DAILY SPARK
The journals of explorers can be really
compelling reading. Imagine you’re an
explorer in the jungle or the Arctic or
space, and write a journal entry about a
particularly dramatic or dangerous day.
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DIARY OF AN EXPLORER
WRITING
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LL Vocab
1.9.17
■ difficult to comprehend :
recondite <the abstruse
calculations of
mathematicians>
■ to make more violent,
bitter, or severe <the
new law only
exacerbates the
problem>
ABSTRUSE
(adj.)
EXACERBATE
(V.)
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LL Vocab
1.9.17
Use both abstruse and
exacerbate in original
sentences with plenty of
context to indicate clear
understanding of the words.
Thoughtful Use
DAILY SPARK
WRITING
VERBS are the backbone of sentences.
Think about one of your favorite
activities—shopping, eating junk food,
reading, riding a unicycle—and make a list
of all the verbs that relate to it. If drinking
hot chocolate is your favorite activity, your
list might include sipping, mixing, stirring,
heating, slurping, boiling, spilling, and so
on.
#62
DASHING, LEAPING, GRASPING
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LL Poetry: Reading Poetry
1.10.17
Sound as Meaning (pp. 518-519)
➔ Alliteration…[is] a succession of similar sounds.
➔ Alliteration occurs in the repetition of the same consonant
sound at the beginning of successive words.
◆Initial alliteration: “If I were only dafter / I might be making
hymns / To the liquor of your laughter / Or the lacquer of your
limbs.”
➔ Or it may occur inside words
◆Internal or hidden alliteration: “On a sudden open fly / With
impetuous recoil and jarring sound / The infernal doors, and on
their hinges grate / Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook /
Of Erebus.”
➔ To repeat the sound of a vowel is to produce assonance.
◆“Her goodly eyes like sapphires shining bright, / Her forehead
ivory white…”
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LL Poetry: Reading Poetry
1.10.17
Read “Eight O’Clock” by A. E.
Housman on p. 519
◆ Why does the protagonist in this brief drama curse
his luck? What is his situation?
◆ For so short a poem, “Eight O’Clock” carries a
great weight of alliteration. What patterns
of initial alliteration do you find? What
patterns of internal alliteration? What
effect is created by all this heavy emphasis?
DAILY SPARK
Write ten sentences about the food in
your school cafeteria. Five of the
sentences should be FACTUAL and
five should express your OPINION.
#63
THE MEAT IS MYSTERIOUS
WRITING
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LL Vocab
1.11.17
■ a : tending to associate with others of
one's kind : SOCIAL
■ b : marked by or indicating a liking for
companionship : SOCIABLE
■ c : of or relating to a social group
■ 1: to divorce or separate formally from
■ 2: to refuse to have anything to do with :
DISOWN
■ 3a : to refuse to accept; especially : to
reject as unauthorized or as having no
binding force b : to reject as untrue or
unjust
■ 4: to refuse to acknowledge or pay
GREGARIOUS
(adj.)
REPUDIATE
(V.)
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LL Vocab
1.11.17
Use both gregarious and
repudiate in original
sentences with plenty of
context to indicate clear
understanding of the words.
Thoughtful Use
WRITING
Write a letter to your principal about a topic that
concerns you. Begin by introducing yourself, then
express your ideas, and conclude by thanking the
principal for reading your letter.
DAILY SPARK
Before email, LETTERS were the most
common means of written communication.
People wrote letters to their loved ones, to
newspaper editors, to members of Congress, to
companies, to enemies, and so on. Letters are
still a great way to communicate if you want to be
particularly formal.
#64
DEAR PRINCIPAL
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LL Poetry: Reading Poetry
1.12.17
Rime (pp. 521-522)
➔ Rime (rhyme)... occurs when two or more words or phrases
contain an identical or similar vowel-sound, usually
accented, and the consonant-sounds (if any) that follow the
vowel-sound are identical: hay and sleigh, prairie schooner
and piano tuner.
➔ In Exact Rime, sounds following the vowel sound have to be
the same: red and bread, wealthy and stealthy, walk to her
and talk to her.
➔ If final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds
are different, the result is slant (or near, off, or imperfect)
rime.
➔ End rime, as its name indicates, comes at the end of lines.
➔ Internal rime [comes] within lines.
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LL Poetry: Reading Poetry
1.12.17
Read “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard
Manley Hopkins on p. 524
Consider the 4 questions at the top
of page 525. Answer them briefly
in your notebook and be prepared
to discuss them.
Lit Card for
Week 3
Due 1.17.17
Macbeth by William Shakespeare