2020-2021 Week 9

Language Arts

Spelling
fatigue
grievance
horrify
immediately
judicial
linguistics

misbehaved

nutritionist

obviously

pedestrian

Monday

Write each spelling word two times each.

Grammar: Appositive Phrase

An appositive phrase is a type of noun phrase that clarifies another noun. It can come before or after the noun that it clarifies. The one thing to remember about appositive phrases is that they always come right before or right after the noun that it clarifies. 

examples:

The smallest state, Rhode Island, has a beautiful coastline. 

Spring, my favorite season, arrives at the end of March. 

My sisters, Angie and Beth, danced in the ballet.
The friendly kitten, Annabel, ran to greet us.

That's it. These are the easiest phrases.

Worksheet
Underline the appositive phrase in each sentence.

1. The old librarian, Mrs. Applebee, suffered from fatigue.

2. Safeway, the local grocery store, had a grievance with the city counsel over the traffic light.

3. Frances, the little grey mouse, horrified the elephant when he ran across his toe. 

4. Zoe, my baby sister, fell asleep immediately after I picked her up.

5. Ms. Harper, the only woman on the judicial committee, walked proudly through town.

6. The linguistics instructor at the local university, Prof. Peters, knows six languages.

7. Harry and Sam, my fat bulldogs, misbehaved when we left them home alone for twelve hours.

8. The fat nutritionist, Dr. Sanders, could never help people effectively. 

9. Obviously, my ruckus brother, Adam, broke several bones before he graduated high school.

10. Jeff, the student driver, stopped for the pedestrian in the cross walk.

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: Personification

Personification is a writing technique where an object, animal, or idea is given human qualities or characteristics. In writing it is the making an object or idea do something that only people do without transforming the object or animal to completely behave like a person. A thing or idea is made to have person like qualities, but not to become a person.

Note that personification not anthropomorphism (we'll learn about that next week), where animals and objects are given human abilities such as talking and walking to the point that they become human in function such as Mickey Mouse. So you're talking cat that's driving to the grocery store is not personified, but the sun reaching down to touch your face, or the mouse whispering hello before scurrying to hide is.

Let's look at some examples of Personification.

That car keeps cutting me off.
Justice is blind and sometimes deaf.
The wind whispered in my ear.
The daisies danced in the sunlight.

Society is going to hell in a handbasket.

That building makes me crazy.

Here are some famous examples:

Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

~ Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death

Blackberries
Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes
Ebon in the hedges, fat
With blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers.
I had not asked for such a blood sisterhood; they must love me.
They accommodate themselves to my milkbottle, flattening their sides.
~ Sylvia Plath, Blackberrying

Write four sentences of your own making that include personification.

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Wednesday

Write the spelling words two times each.

Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.

~Jane Austen, Persuasion

1. Is the narrator of this passage a man or a woman?______________________________________

2. What does writer want to convey to the intended reader?________________________________

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3. What did the writer want from the reader to know if he could enter her father's house?_________

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Thursday

Poetry and Creative Writing

The Tanka is another Japanese form of poetry. It's like the Senyru with two more lines. It is much freer than Haiku as it makes use of poetic devices such as metaphor and personification where haiku does not.

So Tanka has 5 lines and with a maximum syllable count:
line 1: 5 syllables

line 2: 7 syllables

line 3: 5 syllables

line 4: 7 syllables

line 5: 7 syllables

Here's an example:

the stars
in black midnight silence

spin, dip, and twirl
and we know it not

neither do we comprehend

Here's a famous Japanese example:

足引きの 山鳥の尾の しだり尾の  ながながし夜を ひとりかもねむ

Ashibiki no
Yamadori no o no
Shidari o no
Naganagashi yo wo
Hitori kamo nen

English

like a long
and hang down
tail of a copper pheasant,
I sleep alone
at long long night.

~Kakinomoto Hitomaro (662-710)


Now write one tanka all 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 33 and 34
Tuesday- Chapters 35 and 36
Wednesday- Chapters 37 and 38
Thursday- Chapter 39

Geography

Mon- Wed: Learn all of the Countries in the Middle East.

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