2020-2021 Week 31

Language Arts

Spelling
solution
sufficient
twelfth
approximately
athlete
controlled
controversial
dissatisfied
distinction
etiquette

Monday

Write each spelling word two times each.

Grammar- Parts of Speech

We will end the school year with a simple reminder of the parts of speech.
There are 9 parts of speech:

nouns
pronouns
verbs
adjectives
adverbs
prepositions
conjunctions
articles/determiners
interjections


Adjectives
Adjectives describe or modify nouns and pronouns. Adjectives tell which one, how much, what kind, what color, and more.

examples; three, soft, a million, blue, turquoise, angry, shy, belittled, small, fortunate, etc.

Adverbs

Adverbs describe or modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. They answer when, where, how, and why something happened and to what extent or how often. Adverbs often describe the action and often end in the suffix -ly.

examples: friendly, angrily, fast, slow, very, only, hopefully, strangely, etc.

Prepositions
Prepositions tell spacial, temporal, and role relations between nouns or pronouns and the other words in a sentence. Prepositions come at the beginning of a prepositional phrases. 

examples: to, in, out, over, under, beside, between, inside, outside, through, against, by, for, of, apart, etc.

Exercises:
In the following sentences, underline the adjectives, circle the adverbs, and put a square around the prepositions.

1. The interesting solution to the math problem definitely helped me to understand my math better.

2. My best friend sufficiently mapped out a route to the campground. 

3. On the twelfth day of May, the purple wisteria bloomed the fullest and prettiest.

4. Between June and September, we will have approximately 80 days over ninety degrees.

5. The famous athlete ran faster than she had run before and made a new world record.

6. The birds flew above the control tower.

7. I like to talk seriously about controversial subjects.

8. The cat looked dissatisfied with the new brand of cat food that my mother had purchased.

9. Beth talked about the distinction between Triassic and Jurassic dinosaurs.

10. The boring etiquette teacher pulled the rude students outside the classroom and spoke quietly to them about their bad behavior.

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: Symbolism

Symbolism uses a picture or an image to represent something else. A flag of a country, a heart, a cross, a plus sign for adding and minus sign for subtracting, these are all symbols. Symbols can be pictures or sounds. A siren is a sound symbol for an emergency. People will use hand signs to symbolize certain things.

What is the difference between symbols and metaphors? Symbols represent something specific and make no comparison. Metaphors compare unlike things.

examples:
Diana drew a heart on a card for Dave.
*A Heart is a symbol of Love.

Fred gave Ellen a dozen red roses.

*Red roses are a symbol of love.

The family dressed in black clothing for their grandfather's funeral.

*Black is a symbol of mourning.

Write 5 sentences that contain a symbol.

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Wednesday

Write the spelling words two times each.

Reading Comprehension: Read the passage and answer the questions.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
~Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

1. What did Abraham Lincoln say about the United States of America?_________________________

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2. What did Abraham Lincoln say about consecrating the land?______________________________

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3. What cause does Abraham Lincoln wish to inspire in the listeners of this speech?

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4.. What's your personal opinion on the cause?__________________________________________

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Thursday

Poetry and Creative Writing

Last week you wrote a rough draft. This week I want you to edit it by making sure your punctuation, spelling, and grammar are all correct, but also look at your sentences. Have you used your literary and story telling devices? Are they working for you? Are your sentences interesting or boring? Is your plot dull or exciting. This week is your time to take a look at your rough draft and fix it up. 

Scriptures

Read the Doctrine and Covenants. You need to be finished with section 65 by the end of 16 weeks.

Reading

Grimm's Fairy Tales
Read one story each day until the end of the school year. You don't have to read them in any order, just choose a different one each day.