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Monday
Write each spelling word two times each.Grammar: Indirect object
The indirect object in a sentence is the recipient of the object it answers the questions for whom? or to whom?
To find the indirect object, first locate the direct object. Remember, that the direct object is found by locating the verb and asking "what?". Once you know the word or phrase that's the direct object, ask who or what received it.
In these examples I will underline the direct object and bold the indirect object.
Josh made a sandwich for his mother.
Josh made what? A sandwich.
For whom did he make it for? his mother.
Jim told Fred a story.
Jim told what? A story.
In these examples I will underline the direct object and bold the indirect object.
Josh made a sandwich for his mother.
Josh made what? A sandwich.
For whom did he make it for? his mother.
Jim told Fred a story.
Jim told what? A story.
To whom did he tell it to? to Fred.
Angel brought him dinner.
Angel brought what? Dinner.
To whom did she bring it? to him.
To whom did she bring it? to him.
Exercises:
Underline the direct objects and circle the indirect objects in the following sentences.
Underline the direct objects and circle the indirect objects in the following sentences.
1. Barker and Harper kicked the ball to each other across the field.
2. Bart baked his father a birthday cake in the morning.
3. The robin carried worms to her babies in their nest in the tree.
4. She passed the assignment in to the teacher.
5. Jonathan fried bacon and eggs one sunny morning for his grandmother.
Write 5 sentences with indirect objects. Underline your direct object and circle your indirect object.
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Literary Device: Imagery
2. Bart baked his father a birthday cake in the morning.
3. The robin carried worms to her babies in their nest in the tree.
4. She passed the assignment in to the teacher.
5. Jonathan fried bacon and eggs one sunny morning for his grandmother.
Write 5 sentences with indirect objects. Underline your direct object and circle your indirect object.
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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: Imagery
Imagery is the most important literary device. It attracts the senses of the reader, paints the scene, gives it color, touch, smell and sound. Word choice is of the utmost importance to create imagery in writing, because the author uses words and phrases to create “mental images” for the reader. Imagery, if you will, plays the movie in the readers head. The usage of metaphors, allusions, descriptive words and similes among other literary devices combine to form the imagery and prick the reader's soul.
Read this poem and think about what you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel in this poem, which is a metaphor for love.
it's
it's that card game with doritos
mason jars of root beer
as we sit on a carpeted floor
dandelions growing tall
you chose not to mow
til they drifted up past my knees
lucky charms cereal,
the baby dumped,
swept and tossed out,
even chickens,
like children,
eat marshmallows first
it's this place,
old,
with broken parts,
sitting in the middle of trees
quiet wafts from the air
in pine scents, it's this place
with you
it's
it's that card game with doritos
mason jars of root beer
as we sit on a carpeted floor
dandelions growing tall
you chose not to mow
til they drifted up past my knees
lucky charms cereal,
the baby dumped,
swept and tossed out,
even chickens,
like children,
eat marshmallows first
it's this place,
old,
with broken parts,
sitting in the middle of trees
quiet wafts from the air
in pine scents, it's this place
with you
Read this poem by T.S. Eliot paying close attention to all the imagery.
Preludes
by T.S. Eliot
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.
~ T.S. Eliot, Preludes
What sounds, smells, tastes and sights did this poem put in your mind as you read?
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Read this poem by Alfred Tennyson paying close attention to all the imagery.
Summer Night
Summer Night
by Alfred Tennyson
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The firefly wakens: waken thou with me.
Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.
Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.
Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake.
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The firefly wakens: waken thou with me.
Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.
Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.
Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake.
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.
~Alfred Tennyson, Summer Night
What sounds, smells, tastes and sights did this poem put in your mind as you read?
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Write at least a 5 line poem including imagery that involves at least 3 of the 5 senses: sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. Also include at least one metaphor or simile in your poem.
Wednesday
Write the spelling words two times each.Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.
Hear an illustration, reader.
A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her. He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he pauses--fancying she has stirred: he withdraws: not for worlds would he be seen. All is still: he again advances: he bends above her; a light veil rests on her features: he lifts it, bends lower; now his eyes anticipate the vision of beauty--warm, and blooming, and lovely, in rest. How hurried was their first glance! But how they fix! How he starts! Hoe he suddenly and vehemently clasps in both arms the form he dared not, a moment since, touch with his finger! How he calls aloud a name, and drops his burden, and gazes on it wildly! He this grasps and cries, and gazes, because he no longer fears to waken by any sound he can utter--by any movement he can make. He thought his love slept sweetly: he finds she is stone dead.
I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.
~Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
1. This passage itself is a metaphor and that metaphor is explained. What is the metaphor? Explain it.
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2. What does the lover expect and hope to find? What does he find instead?______________________
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3. What words did the author use to create imagery in this scene? What senses did she touch?
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Thursday
Poetry and Creative WritingIt's time to start learning about meter. Meter is hard to understand and it takes to time to get to know words and which syllables are emphasized during speech. It's usually the case that longer syllables are the stressed syllables.
Fortunately, in our day, we have the internet to help us out. You will likely need to use this website: https://www.howmanysyllables.com/ You will need to enter the root word of the word you're looking for and it will tell you which syllables are given emphasis.
But first, what is meter in poetry?
Meter is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse (often referred to as METRICAL FEET). Basically meter is a poetic device or literary device that makes a regular sound pattern. It gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound.
One FOOT is the basic pattern, such as stressed/unstressed.
Several FEET are the pattern repeated stressed/unstressed-stressed/unstressed-stressed/unstressed
There are different types of meter. We'll start with one of the most common: iambic
iambic is unstressed/stressed-unstressed/stressed...
iambic needs to be written in lines that have an even number of syllables.
Most poets write in either iambic pentameter, which is iambic meter with 10 syllables per line, or
iambic tetrameter, which is iambic meter with 8 syllables per line.
it ends up sounding like: daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM
Here's a poem that I wrote in iambic tetrameter:
Peaceful Summer's Day
upon a peaceful summer's day
when all the children left to play
by shaded trees they came to swing
and hear the gentle robins sing
they laughed and swung then dug in sand
and built a fortress with their hand
with shining pebbles large and small
they made a village with a wall
they sold and bartered sticks and rocks
some yellow flowers, some wood blocks
then played a game that lasted long
of life and war, the weak and strong
upon a table set in shade
I placed on cups of lemonade
some cookies, fruit, and little pies
the children ran with happy eyes
I brought a pictured story book
and called to them with just a look
we sat and read beneath some trees
enjoying summer's sweetest breeze
Let's look at the stressed and unstressed syllables of one line:
da DUm da Dum da Dum da Dum
up on a peace ful sum mer's day
Can you sense the meter?
Here are some famous poems written in iambic pentameter. I will bold the stressed syllables.
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall…
~William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands…
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ’twas not
Her husband’s presence only, called that spot…
~Robert Browing, My Last Dutchess
Now try and write two lines in iambic pentameter or iambic tetrameter.
Now try and write two lines in iambic pentameter or iambic tetrameter.
Scriptures
Read the Doctrine and Covenants. You need to be finished with section 65 by the end of 16 weeks.
Reading
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Monday- Chapter 5
Tuesday- Chapter 6
Wednesday- Chapter 7
Thursday- Chapter 8
Monday- Chapter 5
Tuesday- Chapter 6
Wednesday- Chapter 7
Thursday- Chapter 8
Geography
Mon- Wed: Learn all of the Capitol cities of all of the Countries in Eastern Asia
