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BELLWORK

ENG III: THE VOICE OF LITERATURE

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BELLWORK DAY THREEPrepare to set up your ENG III notebook.Label your notebook dividers as follows:

1. General Information / Journal Writing2. Learning Target Logs3. Grammar4. Vocabulary 5. Reading 6. Writing

If you only have five tabbed dividers make a label forall of the above but General Information.

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BELLWORK DAY FOURCOPY EACH OF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES.

PROOFREAD THE SENTENCE AND WRITE IT CORRECTLY.

1. I worked this weekend for a entire day just getting ready for this week.

2. I ain’t sure all the work was worth it.3. I had to wash clothes, cook meals, shop for groceries,

and etc.4. I did everything accept enjoy myself.5. Sadly, the affect is that I am extremely tired.

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JOURNAL DAY FOUR

When news (international, national, state, local, family, friends) what are the ways you find out about it. List as many ways as you can think of.

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BELLWORK DAY FIVEPick up handout from the bookcase and complete

on your own. This is INDEPENDENT work, which means it is to be worked on by yourself. That means no one helps you.

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BELLWORK DAY EIGHTPick up the handout from the bookcase and

begin work. USE YOUR OWN PAPER. Please do this work ALONE. Fold your paper in half upon completion and wait quietly for instructions. – Glossary of Usage Review Ex. A.

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BELLWORK DAY NINEJOURNAL WRITINGWrite for five minutes in response to the following

prompt. Be prepared to discuss your thoughts.

What do you know about John Smith? The Jamestown colony?

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BELLWORK DAY TENJOURNAL WRITINGWrite for five minutes in response to the following

prompt. Be prepared to discuss your thoughts.

What is a theme? What themes have you seen in the things we have read so far? List as many as you can think of.

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EXIT TICKET DAY TEN

Exit Ticket: What universal themes do you find in James Smith’s and Richard Frethorne’s writings? Did the themes you identified at the beginning of class change from what you originally wrote? If so, why?

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BELLWORK DAY ELEVENPick up the handout from the bookcase and

begin work. USE YOUR OWN PAPER. Please do this work ALONE. Fold your paper in half upon completion and wait quietly for instructions. – Exercise Three

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BELLWORK DAY TWELVEJOURNAL WRITINGWrite for five minutes in response to the following

prompt. Be prepared to discuss your thoughts.

List the things you might say or do to persuade Ms. Hedrick to let the class have a party tomorrow.

Would you say things that weren’t true to talk her into it?

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BELLWORK DAY THIRTEENTO BE TURNED IN:Write a thesis statement in which you

choose a stance over the following topic:

Many junior high and high schools around the country now require students to spend a certain number of hours each term doing volunteer work or community service. Some people believe this is an excellent idea that promotes good citizenship and cultivates compassion. Others feel that forced volunteerism is not volunteerism at all. How do you feel about this issue?

Make sure that you have all the necessary components of a thesis by marking yours in the following way:

Underline your topic or subject

Draw a square around your claim

Draw a circle around your universal theme(s)

Draw a check mark ( ) over your arguable adverb

Number your three points (1,2,3)

13Taken from Amsco’s Preparing for the ACT: English, Reading, and Writing,

pp.34-35

BELLWORK DAY 14RUN-ON SENTENCES: Copy the notes below. Place in the Grammar Section of your notebook.

A run-on sentence consists of two or more independent clauses with no punctuation or connector between them. Run-on sentences must be corrected.

Run-on: We headed off to the game during the rain the rain stopped before we got there.

Corrected: We headed off to the game during the rain. It stopped before we got there.

[Change the run-on sentence into two separate sentences.]

ORWe headed off to the game during the rain, but it stopped before we got there.

[Use a comma and the connector or conjunction but between the clauses.]

ORWe headed off to the game during the rain; the rain stopped before we got there.

[ Use a semicolon between the clauses.]

14Taken from McDougall Littell’s The Language of Literature: American

Literature, pp 144-147

“The Examination of Sarah Good”Purpose for Reading

1. Summarize your reading. 2. Make a list of loaded language, loaded

questions, and/or propaganda used in the text. 3. What is the author’s purpose? (See your notes

on author’s purpose, if necessary).4. List three specific things from the text that

“prove” to you what the author’s purpose is. 5. Write a thesis statement to state your claim

about the author’s purpose.

15 Taken from Amsco’s Preparing for the ACT: English, Reading, and Writing, p 35

BELLWORK DAY 15COMMA SPLICES: Copy the notes below. Place in the Grammar Section of your notebook.

A comma splice is like a run-on sentence, except that a comma separates the two clauses. Comma splices must be corrected.

Comma Splice: The computer is an invaluable tool, it links together millions of people.

Corrected: The computer is an invaluable tool because it links together millions of people.

[Insert the connecting word or conjunction because to replace the comma.]

ORThe computer is an invaluable tool; it links together millions of people.

[Replace the comma with a semicolon.]

ORThe computer is an invaluable tool. It links together millions of people.

[ Make two separate sentences.]

16Taken from McDougall Littell’s The Language of Literature: American

Literature, pp 150-151

“History Clashes with Commercialism”Purpose for Reading

1. Summarize your reading. 2. Make a list of loaded language, loaded

questions, and/or propaganda used in the text. 3. What is the author’s purpose? (See your notes

on author’s purpose, if necessary).4. List three specific things from the text that

“prove” to you what the author’s purpose is. 5. Write a thesis statement to state your claim

about the author’s purpose.

17Taken from Amsco’s Preparing for the

ACT: English, Reading, and Writing, p 36

BELLWORK DAY 16Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. If a sentence is correct write C after the sentence. You may use your notes from the previous days.

1. I like to use my computer for research when I have to write a paper.

2. Referees in professional football use instant replays for close calls they also use them after the two-minute warning.

3. When I make cupcakes, I usually use a box of cake mix.

4. The officer turned on his siren, the car pulled over to the side of the road.

5. Running through the rain, the player headed toward the clubhouse.

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BELLWORK DAY 17

Pick up the handout from the bookcase. Complete and be ready to discuss.The Crucible Anticipation Guide

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BELLWORK DAY 18 Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. If a sentence is correct write C after the sentence. You may use your notes from the previous days.

1. I couldn’t find my house keys I knew my neighbors had an extra set.

2. It will be a long time before I order takeout from that terrible place again.

3. My clothes are drenched, water is squishing out of my shoes.

4. I sent an “I’m sorry” card to my girlfriend, although I wasn’t sure if she would accept my apology.

5. The doors closed the train started moving.

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BELLWORK DAY 19 Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. If a sentence is correct write C after the sentence. You may NOT use your notes for this exercise.

1. We all went off campus for lunch, we went to the deli.

2. The sun had set the park would be closing soon. 3. After they adopted a puppy, the family spent

many hours training it. 4. I like pizza with pepperoni and sausage Rob

hates mushrooms on his pizza.5. In the fall I’ll go to college, but this summer I’m

working at a movie theater.

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Bellwork Day 20 You have 5 minutes to study for the test on

Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences. Review Bellwork from last week and this week to

study.

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Bellwork Day 21 You may NOT use your notes for this!On YOUR OWN PAPER answer the following

questions:

What are the 5 required parts of a thesis statement?

Summarize the beginning of The Crucible we read yesterday.

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Bellwork Day 22 You have 5 minutes to study. Review notes on:

-Thesis Statements-Summary-Author’s Purpose- Author’s Bias and Assumptions

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Bellwork Day 23Pick up handout from bookcase titled:

“Glossary of Usage Review Exercise B”

You MAY use your notes to complete this exercise.

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Bellwork Day 24Use your own paper to create a list of themes

present in Act One of The Crucible.

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Bellwork Day 25Pick up a “Glossary of Usage Week Four Terms”

sheet from the bookcase.

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Bellwork Day 26On your own paper correct the following sentences.

You MAY use your Glossary of Usage Notes. This WILL be taken up and entered as a formative assessment.

1. Rachel didn’t say nothing to him. 2. There isn’t hardly anything left to eat. 3. I haven’t borrowed but one book from the library

this week. 4. Laura couldn’t hardly make herself heard. 5. What you’re saying doesn’t make no sense to me.

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Bellwork Day 27 On your own paper correct the following sentences. You may

NOT use your Glossary of Usage Notes. This WILL be taken up and entered as formative assessment.

By the time we wrote for tickets, there weren’t none left.

Hasn’t no one in the class read The Crucible?There aren’t but three eggs in the refrigerator.Didn’t you never say nothing about the noise?I haven’t never told no one about our discovery.

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Bellwork Day 28You have 5 minutes as a group to review all

Glossary of Usage terms. Use this time wisely, as you will NOT be able to look at your Glossary of Usage notes during the rest of the class period.

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Bellwork Day 30You have 5 minutes to study for your Summative

Assessment over the Glossary of Usage Terms.

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Bellwork Day 31 Create a list of at least five themes present in The

Crucible.

Keep this list in the READING section of your notebook. We WILL be coming back to it!!

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Bellwork Day 32On your own paper, answer the following prompts about The Crucible. You MAY use your literature book, but you MAY NOT work with a partner or in groups. This WILL be taken up and entered as a Formative Assessment.

1.Describe how Rebecca Nurse’s situation has changed from the beginning of the play.

2.What are your impressions of Reverend Hale? Do you like him or not? Explain your reasoning.

3.What was the setting for Act One? Act Two? Act Three?

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Bellwork Day 33 As a class, complete the Character List that is

written on the board.

Make sure that there is a different reader for each part!

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Bellwork Day 34 You need to get the following materials from the bookcase:

1. One copy of the “Learning Target Logs for Comma Usage.”

2. One folder that has a section of the Warriner’s English and Composition.

35 Taken from Amsco’s Preparing for the ACT: English, Reading, and Writing, p 38

BELLWORK DAY SENTENCE FRAGMENTS: Copy the notes below. Place in the Grammar Section of your notebook.

A sentence must contain a subject and a predicate.

The SUBJECT of a sentence usually tells what the sentence is about.

The PREDICATE of a sentence tells about the subject or tells what the subject is doing.

It must also make sense on its own. A SENTENCE FRAGMENT is a part of a sentence that is written as though it were a sentence but does not meet the three criteria of a complete sentences:

1. It must have a subject.

2. It must have a predicate.

3. It must express a complete thought.

Some sentence fragments may appear to be acceptable sentences.

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