Parts of a sentence

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Sentences

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Position Essay

Position Essay

More Topics

1. Is global climate change man-made?

2. Is the death penalty effective?

3. Is our election process fair?

4. Do colleges put too much stock in standardized test scores?

5. Is torture ever acceptable?

6. Should men get paternity leave from work?

7. Is a lottery a good idea?

8. Do we have a fair taxation system?

9. Do curfews keep teens out of trouble?

10. Is cheating out of control?

11. Are we too dependent on computers?

12. Are parents clueless about child predators on the Internet?

13. Should animals be used for research?

14. Should cigarette smoking be banned?

15. Are cell phones dangerous?

16. Are law enforcement cameras an invasion of privacy?

17. Are test scores a good indication of a school's competency?

18. Do we have a throw-away society?

19. Is child behavior better or worse than it was years ago?

20. Should companies market to children?

21. Should the government have a say in our diets?

22. Does access to condoms prevent teen pregnancy?

23. Does access to condoms lead to irresponsible, dangerous, or bad behavior?

24. Are actors and professional athletes paid too much?

25. Are CEOs paid too much?

26. Do violent video games cause behavior problems?

27. Should creationism be taught in public schools?

28. Are beauty pageants exploitive?

29. Should English be the official language in the United States?

30. Should the racing industry be forced to use biofuels?

31. When should parents let teens make their own decisions?

33. Should the military be allowed to recruit at high schools?

34. Should the alcoholic drinking age be increased or decreased?

35. Does age matter in relationships?

36. What age is appropriate for dating?

37. Should gay couples be able to marry?

38. Are there benefits to attending a single-sex school?

39. Does boredom lead to trouble?

40. Does participation in sports keep teens out of trouble?

41. Is competition good?

42. Does religion cause war?

43. Should the government provide health care?

44. Should girls ask boys out?

45. Is fashion important?

46. Are girls too mean to each other?

47. Is homework harmful or helpful?

48. Should students be allowed to grade their teachers?

49. Is the cost of college too high?

50. Is college admission too competitive?

Position Essay Topics

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PRACTICE ACTIVITY

Personal Portfolio Rubric

Kids, remember your parents need to evaluate your Personal Portfolio using the following rubric, click here to open file,  print it and hand it to me as soon as possible. If you don´t have your portfolio, give it to your parents to be evaluated as soon as you receive it back.

I´m very proud of the work and effort of each Personal Portfolio you presented!!!!!!

See you tomorrow
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Clauses and Phrases

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SENTENCE COMBINING PRACTICE

ACTIVITY 1

Transition Words Practice

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Conjunctions Review

COMBINING SENTENCES

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DICTATORS

http://www.strategyplanet.com/tropico/dictators.shtml

http://www.sporcle.com/games/CJPOLY/famous_dictators

http://www.parade.com/dictators/index.html

http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/presidentsanddictators/Presidents_and_Dictators_in_Latin_America.htm

http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/presidentsofmexico/p/08pordiazbio.htm

SPEAK OUT TOPICS

Pet peeve speech topics on people:

• Drivers that don't look when they change lanes.
  
• Slow drivers in the fast lane.
  
• Rude acting sports fans.
  
• Slow service at a restaurant.
  
• Consultants who tell you what to do because your boss don't dare.
  
• Parents that don't parent their kids.
  

More public speaking topics on awful people:

• who lock their animals in a car.
  
• who don't think for themselves.
  
• who let their children scream and shout in a restaurant.
  
• who talk on their cell phones while driving.
  
• who think they own the world.
  
• who talk during movies at the movie theater.
  
• who are overly optimistic and happy.
  
• who say cool all the time.
  
• who are making a scene in public.
  
• who don't turn off their cell phone at the movies.
  

And three pet peeve speech topics about companies:

• that raise the pay of chief executives in bad economic times.
  
• that don't return calls of job applicants.
  
• who blame you for their own mistakes.
  

Objects and situations are great sources for things that peeves you:

• Suv's and Hummers.
  
• Awful kid names - is it a girl or a boy?
  
• Cliches of sports athletes.
  
• Customer service people that don't understand what service is.
  
• Higer gas prices because of natural disasters.
  
• Complaints about a nipple but not on murders on televison.
  
• Promo spots in news programs.
  
• Automatic paper towel dispensers.
  
• And it really peeves that I can't come up with more pet peeve speech topics...
  

This is a list of speech topics that get on my nerves and I can't stand. Take them if you like. Or find your own peeve speech topic:

1. Look around and select a situation, object or person you feel strongly about.
   
2. Read a news paper and choose a current controversial event, for example an election candidate or so. Note your opinion.
   
3. Think about things you like and that are threatened by for example government regulation. Those issues can be very good and effective pet peeve speech topics.
   

 

Why We Need Unions.

Main Point I	Unions save jobs.
Main Point II	Negotiate settlements, pays and contracts.
Main Point III	Help you with solving work related problems and issues.
Main Point IV	Prevent abuse of employees.

 

 

 

 

The Negative Effects of a Single Parent Family.

Main Point I	Financial concerns cause stress for children.
Main Point II	The child misses real roots and develops separation anxiety.
Main Point III	Disagreement on custody arrangements.

 

Felons Should Be Allowed to Vote in Every State.

Main Point I	If felons should be able to vote they could influence close call elections.
Main Point II	Felons pay their debt to society so their civil rights, including the right to vote, should be restored.
Main Point III	Blocking felons' voting rights often is based on racial arguments.

 

Wind Power Turbines Use Too Much Land Area.

Main Point I	The safety zone of one single wind turbine about 4 to 6 acres is far more than the space needed for a conventional power plant.
Main Point II	Wind power turbines need up to 40 acres of free space to be efficive.
Main Point III	Access roads, transformator stations and lines to distribute the electricity demand extra land area too.

 

We Can Not Stop Illegal Immigration From Mexico.

Main Point I	The borders between the United States and Mexico borders are significantly under-patrolled.
Main Point II	Widespread unemployment and poverty drives Mexican civilians to look for a job in the US.
Main Point III	The fines and sanctions for US employers who hire illegal immigrants is low.

Historical figures, events, periods and movements, and timelines are very good sources for information speech topics. Here are some examples people very much like to hear a public speaker talking about:

1. Different year calendars in our history
   
2. The rise and fall of Carthage
   
3. Celtic myths and legends
   
4. Hieroglyphs - The story of the Rosetta Stone
   
5. The Inca and Maya civilisations
   
6. The mummification process
   
7. Famous orders of knighthood in the Middle Ages
   
8. The different theories about how the pyramids are build
   
9. How senators rule the Roman Empire
   
10. The meaning of Stonehenge
    

And what do you think of these famous periods and events? Research the following questions and the information speech topics will flow out of your pen:

1. What happened? When? How? Where?
   
2. What was the value or impact?
   
3. What are the major parts and facts?
   
4. Why was this age or period important?
   
5. Who played a major role?
   

Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Cold War Crusades Enlightenment French Revolution     Information Age Mesopotamia Kingdom

Middle Ages Modern Age Nuclear Age Prehistory Reformation Renaissance Romanticism Victorian Age Viking Age

 

Another list of information speech topics: famous historical figures and people. Tell their story, tell how they made the difference.

Abraham Lincoln Adam Smith Albert Einstein Alexander Graham Bell     Alexander the Great Alfred Nobel Andy Warhol Archimedes Augustus Ayatollah Khomeini Benjamin Franklin Caligula Captain James Cook Charles de Gaulle Claude Monet Cleopatra Confucius David Livingstone Dwight Eisenhower Elizabeth I Erasmus Florence Nightingale Franklin D Roosevelt Galileo Galilei George Washington

Hannibal Harry S Truman Henry Kissinger Henry VIII Ho Chi Minh Imhotep Isaac Newton Jack the Ripper Jean-Jacques Rousseau     Joan of Arc John Adams John F Kennedy John Maynard Keynes Joseph Stalin Julius Caesar King Arthur King Tutankhamun Konrad Adenauer Leonardo da Vinci Louis Pasteur Mao Zedong Marco Polo Margaret Thatcher Marie Curie Martin Luther

Martin Luther King Mary, Queen of Scots Maximilien Robespierre Michelangelo Mohandas Gandhi Napoleon Bonaparte Nelson Mandela Nero Nicholas II Tsar of Russia Pablo Picasso Pol Pot Rameses the Great Rembrandt Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Sigmund Freud Thomas Jefferson Tiberius Titus Vasco da Gama Vincent Van Gogh Vladimir Lenin William Shakespeare Winston Churchill Woodrow Wilson

How to research your information speech topics about historical people? Well, check this out:

• What is a good description of him or her?
  
• What were his or her goals?
  
• What does the biographer say?
  
• Did the historical figure belong to a movement or group?
  
• What are the most important facts or achievements?
  
• What are his or her values, theories or beliefs?
  
• What do other people think of the figure? Controversial? Why?
  

Each answer can lead to new and focused information speech topics.

Maximise the Power of Your Brain - Tony Buzan MIND MAPPING

Parts of Speech

SOME LINKS WITH INFORMATION

Paragraph structure exercise

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/tpara1.html

 

7 types of paragraphs

http://groups.apu.edu/practicaltheo/LECTURE%20NOTES/Shrier/8%20paragraph%20types.pdf

 

Examples of seven types of paragraphs

http://newsroom101.com/longleaf/ggrow/modes.html

 

Note Taking and Mind Maps

http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/09/15/how-to-take-notes/

 

 

WRITING GUIDE

FIRST BIMESTER 2011-2012

WRITING GUIDE

• MIND MAPS
• TAKING NOTES
• PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE
• TYPES OF PARAGRAPHS
• WRITING PROCESS
• WRITING TRAITS
• SIMPLE VERB TENSES
• PARTS OF SPEECH

Subject and Verb Agreement

Names _________________________________________________________________


Underline the correct verb form. EXAMPLES: The cow and the horse (eat, eats) hay every night. “

1. The world (change, changes) so rapidly that we can hardly keep up.

2. People (is, are) often ten or twenty years behind the times in their knowledge of the world.

3. People who (live, lives) in poverty often do not even have television or newspapers.

4. He (doesn’t, don’t) want to be killed.

5. Life (is, are) very complicated

6. Traditionally, college students (has, have) been very active in politics.

7. There (is, are) both men and women at the meeting.

8. The students in my class (has, have) very poor work habits.

9. Each of you (has, have) an equal chance to make good grades.

10. All of the children (was, were) hunting Easter eggs in the garden.

11. A notebook and a pen (is, are) lying on the desk in the library.

12. My son, along with two friends, (is, are) coming for the weekend.

13. Sitting on the sofa (was, were) two students from Thailand.

14. Either the workers or the manager (is, are) coming to the conference.

15. Not only the students, but also the teacher (has, have) been unhappy.

16. Everybody (hate, hates) to take tests.

17. Knowledge gained after long study (disappear, disappears) rapidly from our minds.

18. One of my greatest worries in college (was, were) that I would study hard and still flunk important tests.

19. Georgia Southern University (provide, provides) some scholarships for the students.

20. The news about Afghanistan (is, are) shocking, isn’t it?

 

Read each sentence below. Choose the correct verb that agrees with the subject. Write the answer n the line.

1. Billy _______________ to buy a new skateboard. (want, wants)

2. Those two boys _______________ to buy new skateboards. (want, wants)

3. Grandpa _______________ a hamburger for dinner. (cook, cooks)

4. Grandma and Grandpa _______________ dinner together. (cook, cooks)

5. The dogs _______________ when the mail carrier comes. (growl, growls)

6. The brown dog _______________ when someone comes in. (growl, growls)

7. All three computers ______________ when you turn them on. (beep, beeps)

8. That computer _______________ when you turn it on. (beep, beeps)

9. The basketball _______________ across the court. (roll, rolls)

10. Three tennis balls _______________ across the court. (roll, rolls)



Circle the correct answer

1. There ____________ several reasons why you should reconsider your decision.

ARE IS

2. Howard and Vincent, who ____________ a copy center in town, have decided to expand their business.

RUNS RUN

3. The fishing boat that has been tied up at the pier for three days ____________ finally on its way this morning.

WAS WERE

4. The chairman, along with his two assistants, ____________ to attend the annual convention.

PLAN PLANS

5. The issues of inflation and tax reform ____________ to be on everyone's mind.

CONTINUE CONTINUES

September 22

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Good Listener

Good Listener

WRITING WORKSHOP 9

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Writing Workshop

How to Make a Mind Map - The Basics

Types of Paragraphs

Seven types of paragraphs

Paragraph Song and Lesson- intro to writing paragraphs

Paragraphs

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Paragraph Song and Lesson- intro to writing paragraphs

ESSAYS

SPEAK OUT

Rachel Corrie, a speech in the fifth grade elementary

World Environment Day , RECYCLE TO KEEP OUR WORLD ALIVE!

CAREFUL WHILE YOU DRIVE

Maasai Culture

FIFTH BIMESTER ACTIVITIES

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PET PEEVE EXAMPLE

Example

PET PEVEES

• People who never listen to you. Just because you don't talk very often, they think you have nothing significant to say.

• People who are so reserved and cold that nothing seems to get them to react to stuff, either good or bad.

• People at work - those who shake hands everyday, for no apparent reason.

• People who insist that you call their pet by its, sorry his name and not Dog.

• People, sorry poets who think of others not as people, but as audience.

• People singing along with the walkman or iPod turned on loud.

• People talking on cell phones in the cinema hall about the movie or about his life, about his plans for tomorrow or over the next 30 years. Who cares???

• People who say they aren't hungry and later finish off your lunch.

• People who crack their knuckles, neck, back and all possible bones of their body.

• When people say, "I always wished that you reach this level of maturity soon. Better late than never".

• People who hang up and never call back again.

• People complaining that you never answer/return their call.

• People giving you that "Is he sane?" look while you are using your bluetooth headset.

• People making simple things complex while speaking, just to prove how complicated and intelligent their idea is.

• People posing attitude, Every time while talking to you, with the intent to prove what you are saying is wrong. More so, on a DeeP philosophical note.

• People seeking your attention with out-of-the-box and surprising queries, since they know otherwise you won't listen.

• People, using, too many, commas, when not, necessary. These could be the ones who pause too much while talking, PAU-sitive thinkers.

• People smiling and laughing aloud on anything and everything, irrespective of whether it's funny, serious or offending.

• People sneezing 6 times in a row, and when you think it's over, there comes another.

• When people say "It's time to move on, man!" It's more of a worthless drivel.

• People who talk to the computer, the teddy bear or other non-living objects.

• People who make bodily function noises in public.

• People who pick their nose, teeth & scratch their body in public.

• People who constantly change TV channels and say "I've got to get more knowledge in the least amount of time".

• People who just pretend that they are listening, while you are talking.

• People saying "be practical" as a solution for every miserable thing you experience.

• Ppl usin shot foms 4 evrtin

• People who block your mail ID to avoid chatting with you.

• People who call you to check if you are ok, when you have blocked their mail ID to avoid chatting with them.

• People who overuse the word "I mean". I mean, Whatt?

• People who talk to you or on phone while brushing teeth.

• People who are nothing but annoying in all they say, they do, they don't do, they move, they sit or even if they sleep. Each act has to be extremely irking so that they live up to your expectations.

• People who go away from you and say things in a low voice and expect you to 'Hear' and 'Respond'.

• People who don't find my poor jokes funny

• Bald people who won't let go of, those last two strands of precious hair

• People who don't maintain eye contact with you, while talking.

• People who laugh, while staring at the monitor.

• People who sing when you are talking to them.

• People repeatttting a letter to emphasize what they want to sayyyyyyy.

• People who keep their bike keys in the bike storage rack and then lock it. Just to keep the keys safe!

• People taking their feet inside the car long after it has started off.

• People who don't know that setting an alarm on the cellphone does not cost you a penny.

• When people use double spacing at the end of every sentence, and uniformly throughout the content.

• When people opine and give free advice after everything you say, because they think 'you can't think for your own self'.

• When people correct your grammar, and expect we do the same when they go wrong, and ignore us when we do so.

• When people invest in firms and make huge hoardings for publicity, and don't care to check if the spelling is write, sorry right. e.g. Loose weight, don't loose your confidence.

• When people think they can do away with things 'cos you are too dumb to distinguish between the right and the wrong.

• In the course of discussion, when people drift from one topic to another and the next one and more and… what was I talking about? Oh, forget it...

• When people keep saying "I knew this would happen".

• When you talk to one of the identical twin sisters for an hour, thinking that she's the other twin. It's pretty distracting, how can God be so perfect!

• When Internet connection goes and comes back only to say that you are timed out.

• People touching your PC monitor to show you the exact sentence and word.

• A chat over the Internet that baffles you and says "OMG, haww du ya lyv widaut noeing slangz?????

• People who copy your status messages regularly.

• People who believe that chain mails can make their wish come true.

• People who don't allow you to copy their status messages, as if they own the copyright.

• Every time you want to use the washroom, there is somebody in there.

• When your gift is wrapped from all sides with lots of stick tape, and very less paper.

• Words like C'mon, What now?, Gimme a break, I don't think so.

• A bike mirror reflecting the sun's rays into your eyes.

• Potholes, Manholes and Speed breakers!

• Pollution and population

• Slapping scenes in daily soaps, where the sound resonates thrice along with the action clip.

• Mosquitoes feasting on you like they have never tasted blood before.

• Birds flying in flocks together without having to follow traffic signals and still not bumping into one another.

• Mosquitoes, bugs, spiders, rats and lizards, not necessarily in the same order.

• A group of 3-4 dogs bark at you like they'll take a bite of you. And then you realize that their intention is simply barking!

• My fave pet peeve is when I say things unintentionally and it hurts people badly.

• Spam mails

• Fake smile

Elevator - Pet Peeves

Carry Your Cross

CAPITALIZATION

Rules

ABBREVIATIONS, March 9

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ABBREVIATIONS

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Transitions and connectors

Irregular Verb List

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