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analyze
appreciate
boundary
bouquet
Monday
Write each spelling word two times each.Grammar: Complex Predicate
A complex predicate occurs when the subject of the sentence preforms more than one action. It will be two or more verbs that subject of the sentence preforms.
examples:
The bluejay flew to the tree and sat down.
The bluejay flew to the tree and sat down.
The bluejay which is the subject of the sentence preforms two actions: flying and sitting or rather flew and sat.
Cameron and Angie slid down the slide and swung on the monkey bars.
The tired horse stopped walking and sat down.
Cameron and Angie slid down the slide and swung on the monkey bars.
The tired horse stopped walking and sat down.
Worksheet:
Underline the predicate and circle all of the verbs that make up the complex predicate in the following sentences.
Underline the predicate and circle all of the verbs that make up the complex predicate in the following sentences.
1. We spent the summer traveling and trying out new restaurants.
2. The uninhabited shack creaked and groaned under the weight of the winter's snow and ice.
3. Sally vigorously ran a mile and then walked another two before resuming her run.
4. The city fines or arrests people for violations of the law.
5. A wayfaring cat hid and meowed when a large storm struck.
6. The home owner's association delights in and enjoys violating the rights of the homeowners.
7. The mathematician plans to analyze the data after calculating the results.
8. Denis and Jane support and appreciate their mother in her many endeavors.
9. The contractor drew a line and pounded stakes into the ground to show the boundary of the property line.
10. The bouquet of roses both scented and beautified the dining room.
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: Allusion
Example:
An Offered Olive Branch
an offered olive branch
can grow a tree
and reach back
to Abraham's bosom.
the scattered are gathered
are grafted in
to roots planted long ago.
an ancient olive tree still yields fruit...
olives wholesome and sweet
bloom when the sun touches each leaf.
trimming and pruning and digging about
the roots can take hold
of the graft
and the fruit ripens plump and sweet
This poem makes allusions to different Bible passages that use branches and olive trees to teach about the House of Israel. This poem also makes an allusion to the Bible character, Abraham.
An Offered Olive Branch
an offered olive branch
can grow a tree
and reach back
to Abraham's bosom.
the scattered are gathered
are grafted in
to roots planted long ago.
an ancient olive tree still yields fruit...
olives wholesome and sweet
bloom when the sun touches each leaf.
trimming and pruning and digging about
the roots can take hold
of the graft
and the fruit ripens plump and sweet
This poem makes allusions to different Bible passages that use branches and olive trees to teach about the House of Israel. This poem also makes an allusion to the Bible character, Abraham.
Famous Examples of Allusion:
All overgrown by cunning moss,
All interspersed with weed,
The little cage of "Currer Bell"
In quiet "Haworth" laid.
~Emily Dickinson, "All Overgrown by Cunning Moss"
In this poem, Poet Emily Dickinson alludes to Currer Bell, a pen name for author Charlotte Brontë, most famous for her novel Jane Eyre, as well as to the English village of Haworth, where Brontë died.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
~Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
In this poem, Robert Frost makes an allusion to the Garden of Eden "so Eden sank to grief" in the Bible.
In common speech people use allusion all of the time. You've probably heard these common phrases:
Unlock Pandora's Box (refers to Greek Mythology)
An Achilles Heal (Refers to Achilles the Greek Hero of the Trojan war)
referring to a smart person as Einstein (refers to Albert Einstein)
Write an 8 to 12 line poem alluding to something famous or from literature. It can be an allusion to a favorite song or a story or a character in a book, something from the Bible or from Mythology, but make it make sense within the context of your poem.
In this poem, Poet Emily Dickinson alludes to Currer Bell, a pen name for author Charlotte Brontë, most famous for her novel Jane Eyre, as well as to the English village of Haworth, where Brontë died.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
~Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
In this poem, Robert Frost makes an allusion to the Garden of Eden "so Eden sank to grief" in the Bible.
In common speech people use allusion all of the time. You've probably heard these common phrases:
Unlock Pandora's Box (refers to Greek Mythology)
An Achilles Heal (Refers to Achilles the Greek Hero of the Trojan war)
referring to a smart person as Einstein (refers to Albert Einstein)
Write an 8 to 12 line poem alluding to something famous or from literature. It can be an allusion to a favorite song or a story or a character in a book, something from the Bible or from Mythology, but make it make sense within the context of your poem.
Wednesday
Write the spelling words two times each.Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.
All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The rough, irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd, according to its size. Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to help women, who bent over their shoulders, to sip, before the wine had all run out between their fingers. Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women’s heads, which were squeezed dry into infants’ mouths; others made small mud-embankments, to stem the wine as it ran; others, directed by lookers-on up at high windows, darted here and there, to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions; others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking, and even champing the moister wine-rotted fragments with eager relish. There was no drainage to carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up, but so much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a scavenger in the street, if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence.
~Charles Dickons, A Tale of Two Cities
1. This takes place prior to the French Revolution, a time in history where people were starving. What about this passage illustrates the hunger of the people?_____________________________________
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2. What did the people do when the wine spilled?__________________________________________
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3. Name three descriptive words used in this passage to describe the people?____________________
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4. The wine spilling in the streets is a famous metaphor. What does the spilled wine represent?______
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Thursday
Poetry and Creative Writing
Read through your rough draft carefully. Make sure you have included plenty of descriptive imagery and that your story reads well. Go through and fix any run on or fragment sentences. Circle plain words and use a thesaurus to find words that work better. Than right up your final draft of your first short story.
Scriptures
This is your last week. Finish the Book of Mormon if you have not already. You will start reading the Doctrine and Covenants when school continues after break.
