"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." ~Charles W. Eliot
Sentence Patterns: (S V = a complete sentence, also known as an independent clause) Appositive (inside commas, renames the noun, e.g., Mr. Kittner, my English teacher, loves Wake Forest.) SP 0: S V, conjunction S V. SP 1: S V ; S V.
SP 1a: S V ; connector , S V. SP 3: S V : S V. (general : specific) SP 10: S V: one word or a list. SP 4: A , B , C (series without a conjunction) SP 4a: A and B and C (series with conjunctions) SP 5: A and B , C and D , E and F (balanced pairs) SP 6: Appositive, appositive, appositive -- summay word S V. (summary words: such, all, those, this, many, each, which, what, these, something, someone)
2009-2010 Classroom Reading:
_Hidden Talents_ -David Lubar
_Nothing But the Truth_ -Avi
"The Trouble with Television" -Robert MacNeil
_The Giver_ -Lois Lowry
from _I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings_ -Maya Angelou
from _Sharing in the American Dream_ -Colin Powell
"A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr." -Alice Walker
"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue -- you sell him a whole new life." -Christopher Morley
"When I get a little money, I buy books; if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -Erasmus
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." -Mark Twain
"People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people." -Will Rogers
AR tests Mr. Kittner has taken during the '10-'11 School Year:
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Caught by Harlan Coben Box Out by John Coy Cryptic Hunters by Roland Smith Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger Diary of a Wimpy Kid V: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney Blueby Joyce Moyer Hostetter I.Q: Independence Hallby Roland Smith Sabotaged by Margaret Peterson Haddix The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army/Navy Game by John Feinstein Tentacles by Roland Smith Med Head by James Patterson
1. B. Porter (465.9) 2. K. Yonkofski (389.6) 3. D. Woody (379.1) 4. Joa. Jones (269.1) 5. T. Strassburg (268.9) 6. M. Lybarker (267.8) 7. J. Russell (259.2) 8. J. Bowman (248.2) 9. S. Wright (244.8) 10. C. Hughes (241.3)
Congratulations! to the AR Top Ten for 2008-2009:
1. C. Surface (468.6) 2. Z. Hawkins (421.6) 3. S. Ashley (395.4) 4. Z. Hill (361.1) 5. A. Wade (360.2) 6. H. Freeman (343.8) 7. S. Schuster (336.0) 8. J. Holcomb (300.5) 9. A. Sanchez (280.2) 10. C. Gray (261.6) *Mr. Kittner (387.2)
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