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.