DOLQ3+Nicole

1) I got an "A", the grade I really had worked for. 2) Make up a sentence with a person's name as the emphatic appositive) KIS won the basketball tournament as a result of the all-star player: Kobo Brian. 3) The class elected the nice one as treasurer: Jim Rutledge. 4) He received an award: the Best Participator, the most coveted of all distinctions.

March 29, 2010

1. If your teacher says to read it twice, if she likes repetition, or if she likes to give good grades to those who read it twice, you'd better follow your teacher's wishes rather than your friend's.

4. Whether you think you should go to the restaurant with your friend, or whether you think you should go with your boss, you could go with both of them.

5. The basketball coach shouted that the referee had judged it wrong, since he had been payed by the other team's coach, and that they had lost.

My sentence: If I had flossed my wisdom teeth, if I had discovered the cavity early, if I regularly gone to the dentist, then I would not have had to go through the painful process of extracting the wisdom teeth.

March 10, 2010 Patterns 1-7:

Both paragraphs listed below incorporate the patterns studied thus far, however, one of them uses the structures more effectively.

1. Which would you say is better? Support your answer with specific instances from the text. I think number one is better, since it is to the point, concise, and less confusingly worded than the other one below. Also, the first one is more organized than the second one.

2. With the paragraph you decided wasn't as good as the other, then make at least two changes to that paragraph which would improve it.

Greening buds, patches of mud, scattered puddles, a birth of color -- spring was on its way. Noel always found this season to be the ripest: thoughts of change and potential circulated through her body. But what made this spring more anticipated than the last? Perhaps it was the knowledge that she was going to be moving back home at the end of the school year. Or perhaps it was the warming air or extra chatter at home or one of a million other things. Whatever it was, she knew this spring was special; it really was going to be a season of change.

Greening buds, patches of mud, scattered puddles, a birth of color -- spring really was on its way. Noel always found this season to be the ripest: knowing of the changes that would soon be thrust upon her made her feel a certain tie to the fruit trees that were just beginning to show their blossoms. She too would be plucked from her current home and shipped off to some far off place. Her endpoint: Lincoln, Nebraska. The plum's endpoint: who knew. It could have been Nebraska or Melbourne or Brittany or Johanesburg. But this was not the first time she had started over on some other side of the world, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. She had learned to look for the small beauties amidst these times of transition, and she knew these harbingers of spring would always find her no matter where she moved.

March 8, 2010 2. Snoopy and Bean (my dog and cat) loves to go on a walk in the muddy woods. 3. My favorite colors- magenta and royal blue-- always attract me to new clothes. 4. Learning the basic skills- running and stretching-will help me succeed in any sport. 5. The breaking of the circuit (plant shutdown) shocked the whole community.

March 3, 2010

1. Hardware, software, a modem- essential parts that make up a computer. 2. Poetry and music, painting and sculpture, drama and dance- the arts that define our culture. 3. Glossy binders, colorful notebooks, a macbook- the back-to-school essentials of KIS.

Jan 27, 2010

1. Oranges, peaches, kiwis, mangoes make a great smoothie when they are blended together. 2. At Korea International school, all students are required to play soccer in spring, baseball in summer, hockey in winter, and football in the fall.

Jan 26, 2010

3. Brightened, awakened, refreshed, the winter left the stadium feeling great. 4. The children gathered around their teacher, giggling, laughing, skipping. 5. When the game was cancelled, the rowdy spectators at the ball game jeered, shouted, raged.