Nouns**== ||   || ==Pronouns== ||   ||   ||
 * by Derek Hyland

p1 ||  || The building blocks of the English language.

p2 ||  || **Definition**: A person, place, or thing.


 * Example**: house, boy, Derek


 * Sentence**: The __dog__ was in the __yard__.

p3 ||  || **Definition**: take the place of nouns
 * Example**: I, we, they, he, she, him, us


 * Sentence**: __He__ ate __my__ sandwich.

p4 ||  ||   ||