Robertson Academy Weekly Work: 2020-2021 Week 25

Language Arts

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Monday

Write each spelling word two times each.

Grammar- Rules for Quotation Marks

Quotation Marks are used when adding a quote from another author, book, article, song, or movie, etc to an essay poem, or any fiction or non-fictional writing.

How to add a quote into a piece of writing:

1. Lead up to a quote with some sort of introductory statement.
2. Use a comma before the opening quote marks for a small quote.
3. Use a colon before the opening quote marks for a long quote, and start the quote on a new line.
4. Put ending punctuation inside the closing quotation mark when the quote ends the sentence.
5. Only place the direct quote inside of the quotation marks.
6. Don't use end quotes at the end of the first paragraph if the beginning of the next paragraph is part of the quote.
7. Put quotes within quotes in a single quotation mark (').
8. Put the source of the quote either in parentheses at the end of the quote or as a footnote or in an appendix.

examples:

Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, said, "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." (Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Goodreads, July 6, 2020)

After studying how the Americans stole the land from the Native Americans, I read this written by journalist, Matt Walsh:

"It is simply absurd to treat the 'theft' of land by Europeans and Americans as a unique evil for which we must repent and take down our monuments in shame. Wars of conquest had been waged in this part of the world for thousands of years before any white man graced these shores. Slavery, torture killings, rape, pillage — all of these were common features of Indian conflict. The white man jumped into that fray, he didn’t invent it. This is just how the world worked, long before air conditioning and Taco Bell and Twitter accounts.

"And we certainly cannot say that white people were unique in their barbarism. Such claims are rendered absurd by even a cursory study of tribes like the Comanche, who were known to torture babies and roast captives alive; or the Iriquois, who committed a campaign of extermination against the Huron over a century before the United States was founded. As SC Gwynn explains in his book 'Empire of the Summer Moon,' many Indian tribes in North America were brutal and warlike. And that is to say nothing of the Mesoamerican tribes, like the Aztecs and the Maya, who engaged in human sacrifice on a scale that is almost impossible to fathom. Archeologists are stll uncovering the endless and towering racks of skulls where the dismembered heads of the butchered victims were kept."(Walsh, Matt, The Daily Wire, Jul. 6, 2020)

Write a 200 word essay in which you quote two sources using all quotation mark rules for adding in quotes.

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: Paradox

A paradox is a statement that appears illogical or contradictory, and at times, silly. However, often paradoxes contain latent truths. Paradoxes are useful in illustrating an opinion contrary to accepted or traditional ideas. It makes the reader think about the subject more deeply.

Here's a few simple examples:

Your friend's enemy is your friend.
This statement is false.
He wished that his wish would not come true.

Truth is honey which is bitter.

In the following literary statements describe the paradox.

1. "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
~George Orwell, Animal Farm

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2. “I must be cruel to be kind.”
~William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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3."The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave, that is her womb;"
~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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4. “Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful …
… One short sleep past, wee wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”

~ John Donne, Death Be Not Proud

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5. "A man approaches a wall 10 feet away. To get there, he must first go half the distance (5 feet), then half the remaining distance (2.5 feet), half the remaining distance (1.25 feet) and so on. Therefore in order to reach the wall he must complete an infinite number of actions, which is impossible, before he can reach the wall. Therefore it is impossible to reach the wall."

~Zeno's Paradox

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Wednesday

Write the spelling words two times each.

Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.

Television
by: Roald Dahl

The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink --
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,
There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole-
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks-
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something to read.
And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.

1. What does the author think about television?____________________________________________

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2. Name two metaphors the author used to illustrate his point.________________________________

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3. What does using all caps do? Why would an author do that?________________________________

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4. After reading this how do you feel about watching television versus reading books?

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Thursday

Poetry and Creative Writing

Today we will discuss two more story telling devices: Character Flaws and Cliche

Character Flaws

Writers add flaws to their characters, both good and bad to make them interesting, relatable, realistic and more likable. Audiences want personalities traits that illicit emotion. For example, people may feel sorry for the shy boy who can't bring himself to ask the pretty girl out on a date, or they may feel angry with the bully who insults others all of the time. Character flaws written into characters bring more emotion and feeling into the writing.

Here's a list of common character flaws:

absent minded

antisocial

anxious

arrogant

back stabber

biased

blunt

childish

cruel

contentious

dishonest'

egotistical

evil genius

fake

forgetful

gullible

indecisive

jealous

lazy

messy

mysterious

naive

nerdy

obsessive

paranoid

pushover

rebellious

rude

snobbish

temperamental

timid

unlucky

vain

Write a two paragraph description of a person with at least one character flaw.

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Cliche

Cliches are phrases that have been used to so much, they're boring. Some examples of cliche are:

Heart and Soul
Franklin D. Roosevelt's, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself..."

Build Bridges

Best Practice

True Love

The Restaurant Wendy's commercial phrase, "Where's the Beef?"

Cliches are something to be avoided except for humor. A good writer can use cliches in a clever way that makes people laugh.

Find 6 more Cliches.

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 21
Tuesday- Chapter 22
Wednesday- Chapter 23
Thursday- Chapter 24

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.

Monday, July 6, 2020

2020-2021 Week 25

Language Arts

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