2020-2021 Week 5

Language Arts

Spelling
parallel
qualifying
reasonable
scarcity
tongue
unnecessary
various
wheezing
youthful
zucchini

Monday

Write each spelling word two times each. 

Grammar- Participial Phrases

A participial phrase is a group of words that contains verbs that end in -ing, -ed, or another irregular form of a verb (participle) and functions as an adjective in a sentence. They modify nouns same as adjectives, but they're made of two or more words, like any phrase. Participial phrases provide added descriptions about what a noun does or what it looks like.

The participle in a participial phrase can be either the present participle or the past participle.
The present participle of a verb expresses the action of a verb in the present. It always end in –ing, every single time.

However, the past participle of a verb has a lot of irregular spellings.  Regular past tense verbs, end in   -ed. But there are many irregular past participles. Such as rung and hung and begun, spun, went, spent, arose, forgotten, forbidden, had, cost, lent, lain, etc.

One more important point, participial phrases are always divided from the noun they modify and the rest of the sentence with a comma.

examples:
1. Smiling and waving, the girl ran to greet her friends. 

Notice how the phrase "smiling and waving" modifies "girl" the same way any adjective would, such as fat or pretty. Instead of pretty girl in the sentence, we have a smiling and waving girl.

2. Hidden in the park, the Easter eggs wait for eager kids. 

Can you see how "hidden in the park" modifies or tells us more about the Easter eggs?

3. Standing by the wall, Kate observed the ballerinas. 

In this sentence, Standing by the wall, tells us more about, or modifies the subject, Kate. 

Worksheet
Underline the participial phrase, and circle the noun that it modifies, in the following sentences.

1.Standing in the sun, the parallel rows of corn reached heavenward. 

2. Qualifying for the soccer team, Joseph ran five miles each day.

3. Framed and hung, the new artwork made a reasonable addition to the decorations in the foyer. 

4. We knew that the corn, scorched in the sun, would be a scarcity next fall.

5. Tired and hoarse, the tongue tied teacher took a break. 

6. My father, working hard as usual, dug an unnecessary ditch around the garden. 

7. The cat, feeling various emotions, hissed at the baby, then sat and began to purr. 

8. Coughing and wheezing, George stopped his jog to take a break. 

9. The youthful robin, flitting and hopping through the grass, sang a cheery song. 

10. The zucchini plant, basking in the sunlight, flourished. 

Write three of your own sentences with participial 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: Hyperbole

 pronounce: hi-perb- o- lee

Hyperbole is an overstatement. It is saying something in an exaggerated way that's not meant to be literal or precisely true. It's often used in comedy or in poetry to emphasize emotions. When an author uses hyperbole, he's not expecting the reader to take him seriously.

examples:

1. He was so angry, his head literally blew up.

2. The day was so hot, I thought that the sun had fallen to earth.

3. Joseph ate about a million doughnuts that morning.

4. That will take forever.

5. If I can't go to the show, I know that I'll die right then.

See if you can pick out the use of hyperbole in these famous examples. Underline the hyperbole.

Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard. People had to wait until sunup to find out what folks were talking about the night before.
– Opening of the American folktale ‘Babe the Blue Ox’

I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.”
– Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi

“It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.”
― Giles Lytton Strachey, Elizabeth and Essex

Sir John's confidence in his own judgment rose with this animated praise, and he set off directly for the cottage to tell the Miss Dashwoods of the Miss Steeles' arrival, and to assure them of their being the sweetest girls in the world. From such commendation as this, however, there was not much to be learned; Elinor well knew that the sweetest girls in the world were to be met with in every part of England, under every possible variation of form, face, temper and understanding.
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Now write a 100 word story using two examples of hyperbole.

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Wednesday

Write the spelling words two times each.

Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.

He picked up the children’s history book and looked at the portrait of Big Brother which formed its frontispiece. The hypnotic eyes gazed into his own. It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you—something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses. In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?

--George Orwell, 1984

1. The main character in this famous novel is Winston. This passage is what Winston saw and thought when he picked up a children's history book. What is the first thing that Winston saw in the book? How did it make him feel? ________________________________________________________________

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2. By talking about two and two making five, what was the author trying to convey to the reader?

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3. What does this say about human thoughts? _____________________________________________

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Thursday

Poetry and Creative Writing

There are standard forms that poets use. We're going to go through a few of them. Some of them are old, and some of them are more modern.  Some are from England, some from France, some from the United States, and some from India and Japan and other places.

Today we're going to learn about the Monotetra.

The monotetra, a modern poetic form developed by Michael Walker, has a 4 line stanza, and each line contains exactly 8 syllables, and each line has the same end rhyme. The fourth line has a 4 syllable phrase repeated twice. A monotetra can have one stanza or a hundred stanzas.

Let's look at an example.

In the Spring

sunlight dances through leafy trees

flowers sway in a fragrant breeze

I'm in the garden on my knees
springtime does please, springtime does please

the birds fly in a happy throng
flitting and flapping wings so strong
chirping, singing, a lovely song
they all belong, they all belong

Write a monotetra of your own.

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 Mark of Zorro
Monday- Chapters 1 and 2
Tuesday- Chapters 3 and 4
Wednesday- Chapters 5 and 6
Thursday- Chapters 7 and 8

Geography

Mon- Wed: Learn all the Countries in Eastern Europe.

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