October 27, 2009

Homework:
All- Finish unit 3
Section 1,6,7 page 7,10 worksheet


Today:
Buzzword
Reviewed Completing the Sentence
Reviewed subject/predicate worksheet
Lessons 3 and 4

Buzzword and Extra:
October 27, 2009
paternal (adjective) \puh-TER-nul\
What does it mean?
1 : fatherly
2 : related through the father
How do you use it?
Uncle Vern, my wacky paternal uncle, often tells me stories about the mischief he and my dad got into as little boys.
Are you a word wiz?
"Paternal" has its beginnings in the Latin word "pater," which means "father." Which of the words below do you think is also from "pater"?
A. parent
B. patent
C. patient
D. patriot

Even though your pater may be a patently patient parent, the word "patriot" is the only one in our list that is related to "pater." English speakers actually learned "patriot" from a French word that meant "someone from one's own country." That French word descended from the Latin "patria," meaning "lineage," and "patria" came from "pater." We only listed one "pater" descendant, but that root has given English many other words, including "patron" (which refers to a customer in a store) and "expatriate" (a synonym of the verb "exile").


Which answer best completes the word?
The dessert was delicious, but the main course was taste_____.
I regained conscious_____ soon after the surgery was complete, and my teeth didn’t hurt a bit.
You can tell by the way that Mr. Walters always wears a suit and tie that he is a respect_____ fellow.



Grammar Lessons:
Lesson 3: Simple Predicates, or Verbs (page 10)

The simple predicate, or verb, is the main word or words in the complete predicate.

Prairie pioneers lived in sod houses.
Few trees grew in the prairie grasslands.

A verb is a word used to express an action, a condition, or a state of being.
Linking verbs- am, is, are, was, were, appears, seems, feels, and others

He is the president.
He was happy to be alive.
Pioneers made sod bricks.

Practice and Apply
1. My great-grandparents lived in a sod house, or soddy, on the great Kansas prairie.
2. They traveled west from their home in Tennessee.
3. The men used nearly and acre of sod for the house.
4. The home had only two windows and one door.
5. My family built their soddy in the side of a hill.
6. Sometimes the cows ate through the roof of the house.
7. Once, a cow fell through the roof into the house.
8. Heavy rains at times soaked through the sod.
9. The dirt floor turned into a giant mud puddle.
10. Still, sod houses protected my family from the harsh winters.

Lesson 4: Verb Phrases (page 12)

A verb phrase is made up of a main verb and one or more helping verbs.
A “smart house” may cook your food for you.

Main verb and Helping Verbs
A main verb can stand by itself as the simple predicate.
Computer networks run smart houses.
The network is the brain of the house. (linking verb)

Common helping verbs
Forms of be- am, is, are, was were, be, been (sometimes a linking verb)
Forms of do- do, does, did
Forms of have- has, have, had
Others- may, might, can, should, could, would, shall, will

Practice and Apply
1. The first “smart house” was developed in the early 1980s.
2. Its appliances could communicate with each other.
3. Suppose you were running the vacuum cleaner.
4. The noise might keep you from hearing the phone.
5. In that situation, the house would stop the vacuum cleaner automatically.
6. Those with disabilities may benefit the most from a smart house.
7. The house will perform some of the tasks beyond their capability.
8. For example, meals could be brought to a person’s bed.
9. The food will have been prepared by a smart kitchen.
10. Surely, you can imagine other uses for a smart house.