Please read the resource for the English 9 course and answer the questions that follow.

Part A: Short Stories

1. One of the characteristics of a short story is that it is not a shortened form of a novel; it is a literary form in itself. What are five more typical characteristics of a short story? (5 marks)

1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/

Part B: Pronoun/noun agreement

1. I doubt that either of those social workers knows what his or her their caseload will be.

2. According to Alvina and he him , this is the best math course you'll ever take.

3. Last week Raoul said that we us first-year students don't need to register yet.

4. The bus driver told me that he'd make change for you and I me this time but never again.

5. Every winter Simon and we us get together to look at each other's drawings.

Part C Choose the right word

?They’re / Their / There

1. I’m going to there their they're house.
2. There’s a man with a gun over there their they're .
3. I wonder what there their they're saying about me?
4. I queston there their they're motivies.
5. there their they're going to have to catch me first.
6. there their they're tired of there their they're vacation home.
7. Put the chair over there their they're .
8. there their they're hit songs are now on iTunes.

Fewer / Less

They are not interchangeable
Fewer cows produce less milk!

1. There is fewer less crime in the streets this year.
2. There are fewer less criminals.
3. I used fewer less liters of gas this month.
4. You drove fewer less kilometers than I.
5. The plane holds fewer less people.
6. Try to pack fewer less luggage.
7. I have fewer less suitcases than you. ) A flick of birds landed in the meadow.

Part D: Apostrophes

Apostrophes are used for contractions and for possessives. Usually. “It’s” is the contraction; “its” is the possessive – no apostrophe for this one!

1. Its It's a long way to Los Angles.
2. She turned the puzzle on its it's head.
3. The ship lost its it's rudder.
4. Why not see if its it's working?
5. Where is its it's switch?
6. This is going to be its it's last chance.
7. Its It's hot today in Bogota.
8. Can you find its it's location on the map?
9. Its It's tires are flat.
10. Why do we care about its it's problems?

Activtity 2: Writing Sample (15 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 9 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.

Assessment

• /5 descriptive language
• /5 mechanics: usage, punctuation, spelling
• /5 introduction, details, conclusion (organization of the paragraph)

From the 10 sections, listed below, of Math 8 you should remember how to complete the following questions:

1) Number Concepts

Eight students were away form school. This was 25% of the class. How many students in total were enrolled in the class?

The answer is students.

2) Number Operations

Remember: BEDMAS

Calcutate: 4 + 9 x 3 =

3) Patterns

What is the next letter in the following pattern?

a a b a a a b b a a a

4) Equations

Solve: Y + 5 = 13

5) Problem Solving

At a high school, there are twice as many seniors as there are juniors. If there are 600 seniors, how many juniors are there?

6) Measurement

Find the unknown side if perimeter = 45

7) Presentation of Data

What conclusions can be drawn form the graph?

a) English homework was done first.
b) Less than one hour was spent on homework.
c) More than one hour was spent on homework.
d) Science and Socials has the same number of questions ot complete.

8) Tesselations = tiling patterns

Ex: all triangles tessellate like below.

Which tessellation (at least 3 hexagons) is for the hexagon below:

A)		B)
C)		D)

9) Objects and 2-D Shapes

Look at the following shape and then tell which image matches it.

A)		B)
C)		D)

10) Presentation of Data & Probability

The bar graph below presents the number of the students by hair colour in a Grade 3 classroom. Using the bar graph, determine the probability of any random student being chosen to have red hair.

* The answer can be as a decimal, fraction or a percent:

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