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• What are the strongest and weakest aspects of
  your reading and writing skills? (3-5 sentences)

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• What are the 8 parts of speech? Which one(s)
  confuse you most? What about them confuses you?
  (3-5 sentences)

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• What are sentence fragments and run-ons?

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• Which punctuation marks confuse you? Why? (3-5
  sentences)

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• What are 3 academic goals you have for this year?
  What do you plan to do to achieve them? (5
  sentences minimum)

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• What was life like in Puritan New England? (3-5
  sentences)

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• Identify basic Puritan beliefs in this passage.
• The God that hold you over the pit of hell, much
  as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect
  over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully
  provoked. His wrath toward you burns like fire
  he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but
  to be cast into the fire.
• (John Edwards, 1734)

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• In what ways did the Puritans attempt to make
  religion a controlling force in everyday life?
  Use the passage below for help.
• The God that hold you over the pit of hell, much
  as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect
  over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully
  provoked. His wrath toward you burns like fire
  he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but
  to be cast into the fire.
• (John Edwards, 1734)

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• Considering what youve read, what is your
  opinion of Puritan life and beliefs?

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• What aspect(s) of Puritan life might you disagree
  with most?

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• Give an example of a modern day witch hunt.

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• SA Strongly Agree A Agree N Neither
  D Disagree SD Strongly Disagree
• It is okay to accuse someone of an act they did
  not commit.
• I would confess to something I truly did not do.
• One should be cautious and suspicious of those
  around them.
• I would accuse my friends of something wrong if
  it would save me from trouble.
• Trusting others is difficult
• I am a trustworthy person
• The most popular opinion is usually the correct
  one.
• I sometimes follow the crowd whether they are
  right or wrong
• I believe most people are good hearted.
• People should be innocent until proven guilty.

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• Identify the subject and verb in each sentence.
• The lightening fills the sky.
• Cheetahs run faster than most other animals.
• The motors are running.
• The girl has been sick.
• Copy the following
• An s ending is often a sign of a singular verb.
• When a sentence contains a verb phrase, it is the
  helping verb that agrees with the subject

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• Copy the following
• Compound subjects consists of two or more
  connected subjects having the same verb. When two
  subjects are connected by and, even if they are
  both singular, they are followed by a plural
  verb.
• HINT If the subject is plural, substitute the
  pronoun they for the plural subject.
• Example Mr. Duffy and his daughter have gone
  fishing.
• They have gone fishing.
• EXCEPTION A compound subject that refers to a
  single person or to two or more things is
  considered a unit (one thing) takes a singular
  verb
• Example A mother and homemaker has a challenging
  job. (one person is meant)

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• Copy the following subject/verb agreement hints
• Cross out all prepositional phrases.
• Every one of the students tries hard.
• Cross out word groups with commas.
• The doctor, as well as the nurses, works hard.
• Cross out word groups beginning with eitheror
  and neithernor
• Either the vase or the dish was a gift.
• Neither the teacher nor his students were here.

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• Complete the following
• Cherry trees (lines/line) the Potomac.
• Many colleges (has/have) computers.
• Forest rangers (says/say) that we can prevent
  forest fire.

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• Copy the following rule
• The following common words are singular each,
  either, neither, one, everyone, everybody, no
  one, nobody, anyone, someone, somebody
• Complete the following examples
• Anyone without tickets (is/are) asked to see Mrs.
  Harris.
• Each of the newcomers (was/were) welcomed to the
  city.
• No one (understand/understands) a person who
  mumbles.

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• When someone is accused of a crime today, do
  people still have a tendency to side with the
  accusers? Explain.

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• At this point in the play, which character seems
  to be the protagonist, and which seems to be the
  antagonist?

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• Predict what you think will happen in Act 3

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• In sports, in politics, and in war, people often
  demonize their opponents that is, they portray
  their enemies as incarnations of evil. Can you
  think of an example? Why do you think people do
  this? What effect do you think such behavior has
  on society as a whole?

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• Write a brief summary of the plays main events
  to this point.

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• When John reveals his true relationship with
  Abigail, what do you think he also reveals about
  his character and his motivation?

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• How does the relationship between John and
  Elizabeth change throughout the play?

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• A Agree N Neutral D Disagree
• The girls were right to accuse people of being
  witches.
• Tituba did the right thing by falsely confessing.
• None of the characters in the play were
  trustworthy.
• Fear and suspicion can destroy society.
• Most of the characters in the play were
  goodhearted.
• People should be innocent until proven guilty.
• People who claim to be good may be hypocrites.
• It may be better to die with integrity than to
  compromise your honor, decency, and faith.
• People can use the ideas of virtue and godliness
  to advance a selfish or wicked agenda.
• In the play, the most popular opinion was the
  right one.

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• What did you think of the play?

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• the pilot had no alternative, stowaways must face
  judgment
• The pilot had no alternative stowaways must face
  judgment.
• did the nasa pilot exaust everyone of his options
• Did the NASA pilot exhaust every one of his
  options?

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• bartons ship lurched , slowed and suddenly
  accelerated agin
• Bartons ship lurched, slowed, and suddenly
  accelerated again.
• in 1954, when the short story The Cold Equations
  were written, no people had yet went into outer
  space
• In 1954, when the short story The Cold
  Equations was written, no people had yet gone
  into outer space.

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• him and me enjoy sience fiction because its
  exiting and imaginitive
• He and I enjoy science fiction because its
  exciting and imaginative.
• andy and me taked a trip to the Mojave Dessert
• Andy and I took a trip to the Mojave Desert.

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• next Monday us students will read our drafts to
  one and other
• Next Monday we students will read our drafts to
  one another.
• not anybody wanted to read a essay a loud
• Nobody wanted to read an essay aloud.

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• a strongly, detailed, precise, setting effects
  the readers emotions
• A strongly detailed, precise setting affects the
  readers emotions.
• Boys and Girls is a short story that is setted in
  tough butally hard ranch country in canada
• Boys and Girls is a short story that is set in
  tough, brutally hard ranch country in Canada.

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• floras the horse name Keisha sayed but whats the
  protagonists name
• Flors the horses name, Keisha said, but
  whats the protagonists name?
• Flora runned out the gate but the men catched her
  anyways
• Flora ran out the gate, but the men caught her
  anyway.

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• alice has never wrote no novels and dont think
  she never will
• Alice has never written any novels and doesnt
  think she ever will.
• That is the most coldest milk of the world
• That is the coldest milk in the world!

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• alice walker who was the most young of 8 children
  is born in Eatoton Georgia
• Alice Walker, who was the youngest of eight
  children, was born in Eatonton, Georgia.
• walkers novel The Color Purple was winning the
  pulitzer prize in fiction in 1983
• Walkers novel The Color Purple won the Pulitzer
  Prize in fiction in 1983.

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• wheres youre sister at Larry
• Wheres your sister, Larry?
• unfortunately i have me a sister whose a lot like
  Dee
• Unfortunately I have a sister whos a lot like
  Dee.

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• john steinbeck almost didnt except the nobel
  prize, he was afraid he wouldnt wright any more
• John Steinbeck almost didnt accept the Nobel
  Prize he was afraid he wouldnt write anymore.
• during the great depression of the 1930s many
  families in the midwest losed their farms
• During the Great Depression of the 1930s, many
  families in the Midwest lost their farms.