Daily Language Practice Week 25 9th Name______
Standard ELA9C1: The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
Day 1:
____Underline words used as words. ____Include closing quotation marks.
____Underline foreign words. ____Combine sentences.
1. The word theater comes from the Greek word theatron, which means “a place for
seeing. ______
2. In this sense, the word still refers to a building in which plays are performed. They
are seen by an audience. ______
Day 2:
____Correctly place a comma with parentheses. ____Use hyphens in a compound noun.
____Use a colon before a list correctly.
1. All theaters have an auditorium, (where the audience sits) a stage, and a work area.
______
2. Today, we use three basic kinds of stages the proscenium stage, the open or
platform stage, and the theater in the round or arena stage. ______
______
Day 3:
____Use commas to set off a nonrestrictive participial phrase. (It is not needed for the meaning.)
____Correct a misplaced modifier. (Put it closer to what it is describing.)
____Make subjects and verbs agree.
1. The proscenium stage designed only to be viewed from the front has a curtain that
conceals or reveals the stage. ______
______
2. The stage in most high school auditoriums are a proscenium stage. ______
______
___/10 + ___/7 = ___/17
16.5= 97 15= 88 13.5 = 79 12 = 71 10.5 = 61
16= 94 14.5= 85 13 = 76 11.5 = 68 10 = 59
15.5= 91 14= 82 12.5 = 74 11 = 65 9.5 = 56
Daily Language Practice Week 25 9th
Day 4:
____Eliminate you if it doesn’t have a clear antecedent. (Use a noun instead.)
____Spell out numbers through one hundred.
____Use commas to set off an appositive.
1. In an open stage theater, you sit around 3 sides of a raised platform that extends
into the auditorium. ______
______
2. London’s Globe Theater home of Shakespeare’s theatrical company was an open
stage theater. ______
______
Day 5:
____Make subjects and verbs agree. ____Use the conjunction so that.
____Correctly form the plural of a compound noun. ____Spell the homophone that is meant.
1. In theater-in-the-round, performers act in an open space at floor level in the
auditorium while the audience sit on all four sides. ______
______
2. Most theater-in-the-rounds seat fewer people than other theaters so the audience
can see and here well. ______
______
Daily Language Practice Week 25 9th Days 1-5 Name______KEY______
Monday:
1. The word theater comes from the Greek word theatron, which means “a place for
seeing.”
2. In this sense, the word still refers to a building in which plays are performed and
seen by an audience.
Tuesday:
1. All theaters have an auditorium (where the audience sits), a stage, and a work
area.
2. Today, we use three basic kinds of stages: the proscenium stage, the open or
platform stage, and the theater-in-the-round or arena stage.
Wednesday:
1. The proscenium stage, designed to be viewed only from the front, has a curtain that
conceals or reveals the stage.
2. The stage in most high school auditoriums is a proscenium stage.
Thursday:
1. In an open stage theater, the audience sits around three sides of a raised platform
that extends into the auditorium.
2. London’s Globe Theater, home of Shakespeare’s theatrical company, was an open
stage theater.
Friday:
1. In theater-in-the-round, performers act in an open space at floor level in the
auditorium while the audience sits on all four sides.
2. Most theaters-in-the-round seat fewer people than other theaters so that the
audience can see and hear well.