Thursday, February 12, 2015

ENGLISH – HOURS 1 & 3 – Day 42

·         Check homework: “The Scarlet Ibis” review sheet (Q’s 1-8)

·     FIND as many of the 26 errors in this paragraph as you can:

It’s legs were crossed and it’s claw-like feet we’re delicately curved at rest.  even death did not mare it’s grace. For it laid on the earth like a brokin vase of red flower’s and we stood around it; awed by it’s exotic beautey. “Its dead. mama said.”  “what is it,” Doodle repeated?

Write down as many PRONOUNS as you can think of…

Introduce ANTECEDENT

Practice identifying pronouns and antecedents

Create a sentence with 3 different pronouns and 3 different antecedents

Here’s a clever vocabulary memory trick to remember tomorrow’s vocab words:

·         Jaded – The “JAY did” not even fly…it was too exhausted.

·         Advocate – Our waitress highly recommended the advocado.

·         gist – “Gist” get to the point.

·         Charisma – If you CHAR hIS MA, you may lose your charm.

·         Efface – Please erase your butt-ugly face.

·         Ogre – “Oh GRRRR” roared the monster.”

·         Mesmerize – I was hypnotized as I stared at the word “mesmerize.”

·         Entity – (having existence)

·         Bandy – There’s no time to bandy when you’re in marching band.

·         Dastardly – (cowardly)

Find as many of the 18 errors in this paragraph as you can:

 

 

 

 

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1 & 3:

Study your review sheet for tomorrow’s test on “The Scarlet Ibis.”

Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 5: jaded, gist, advocate…).

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ENGLISH – HOURS 4 & 5 – Day 42

·         Write 2 paragraphs about a time when you (or someone you know) were so angry that you acted without thinking. (what, where, when, why, how)

·         Read Act 3, Scene 1,2, & 3…(pgs. 873 – 894): and answer the following questions:

1.      Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel, but Romeo refuses to fight. Reread lines 64-70 and fully explain WHY Romeo will not draw his sword.

2.      Read lines 71-80. Explain WHY Mercutio (instead of Romeo) fights Tybalt.

3.      WHY does Mercutio say, “A plague a both our houses,” AND what does he MEAN?

4.      HOW is Mercutio partly responsible for his own death?

5.      WHY did Romeo, who “loves” Tybalt, kill him, AND how does this reveal a character flaw in Romeo?

6.      DESCRIBE the punishment the Prince decrees for Romeo at the end of Act III, Scene i.  Infer (or reason) and explain why the Prince chooses this punishment.

7.      In Act III, Scene I, lines 106-112 – Is this speech a soliloquy, an aside or a monologue.  Explain.

TO BE COLLECTED

Read summaries of Act 3, scenes 2, 3, from http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/SceneTextIndex.html

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 4 & 5:

None.