1. Intro to Tone, Subject Practice, and Flyswatter
Day 14
Intro to Tone, Subject Practice, and Flyswatter

2. Agenda Warm Up Flyswatter Research Paper resources
Hard to Find Subjects
Subject Practice
Closure

3. Objectives: Homework: 4 Sources due on Tuesday VCR 2 Quiz Monday
Identify subjects in a sentence.
Understand hard-to-find subjects
4 Sources due on Tuesday
1 filled out form per source
All sources printed out and annotated
VCR 2 Quiz Monday

4. Warm Up Identify the parts of speech in the following sentences.
An honest man should have been the leader of the country.
Curt’s favorite toy is his big truck.
Student’s favorite food must be pizza.
The alarm must be ringing again and again.
My homes have been a school house, an old apartment, and a moved-in house.
Turn in your warm-ups.

5. Genos Genus Genui Gentis Progeny Progenitor Ingenious Congenital
Engender
Genre
Heterogeneous
Gentry
Genocide
Genealogy
Genteel
Gentile
Homogeneous
Generis
Genesis
Indigenous

6. Research Paper Introduction

7. Go to Google Classroom and click the proquest link.
This is where you will be getting all of your sources for your research paper.
Follow along with me on your laptops.

8. Hard to Find Subjects

9. 1. Imperatives Sentences- command
ex. Sit down. ex. Take out the trash. ex. Brush your teeth. The subject is not in the sentence because it is understood that the person being spoken to is the subject of the sentence. ex. (“You”) Sit down.

10. Commands are not fragments. Direct address is not the subject. ex
Commands are not fragments. Direct address is not the subject. ex. Billy, take a bath tonight. ex. Stop biting your nails, Melinda.

11. 2. Interrogative Sentences- Questions
* most questions will have a verb phrase (more than one verb) that is separated by the subject...a SUBJECT SANDWICH ex. Are you sleeping in this weekend? ex. Will Gina pass this class? ex. Has someone been eating beans?

12. In other questions, the subject could be Who, What, or Which
ex. Who is talking?
ex. What is rotting?
ex. Which is yours?
****BUT not always***
ex. What are you talking about?
ex. Which girl are you dating?
ex. Who is Jason voting for?

13. In other questions, the subject is just after the verb
ex. Is music your favorite class?
ex. Are aliens real?

14. 3. Sentences that begin with “Here” or “There”
* These words are never the subject * Ask “Who or What is here?” or “Who or What is there?” ex. Here comes my favorite movie star. ex. There is a hair in my soup.

15. 4. Inverted Sentences
* a sentence that begins with detail and saves subject until the end ex. On top of the skyscraper in the city is a flag. ex. Over the river and through the woods was an old, abandoned log cabin.

16. Find the Subject and Verb
Oregon is haunted by numerous legends of the Bigfoot.
Are two of the books missing?
She served as corporation president.
Jazz music filled the room.
There is Aunt Ivory’s new truck.
Oregon is haunted by numerous legends of the Bigfoot.
Are two of the books missing?
She served as corporation president.
Jazz music filled the room.
There is Aunt Ivory’s new truck

17. Find the Subject and Verb
Please answer the phone. (understood you)
Was the train late? (hint: turn the question into a statement)
Many regions of the United States have local legends. (Prep phrase)
The band’s star performer was the drummer.
Buzzing around the room was a large mosquito.
Please answer the phone.
Was the train late? (hint: turn the question into a statement)
Many regions of the United States have local legends.
The band’s star performer was the drummer.
Buzzing around the room was a large mosquito.

18. Hard to Find Subjects
Get into your pairs and take everything off of your desk.
Take a worksheet and complete it.
Whatever you don’t complete is homework.
Ask your partner if you have a question about the assignment.
Only ask me as a last resort.

19. Closure
List three things you learned about nonfiction today. Describe two of the steps needed to understand nonfiction. Compose one question you still have regarding nonfiction.