Congratulations!

Congratulations to these students for their excellent grades on their exams!

Manuela R. for a 100% on her social studies Exam

Kent & Mateo for earning a 98% on their social studies exams

Mateo for earning a 100% on his reading comprehension exam

Nathalia for earning the highest grade on the math exam: 92%

Dani for earning a 97% on her science exam

Writing Week!

This week is writing week. Yesterday, we talked about why we write. Today, we will be working on types of writing, the writing timeline, and we will review writing structure, brainstorming, and planning an essay.

Just to help your kids remember, here is the robot structure that we use. If you click on him, he'll get bigger.

Grid Map, Regular Map, Draw a Map

You need to be able to draw a map, like you drew a map of our classroom, your house, and LPV.

This is a grid map:


This is a regular map:

Prepare for Tomorrow

On your final in social studies tomorrow, you will need to know:
1. How to draw a compass rose
2. How to make a map key
3. What a compass rose, map key, and map scale are for
4. North, South, East, West
5. What a cartographer does
6. How to use a grid map
7. How to use a regular map
8. How to draw a map
9. The countries in North and Central America
10. You need to be able to write 1 paragraph about a country in North or Central America

For your book report, you need to make a poster with this information:
1. Title
2. Author
3. Plot
4. Characters, protagonist/antagonist
5. Conflict & Climax
6. Setting

You also need to TYPE 4 journals, 12 SENTENCES each, to answer these questions:
Question 1: In your story, who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist? What are the characters like?

Question 2: What is the setting of your book? (Time and place.) Is it an interesting setting? If you could change the setting, what would you change?

Question 3: What is the main conflict of your story? What is the climax? What is the resolution (the end)?

Question 4: Did you like your book? Why or why not? What did you like? What did you not like? Would you recommend your book to a friend.

If you have a question, email me.

Science Review, Update

If you study what is in the last review, you should do well on the exam.

The differences between deciduous trees, cacti, and evergreen trees are:

1. Cacti live in deserts. They have adapted to the long periods without water by storing water AND protecting the water with needles. The needles are really leaves.

2. Evergreen trees are "ever green" which means they are green all year round. They have needles, too, and they never lose all their needles at once.

3. Deciduous trees are found in deciduous forests. They lose their leaves in the fall and grow new leaves in the spring.

Also, what you need to know about oxygen and carbon dioxide is that they are both part of photosynthesis. Plants need carbon dioxide to create food during photosynthesis, and then they release water, which has oxygen in it. People and animals need oxygen, but we breathe out carbon dioxide. Plants need carbon dioxide and create oxygen. So we need each other.

Science Exam Review

DO NOT FORGET: Your social studies country projects are due TOMORROW. Check out this blog post for more information by clicking on this link.

Your science exam covers cells, plant structure, photosynthesis, and land ecosystems, along with some vocabulary.

Here are the vocabulary words:
Photosynthesis, chlorophyll, ecosystem, food chain, leaves, stem, roots, transpiration, carbon dioxide, oxygen, climate zone, tropical rain forest, deciduous forest, grassland, desert, taiga, tundra, cell, chlorophyll, habitat

For your cell review, look at these posts: Cells and Cell Structure and the Cell Review and answers.

You need to be able to draw a plant cell and label the cell wall, the vacuole, the chloroplasts, cell membrane, vacuole, cytoplasm, mitochondria, chloroplasts, endoplasmic recticulum, ribosomes, and nucleus and nucleolus.

To review plants, read pages 102-103. You need to be able to draw a plant and label it.
You do not have to draw a flower, only the roots, stem, and leaves. Please know what the roots, stem, and leaves do. You should also know the difference between a cactus, a deciduous tree, and an evergreen tree.

You should know how plants can adapt to different ecosystems.

You need to know about photosynthesis. Read pages 104-105 for more information. You need to draw a picture of the photosynthesis process (in your book and notes) and explain what happens in a short essay.


You should know about ecosystems. To study, answer these questions:
1. What is a tropical rain forest like?
2. What is a deciduous forest like?
3. What is a grassland like?
4. What is a desert like?
5. What is the taiga like?
6. What is a tundra like?
7. Why are there different ecosystems? (page 168)
8. What ecosystem has many different types of plants and animals?
9. What are the animals in each ecosystem like?

If you have any questions, leave a comment or send me an email.

Reading Comprehension Answers

Try to match them to these definitions:
1. c
2. L
3. E
4. G
5. D
6. H
7. B
8. K
9. I
10. J
11. F
12. A

13. True
14. True
15. True
16. False

For the rest of the questions, email me your answers or leave them as a comment, and I'll tell you if they are correct. Good luck studying!

Reading Comprehension Review

Your reading final has 5 parts. The first part is vocabulary matching. The second part is true/false questions about fiction. The third part is matching book titles to their genre. The fourth part is short answer questions about the books we have read/are reading. You also have to draw the plot time line. The last section is a reading section with multiple choice questions and short answer questions to answer over the reading. The reading is from our book, Matilda. I will give you a copy and I will read it to you, too.

To study, you should know the definitions for these words:
a. Author
b. Setting
c. Protagonist
d. Antagonist
e. Characters
f. Dialogue
g. Plot
h. Conflict
i. Climax
j. Resolution
k. Narrator
l. Fiction

Try to match them to these definitions:
1. _____________________The main character in the story.
2. _____________________A story that is not real.
3. _____________________People, animals, or objects that do things in a story.
4. ____________________ Events and things that happen in the story, like the conflict, climax and resolution.
5. ____________________ The person who is causing problems for the main character.
6. ____________________ The main problem of the story.
7. ____________________ The place and time of the story.
8. ____________________ The person who tells the story.
9. ____________________ The most intense part of the story, where the conflict reaches its peak.
10. ____________________ The end of the story.
11. ____________________ Conversation in the story.
12. ____________________ The person who wrote the story.

Your true/false questions are about fiction. Here are some practice questions.
13. True/False: Sheila is both the antagonist and protagonist in the story Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great.
14. True/False: Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots is an action story, a mystery story, and a scary story.
15. True/False: The protagonist of a story can be a murderer as long as he is the main character.
16. True/False: The climax is the beginning of the book.

You need to know different types of genres. Try to come up with titles of books (real or not) that would be each genre...
mystery
action
romance
scary
realistic
fantasy

You should be able to draw the plot time line.

*****In our timelines, "exposition" is introduction!! : )
This is a time line of the conflict, or action, that takes place in the story.

You also need to write 5 sentences that explain one of the books we read this term... you can write about Matilda, Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots, or Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great.

Try answering these questions:
1. Why do the 3rd graders at Bailey Elementary think Ms. Jeepers is a vampire?
2. What is Sheila afraid of?
3. Why is Matilda special?

The last section is based on how much you understand when you read. To practice, you should read some books on Raz-Kids.

If you have questions, you can email me or post comments. I'll put the answers up at 6:30 or 7:00.

Just for Mateo and Antonia

Thanks for using the blog, Mateo and Antonia!
Mateo, Here is the blog post you wanted:http://hoyengradoquinto.blogspot.com/2010/09/answers-to-la-review.html. You can also find old posts if you look on the right side of the webpage under "Blog Archives."Also, I just posted a new "second journal question" below. Don't worry about the narrator--although your book DOES have a narrator. We will talk about narrators tomorrow, okay?

Antonia, if you have any more questions tonight, just send me an email. If you study the questions that you did today AND what I put on the blog, you should do really well on your exam.

For the rest of the class, if you need anything, you can send me an email or write a comment. Just be sure to check for an answer because I should write you back really fast!!!

Journals for Book Report, Part 2

I don't like question 2 for your journals. If you already answered it, you can leave it. If not, please use these journal questions instead.

You should TYPE THIS ON A COMPUTER and print it. Bring me the printed copy. I do not want you to email it to me.

You need to write at least twelve sentences.

Question 1: In your story, who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist? What are the characters like?

THIS IS NEW!!!! Question 2: What is the setting of your book? (Time and place.) Is it an interesting setting? If you could change the setting, what would you change?

Question 3: What is the main conflict of your story? What is the climax? What is the resolution (the end)?

Question 4: Did you like your book? Why or why not? What did you like? What did you not like? Would you recommend your book to a friend.

Labels: Reading Plan

Math Review Answers

Page 208:
1. B, because 8.9 = 8.90 (zeros at the end don't change the value), but 3.11 > 3.011 (because zeros before numbers that are after the decimal point DO change the value)
2. C, because 8.11 is bigger than 8.10, 8.01, or 8.00.
3. C, because if you look at the number 38.452 and you want to round to the nearest tenth, the 4 is in the tenth place. So you look behind the 4, at the five. Five is equal to 5, so you round 4 to 5. So the answer is 38.5
4. D, You need to add $3.25 and $0.95 because that is how much money he spent. When you add them together, you get $4.20.
5. A, You need to subtract 2.7 miles from 3.2. Carlotta has to walk 3.2 miles total, and she's already hiked 2.7 miles. To find out how many she has left, you have to subtract.
6. C. Remember to multiply without decimal points and add the decimal point at the end.
7. B, because you round 5.24 to 5 and 0.82 to 1. That means you multiply 5 x 1, which is 5. The closest answer possible is 4, so the answer is B.
8. C. If Neil can type 50 words in ONE minute, and you want to know how many he can type in 7.5 minutes, you need to multiply 50 x 7.5. That gives you 375!
9. A. Don't forget, when you divide decimals, you can add zeros onto the end of the dividend.
10. A, If Alyssa bought 4 pounds of oranges and saved $2.08 total, to find out how much she saved per pound you need to divide. You divide $2.08 by 4, and the answer is $0.52.
11. 0.493 rounded to the nearest tenth is 0.5, rounded to the nearest hundredth it is 0.49
12. The answers are A=0.5, B=1.3, C=2.4, and D=3.6
13. If one wedge of cheese costs $3.95, and the wheel has 8 pieces of cheese, the whole wheel of cheese costs 8 x $3.95, which is about $32. You can round 3.95 to 4, and multiply 4 x 8, which is 32.
14. Andrew's fish weighed more because Simon's two fish together weighed 5.18 kg, but Andrew's two fish together weighed 5.43 kg. You need to add each person's fish to find out how much they weigh together.
15. If you round all the numbers in the chart, most numbers are closer to 20, not 25. That means that $20/hour is a better estimate.

Page 334-335
1. There are 5 stars. 3 of them are colored. That means the fraction is 3/5.
5. The rectangle is divided into twelve parts. 8 parts are green. The original fraction is 8/12. We can divide 8/12 by 4 and get 2/3. 2/3 is the simplest form.
6. Line C, because 2 1/4 is more than 2, and 1/4 is halfway between the whole number and 1/2.
7. B, 1/2. That is because 0.5 is 5/10. We can divide 5/10 by 5, and it becomes 1/2.
8. B, because 1 1/3 is more than one, but not a LOT more than one.
9. In order from least to greatest: 1/4, 3/8, 1/2.
13. 1.4, 2 1/5, 3.7
15. 2/4 = 0.5, 5/10 = 0.5, 7/10 = 0.7, 3/4 = 0.75, 3/5 = 0.6

If you have any questions, please email me or leave a comment!

Math Final

Hey class!! Earlier Antonia asked if this was all you need to study... so, I'm going to tell you exactly what is on your math exam right now!

1. You need to write decimal numbers in word form. (example: 324.42 is three hundred twenty four AND forty-two hundredths)

2. You need to know the value of a digit in a decimal number. For example, in 3.456, the 4 is worth 4 tenths, the 5 is worth 5 hundredths, and the 6 is worth 6 thousandths.

3. You need to compare decimal numbers using <,>, or =. For example, 3.5 = 3.50, but 3.5 > 3.05, and 3.5 < 2 =" 6." style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 500px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/PieChartFraction_threeFourths_oneFourth-colored_differently.svg/500px-PieChartFraction_threeFourths_oneFourth-colored_differently.svg.png" border="0" alt="">

10. You need to be able to write a fraction in the simplest form. Here's an example:


11. You should understand the difference between irregular fractions and mixed numbers.

This picture shows a mixed fraction, 2 1/3:


12. You need to be able to make irregular fractions into mixed numbers and mixed numbers into irregular fractions. To make an irregular fraction a mixed number, you divide the top number (the numerator) by the bottom number (the denominator). So, 10/5 would be 10 divided by 5, which equals 2. 12/11 would be 12 divided by 11, which equals 1 with a remainder of 1, so the answer would be 1 1/11.

To make a mixed number an irregular fraction, you multiply the bottom number times the whole number and add the top number. So, 1 2/3 is 3x1 +2, which equals 5/3.

13. You need to be able to compare fractions using <, >, and =. So, which is bigger 1/2 or 2/3? You need to find a common denominator (use six for this problem). Multiply 1/2 by 3 and 2/3 by 2. You get 3/6 and 4/6. That means 2/3 > 1/2.

14. You need to be able to change decimal numbers into fractions. For example, 0.25 is 25/100, and that can be simplified to 5/20, which can be simplified to 1/4. (Or you can divide 25/100 by 25 and get 1/4!)

I'm posting the answers to the review in just a minute!

Math Final Tomorrow!!

Hey class...

Here are the problems you should do. I'll post the answers around 6:30 or 7:00, okay? If you have a question, leave a comment or send me an email. REMEMBER to check the comments or your email later, because I ALWAYS respond!

Page 208-209, numbers 1 to 15

Page 334-335, numbers 1, 5 to 9, 13, 15

Journals for Book Report

If you haven't already, you should read all the posts before this about your L.A. final. There are a LOT of posts, so make sure you read through them until you have finished all of them. (I think there are around 10 posts.)

For your book report, here are the journal questions. You should TYPE THIS ON A COMPUTER and print it. Bring me the printed copy. I do not want you to email it to me.

You need to write at least twelve sentences.

Question 1: In your story, who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist? What are the characters like?

Question 2: What is the narrator of your story like? Is it a third person or first person narrator? Do you like the narrator? Why or why not?

Question 3: What is the main conflict of your story? What is the climax? What is the resolution (the end)?

Question 4: Did you like your book? Why or why not? What did you like? What did you not like? Would you recommend your book to a friend.

Answers to Verb Review

1. I am / are in 5th grade.
2. We is / were dinosaurs for Halloween.
3. They was / are smart.
4. Were / was you at the club on Friday?
5. He is / are cool.
6. My teacher love / loves her family.
7. Do / does you like chocolate?
8. Did / Do they go to the park?
9. They write / writes stories on the weekends.
10. I has / have a bicycle.

Section 5: Verb Tense
Directions: Choose the correct form of the verb and write it in the blank.
1. I ________________________ to my grandma's house yesterday. (go/went)
2. I ___________________________ some candy to Juan Luis. (sell/sold)
3. We ________________________ (have/had) a lot of fun yesterday.
4. They _______________________ (catch/caught) a robber stealing your money.
5. She _______________________ (fail / failed) term 3.

Spelling Words Fill-in-the-Blank Answers

1. After snack on Thursday, we have sociales and Spanish.
2. “COOL!!!!" yelled Pablo.
3. A place where animals live is their habitat.
4. Cartography is the study of and making of maps.
5. Judy Blue is the author of the Fudge books.
6. Plants are green because of chlorophyll.
7. We need an apostrophe when we make contractions.
8. In fiction, the protagonist is the main character.
9. My favorite genre to read is mystery.
10. The problem in a story is the conflict.

Make sure you know these words, too:
dialogue
quotation
screamed
whispered
asked
suddenly
protagonist
antagonist
narrator
photosynthesis
foreshadow
flashback
cartography
satisfaction
ecosystem
children
mouse
mice
asked
climate

Contractions: No entiendo????

Uh-oh!!! Who doesn't understand???

Remember your song in Grammarsaurus? "Contraction, Contraction, such satisfaction. Squeeze together two words into one. Contraction, contraction, time for subtraction, who knew apostrophes could be so fun?"

The song is about making contractions. You take two words, like you and are, and make you're. Then your sentence would be "You're in fifth grade."

You put an apostrophe in the contraction, between the two words.

Here are the answers:

1. I + am = I'm, as in: I'm going to school tomorrow.
2. We + are = We're, as in: We're going to take a language arts final now.
3. You + are = You're, as in: You're my best friend.
4. They + are = They're, as in: They're in fourth grade.
5. I + would = I'd, as in: I'd like to go to Salento.
6. You + would = You'd, as in: You'd make a great soccer player.
7. They + will = They'll, as in: They'll have a great time in Missouri.
8. are + not = aren't, as in: You are going to the Termales on Saturday, aren't you?
9. you + will = you'll, as in: You'll never guess who is coming to LPV!
10. were + not = weren't, as in: Weren't you going to the movies tonight?
11. are + not = aren't, as in: Aren't you happy here? (same as 8, oops!)
12. is + not = isn't, as in: Isn't it time for snack?
13. was + not = wasn't, as in: That cake was really good, wasn't it?
15. should + not = shouldn't, as in: Shouldn't we study for the test?

Verbs

Class, make sure you read through all the blog posts from today and yesterday. There are a LOT of them!!!!

Verb review:

Section 4: Subject/Verb agreement
Directions: Circle the correct verb so that it matches the subject.
1. I am / are in 5th grade.
2. We is / were dinosaurs for Halloween.
3. They was / are smart.
4. Were / was you at the club on Friday?
5. He is / are cool.
6. My teacher love / loves her family.
7. Do / does you like chocolate?
8. Did / Do they go to the park?
9. They write / writes stories on the weekends.
10. I has / have a bicycle.

Section 5: Verb Tense
Directions: Choose the correct form of the verb and write it in the blank.
1. I ________________________ to my grandma's house yesterday. (go/went)
2. I ___________________________ some candy to Juan Luis. (sell/sold)
3. We ________________________ (have/had) a lot of fun yesterday.
4. They _______________________ (catch/caught) a robber stealing your money.
5. She _______________________ (fail / failed) term 3.

I'll post the answers later.

Contractions

Try these on your own...

1. I + am =
2. We + are =
3. You + are =
4. They + are =
5. I + would =
6. You + would =
7. They + will =
8. are + not =
9. you + will =
10. were + not =
11. are + not =
12. is + not =
13. was + not =
15. should + not =

I'll post the answers later.

Spelling Words Fill-in-the-Blank Practice

Use the words below to fill in the blanks.

fiction, protagonist, antagonist, plot, conflict, climax, character, narrator, author, genre, photosynthesis, structure, chlorophyll, chloroplast, transpiration, foreshadow, flashback, vegetation, topographic, climate, ecosystem, habitat, cartography, contraction, satisfaction, apostrophe, mouse, mice, child, children, After, before, later, then, because, once, suddenly, next, finally, dialogue, quotation, said, yelled, screamed, whispered, asked

1. _________ snack on Thursday, we have sociales and Spanish.
2. “COOL!!!!" _________________________ Pablo.
3. A place where animals live is their ____________________.
4. ______________________________ is the study of and making of maps.
5. Judy Blue is the _________________ of the Fudge books.
6. Plants are green because of _________________________.
7. We need an __________________________ when we make contractions.
8. In fiction, the ___________________________ is the main character.
9. My favorite _________________ to read are mysteries.
10. The problem in a story is the _______________________.

Now, to practice, write sentences using the words that you DID NOT use in the fill-in-the-blanks.

You can email your sentences or answers to me and I will check them. I will post the real answers tonight.

L.A. Final Review, Part 2

Your language arts final is divided into 7 sections.

Section 1: Spelling words. I have chosen 20 different spelling words from Term 3. You will need to spell them correctly.

Section 2: Fill-in-the-blank. Using the spelling words from section one, you will need to fill in the blanks so that the sentences make sense. (10 questions)

Section 3: Contractions. There are ten contractions on your exam. I wrote the original words, and you need to write the contraction.

Section 4: Subject/Verb agreement. In this section, I wrote sentences. I give you the choice between TWO verbs. You need to pick the correct verb, the one that matches the subject. (10 questions)

Section 5: Verb Tense. You need to pick the correct tense of the verb. You will have two choices. (5 questions)

Section 6: There are five sentences that have no capitalization or punctuation. You need to re-write them so they have correct capitalization and punctuation.

Section 7: Dialogue. I've written dialogue. You need to re-write it correctly, using quotation marks, commas, periods, and other necessary punctuation.


REVIEW:
Your spelling words and dialogue/capitalization review have already been posted.

I am going to post the reviews for everything else now.

Answers to L.A. Review

Dialogue practice:
Write this dialogue correctly. I'll post the correct answers tomorrow.

One with mistakes:
help yelled pedro. i fell down into a hole filled with snakes!
oh no! said his friend, roberto. how can i help you
please pull me out whispered pedro i am scared of snakes

Corrected:
"Help!" yelled Pedro. "I fell down into a hole filled with snakes!"
"Oh no!" said his friend, Roberto. "How can I help you?"
"Please pull me out," whispered Pedro. "I am scared of snakes!"

Capitalization and punctuation practice:
Re-write the sentence using correct capitalization and punctuation.

1. miss melodys birthday is in december
2. warren had two sisters their names are lana and sarah
3. someday i want to go to san andres and providencia
4. on thursday i am going to plaza de bolivar
5. what are we going to do on friday

Corrected:
1. Miss Melody's birthday is in December.
2. Warren has two sisters. Their names are Lana and Sarah.
3. Someday I want to go to San Andres and Providencia.
4. On Thursday I am going to Plaza de Bolivar.
5. What are we going to do on Friday?

Spelling Words for your Final

Fiction WOrds
1. fiction
2. protagonist
3. antagonist
4. plot
5. conflict
6. climax
7. character
8. narrator
9. author
10. genre

Science and Social Studies Words:
1. photosynthesis
2. structure
3. chlorophyll
4. chloroplast
5. transpiration
6. foreshadow
7. flashback
8. vegetation
9. topographic
10. climate

Science, Social Studies, and Musical words
1. ecosystem
2. habitat
3. cartography
4. contraction
5. satisfaction
6. apostrophe
7. mouse
8. mice
9. child
10. children

Transitions and Dialogue Words
1. After
2. before
3. later
4. then
5. because
6. once
7. suddenly
8. next
9. finally
10. dialogue
11. quotation
12. said
13. yelled
14. screamed
15. whispered
16. asked

Book Report Oral Presentations

Reading Plan Final Assignment

Directions:
1. You need to pick a chapter book to read from our classroom.
2. You will need to read the whole book.
3. You will need to keep a journal while you read the book. I will give you 4 journal questions that you should answer as you read the book each day. If you are not answering a question one day, please write a 4-5 sentence summary of what you read that day. (I'll explain this more in class.)
4. The journal questions will be on the blog.
5. When you are finished with the book, you will need to give a presentation to the 6. class about the book. This will be your final “oral communication” exam.

Due Dates:
1. You need to read the whole book by Monday, September 13th.
2. I will collect your reading journal on Tuesday, September 14th.
3. You will give an oral presentation over the book on Tuesday, September 14th. The oral presentation is your speaking final.
4. You should make a poster about the book you read for your presentation. The poster should have information on: main characters, protagonist, antagonist, setting, plot, and conflict/climax. It is due on Tuesday, September 14th.

NO POWERPOINTS ACCEPTED.
I will not accept any late speeches.

REMEMBER TO KEEP YOUR BOOK SAFE!!!

Finals Schedule and L.A. Final Update

Hi class!

I just wanted to let you know that tomorrow, you will only take two parts of your writing final. I want more time to review, so I'm making Tuesday's exam longer. On Tuesday, you will have a final over your spelling words, punctuation, contractions, and dialogue.

I will still be grading your writing exam based on content, verbs, punctuation, structure, transitions, and vocabulary.

Here is the schedule for finals:

09/06/10: Writing, Writing dialogue, writing skills
09/07/10: Spelling and Grammar, All spelling words from Term 3 (see blog), contractions, punctuation, dialogue
09/08/10: Math in English, Decimals and Fractions
09/09/10: Reading Comprehension and Elements of Fiction, plot, characters, setting, etc., and reading comprehension
09/10/10: Science exam and Social Studies Projects Due!! Science: cells and ecosystems, Social studies project on blog

09/11/10: Spanish
09/12/10: Oral Book Report Presentations and Social studies skills Skills: using maps
09/13/10: Math in Spanish
09/14/10: Sociales

Social Studies Project

Directions
1. Research Your Country
2. Make a poster about the country
3. The poster should have:
a. a map of the country
b. the capital of the country
c. the important landforms in the country
d. the language of the country
e. the ecosystem of the country
f. the government of the country

Here are the countries you have:
Guatemala, Daniela
Belize, Sofia
El Salvador, Martina
Nicaragua, Luisa
Costa Rica, Nathalia
Panama, Mateo
Hondurus, Manuela M.
Cuba, Antonia
Jamaica, Kent
Haiti, Juan Manuel
Dominican Republic, Manuela R.
Trinidad and Tobago, Pablo
Bahamas, Juan Luis
Barbados, Jorge
Dominica, Laura
Grenada, Juan Felipe

Writing Final

Sorry I haven't posted yet, class. I've had a very busy weekend.

Your writing final will consist of 4 parts: a part where you will need to re-write dialogue with correct punctuation and spelling, a part where you will need to correct capitalization and punctuation, and two essay questions. In one essay question, you will need to write a short fiction piece that has dialogue. The other essay question will be a surprise.

I will be grading: punctuation, spelling, your writing structure, whether or not you use complete sentences and correct grammar, if you use transitions, and your ability to answer the question.

You should practice writing 2-3 paragraphs answering these questions. Remember, each paragraph should have 5 sentences. Use transitions like: first, second, third, then, next, because, therefore, later, before, after, or once. If you want to send me your answer, I can tell you what you need to do better.

1. Think of a day in your life when everything seemed to be going wrong. Tell about it.
2. Tell about a time when you felt proud.
3. What is one of the funniest things that has ever happened to you? Retell the event as completely as you can.
4. Imagine that you come to school and Miss Melody has disappeared. What would you do?

Dialogue practice:
Write this dialogue correctly. I'll post the correct answers tomorrow.

help yelled pedro. i fell down into a hole filled with snakes!
oh no! said his friend, roberto. how can i help you
please pull me out whispered pedro i am scared of snakes

Capitalization and punctuation practice:
Re-write the sentence using correct capitalization and punctuation.

1. miss melodys birthday is in december
2. warren had two sisters their names are lana and sarah
3. someday i want to go to san andres and providencia
4. on thursday i am going to plaza de bolivar
5. what are we going to do on friday