2020-2021 Week 14

Language Arts

spelling
category
celery
diamond
discourage
encounter
endurance
foreign
geometry
hygiene
inconvenient

Monday

Write each spelling word two times each.

Grammar: Simple Predicate

The simple predicate is simply the main verb in the sentence or the action that is being preformed by the subject of the sentence.

examples:

Kathy and Kim danced in the ballet at Christmas time. 

Danced in the ballet at Christmas time is the complete predicate.
Danced is the action preformed by the subjects, Kathy and Kim, and is the simple predicate.

The barking dogs angered their sleeping neighbor. 

 Angered their sleeping neighbor is the complete predicate. 

Angered  is the action preformed by the subjects, the barking dogs, and is the simple predicate.

Underline the complete predicate and circle the simple predicate in each of the following sentences.

1. Felicity mentally arranged the flowers into a new category.

2. The celery grew tall and strong in our little garden.

3. Samantha got all starry eyed when she looked at the diamond.

4. The teacher didn't want to discourage her students with difficult math.

5. Sam was afraid that he'd encounter the neighbors dog on his walk to the river.

6. Issac ran the race with high endurance.

7. Matsuo felt awkward in class as he was the only foreign student.

8. Rachel felt surprise at how much she loved geometry.

9. They laughed embarrassingly at the hygiene video the health teacher put on.

10. Mom thought the trip to the dentist an inconvenient interruption to homeschool.

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: Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia is a fun literary device. It's a fun word that simply represents a sound by resembling or imitating the sound such as: meow, bam, boom, clang, roar.

Famous example:

How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows;
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,—
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells,
Of the bells

~Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells

Write 5 sentences with some onomatopoeia in each.

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Wednesday

Write the spelling words two times each.

Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.

No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own ; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most, terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet, across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment. The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world, and long before this earth ceased to be molten life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely one-seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin. It has air and water, and all that is necessary for the support of animated existence. Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area, and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from life's beginning but nearer its end.
~H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

1. According the author in this passage what do humans think about life on other planets?__________

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2. What does this passage say about "intelligences greater than man's"?________________________

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3. How does the author feel about humans not giving heed to the idea that life can be found on other planets?_________________________________________________________________________

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4. What are three things the author gave as facts about the planet Mars?_______________________

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Thursday

Poetry and Creative Writing

Now that you have a character and place for the character to act in, you need an event. What will happen to your character in your short story. A good way to collect your ideas and make them work is to write a timeline before you begin writing. You will need an opening where you introduce your character and story, and middle where things will happen to your character. This usually means that a problem is presented to your character. Finally there is the end where the problem is resolved.

Fill out this worksheet.

Opening:
1.Where is your character and what is he or she doing at the beginning of your story?____________

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Body:
1. What problem does your character encounter?________________________________________

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2. Name three ways your character will do to try and solve the problem:

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3. What are three things that makes this problem particularly difficult for your character?

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4. What are three abilities that your character has that will help him solve this problem?

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5. List three events in order that happen that help your character solve the problem.

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Closing:

1. How does your character ultimately solve the problem?____________________________________

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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 49, 50, and 51
Tuesday- Chapters 52, 53, and 54
Wednesday- Chapters 55, 56, and 57
Thursday- Chapters 58, 59, 60, and 61

Geography

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