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Monday
Write each spelling word two times each.Grammar- Rules for Quotations Marks.
There are several uses for quotation marks. We will go over some of the more important uses over the next few weeks.
Use quotations marks for dialogue.
There are several punctuation and paragraphing rules involved with writing dialogue.
Do:
1. Use a comma before opening quotes mid-sentence.
2. Use a comma or a question mark or an explanation point inside the end quotes when the quote ends mid-sentence.
3. Put ending punctuation inside the closing quotation mark when the quote ends the sentence.
4. End one quote with a period before starting the next for the same speaker in the same paragraph.
5. Start a new paragraph for a new speaker.
6. Place what is actually being said inside quotation marks. Any additional information like who the speaker is or how the speaker is feeling should be outside the quotation marks.
Don't:
1. Include commas and periods outside quotation marks.
2. Separate two quotes from the same speaker with a comma.
3. Use end quotes at the end of the first paragraph if the beginning of the next paragraph is part of the quote.
4. Include different speakers in the same paragraph.
Examples:
Before she ran to the store, she called out to her mother, "Can I stop at Marcia's house on my way home?"
*A comma is used before the quote begins and the question mark is included inside the quotation marks. Only the spoken word is included inside the quotation marks.
"Can I stop to visit Marcia after I run to the store?" she asked her mother.
*The question mark is inside the quotation, but the sentence continues without a capital letter because it is not the ending of the sentence.
"I need to run to the store," she told her mother. "I will go and visit Marcia afterwards, so expect me home late."
*Look closely at the punctuation. There are two complete sentence quotes from the same speaker in the same paragraph. A period is placed at the of mother, rather than a comma because this is the close of a
sentence. It would be incorrect to have a comma there instead of a period.
Bobby slapped his hands down on his lap, "You are wrong! I won't listen to you anymore!"
"Please hear me out," Jennifer calmly replied.
*When another speaker came into the dialogue, a new paragraph began with the new speaker.
With his small audience sitting on the floor listening to him philosophized, John continued to teach,
"For a long time the police have played hero. But if anybody else was a hero, the police made them a suspect, and treated them as a potential criminal. If a man shoots a villain, the man who did the shooting will find himself under police scrutiny.
"And if we had any sense of freedom in our hearts we would know that is a dangerous, dangerous business. Beware the hero that puts himself on a pedestal and considers all other men who defend themselves, their rights, and their properties to be potential criminals. He is a tyrant..."
*In this example, one person is speaking, but the speech is long and extends over more than one paragraph. In this case, the proper punctuation is to not close the quotes at the end of the paragraph, but to leave it open with no closing quotation marks. Begin each following paragraph with an opening quotation mark and only add the closing quotation mark when the speaker has finished.
Exercises:
In the following sentences add in all of the proper punctuation including quotation marks, commas, periods, and question marks. If a new paragraph is necessary use this symbol ¶ to denote a new paragraph.
1. I have to drive to the university to listen to a special lecture from a guest speaker said Sarah I will be home at 4:30 Jacob replied Please take notes for me I wanted to hear that professor but I have to work today I can do that said Sarah I will see you later tonight
2. Sarah sat down in a center row in the lecture hall Hi there she said to the girl two seats down I'm excited to hear this professor Me too the other girl said My sister listened to him last year and she said the he is really good She really enjoyed listening to him
3. The lights dimmed and a spotlight appeared over the podium Sarah sat listening The girl beside her smiled at Sarah and said I don't like him What do you think Sarah looked at the girl and said I'll have to think about it
4. Sarah paid close attention. Dr. Jordan Peterson continued his speech saying There’s this dawning awareness that, out of a plethora of heroes, the ultimate hero will emerge. Think about this psychologically. Just think about it psychologically. Imagine that what human beings are trying to do is abstract out the ultimate patterns for modes of Being. So what they do is they look for admirable people, and then they make a story about an amalgam of admirable people—that would be a hero—and then the heroes’ stories get amalgamated, so you get a meta-hero. Christ is a meta-hero. This is completely independent of any historical reality. That’s a whole different issue. And I’m not denying any historical reality. That’s a different issue.
The Western imagination has been at work for a very long time, constructing up a meta-hero—and also his adversary—and clarifying the nature of those. That has been done in a sufficiently delineated way, so that it’s produced a major impact on the manner in which our societies are constructed. The cornerstone of our society is respect for logos, and that’s instantiated in the doctrine of respect for free speech. It’s also instantiated in the doctrine that every individual has transcendent value, which I do believe is something that the West has developed to a far greater degree than any other culture that currently exists and probably ever existed.
5. When Sarah got home Jacob asked her how the speech was Sarah said very interesting I enjoyed it very much Jacob asked May I see your notes Sarah handed her notes to Jacob.
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: Oxymoron
An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two words of opposite meaning are placed together or close together for emphasis, humour, or to describe a paradox.
examples:
examples:
He gave an unbiased opinion.
They had a love-hate relationship.
That joke is seriously funny.
She's awfully pretty.
He's terribly good at drawing.
Rachel's determinedly lazy.
The liquid gas flowed in the tube.
The cat is adorably ugly.
They agreed to disagree.
They agreed to disagree.
She loved to hate him.
Exercises:
Circle the oxymorons in the following literary paragraphs.
Circle the oxymorons in the following literary paragraphs.
O anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?
~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
The shackles of love straiten’d him
His honour rooted in dishonoured stood
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true
~Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine
I find no peace, and all my war is done
I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice,
I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;
~Sir Thomas Wyatt, Petrarch’s 134th sonnet
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own tongue still edifies his ears,
And always list’ning to himself appears.
~Alexander Pope, Essays of Criticism
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiond angelical!
Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st;
A damned saint, an honourable villain!
O, nature! what hadst thou to do in hell
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Write three sentences with an oxymoron.
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Wednesday
Write the spelling words two times each.Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.
It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because soirées are tedious, and because the soirée finds us tedious. A backwoodsman, who had been sent to the university, told me that, when he heard the best-bred young men at the law school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors, and he the better man. And if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves, and then first society seemed to exist. That was society, though in the transom of a brig, or on the Florida Keys.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude
1. What does this say about people in society?___________________________________________
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2. What happened when the backwoodsman went into polished society?_____________________
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3. What ironic point is Emerson making in this paragraph?__________________________________
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Thursday
Poetry and Creative WritingWe are now going to focus on story telling devices. There are nine weeks left of the school year. We will use 5 weeks practicing story telling devices and the last 4 composing a short story of between 2000 and 5000 words in which you'll be expected to use your poetic knowledge add at least one poem to enhance your story.
Here's a list of 10 story telling devices. We will go over two in detail each week for 5 weeks.
Analogy
Foil Character
Character Flaws
Character Flaws
Cliche
Deus ex machina
Dry Humor
Direct Language
Figurative Language
Macguffin
Non Sequitur
Macguffin
Non Sequitur
Analogy
An analogy is a thought process that transfers meaning from one thing to another. People tend to understand new information by comparing it to old information that they already comprehend. Analogies take obscure ideas and draw them into simple concepts. Metaphors, similes, fables, and allegories are all examples of analogies.
Putting analogies into a story helps the reader understand complex ideas in a simple way. However, you need to make sure your use of metaphor is relatable and sensible. For example, people understand the comparison of a messy boy to a pig, but if you go too abstract and compare a messy boy to stormy sea, you'll either confuse or bore the reader.
Here are some simple analogies to think about.
A big trial or trouble as a tidal wave or tsunami.
Close friendships to two peas in a pod.
Depression to long grey cloudy day.
These are all more abstract ideas explained through something more concrete.
Write a paragraph in which you use an analogy to clarify a more abstract idea.
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An analogy is a thought process that transfers meaning from one thing to another. People tend to understand new information by comparing it to old information that they already comprehend. Analogies take obscure ideas and draw them into simple concepts. Metaphors, similes, fables, and allegories are all examples of analogies.
Putting analogies into a story helps the reader understand complex ideas in a simple way. However, you need to make sure your use of metaphor is relatable and sensible. For example, people understand the comparison of a messy boy to a pig, but if you go too abstract and compare a messy boy to stormy sea, you'll either confuse or bore the reader.
Here are some simple analogies to think about.
A big trial or trouble as a tidal wave or tsunami.
Close friendships to two peas in a pod.
Depression to long grey cloudy day.
These are all more abstract ideas explained through something more concrete.
Write a paragraph in which you use an analogy to clarify a more abstract idea.
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Foil Character
A foil character is a character put into a story that has opposite and conflicting traits as another character, usually the main character in a story. The foil character can be the antagonist, like Batman and the Joker, but not always. Sometimes the foil character could be a good friend to the protagonist, such as Anne and Diana in Anne of Green Gables.
Write a list of 5 characters from books or movies in which a foil character appears.
Write a list of 5 characters from books or movies in which a foil character appears.
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Scriptures
Read the Doctrine and Covenants. You need to be finished with section 65 by the end of 16 weeks.
Reading
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 27 chapters
Monday- Chapter 17
Tuesday- Chapter 18
Wednesday- Chapter 19
Thursday- Chapter 20
Monday- Chapter 17
Tuesday- Chapter 18
Wednesday- Chapter 19
Thursday- Chapter 20
Geography
Now that you've studied maps of the world, I want you to pick one country and write a 800 to 2000 word story that takes place in it as well as drawing a detailed picture to go with the story. You have 5 weeks to do this.
