Vocab Test Next Wednesday

I had a great time at the picnic last night and enjoyed the food, company, and the music presented by Mr. Jones. Thanks to Catherine Duncan and our PTSA for a wonderful evening!

Tips for Studying for our Vocabulary Test

This is a reminder that we have a vocabulary test on Wednesday. Many students have asked how they should study for the test.  Here are some suggestions:

• Read all our notes from our vocabulary lessons in class. The words are posted on this blog, but your notes should also have additional information from our class discussions. 
• Review the Study Guide and review the vocabulary notes to see where we covered each of the concepts in the study guide. 
• Review all your words maps and make sure you know several synonyms, antonyms, and words that share the same word parts for each vocabulary word.
• You should know the word parts -- prefix, root, and suffix-- and be familiar with their meaning. Know how word endings change the part of speech of a word.

• For example, in the sentence 
• "Because most voters are apathetic, the city council is concerned about voter turnout on Election Day." 
• You should be able to answer the following questions:
• Which part of the sentence is the dependent clause?
• Which part of the sentence is the independent clause?
• What are the subjects and predicates of each clause?
• What part of speech is apathetic?
• Another example:
• In the sentence, "The sad student rebuked herself for her careless mistake on the math test. "
• What are the subject, predicate, and direct object of this sentence?
• Is the verb transitive or intransitive? 
• What is the part of speech of rebuked?
• What are the prepositions in this sentence? What are the prepositional phrases? 
• Please use the grammar links on my blog or the textbooks in our classroom if you need help or ask me questions if you don't understand something!