Please read this excerpt from the English 8 course and answer the questions that follow.
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Activity 1: Nouns and Pronouns (15 marks)
Read through the sentences below. Identify all the nouns and pronouns in each. (1 mark for each correct noun or pronoun)
1) Carol Saddled her horse.
2) From whom did you receive the letter?
3) A flock of birds landed in the meadow.
4) Soon night settled in, its silence broken only by the sound of a bullfrog.
Activity 2: Writing Assignment (10 marks)
This assignment is for the purpose of gaining an understanding of your current writing skills, including both your strengths and challenges. It will be assessed using the Grade 8 Provincial Impromptu Writing Rubric. It will be used as a tool to help the teacher assess how to assist you and as a baseline to measure improvement in your writing abilities during this course.
Please write a paragraph or two on one of the following topics. The writing needs to be a minimum of 10 sentences. Please take time to plan your brief essay and to demonstrate your best work. Perhaps make a brainstorming web. This will be assessed as representative of your writing ability at this point in your education. It is recommended that you take about an hour to plan and write.
- Your first memory.
- If you could invite two people to your house for dinner, who would you invite and why?
- Your perfect vacation.
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Select the correct answer from the options provided.
Questions
1) 10 000 written as a power of ten:
A) 104
B) 103
C) 102
D) 101
2) 1 000 000 000 has 9 zeros and the exponent in the power of 10 is:
A) 3
B)6
C) 9
D)10
3) 1.575 x 106 written in decimal form is:
A) 15 750
B) 1 575 000
C) 0.000 001 575
D) 1 575 000 000
4) 4.638x 10-4 written in decimal form is:
A) 4 638
B) 463 800
C) 46 380
D) 0.000 463 8
5) 5.23 x 10-6 written in decimal form is:
A) 0.000 052 3
B) 0.523
C) 5 230 000
D) 0.000 005 23
6) 7.18 x 10-2 written in decimal form is:
A) 0.071 8
B) 718
C) 0.00718
D) 0.00718
7) 9 521 000 written in scientific notation form is:
A) 9.521 x 103
B) 9.521 x 106
C) 9.521 x 10-6
D) 9.521 x 10-3
8) 6 000 written in scientific notation form is:
A) 6 x 103
B) 6 x 10-3
C) 6 x 104
D) 6 x 10-4
9) 0.00005341 written in scientific notation form is:
A) 5.341 x 103
B) 5.341 x 10-6
C) 5.341 x 10-5
D) 5.341 x 104
10) 0.003668 written in scientific notation form is:
A) 3.668 x 103
B) 3.668 x 10-4
C) 3.668 x 106
D) 3.668 x 10-3
IRP Outcome:
Number (Number Concepts)
In order to prepare students to demonstrate a number sense for rational numbers, including common fractions, integers, and whole numbers, it is expected that students will:
• represent any number in scientific notation
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Valley Distance Education School
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