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1. Idiom of the Day:
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. In order to understand this saying, let's paraphrase it first. This means we will simply say this exact sentence using different words. We will not add our own meaning to it! How else can you say the above idiom? My paraphrase: _________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Next, think about what the figurative meaning of this idiom is. This means we are thinking beyond what the words say, and we are attaching meaning to it! We are now making an inference! My inference: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Greek and Latin Roots Today's root is aqua- It has a Latin origin. Its meaning is water. Some examples are: aquarium, aquamarine Sentence Examples:
3. Cause and Effect Directions: Please provide a possible effect for each cause shown below. a. Jimi just received his paycheck and headed to the mall. effect:_________________________________________________________________________________________________ b. Lydia practiced piano until her fingers hurt. Her concert was scheduled for the following day! effect:_________________________________________________________________________________________________ Can YOU provide the cause this time? This means what you write would have to have happened BEFORE the effect! c. cause: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ effect: Sima realized he had to buy a new uniform right away. d. cause: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ effect: This made Lina's vacation much better than she had ever imagined. 4. Q & A Directions: When you create a question for which the answer will make sense, be sure to phrase it correctly! Answer: It is something each one of you can and will accomplish! Question: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Fact or Opinion Directions: Decide whether each statement is a fact (can be proved) or an opinion (someone's point of view!). a. Fact Opinion That man on stage is the greatest singer in the world. b. Fact Opinion Cindi should run for president because she is such a good leader. c. Fact Opinion Our president is currently Joe Biden. d. Fact Opinion Shari is the best friend you could have! e. Fact Opinion Many dogs are intelligent creatures who can be taught to make inferences. f. Fact Opinion Silver is a precious metal found naturally on earth. 6. Literary Term Metaphor Definition: A metaphor is a direct comparison between two things that do not seem to have anything in common at first glance. But, as we do with all figurative language, we have to look closely to see which characteristic of one thing is being compared to a characteristic of the other! NOTE: A metaphor does NOT use like or as within this comparison (as a simile does). A metaphor says something IS something else! Metaphor example: I saw Javier swimming in the pool, and he is a fish!! Which characteristic does Javier have that a fish ALSO has? Can you tell what the following metaphor means? Jeannie is a couch potato whenever she has a day off. How about this one: Jason is a lion before he has his morning coffee! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Your ideas: __________________________________________________________________________________________
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We will be looking at prepositional phrases and clauses covered in November of 2020. Your handout is based on that page of the website, but it may have some differences since I tweaked it for this week's classes!
Therefore, your skills for today will not be on this particular page! I hope you enjoy this lesson, which provides some great ways to expand your sentences with interesting information! We will also look at our Blackboard Skills page for corresponding review and intro work! November 20 and 21, 2023 Skills and Review (Part One)
Directions: For the following questions, please answer to the best of your ability. You will find a variety of skills we have covered so far, including a writing piece at the end! Enjoy, and Happy Thanksgiving!! 1. True False "At the party" is a complete sentence. 2. True False "He laughed so loud we could hear him across town" is an example of a hyperbole. 3. True False "The cup looked ready to jump from the edge of the table" shows personification. 4. True False A sentence cannot have two subjects. 5. True False A sentence that is a command, such as "Sit down quietly, please" has a subject we cannot see. 6. I am so happy to see that you passed (your, you're) test! 7. Is this (your, you're) first time in the computer lab for the HiSET? 8. (Your, You're) doing a great job! 9. (Its, It's) a wonderful time of year! 10. The table was lying on (its, it's) back legs. 11. "Her face was as red as a beet" is an example of (simile, alliteration). 12. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of (simile, alliteration). Please provide the subject in the following sentences: 13. Tom could not find his keys this morning. ___________________________________________ 14. Sally and Leon were excited about the holidays. _____________________________________ 15. In the middle of the night, I heard a strange noise. ___________________________________ 16. What are you doing tomorrow evening? ____________________________________________ 17. Raquel, when will you visit? ______________________________________________________ 18. Yes, Juan will win the game! ______________________________________________________ 19. Do you know when we can start the party? _________________________________________ 20. How far do we have to drive? ____________________________________________________ Please find the verb (or simple predicate) in the following sentences: 21. Jan and Sylvia swim so well. ______________________________________________________ 22. I baked cakes and frosted them right after. __________________________________________ 23. The children played hard all day! __________________________________________________ 24. Shawn and Marcos ran different races and won! ______________________________________ 25. Who is the author of this book? ____________________________________________________ Idioms! Is each one being used correctly? 26. I hope we don't feel seasick because we are all in the same boat. yes no 27. I felt bad that Tim didn't get the job, but we later found out it was a blessing in disguise. yes no 28. That guy has a chip on his shoulder; maybe he needs to put pretzels there instead. yes no 29. This review is a piece of cake; everyone is finding it so easy! yes no 30. Diandra doesn't say much, but she helps everyone she can. She knows that actions speak louder than words. yes no Inference! Can you create one from the sentences below? 31. Antonio rushed into class, with a big smile on his face. He quickly put his books down on the table and hurried to the front of the room. He waited for the students to settle in before he began to speak. Your Inference: Paraphrase this sentence: 32. The phone call was an important one that came from the John Benjamin Company. They set up an appointment with Andrew for an interview at 9AM the very next day. Your Paraphrase: Greek/Latin Roots: Are these words used correctly in each sentence? 33. You provide an autograph when somebody else signs your name. True False 34. A telegraph is a message that can come from far away. True False 35. When you are at an automated machine, the store worker does the work. True False 36. If you are in a self-service line, you will be expected to serve yourself. True False Thursday, November 16, 2023
Hello! Since we are getting closer to Thanksgiving, you will notice that we have been concentrating heavily on our persuasive essays! I will continue to conference with students to oversee the writing process...but after that, we will move on to self-editing and peer editing. I am anxious for you all to have a solid essay before Thanksgiving, and I am hoping that each of you is working hard on this in place of the monthly writing prompts you completed in September and October!! We will review the process again, and you will receive your editing checklist in class (RW3 PM Class already received theirs). You will also receive some of your recent work, which may have some corrections or suggestions to help you in your future writing assignments! I hope to return all of them before the holiday! Today's work will consist of:
Next week, we will have class on Monday, November 20 for the evening class, and Tuesday, November 21 for our morning group! Thanksgiving is on Thursday, and Friday is a day off as part of this holiday. So please enjoy your turkey as well as what will be one week off (since I won't see you until the following week!)! So ... after November 21, I won't see you again until: Monday, November 27 for PM class Tuesday, November 28 for AM class Our regular skills work on this page will continue tomorrow for the morning class!! And yes, we will still meet tomorrow, Friday, November 17 and Monday, November 20! So please be sure to bring your Personal Dictionary words into class. If you can think of a synonym for any word you bring in, that would be a wonderful bonus for us all! Thanks, as always, for being such a great class!! Skill Board for the 8th and 9th of November
Part One. Literary Skill Review Directions: Identify the hyperbole in each sentence below by underlining it. Next, explain exactly what the hyperbole is describing on the lines that follow. As always, use complete sentences in your descriptions! Example: Samantha cried a pool of tears when her friend left for college. The hyperbole is shown in italics in the sentence above. Did Samantha's tears actually fill an entire pool? What is it called when you make something MORE than what it is, in order to prove a point? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Now try some on your own! 1. I have told you a million times I cannot attend the meeting on Friday. ________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Sara had not seen her cousin Terry in ages! _______________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. It's been forever since I have played tennis with Joe! _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Lilly said her groceries weighed a ton. ___________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Betty's new shoes were killing her. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Bonus: Now It's time for you to create a hyperbole of your own! You can use an example from one of the sentences above, or you can create a different one. Be sure to encase your hyperbole within the words of a sentence and to be prepared to share it with the person sitting next to you (or nearby!) when you are ready!! Your hyperbole: Part Two. Jumble: Directions: The letters provided are NOT IN THE CORRECT ORDER! It is up to you to unscramble the JUMBLED up letters so that they spell out a word that corresponds with the definition I have provided! 1. A literary term in which the same sound starts several words is known as (L A L T R T I E A I N O) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please provide an example of this term here! ____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. A vocabulary word that means something difficult to do is a (E L H A L N G C E) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use this word in a sentence of your own. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bonus: Now create your own Jumble, using the set up of numbers one and two above! Define the word in a sentence of your own and then jumble up your letters! Your Definition: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Your Jumble: ( ) Part Three. Your and You're Directions: Please select the correct homonym in the sentences below. Note: Your is a possessive pronoun, and you're is a contraction that stands for you are. 1. This is (your, you're) lucky day. 2. Where is (your, you're) house located? 3. (Your, You're) a great friend! 4. (Your, You're) essay is well written. 5. Did I tell you (your, you're) new car is beautiful? 6. I know (your, you're) waiting for the big event at the Casino Ballroom! Bonus: Your Turn! (Yes, this is a day of lots of partner work!) Create four sentences on the lines below in which a classmate will have to decide whether your or you're fits correctly! Your Sentences: 1. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Part Four. Story Starter Directions: Continue the story below by using parallel sentence structure, continuing the point of view, and maintaining the tone created by the author (me!)! Enjoy!! Family dinners were special at the Velasquez home. Each night at about 5:30 PM, everyone would sit down at the dining room table to enjoy a delicious meal while participating in wonderful conversations with all who joined them. On this particular evening, however, the doorbell rang just as salad was being served, followed by intense knocking that became loud rapping. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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