Language Arts
Spelling
interference
interpretation
liveliest
luxury
mischievous
monotony
predominant
prominent
resistance
ridiculous
Monday
Write each spelling word two times each.
Grammar- Parts of Speech
We will end the school year with a simple reminder of the parts of speech.
There are 9 parts of speech:
nouns
pronouns
verbs
adjectives
adverbs
prepositions
conjunctions
articles/determiners
interjections
Nounsperson, place, things, ideas
examples: Jessica, cat, tree, call, computer, faith, foolishness
Pronouns
stand in the place of nouns
pronouns include:
I, me, my, mine, you, your, your, he, him, his, she, her, hers, it its, they, them, their, theirs, we, our, ours
Verbs
Verbs are the action or the state of being words in a sentence.
action verbs: run, jump, cook, read, think, believe
state of being verbs: is, am, was, were, are, be, been, being
Exercises:
In the following sentences, circle the nouns, underline the verbs, and put a square around the pronouns. Make sure you locate all of the verbs, all of the nouns, and all of the pronouns in each sentence.
1.My mother grew tired of the interference during the day from the various emails, text messages, and phone calls.
2. My brother's interpretation of the movie was weird.
3. We have the liveliest family parties around Christmas time each year.
4. He thought that owning three cars was a luxury, but I thought it was a necessity.
5. Her mischievous brother squeezed out two tubes of toothpaste then painted the bathroom mirrors with them.
6. The monotony of school beat heavily on her mental state and she longed to spend her days out in the sunshine.
7. The predominant opinions, about government and welfare, squelch free enterprise.
8. Justin flew a small airplane to a prominent city in the South Pacific to visit his paternal grandparents.
9. The resistance group marched angrily through the city streets.
10 I liked singing ridiculous silly songs with my little sisters in their bedroom at night before bedtime.
Tuesday
Write each spelling word in a sentence that uses only active verbs. That means you cannot use any form of the verb "to be": am, was, are, were, is.
Literary Device: Tone
Tone is the attitude of the author about the topic. It is different from mood. Mood is what the author wants the reader to feel. Tone is what the author believes about the topic on hand. Anything written has subject matter or theme. The approach the writer takes to the theme is the tone. Tone can be formal or informal, political or apolitical, humorous or serious, right leaning or left leaning, happy or sorrowful, sarcastic or excited, etc. Word choice determines the tone.
Describe the tone in these passages. What word or words expresses that.
1. “And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.”
~Donald Barthelme, The School
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2. “I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
~Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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3. “This was the last fish we were ever to see Paul catch. My father and I talked about this moment several times later, and whatever our other feelings, we always felt it fitting that, when we saw him catch his last fish, we never saw the fish but only the artistry of the fisherman.”
~Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
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4. “It was A LOW, DULL, QUICK SOUND – MUCH SUCH A SOUND AS A WATCH MAKES WHEN ENVELOPED IN COTTON. I gasped for breath, and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly, more vehemently but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. Why WOULD they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men, but the noise steadily increased. O God! What COULD I do?”
~Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
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Wednesday
Write the spelling words two times each.
Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.
To A Skylark
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
In the golden lightning
Of the sunken sun
O'er which clouds are bright'ning,
Thou dost float and run,
Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
The pale purple even
Melts around thy flight;
Like a star of Heaven
In the broad daylight
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight:
Keen as are the arrows
Of that silver sphere,
Whose intense lamp narrows
In the white dawn clear
Until we hardly see — we feel that it is there.
All the earth and air
With thy voice is loud.
As, when night is bare,
From one lonely cloud
The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
What thou art we know not;
What is most like thee?
From rainbow clouds there flow not
Drops so bright to see
As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Like a poet hidden
In the light of thought,
Singing hymns unbidden,
Till the world is wrought
To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:
Like a high-born maiden
In a palace tower,
Soothing her love-laden
Soul in secret hour
With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower:
Like a glow-worm golden
In a dell of dew,
Scattering unbeholden
Its aerial hue
Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view:
Like a rose embowered
In its own green leaves,
By warm winds deflowered,
Till the scent it gives
Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves.
Sound of vernal showers
On the twinkling grass,
Rain-awakened flowers,
All that ever was
Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass.
Teach us, sprite or bird,
What sweet thoughts are thine:
I have never heard
Praise of love or wine
That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Chorus hymeneal
Or triumphal chaunt
Matched with thine, would be all
But an empty vaunt —
A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want.
What objects are the fountains
Of thy happy strain?
What fields, or waves, or mountains?
What shapes of sky or plain?
What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?
With thy clear keen joyance
Languor cannot be:
Shadow of annoyance
Never came near thee:
Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride, and fear;
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Better than all measures
Of delightful sound,
Better than all treasures
That in books are found,
Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now!
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark
1. Name 5 metaphors or similes used in this poem?_________________________________________
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2. What is the tone of the poem? What is the mood?________________________________________
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3. What does the author think about skylarks? _____________________________________________
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4. Explain this stanza in plain language:
Waking or asleep,
Thou of death must deem
Things more true and deep
Than we mortals dream,
Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?
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Thursday
Poetry and Creative Writing
Last week you began the preliminary work to writing your first long 2,000 to 5,000 word short story. Get your notes where you should have done these three things.
1. Write down your chosen literary devices and story telling devices.
2. Write two paragraphs describing your basic plot line with a beginning, middle, and end.
3. Name your main characters.
Read over your notes and write your rough draft.
Scriptures
Read the Doctrine and Covenants. You need to be finished with section 65 by the end of 16 weeks.
Reading
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Read one story each day until the end of the school year. You don't have to read them in any order, just choose a different one each day.
