1. The document outlines assignments for the day including finishing a speech on Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and completing journal and classwork assignments. 2. The journal prompt asks students to reflect on how lucky they are to live in a free country and to think about those who are not or were not free. 3. The classwork section explains the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs, with transitive verbs expressing action that is received by a direct object and intransitive verbs not having a direct object. Examples of each are provided.

1. Monday
1/28/2013
1. “I Have a Dream”
speech due today
2. Journal 9
3. Quick Review
4. Transitive and
Intransitive Verbs
5. Classwork: p 171 (1-18)

2. Journal 9
Do you ever stop to think
about how lucky you are
to live in a free country?
What goes through your
mind now that you’ve
learned what it was like
for those who weren’t free
a long time ago? What
about those who are still
not free today?

3. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Miss Borja
7th Grade Language Arts

4. What we’ve learned so far:
• The past and past participle of regular verbs end in
– ed.
• The past and past participle of irregular verbs do
not end in – ed. Their past tense form changes
entirely.

5. When a verb expresses action, something or
someone in the predicate “receives” that
action.
Paul hit the ball over the fence.
The crowd cheered the batter.

6. A verb that sends its action to a
noun or a pronoun is called a
transitive verb.
The crowd applauded the players.
The noun or
pronoun that People screamed at the pitcher.
receives the
action is called
the direct object.

7. A verb that does not send its action to
a word is called an intransitive verb.
Cheered
what or who?
The crowd cheered the batter.
transitive
Cheered People cheered wildly.
what or who?
intransitive

8. Always ask “who?” or “what?”
intransitive
My dad jumped high!
Last year, students jumped the gate. transitive
A 6th grader jumped a grade.
transitive

9. Linking verbs are always intransitive.
They do not express action.
The Ravens are the winners.
They seem triumphant about their victory.
The team is in first place now.

10. Let’s Play

11. Mrs. Bustamante teaches us
geometry.

12. We draw circles with a compass
and also study angles.

13. A right angle has 90 degrees.

14. A 180 degree angle is a straight
line.

15. Math becomes interesting with Mrs.
Bustamante for a teacher.

16. In your notes:
• A transitive verb expresses
action that is received by a
noun or pronoun.
• An intransitive verb does not
have an object that receives
the action.
• The noun or pronoun that
receives the action is called
a direct object.
• Linking verbs are always
intransitive
• Assignment: p 171 #s 1-18
Questions and Answers.