March 30th

Welcome back!

Make sure to finish ALL term two work before mid-April, will not be accepted after.
Do all of term 3 assignments! Such as:

• Ballad of the black fox pelt.
• Root Quiz 5.
• David questions.
• Parts of Speech sheet.

Got Root Quiz 6 words today.

Parts of Speech test will be next week: April 6th!!

Parts of Speech tutorial after school tomorrow in Hanlon's class!

Went over the rest of the Footloose article.

PLEASE GET "THE FIRE BALLOONS" NOTES DONE ASAP!

Coma and Conjunction: When joining two complete thoughts, use a comma AND a conjunction. 

                                    EG: The dog laughed, but the cat cried. 

Semi-Colon: Use where you would use a period IF the two"sentences" on either side are closely related.

                                 EG: I like pizza; I do not like anchovies. 

Subordinate Clause:  If one part of the sentence starts with ALTHOUGH, WHILE, BEFORE, AFTER, DURING, SINCE, BECAUSE, DESPITE, and WHEN...ect... then it could be joined to a complete thought with a comma. 

                               EG: Although philology is my favorite subject, I also like philosophy. 

March 9th

DOUBLE BLOCK TODAY, LAST BEFORE BREAK!


Saw mark for ROOT QUIZ 5!

Finishing The Martian Chronicles:

"There Will Come Soft Rains":

Title references Teasedale's poem, BUT this story emphasizes our machines indifference to humanities annihilation.

Music and Religion referenced.

Similar to "The Veldt"s happy-life home.

House is comparable to Hathaway's family.

No people in story.

The House is the protagonist struggles to carry out/maintain daily routines. Fire is antagonist.

PG.220-224: The automatic house carries out it's daily routines in a destroyed neighbourhood; the dog dies, and house cleans.

PG. 224-225: Describing life in the Nursery.

PG.225- 226: House reads the poem.

PG.226-228: House burns and dies.

COURSE QUESTION! #1,3.

In absence of having a perspective,the house cannot guide judgement.
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"The Million-Year Picnic"

A lot of water and fish references. (Renewal?)

-Cathedral (230)

Music reference.

PG.229-231: A Family, on vacation, on Mars, is going off to fish.

PG.231-241: Dad explains everything to the family after rocket destroyed.

Course Question: #3,
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"The Fire Balloons" is Spring break homework!! Please, this is for my lesson :D
Do what we have done in class: like the group work we did for "There Will Come Soft Rains".
Course Question!

March 7th

PARTS OF SPEECH test will be after Spring break!

Go over "There Will Come Soft Rains":

Bradbury style alike: Motifs, senses, description, tonal shift.

Course Questions: #1, 3.


"Footloose" newspaper article:
Find ALL the mistakes...

x,y, and z. (y,and= oxford comma).
You can't start a sentence with a conjunction. (FANBOYS)
times [sic].



SENTENCE COMBINING STRATEGIES:

1. Em-Dash: Used to indicate an interruption of thought.
• If you were going to -- if you dictated what we spoke -- like I'm using them right now -- you would need a lot of em-dashes. (first em-dash is causing a "re-start", other two work together.)

Sorry I was away for March 2nd!

I was informed that today you had to finish your PARTS OF SPEECH sheet which is due next class.

You also have ROOT QUIZ 5 next class!