Big Idea: Ideology, utopia, and imagination
Nuance Academy: Adverb clauses
After today I should be able to: annotate a short story and participate in a discussion.
Reading: You should have two books read by October 1st.
Agenda:
- Write 10 adverb clauses.
- Start with an adverb clause. An adverb clause tells when or where the action of the verb occurs. Start with the adverb clause and follow it with an independent clause.
- Loose sentence:
- Mr. White carefully planned the stages of his essay, and then he wrote it.
- Independent clause
- Before he wrote the essay, Mr. White carefully planned it.
- Participate in a practice discussion.
- What is one thing that is really popular right now but future generations will think is silly?
- What is the worst piece of advice a person can give?
- “Instinct is no match for reason.”
- “Chocolate is my Achilles Heel.”
- If we ever find evidence of intelligent beings beyond Earth, should we try to contact them?
- Begin reading "Harrison Bergeron." Divide it into sections and look for:
- Contrasts and Contradictions
- A character thinks and behaves in a way that we don't expect.
- An element of a setting is something we would not expect.
- Question: Why did...How can this help us understand or predict...?
- Patterns
- A word is repeated again and again
- An idea is repeated again and again (but with different words, i.e. war, battle, fighting, etc.)
- An image is repeated several times
- Question: Why is the author continually bringing up...?
Homework:
- Work on your first vocabulary list. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.
- Read your independent reading book.
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