2020-2021 Week 13

Language Arts

Spelling
securing
significance
transferred
transferring
uncontaminated
vertical
weariness
accessible
accompanied
benefited

Monday

Write each spelling word two times each.

Grammar: Simple subject

The Simple subject is simple. It's the noun that is the subject or the main noun that's completing the action in the sentence. The subject contains all of that noun's modifiers. The simple subject is simply the noun of the subject.


examples:

The animals in the zoo roared and cooed at feeding time.

The animals in the zoo is the subject
Animals are what are roaring and cooing.

Jason called his family when we got off the airplane.

In this example, Jason is both the subject and the simple subject because there are no modifiers.


Worksheet:
In each sentence, underline the subject and circle the simple subject.

1. The bank began securing it's assets when the pandemic began.

2. The girl sitting in the back of the classroom did not understand the significance of pi.

3. The trucking company transferred the candles from the warehouse to the store.

4. The cowboys began transferring their cattle to the slaughter house near the end of August.

5. The used masks tossed on the parking lot ground were not uncontaminated.

6. The geometry student forgot that they y-axis is the vertical line on the plane.

7. The extreme heat added to the weariness of the animals at the zoo.

8. Robert's teacher wanted to make her books accessible to all of the students for after school hours.

9. The flock of blackbirds flying across the sky accompanied the sparrows on their flight south.

10. Rachel knew that benefited from sharing a room with her older sisters.

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: Polysyndeton

Polysyndenton is the opposite of asyndeton. Instead of removing coordinating conjunctions, more  are added. This gives more rhythm to a piece of writing. Polysyndeton comes from a Greek word meaning “bound together.” These coordinating conjunctions (like and, or, but, and nor)  join successive words, phrases, or clauses even when they would normally have been omitted.

examples:
 This is part of a longer poem that I wrote, it makes good use of polysyndeton to keep the rhythm of piece.

we once sang hi to the life of a bear
we once sang ho and we didn't care
we had wars and germs and colors and talk
but we didn't fall down in angry shock

and we dream like it happened so long ago
an older century, a black and white show
a place in the distance with memories light
but that was just yesterday, it happened last night

before the new normal for the contemporary man
brought boarders, controls, and a stricter plan
with regulated cooks and relief for the crooks
and masks appearing to hide dirty looks

Notice that and appears 9 times in 12 lines. It was placed to keep the rhythm and to give emphasis to certain words.

Here are some famous examples:

And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had.
~Holy Bible, Joshua 7:24

There were frowzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and summer-houses, and carpet-beating grounds, at the very door of the Railway. Little tumuli of oyster shells in the oyster season, and of lobster shells in the lobster season, and of broken crockery and faded cabbage leaves in all seasons, encroached upon its high places.
~Charles Dickons, Dombey and Son

Write a poem with at least 10 lines using polysyndeton. You can use and, or, like, or nor. 

Wednesday

Write the spelling words two times each.

Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night. I need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show better than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified by the result. On the second branch of the question, I will only remark, that unless I ran through that part of my inheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet. But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of this property; and if anybody else should be in the present enjoyment of it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.

~Charles Dickons, David Copperfield

1. What does David Copperfield say about being a hero?____________________________________

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2. At what time was David Copperfield born and what was interesting about that?_________________

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3. What inheritance did David Copperfield say he had not claimed?___________________________

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4. What does this whole passage foretell?______________________________________________

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Thursday

Poetry and Creative Writing

Last week we began preparing to write your first short story by establishing a character. You should have written down at least nine things about that character. This week I want you to think about where your character lives and write about that. Think about it like you're painting. Today you are painting the background for the character that will be in the foreground of your story.

Here are six things to think about:

1. Is this a city setting or a country setting?

2. Is this in the world or an imaginary place?
3. What's the weather like?
4. What specific things define the background such as a rich and beautiful garden or an old neglected building with chipped and peeling paint.
5. What colors are in your background? Is it painted gold by the sun or all grey from the clouds? Is it full of green foliage and fuchsia flowers with an azure sky or is it in the black of night, shiny and dense like an onyx stone?

6. What time period is this set in?

Now write six detailed sentences painting your background. Using the 6 questions above.

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Scriptures

Continue with your Book of Mormon reading. You're required to finish by the end of the semester. Read two to three chapters a day.

Reading

Pride and Prejudice 61 chapters
Monday- Chapters 37, 38, and 39
Tuesday- Chapters 40, 41, and 42
Wednesday- Chapters 43, 44, and 45
Thursday- Chapters 46, 47, and 48

Geography

Mon- Wed: Learn all of the Countries in Southeastern Europe.
Test on Thursday. Tests will be first in the day on Thursday