Grammar test

I. Write the correct form of the verb in present (simple present, present perfect, present progressive, or present perfect progressive):

a) Melanie have been doing the homework all day long.
(do)

b) Fernando is sleeping right now.
(sleep)

c) Paulina and Claudia talk about the program.
(talk)

d) Mrs. McMillan agree on appling the exam on friday.
(agree)

e) Mrs. Dellmark have worked on "Dillard's" since i remember.
(work)


II. Write the correct form of the verb in past (simple past, past perfect, past progressive, past perfect progressive):

a) Octavio had been lining in Chicago since he was 10 years.
(live)

b) Miriam helped her mother in the house yesterday.
(help)

c) Andres and Pablo talked about the movie they saw yesterday.
(see)

d)I was late for work because I had missed the bus.
(miss)

e) Marina was working on a new program the last time I saw her.
(work) (see)

III. write if the highlighted word is a verb, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection.

1. The clown chased a dog around the ring and then fell flat on her face. NOUN

2. The geese indolently waddled across the intersection. ADVERB

3. Yikes! I'm late for class. INTERJECTION

4. Bruno's shabby thesaurus tumbled out of the book bag when the bus suddenly pulled out into traffic. ADJECTIVE

5. Mr. Frederick angrily stamped out the fire that the local hooligans had started on his verandah. VERB

6. Later that summer, she asked herself, "What was I thinking of?" PRONOUN

7. She thought that the twenty zucchini plants would not be enough so she planted another ten. VERB

8. Although she gave hundreds of zucchini away, the enormous mound left over frightened her. CONJUNCTION

9. Everywhere she went, she talked about the prolific veggies. PRONOUN

10. The manager confidently made his presentation to the board of directors. ADVERB

Science Information(: Guamuchil

Information(:

Scientific name: Sweet Pithecellobium Roxb

English names : Blackbead, Camachile tree, Madras thorn, Manila tamarind, Opiuma (Hawaii), Sweet inga.

Family: Fabaceae

Subfamily: Mimosaceae

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Places where we can find it:

• Mexico
• Colombia
• Venezuela
• Sudan
• Tropical Africa
• Cuba
• Puerto Rico
• Jamaica
• Florida
• Tanzania
• others...

Date of flowering and fruition: From December to April

the medicine uses are:)

• in the gum for its fortification, to avoid its bleeding and for the teeth's pain.
• the dust seed, clean the internal ulcers
• stomach disease
• Diarrhea
• The leaves can be applied as plasters for pain and venereal sores
• leaves are also used for indigestion and abortifacient
• a decoction of its bark can cure frequent bowel movement
• Its bark is also used due to its high tannin content

The used parts from the Guamuchil are:)

• the crust
• the stems
• the leaves
• the fleshy part of the fruit
• the seed
  
  

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More Information;)

The Guamuchil grows from 15 to 20 meters height
The cattle and the crust are used for medicine astringent
The wood is used to make chairs to mount, in rural constructions, to make firewood and carbon
The Guamuchil is used in reforestations and for the dune fixation
It is used like a tree of shadow and ornato

References:

http://www.mexicanmercados.com/produce/mediherb
http://es.encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=11215007105
http://www.brechas.org/index.php/Guamuchil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithecellobium_dulce
http://español.bablefish.yahoo.com/translate_txt

SQP3R

UNDERSTAND FICTION: Read pages 17-21 and SQP3R in your BLOG

1. Survey

2. Questions:
a) What is fiction?
b) What are the elements of fiction?
c) What is plot?
d) What are the stages of the plot?
e) What is a character?
f) What is a setting?
g) What is a theme?
h)How could i apply the strategies?


3. Predict:
a) Something that is not real
b) The characters, the setting and the main idea of the story
c) The climax of the story
d) raising action, climax and falling action
e) is a person, animal, plant, that appears in the story
f) The part in which the story take place
g) the main idea of the story
h) If i understand the readding i will know how to do my work very well.

4.Read:

5.Answer questions:
a) is writing that comes from a writer's imagination. it can be inspired by actual events or completely made up.
b) plot, character, setting and theme.
c) The sequence of events of the story
d) The stages of the plot are:
-exposition
-raising action
-climax
-falling action
e) are the people, animals, or imaginary creatures that take part in the action of a story
f) time and place in which the action of the story happened.
g) is the meaning, moral, or message about lifethat the writr conveys to the reader.
h) connect, questions, predictions, and visualize


6. Review:

Raymond's Run

A.- Summarize the events. (Write the plot in a cause effect sequence)

Title: Raymond's Run
Author: Tony Cade Bambara
Characters: Squeaky, Raymond, Gretchen, George
setting: Squeaky & Raymond's neighborhood in New York

Beggining: Squeky was an african girl and the fastest girl of her neightborhood, that's why they call her "Squeaky". She has a brother name Raymond, who was disabled and need a lot of attention. Squeaky take care of his brother because in the family, everyone has something to do. Squeaky likes to run a lot and in the neightborhood there was going to be a race. Her main rival was a girl name Gretchen who is always saying bad thingsds of Raymond. That's one of the reasons Squeaky want to win the race.

Middle: Gretchen and Squeaky were always fighting. Squeaky have to take care of her brother all the time, that is why she doesn't have a lot of time to make friends. She feel very good while she's running on a race. The race start, and Raymond was running too, he always run while her sister Squeaky is running.

End: Raymond was runinng in his own style, i mean different from the others. When they finish the race, Squeaky start thinking that she won't win the race because there was a lot of confusion about the winner's name, that's why she start thinking that she can be her brother's coach, and that she will teach him to be a good runner. Then they announce the winners, and Squeaky was in first place and Gretchen in second. Squeaky was happy because she won, but she was happiest because her brother run his first race.

B.- Explain the conflict and the attitute toward disabled people presented in the story.

In this story there is a lot of discrimination to the disabled people, in this case Squeaky's brother "Raymond". Gretchen is very bad with Raymond, she critizise him.I think that's horrible because if she had a disabled familiar she wouldn't act this way against Raymond. I think that Raymond need tolerance, respect and love because he is a normal person, just a little bit different.

C.- Write comments in your peers`BLOGS!

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C.- Write a synthesis of the story in your BLOG.
Add pictures to help visualize your understanding of the story.
Add comments to your peers` BLOGS

The story was about a girl that move to Cincinnati, where she fall in love with a bag boy from a supermarket. The boy fall in love with this girl too. Both, try to met each other, she start going to the supermarket every time she can, and the boy start searching for her every time someone enter to the supermarket. When they finally met again, it was on the supermarket, but both show indiference (they just checkout).

Later they found eachother in the movies, but both with a date, when they saw eachother, they just smile and smile themselves.

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B.-Write predictions you thought of, while reading the story and explain which one became true. Make connections to your own life.

Before reading the story i predict that it won't finish o a happy ending because the drowings of the eyes of the girl and the boy show me that they were sad or worried, and that prediction come true because at the end of the story they never met.

I predict too, that i will be a love story, and i was right. But i suppose that they will met eachother, but i was wrong, there were just checkouts.

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A.- Describe the characters and each of their motivations
(The reason he or she thinks, acts or reacts in a certain way)

the girl: she was so sad because her parents make her move to cincinnati, in the book, her parents say that she is so nice and she would make friends fast, but i think she was scare. When she met the bag boy at the supermarket she felt like motivated, she fell in love with him, that's why she strat going to the supermarket

the bag boy: He fell in love with the girl the first time he saw her, when he throw her jar of mayonese to the floor, he throw it because he was nervious, not only because it was his first day of work, he was nervious to because he fall in love with this beautiful girl, his love motivated him to start searching for the girl everytime someone enter to the supermarket.