Active and Passive Voice

Don't forget to review!

Visit grammar-monster.com to review active and passive voice.

http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/voice.htm

Visit Purdue Owl to practice active and passive voice. You will find many other useful items on this site as well!

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/01/

More resources for active and passive voice:

http://www.englishvideolesson.com/2086-active-vs-passive-voice-video-lesson.html
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Grammar Girl has something to say about active and passive voice.

Parts of Speech Practice

Here is another great website for practicing grammar skills. Try this for practicing prepositions and all the other parts of speech we are working on. Post some comments about what you did on this site.

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepositions

Food Timeline

Check out this interesting timeline! The left column is food inventions and developments. The right-hand side is links to recipes for many of these items. This is a fascinating, well-researched site. Leave some comments about what you discovered on this site.

http://www.foodtimeline.org/

My Compliments to the Chef!

There are many cooking shows on television these days. Some promote healthful, quick meals, and some show us how to make foods that are not good for us at all, just for fun. How do we decide what's good for us and what's not?

Your task is to watch a cooking show of your choice, either on TV or online. Take notes while you watch the show. You will write a review of the program including the following points: What do I enjoy/not enjoy about this program? What do I think about the chef, and why? Would I try this recipe? Why or why not? Is the food healthful, or not, and why or why not? Also comment on what the food is, what ingredients were used, and the chef's techniques. You must also include the title of the network, the title of the program, the name of the chef, and the date and time you watched it.

You should comment on each other's posts as well.

Date due: Nov. 3
Pace yourself! We have many projects going on at the same time. Be sure to work on all of them a little bit each day until they are completed!

Don't forget--Your reading logs are also due Nov. 3, your Social Studies Guide is due Nov. 3, and your My Plate project is due Nov. 7.

Grammar-Monster.com Activities

On Friday your homework was to do the practice activities for verbs. Leave a comment about what activities you did, and how this went. What kind of verbs were easy for you? What kind of verbs need more practice? Did the practice activities help, or not? If so, how was it helpful? If not, why not? Share your thoughts!

Again, the site is grammar-monster.com

Helping Verbs

Don't forget to practice the helping verbs!

am are is 
was were be been
have has had
do does did
may might 
can could
will would
shall should
must

Reading Logs: Check this reading list

Seventh Graders, you will begin keeping track of your reading. Please use the reading list link to help you select books. More details will be given in class.

Reading List for Seventh Grade Language Arts Reading Logs

http://www.lisle202.org/pages/uploaded_files/7th%20Booklist.pdf