Week 24 Admission Ticket

For your final admission ticket, list the three verb moods below, then identify the mood of each of the following sentences:

1.
2.
3.

If I were a butterfly, I'd float on the breeze.

Be a butterfly!

Butterflies float on the breeze.

Weeks 22 and 23 Admission Tickets

When class began yesterday, I put an admission ticket onto the board for Week 22. Those who were absent can bring it to me next week:

The four sentence ____________ are ___________, compound, ___________ and ___________-_____________.

Find the compound-complex sentence below:

The boy hit the ball.

When the boy hit the ball, he ran around the bases fast.

When the boy hit the ball, he ran around the bases fast, but the outfielder caught the fly ball.

The boy hit the ball , but the fielder caughter it in the air.

The admission ticket for Week 23 is to write a tongue twister. I'll give an extra ticket to students who include four or more vocabulary words and/or words of four or more syllables AND memorize it to recite for the class.

Week 21 Admission Ticket

Identify as many prepositional phrases and adjectival modifiers in the following as you can find:

She was wearing a long black raincoat with a red silk scarf tied loosely around her neck. She kept her coat on but took off the scarf and tucked it into her left pocket. She shook hands stiffly with both of Nick's parents before sitting down on the chair to the left of the couch. Nick's mom and dad sat on the couch, and Nick sat on the rocking chair that faced Mrs. Chathan across the low coffee table.

Week 20 Admission Ticket

CC families,

I am sending this so late. Sorry! For tomorrow, write the answers to the following questions:

1. What are the four types of verbs?
2. What are the two verb numbers?
3. What are the three verb persons?
4. What are the two verb voices?
5. What are the three verb tenses?
6. What are the four verb forms?

Week 17 Admission Ticket

I know it's much earlier than I usually post, but since I know what I'd like them to do...

Write from memory (or copy if necessary) our Sentence Classifications chart (Chart A). Bring it to me on Tuesday in return for your gilded coupon.

Week 16 Admission Ticket

For the Week 16 Admission Ticket, I will ask each student to spell one of the IEW Lesson 16 vocabulary words. I'll only ask one, but they should know how to spell all four! See you Tuesday.

Gilded Coupon Campaign Donation

Essentials families,

How it can possibly be December 16 already, I cannot fathom! I feel like we just ended Week 12. I guess the good news is we'll see one another sooner rather than later! :)

I am writing to update you on our Gilded Coupon Campaign donation to Wycliffe on behalf of Moriah's family. The students earned $87 in tickets, which I will match for an initial total of $174. Then they gave out of their own pockets $102, which the sponsors will triple to $306. All told, we are able to give $481. Isn't that exciting! Thank you to students and parents for a fabulous semester of diligent writing and grammar study.

Also, thank you for the myriad of trinkets and treasures I received. The day of Week 12 happens so quickly -- I don't even really know what came from whom, but I know I received several gifts. They just kept popping up! I want you to know I appreciate your thoughtfulness and love.

Interestingly, on the CBS news show this morning, the anchors were making up haiku poems to accompany a story and hinted that they should begin a holiday haiku tradition. I can't wait to hear your holiday haikus on January 3!

Here's one to get you started:

Baby Jesus sleeps
Adoring parents kneel, for
Unto us a child is born

Merry Christmas!

Mrs. Erin

Week 12 Admission Ticket

To earn your Week 12 admission ticket, collect and organize the tickets you've earned this semester. Count them (remember, one square equals one ticket -- don't tear it into two pieces and count it as two) and write down how many you have. Put them in a safe place, such as a ziplog bag in your notebook, and bring them to class. We will add them to the tickets you receive for returned papers, the paper due this week, and additional admission tickets to tally your total.

Also decide how much, if any, money you'd like to contribute for our sponsors to match. Bring it on Tuesday, too.

Thanks! See you in two days. :)

Week 11 Admission Ticket

Put your IEW vocabulary words into ABC order, and turn them in to me on Tuesday to receive your admission ticket.

Also, stay tuned for a post concerning ticket redemption on Week 12...

Week 10 Admission Ticket

Complete the following sentence with a noun that renames you. For example, I could say, "I am a teacher." Then complete Tasks 1-4 and bring it to class Tuesday.

"I am a ______________."

Week 9 Admission Ticket

1. What are the seven sentence patterns?

2. What is a linking verb?

3. What are the linking verbs? (Hint: Consult your charts or Trivium Table.)

Bring your answers to class in exchange for your coupon. See you Tuesday!

Week 8 Admission Ticket

For Week 8, write a S-Vt-DO sentence that contains a noun of direct address and an appositive. Tell me whether your sentence purpose is declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory.

Week 7 Admission Ticket

Complete Analytical Tasks 1-4 for the following sentence:

The class reads stories, and I listen.

You may use a photocopied Analytical Task Sheet, or you can complete it on a sheet of notebook paper. Bring it to class Tuesday for your Admission Ticket.

Week 4 Admission Ticket

For Week 4, use as many of your IEW vocabulary words in a single sentence as you can. Your sentence can be silly, and it may run on and on, but it must meet the five rules, especially the one about making complete sense! :) Mrs. Tina will save them, and I'll read a couple of my favorites aloud to the class next week.

Week 3 Admission Ticket

For week 3, do the following to earn your gilded coupon:

Choosing from your four IEW vocabulary verbs, write three sentences. The first sentence should use one of your verbs in 1st person singular, present tense. The second should employ another of your verbs in 3rd person plural, future tense. The third should use a remaining verb in 2nd person singular, past tense.

I will give you a bonus ticket if you can tell me whether your verb in each sentence is transitive or intransitive and why.

Week 2 Admission Ticket

When the students arrive Tuesday, I will ask them to tell me what five rules a sentence must meet. I'd also like them to use a straight line to divide the subject from the predicate in the following sentences:

1. Students come.

2. They attend Essentials.

3. Essentials is a class.

4. Essentials can be both fun and difficult at the same time.

5. Mrs. Erin will give her Essentials students assignments to complete.

6. Some students will call her an interesting teacher.

7. In return, she will declare her students brilliant!

Week 1 Admission Ticket

Welcome to our 2011-2012 Essentials year! We begin in less than 48 hours... Take a deep breath!

Here is our Admission Ticket for Week 1. Students should print it, fill in the blanks, and bring it to class in exchange for their first gilded coupon.

1. Tell me your favorite thing to do in one word: I _______________.

2. What is your favorite food to eat? I eat _______________.

3. My name is _______________.

4. What kind of student are you? As a student, I am __________________.

5. For my birthday, my parents gave a _______________ to me.

6. If I had a dog, I would call my dog ________________.

7. Eating candy makes me _______________.

See everyone Tuesday!

Mrs. Erin

Week 2 Admission Ticket

Remember that we are focusing on punctuation and capitalization rules this year. My intention is to proceed roughly in order with the P&C appendix at the back of Our Mother Tongue. Each week, what I'll do is state the rule, then give students an opportunity to apply it correctly. They should complete and bring this assignment to class in return for their weekly Admission Ticket for our Gilded Coupon Campaign.

Week 1 addresses capital letters.

Rule: "The first word of every sentence or quotation always begins with a capital letter." (OMT, p.177)

Follow this capitalization rule to correct the poem excerpt below (You may highlight or underline 3 times each letter that needs capitalizing.):

bob the Tomato is taking a trip.
a day on the sea will be fun!
how many veggies are on his small ship?
the answer, of course, is 1!

larry the Cucumber joins Captain Bob.
could he find a place on the crew?
maybe first mate -- he'd be great for the job!
now on the boat, there are 2!

two little veggies are taking a trip.
junior says, "what about me?
i've got some crackers and soda to sip!"
count them again, 1-2-3!

larry says, "hey! who will push us along?
i'm not very good with an oar.
let's call Mr. Nezzar, because he's so strong!"
now on the boat, there are 4!

junior says, "captain! our numbers are growing!
soon we'll be rowing, the wind will be blowing,
but tell me please, how will we know where we're going
if no one is sitting up there?
we need someone up in the air!"

the gourd they call Jerry is next to arrive.
his compass and spyglass would help them survive!
so, quickly they vote him shipmate number 5!
and send him up high in the air --
to stare at the sea from his chair.

--Excerpt taken from How Many Veggies? by Phil Vischer

Week 24 Admission Ticket

To earn Week 24's admission ticket, write three sentences containing verbals: one with an infinitive, one with a gerund, and one with a participle. Be sure to label the verbals!

For an EXTRA ticket, diagram them!

Week 22 Admission Ticket

For Week 22, decide which ancient personality you'd like to write about, dress as, and present on for your final paper of the year. Tell me your topic to receive one gilded coupon!