1. SPELLING #4 Greetings Students, For Spelling #4, you are responsible for 12 slides of notes, the Seize Paragraph, and 2 practices. Blessings, Ms. Stewart

2. 1. siege and seize Often confused words alert! Be certain you use the word that suits your meaning! Often confused words alert! Be certain you use the word that suits your meaning! Seize [verb] to snatch or grab suddenly; to capture. Seize [verb] to snatch or grab suddenly; to capture. The security guard seized the photographer’s camera. The security guard seized the photographer’s camera.

3. 2. The Seize Paragraph HW due Wed! I will also be checking for slides. Write a paragraph about a fictional (made-up) or nonfictional (real) character who seizes something. Answer the following questions to develop your paragraph. Sentences do not have to be in any particular order. Be creative, and dazzle me! Write a paragraph about a fictional (made-up) or nonfictional (real) character who seizes something. Answer the following questions to develop your paragraph. Sentences do not have to be in any particular order. Be creative, and dazzle me! 1.Who 2.What 3.When 4.Where 5.Why 6.How

4. 3. - sede, - ceed, and - cede Words ending with a syllable that sounds like “seed” are usually spelled with – cede. Only one word in English is spelled with – sede, and only three words are spelled with – ceed. - SEDE, - CEED, AND – CEDE EXAMPLEScon cede pre cede re cede se cede EXCEPTIONSsupersede exceed proceedsucceed

5. 4. Practice 1 (30) ie or ei *-sede, -ceed, or -cede 1. th f11. p ce* 21. re 2. n ce12. r ins* 22. ex 3. y ld13. n ther* 23. ac 4. w gh14. dec ve* 24. suc 5. h ght15. rel ve* 25. suc 6. bel f16. br f* 26. con 7. c ling17. rec ve* 27. pre 8. rec pt18. retr ve* 28. pro 9. gr ve19. n ghbor* 29. super 10. ght20. l sure* 30. inter USE YOUR DICTIONARY FOR THIS PRACTICE.

6. 5. Connecting Spelling to the Writing Process The Process of Writing 1.Prewriting 2.Drafting 3.Revising 4.Editing 5.Publishing

7. 6. Connecting Spelling to the Writing Process The Writing Process – the recursive series of stages that you proceed through when developing your ideas and discovering the best way to express them. 1. Prewriting – includes the invention you do BEFORE writing your FIRST draft. During prewriting you find and develop a subject, purpose, and audience; collect ideas and details; and make a basic plan for presenting them.

8. 7. Connecting Spelling to the Writing Process The Writing Process – the recursive series of stages that you proceed through when developing your ideas and discovering the best way to express them. 2. Drafting – is expressing your ideas in sentences and paragraphs that follow your plan, as well as incorporating new ideas you discover while writing. Drafting includes forming a beginning, a middle, and an end – an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.

9. 8. Connecting Spelling to the Writing Process The Writing Process – the recursive series of stages that you proceed through when developing your ideas and discovering the best way to express them. 3. Revising – means rethinking what you have written and reworking it to increase its clarity, smoothness, and power.

10. 9. Connecting Spelling to the Writing Process The Writing Process – the recursive series of stages that you proceed through when developing your ideas and discovering the best way to express them. 4. Editing – involves checking and reworking sentences and sentence structure. Editing also includes looking for and correcting errors in grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanics, and proofreading your final version before making it public.

11. 10. Connecting Spelling to the Writing Process The Writing Process – the recursive series of stages that you proceed through when developing your ideas and discovering the best way to express them. Publishing – is sharing your work with an interested audience. Ms. Stewart is very interested in my writing and will work to help me improve daily. I commit to becoming a better writer. I commit to practicing everyday whether I have a Bellringer or not. I will be writing in all my classes. I challenge myself to grow as a writer. I am a writer.

12. 11. Connecting Spelling to the Writing Process: EDITING Practice 2:Using Spelling Patterns Rewrite the paragraph, correcting any spelling errors. For the state of Kentucky, the War Between the States was truly a civil war. Kentucky did not sesede from the Union. Officially Kentucky supported niether the Union nor the Confederacy. Kentucky proceded to declare neutrality on May 16, 1851, but Kentuckians did not succeed in staying out of the conflict. The number of Kentuckians who fought for the

13. 12. Connecting Spelling to the Writing Process: EDITING Practice 2 continued: Using Spelling Patterns Continue rewriting the paragraph, correcting any spelling errors. Confederacy exceded 30, 000, and twice that number joined the Union Army. Neighbors, freinds, and families were greivously divided in thier loyalities. President Lincoln concedeed that Kentucky was one of the country’s “troubling stepchildren” because its location bordered Union states, but many residents supported the Confederacy.