2020-2021 Week 4

Language Arts

Spelling

failure
gossiping
havoc
illustration
judgment
knitting
laboratory
mileage
nuisance
obedient

Monday

Write spelling words two times each. 

Grammar: Prepositional Phrases

Prepositional phrases are phrases that begin with a preposition and its object-- most often a noun or a verb-- and any words that modify that object.

In order to competently identify a prepositional phrase in a sentence, you must know the prepositions.
Prepositions are the words that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationships to a noun, verb, or pronoun.

Common prepositions are: to, of, about, at, before, after, by, behind, during, for, from, in, over, under, with.

examples:

They ran over the bridge.
The rabbit hopped into the hole.
Sarah and Anne walked to the park.
The students in the back row goofed off.
To finish the test, Frank must hurry.
She drank her orange juice with delight.
He ran from her sight.
The boys at the store searched for basketball equipment.

Worksheet
Underline the prepositional phrase.

1. In the advanced class, Diana felt like a failure.

2. Andraya and Paige got caught gossiping about their elderly neighbor.

3. After the tornado, the city was in havoc.

4. Ruth drew illustrations for the children's book.

5. He failed to use proper judgment when he dove into the pool fully dressed.

6. We went inside to see my grandmother knitting.

7. On a bench outside the laboratory, the doctors ate their lunches.

8. After driving for 6 hours, Caitlin calculated her mileage.

9. Jennifer thought the bird chirping in the tree was a nuisance.

10. The obedient child climbed into her bed without complaint.


Write three sentences with prepositional phrases. Underline your prepositional phrases.


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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: Alliteration

Alliteration is a fun, easy to use and easy to identify. It's simply a series of words or phrases in which all or nearly all the words start with the same letter. This, of course, includes tongue twisters.

examples:

Sally sat sadly saying sorry.

Ten tigers tooted trumpets. 

Anya almost always answers the teacher.

Here are some examples from famous poets.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street
–Acquainted With the Night, Robert Frost

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more.”
–The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe

I closed my lids, and kept them close,
And the balls like pulses beat ;
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky
Lay like a load on my weary eye,
And the dead were at my feet.
–The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I leave the plain, I climb the height;
No branchy thicket shelter yields;
But blessed forms in whistling storms
Fly o’er waste fens and windy fields.
–Sir Galahad, Alfred Tennyson

Write a 3 line poem with one line containing alliteration. 

Wednesday

Write the spelling words two times each. 

Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
by: Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieve it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

~Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

1. What does the dying of the light mean?________________________________________________

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2. What are all the types of men Thomas wrote about in this poem?___________________________

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3. What did Thomas say about Grave men?______________________________________________

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4. Read the last stanza again. Who did Thomas write this poem for?___________________________

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Thursday

Poetry and Creative Writing

Often in poetry, poets write each line with the same number of syllables. A syllable is a single, unbroken sound of a word. Syllables usually contain a vowel and accompanying consonants. Sometimes syllables are referred to as the ‘beats’ of spoken language. The number of times you hear a vowel sound in a words equals the number of syllables. 

Let's look at a  couple of words:

Shallow-- this has two syllables shal-low. You hear the a, and the o.

Fire- this has one syllable. You only hear the i.

Here is a poem where each line has the same number of syllables.

Sadness

This quiet sadness hovers over plains;
sits waiting, wetting, fogging up the eyes;
then drizzles slowly like a misty rain.
it's soggy stillness blankets bluer skies,
then flutters like a peaceful butterfly

Today I want you to write a 4 to 8 line poem with 8 syllables per line.

Math and History and Group Reading

With mom. We will do History and group reading the first part of the day, then you will start your other work while I call you for your other lessons. This year we will study communism for history. You will practice your drawing while I read to you.

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

The Hiding place by Corrie Ten Boom

Monday- chapter 13
Tuesday- chapter 14
Wednesday- chapter 15

Geography

Mon- Wed: Learn all the Capitol cities of all the Countries in Western Europe.

Test on Thursday. Tests will be first in the day on Thursday.