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Tabe of Contents Work with Vocabuary Section Opener... 5 1. Use a Simiar Word: Synonyms... 6 2. Use the Opposite Word: Antonyms... 8 3. Choose the Correct Speing: Homophones... 9 4. Expand Your Vocabuary: Root Words... 11 5. Understand Word Beginnings: Prefixes... 12 6. Understand Word Endings: Suffixes... 13 7. Combine Two Words: Contractions... 14 8. Mind Your Meaning: Denotation and Connotation... 15 9. Show, Don t Te: Descriptive Words... 16 10. Use Informa and Forma Language... 18 11. Use Variety: Literary Devices... 20 Section Review... 22 Buid Sentences Section Opener... 26 12. Use Variety: Types of Sentences... 27 13. Use Variety: Varying Sentence Length... 29 14. Combine Sentences: Compound Sentences...30 15. Expand Sentences: Adding Detais... 31 16. Edit Sentences: Run-On Sentences... 32 17. Know Compete Subjects and Predicates... 33 18. Identify Who or What: Simpe Subjects... 35 19. Identify the Action: Simpe Predicates... 36 20. Identify Who or What: Compound Subjects... 37 21. Identify the Action: Compound Predicates... 38 22. Understand Compound Subjects and Predicates... 39 23. Identify Sentence Parts: Direct and Indirect Objects...40 24. Recognize Independent and Subordinate Causes...42 25. Combine Sentences: Compex Sentences... 44 26. Recognize Causes: Adjective Causes... 46 27. Recognize Causes: Adverb Causes... 47 28. Edit Sentences: Sentence Fragments... 48 29. Edit Sentences: Comma Spices... 50 Section Review... 52 Know Capitaization and Punctuation Section Opener... 56 30. Use Capitas: A Variety of Capitaization... 57 31. Shorten Pace Names: Abbreviations... 58 32. Know the Difference: Abbreviations... 59 33. Set Off Appositives: Commas... 60 34. Punctuate Diaogue: Quotation Marks... 62 35. Show Possession: Apostrophes... 64 36. Separate Items in Lists: Semicoons... 65 37. Introduce a Quotation: Coons... 67 38. Add Less Important Information: Parentheses... 68 39. Guide Readers: A Variety of Punctuation... 69 Section Review... 71 Grasp Grammar and Usage Section Opener... 75 40. Name the Person, Pace, Thing, or Idea: Nouns... 76 41. Show Ownership: Singuar Possessive Nouns... 78 42. Show Group Ownership: Pura Possessive Nouns... 79 43. Make Irreguar Pura Nouns Possessive... 80 44. Use Concrete and Abstract Nouns... 81 45. Identify a Variety of Verbs... 82 46. Provide More Information: Verb Phrases... 84 47. Show When an Action Happens: Verb Tenses... 86 3
48. Make the Past Tense: Irreguar Verbs... 88 49. Use Present Perfect and Past Perfect Tenses... 89 50. Match the Numbers: Subject-Verb Agreement... 91 51. Match the Subject: Linking Verb Agreement... 93 52. Understand Active and Passive Voice... 94 53. Repace Subject Nouns: Subject Pronouns... 96 54. Repace Object Nouns: Object Pronouns... 97 55. Show Ownership: Possessive Pronouns... 98 56. Use Indefinite Pronouns... 99 57. Avoid Repetition: Pronouns... 100 58. Make Pronouns and Antecedents Agree... 102 59. Use a Variety of Pronouns and Antecedents... 103 60. Write Descriptive Words: Adjectives... 104 61. Make Comparisons: Adjectives... 106 62. Describe Actions: Adverbs... 107 63. Write Descriptivey: Adjectives and Adverbs... 108 64. Show Reationships: Prepositions... 109 65. Describe a Noun: Prepositiona Phrases...110 66. Describe a Noun: Participe Phrases... 111 67. Be Cear: Mispaced Modifiers... 112 68. Be Cear: Mispaced and Danging Modifiers... 113 69. Use Joining Words: Correative Conjunctions... 114 70. Express Emotions: Interjections... 115 71. Avoid Doube Negatives... 116 Section Review... 117 Craft and Compose Section Opener... 121 72. Write to Persuade Others: Choosing a Topic... 122 73. Link Purpose, Voice, and Form: Purpose and Audience... 124 74. Make a Caim: Effective Theses... 125 75. Create a Persuasion Map: Organizing Ideas... 126 76. Lead with a Statistic: Strong Openings... 127 77. Weave Setting into the Action: Writing Detais... 129 78. Back Up Your Argument: Supporting Detais... 131 79. Order by Importance: Arranging Detais... 133 80. Add Emotion and Reaism: Writing Diaogue... 134 81. Make Language Concise: Avoiding Wordiness... 136 82. Restate Your Argument: Strong Concusions... 138 83. Catch Your Readers Attention: Effective Tites... 140 84. Remove Unnecessary Words: Revising... 141 85. Correct A Errors: Editing... 143 Section Review... 145 Deveop Research Skis Section Opener... 149 86. Decide What to Research: Inquiry Questions... 150 87. Improve Your Vocabuary: Researching Words... 152 88. Conduct Onine Research: Keywords... 153 89. Evauate Bias: Primary and Secondary Sources... 155 90. Research Onine: Evauating Websites... 156 91. Understand Digita Footprints... 157 92. Use Creative Commons Materia... 158 93. Credit Your Sources: Citing Research... 159 94. Keep a Working Bibiography: Research Notes... 160 95. Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Quoting... 162 Section Review... 164 Index... 168 4 Tabe of Contents
Sampe Lesson: Leve G (Grade 9) LESSON 8 SHOW POSSESSION: APOSTROPHES When you want to show possession or ownership, foow these rues for apostrophes ( ): For singuar nouns (incuding those ending in s), add apostrophe + s. For exampe: my sister s car means the car beonging to my sister For pura nouns ending in s, add ony an apostrophe. For exampe: my sisters car means the car beonging to severa of my sisters For pura nouns not ending in s, add apostrophe + s. For exampe: the women s car means the car beonging to severa women For two or more nouns that own something together, make ony the ast noun possessive. For exampe: my brother and sister s car means the car beonging to my brother and sister For two or more nouns that each owns something separatey, make each of the nouns possessive. For exampe: my brother s and sister s cars means the car that beongs to my brother and the car that beongs to my sister A. For each scenario beow, underine the answer that uses apostrophes correcty. 1. My mom and dad each own a bicyce. 2. The chidren share a scooter. a) My mom s and dad s bicyces. a) The chidrens scooters. b) My mom and dad s bicyce. b) The chidren s scooter. B. Expain the meaning of each phrase beow, based on the pacement of the apostrophes. 1. My friends cottage: 2. My friend s cottage: 3. My friends cottages: The cottage beongs to severa friends The cottage beongs to one friend Their are severa cottages and they beong to severa friends C. Write a sentence about camping that shows a possessive reationship between each pair of words beow. 1. tent / poe: When we went camping, we had troube keeping the tent s poe in the ground. 2. canoes / paddes: When the storm came, a of the canoes paddes got bown into the ake. D. Find a partner and write two new sentences using the word pairs in Exercise C. Know Capitaization and Punctuation 12 Preview Materia Appication exercises encourage students to use rea-word texts, their peers, and their own portfoios to deepen their earning.
Sampe Section Opener The openers introduce the section concepts. They aso provide fun and reatabe exampes to demonstrate the importance of the skis covered in the section. Deveop Research SkIs Research is not just what you do to find an answer. Research is an essentia part of earning and an important part of the writing process. The methods you use for your research wi affect the quaity of the information you get, whether you are researching the parts of a pant to abe a diagram in a science report or a historica time period to make a story character s diaogue more reaistic. Good information makes good writing: what you put in, you get out. In this section, you wi earn about the skis that make an effective researcher. Research is formaized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neae Hurston page_13_research_ski_intro.indd 133 Preview Materia Deveop Research Skis 133 7/10/15 10:15 AM 13