Monday night: Pictionaries 1-20 unit 6 and three-column chart (divide the units words into nouns, verbs, adjectives)
Tuesday night: Choosing the Right Word
Wednesday night: Completing the Sentence
Thursday night: Finish the unit and study for quiz
Friday: Quiz on unit 6
Today:
We reviewed the comma rules from Friday's class using the responders.
We listened to the words from unit 6.
We discussed the following punctuation rules for dialogue and worked on correcting the exercise at the end:
Sample to explore:
“Flowers have meaning,” said Sophie.
Sophie said, “Flowers have meaning.”
“Flowers,” Sophie said, “have meaning.”
“Flowers have meaning,” said Sophie.
“What do flowers mean?” I asked.
Did you say, “I am the coolest guy”?
Did you ask, “Are you going today?”
“A rose,” he said, “means love.”
“A rose usually means love,” he said. “Sometimes it means treachery.”
Exercise page 261
The Language of Flowers
(Be sure to indent.)
“I want to send Megan flowers,” Jay said.
“Are you nuts”? asked Dan. “She’ll think you like her.”
“I do,” said Jay, and I want her to know it. Now help me look up in this book which flowers mean what.”
Dan agreed that “he would help.”
“Look!” said Jay. Irises mean faithfulness and courage.”
Dan suggested that “he send pansies,” which mean “I’m thinking of you.”
“Good,” Jay said.
“Geraniums,” said Dan, “mean happiness”.
Jay decided “he had enough ideas.
