CYCLE 9 - DAY 5 - SEM 1: Watership Down 261-289

Today, we covered words 11-15 in the vocabulary book, and we took a practice grammar quiz. Why did we do this? BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE A QUIZ THAT COUNTS TOMORROW! SEE THE HOMEWORK SECTION FOR DETAILS!

Today, we discussed pages 261-289, focusing mostly on Bigwig, the Black Rabbit of Inle, and Hazel's response to Bigwig's rash action. Please see your respective class notes on the wikispace.

HOMEWORK
PART I: READING
Read pages 289-312. Study guide #12 is available on the wikispace. We will DEFINITELY be speaking about the following question:

1. What does Adams do best as an author? Check your literary terms list from the beginning of the year to help out! COME PREPARED WITH A MINIMUM OF THREE PIECES OF EVIDENCE!
   a. Create setting
   b. Establish tone
   c. Write dialogue
   d. Develop characterization

Leaders, you should consider additional topics of interest, as well as strategies to get everyone involved.

PART II: WRITE SENTENCES
Add sentences to your section on the wikispace.

PART III: GRAMMAR QUIZ
You will be given sentences and sentence diagrams and asked in each to identify which part of speech is represented by a circled term.

There will NOT be a word bank. What are the specific grammatical terms we have covered so far?

• Definite article - the
• Indefinite articles – a/an
• Linking verbs – be/become/get/sensory verbs; they operate like an equals sign in a sentence. If you can replace a verb with an equals sign (tense doesn’t matter here) and the meaning of the sentence is pretty much unchanged, then you have a linking verb. (Sally is angry. Sally = angry. Yes, that’s a linking verb. Sally smells horrible. Sally = horrible. Yes, that’s a linking verb. Sally smelled the soup. Sally = the soup. Nope. That’s not a linking verb.)
• Helping verbs – words that work with verbs to establish tense (will be, have been, etc.)
• Modal auxiliaries - a type of helping verb that identifies condition, possibility, or obligation (must, might, may, could, would, should, can)
• Predicate nominatives – Nouns or pronouns that follow a linking verb and further define/rename the subject. They are doctors.
• Attributive adjectives – Adjectives that come before the nouns they modify and name an attribute of that noun: shiny pen, fluffy puppy, little sister, mighty wind.
• Predicate adjectives – adjectives that follow linking verbs and further define the subject. She will be delighted.
• Possessive pronouns – Some function like adjectives and modify nouns: my, your, his, her, its, our, their. My car, your binder, his blazer, her game, its burrow, our trip, their pet. Others function like nouns and do not appear next to the nouns they rename: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs. That book is mine, yours is blue, this is his, give me hers, we have ours, I’d prefer theirs.
• Direct objects – nouns or pronouns that receive the action of NON-LINKING verbs. To find out what they are, ask verb + who? Or verb + what? She ate chili. Ate what? Chili. You need to be able to rule out linking verbs before you do this test, however.
• Adverbs – words that modify adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs. Adverbs answer the questions, where? How frequently? To what degree? (too, very, often, frequently, etc.)
• Prepositions – Words that explain its objects relationship in time, space, or logic to the rest of the sentence (on the desk, under the cabinet, through the window, without fear). Prepositions take objects (nouns).

Review your sentence diagramming workbook and do the exercises on line!