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Monday
Write each spelling word two times each.
Grammar- Rules for Commas
Rules for when to use commas have changed a lot over the years. I am going to go over 8 rules for comma usage over the next five weeks. Some of these are set in stone, and some there's debate about the necessity. The more you read, the better and more natural you will get at putting commas in the correct places.
Rule # 1 Lists
Use commas to separate items listed in a sentence. Items listed can be verbs, nouns, adjectives, or adverbs.
Let's take a look:
The recipe requires chili powder, cumin, and paprika.
*A comma goes after each item accept the last.
*Some style guides would suggest leaving off the comma on the item before the and. The key is to be consistent. Either always put a comma in your lists after the and or or, or never put a comma there ever.
Look at a few more examples.
During vacation Anne went swimming, biking, hiking, and she played tennis.
the commas separated a list of verbs
We bought soda, chips, carrots, celery, and dip for the party.
the commas separated a list of nouns
She thought her brother looked tired, fatigued, and generally bored while performing in the concert.
the commas separated adjectives
The dog's bark sounded raspy, sickly, and weak.
the commas separated adverbs
*List commas can also separate phrases.
example:
We drove to the store, shopped for clothing, and then went out to eat.
Exercises:
Add the commas to the correct places in the following sentences.
1. My family brought two tents a cookstove firewood matches and tarps to our camping vacation.
2. The animals on the farm ran in woods rested in the shade and then returned to the barn for the night.
3. I thought the thin blond haired blue eyed girl was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.
4. my mother wrote the letters stuffed the envelopes addressed the envelops put on the stamps and walked to the post office.
5. I have three cats two dogs twenty hen and three goats and twelve ducks.
Rule #2 Introductory words or phrases
Use a comma after an introductory word or phrase.
Whenever a word or phrase forms an introduction to the sentence, use a comma after that word or phrase.
examples:
Before leaving, we ate lunch.
However, the children will not be returning to school in the fall.
After arriving, we found our seats.
On the other hand, we need to buy some important items before we can start making money.
Exercises:
Write five sentences with introductory words or phrases and put your comma in the right place.
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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: Foreshadowing
Here two examples from literature:
Stormy and wet, stormy and wet; and mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets. Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind. So furious had been the gusts, that high buildings in town had had the lead stripped off their roofs; and in the country, trees had been torn up, and sails of windmills carried away; and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of shipwreck and death. Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all.
~Charles Dickons, Great Expectations
Stormy and wet, stormy and wet; and mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets. Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind. So furious had been the gusts, that high buildings in town had had the lead stripped off their roofs; and in the country, trees had been torn up, and sails of windmills carried away; and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of shipwreck and death. Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all.
~Charles Dickons, Great Expectations
The stormy weather in this paragraph foreshadows difficult events that will come into Pip's (the main character) life. Notice that the storm is used both as a metaphor and as a means of foreshadowing.
The twilight darkens, the curlew call …
And the tide rises, the tide falls.”
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
In this Longfellow poem, the darkness and rising and falling of the tides foretells that the travelers would never return. The title of the poem itself, is foreshadowing. Again, notice that the foreshadowing is done with a metaphor.
1. Give one example of foreshadowing that you've noticed in your own reading.__________________
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Wednesday
Write the spelling words two times each.Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.
The Three Little Pigs
by: Roald Dahl
The animal I really dig,
Above all others is the pig.
Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
Pigs are courteous. However,
Now and then, to break this rule,
One meets a pig who is a fool.
What, for example, would you say,
If strolling through the woods one day,
Right there in front of you you saw
A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
And said, "That pig has had his chips."
"Little pig, little pig, let me come in!"
"No, no, by the hairs on my chinny-chin-chin!"
"Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!"
The little pig began to pray,
But Wolfie blew his house away.
He shouted, "Bacon, pork and ham!
Oh, what a lucky Wolf I am!"
And though he ate the pig quite fast,
He carefully kept the tail till last.
Wolf wandered on, a trifle bloated.
Surprise, surprise, for soon he noted
Another little house for pigs,
And this one had been built of TWIGS!
"Little pig, little pig, let me come in!"
"No, no, by the hairs on my chinny-chin-chin!"
"Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!"
The Wolf said, "Okay, here we go!"
He then began to blow and blow.
The little pig began to squeal.
He cried, "Oh Wolf, you've had one meal!
Why can't we talk and make a deal?
The Wolf replied, "Not on your nelly!"
And soon the pig was in his belly.
"Two juicy little pigs!" Wolf cried,
"But still I'm not quite satisfied!
I know how full my tummy's bulging,
But oh, how I adore indulging."
So creeping quietly as a mouse,
The Wolf approached another house,
A house which also had inside
A little piggy trying to hide.
"You'll not get me!" the Piggy cried.
"I'll blow you down!" the Wolf replied.
"You'll need," Pig said, "a lot of puff,
And I don't think you've got enough."
Wolf huffed and puffed and blew and blew.
The house stayed up as good as new.
"If I can't blow it down," Wolf said,
I'll have to blow it up instead.
I'll come back in the dead of night
And blow it up with dynamite!"
Pig cried, "You brute! I might have known!"
Then, picking up the telephone,
He dialed as quickly as he could
The number of red Riding Hood.
"Hello," she said. "Who's speaking? Who?
Oh, hello, Piggy, how d'you do?"
Pig cried, "I need your help, Miss Hood!
Oh help me, please! D'you think you could?"
"I'll try of course," Miss Hood replied.
"What's on your mind...?" "A Wolf!" Pig cried.
"I know you've dealt with wolves before,
And now I've got one at my door!"
"My darling Pig," she said, "my sweet,
That's something really up my street.
I've just begun to wash my hair.
But when it's dry, I'll be right there."
A short while later, through the wood,
Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze,
And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
And spit was dripping from his jaw.
Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
She draws the pistol from her knickers.
Once more she hits the vital spot,
And kills him with a single shot.
Pig, peeping through the window, stood
And yelled, "Well done, Miss Riding Hood!"
Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
Young ladies from the upper crust.
For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
Not only has two wolfskin coats,
But when she goes from place to place,
She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELING CASE.
1. What rhyme scheme did the author use?_______________________________________________
2. What happened to each of the three pigs?_______________________________________________
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4. Do you think this is a poem for children? Why or why not?________________________________
Today we're going to learn about another type of poetic meter: Trochaic Meter
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3. What was unexpected about the ending? _______________________________________________
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4. Do you think this is a poem for children? Why or why not?________________________________
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Thursday
Poetry and Creative WritingToday we're going to learn about another type of poetic meter: Trochaic Meter
Trochaic Meter or trochee is the opposite of iambic. One foot of trochee is stressed/unstressed.
like iambic, trochee needs to be written in lines that have an even number of syllables.
Most poets write in either trochaic pentameter, which is trochaic meter with 10 syllables per line, or
trochaic tetrameter, which is trochaic meter with 8 syllables per line.
It ends up sounding like DUM da DUM da DUM da
Here's a poem that I wrote in Trochaic Tetrameter
Covidicted
breaking news and breaking people
missing food and toilet paper
shelves unstocked in many places
tiny little virus winning
crazy, panicked, nagging masses
strong traditions pulled and fractured
naked brains in fearful worry
tiny little virus winning
sterilized with chlorine odor
shut in tightly peering outside
man and woman bound down lightly
tiny little virus winning
children freed from bars and schooling
sitting down to wait for healing
but the trap is surely snapping
downward, someone, somewhere's laughing
Let's look at the meter of a line from the poem.
DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da
chil dren freed from bars and schoo ling
Here's a poem that I wrote in Trochaic Tetrameter
Covidicted
breaking news and breaking people
missing food and toilet paper
shelves unstocked in many places
tiny little virus winning
crazy, panicked, nagging masses
strong traditions pulled and fractured
naked brains in fearful worry
tiny little virus winning
sterilized with chlorine odor
shut in tightly peering outside
man and woman bound down lightly
tiny little virus winning
children freed from bars and schooling
sitting down to wait for healing
but the trap is surely snapping
downward, someone, somewhere's laughing
Let's look at the meter of a line from the poem.
DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da
chil dren freed from bars and schoo ling
Here are some famous poems written mainly with Trochee:
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
~Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
~Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf…
~William Shakespeare, MacBeth
Now it is your turn. Write a four line or longer poem in Trochee.
Now it is your turn. Write a four line or longer poem in Trochee.
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 OrwellMonday- Chapter 9
Tuesday- Chapter 10
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