Mr. Burns’ English Class

1. Mr. Burns’ English Class October 28th to 31st

2. Monday, October 28th, 2019 Question of the Week: If you knew you were going to die in a car crash on the night you graduated from high school, would going to school still be worth it? Why? • Please make sure your response is in complete sentences. • Please make sure you write the date in your composition book.

3. Prepositions, Appositives, Infinitives and Participial Group-like Memorization-ritual memorization Write the questions and answers in your notebook. For a grade. What is a preposition? What is an appositive? What is an infinitives? What is a participial?

4. Preposition What is a preposition? A preposition is a word usually preceding a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause. Tamara cooked dinner for her familyin the kitchen. What words start the prepositional phrases in each sentence? Why are they prepositional phrases?

5. Appositives What is an appositives? An appositive is a noun or a noun phrase that next to another noun to rename it or to describe it in another way. Vinnie told Anna, the one with blonde hair, a funny story about school. Why is “the one with blonde hair” the appositive phrase?

6. Infinitive What is an infinitive? An infinitive is the verb in its basic form. The infinitive form of a verb is usually preceded by to, but not always. I like to go swimming with my family. Her job was to teach me Spanish. What is the basic form of the verb in each of the sentences and what precedes or what is before it?

7. Participial What is a participial? A participle is a word formed from a verb which can be used as an adjective. Present Participial: -ing Past Participial: -ed, -d, -t, -en, or ‘n Walking along the river, Joe slipped and fell in. Is it a present or past participial? Why?

8. English 10 Grammar Quiz • Grade it. • Receive it back. • Make test corrections

9. Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 Bell-work: Write a sentence using a prepositional phrase. Write a sentence using an appositive phrase. Write a sentence using an infinitive phrase. Write a sentence using a participial phrase. Word Bank: Halloween, energy, hyper, trick or treat, Frankenstein, and monotheism-belief there is only one God (Can use other words)

10. Question of the Week If you knew you were going to die in a car crash on the night you graduated from high school, would going to school still be worth it? Why? • Please make sure your response is in complete sentences. • Please make sure you write the date in your composition book.

11. Prepositions, Appositives, Infinitives, Participials What is a preposition? What is an appositive? What is an infinitive? What is an participial?

12. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Open the textbook to page 24; paragraph 29 Continue reading the story as a class

13. The Fall of the House of Usher Closing Questions • In paragraph 29 the reader discovers that Roderick and his sister are what? How does this change everything now that you, the reader, know this particular detail? • The narrator instinctively smells and notices something “which hung about and enshrouded the mansion,” what is it? • What is “the antique volume” the narrator picks up and reads to Roderick? Why did he pick it up and why does he congratulate himself for picking it up and reading it to Roderick?

14. Wednesday/Thursday, October 30th/31st, 2019 Bell-work: Test Corrections (Complete in your composition book) Write the correct answer for each question you got incorrect. Provide Question # Example: 4c. Flying=subject is=verb; 5d. ...of his life

15. Research for the Annotated Bibliography (BGB) Sophomores must completed an Annotated Bibliography as required for the 4-year Basha Gives Back Project. Before Sophomores complete the Annotated Bibliography, him or her must find primary or secondary sources related to their Essential Problem or Essential Question. Today, students will be looking for six reliable sources for their Annotated Bibliography project, which will be worked on in the upcoming weeks. The Annotated Bibliography is the Final Written Exam for the 1st Semester. It’s worth 10% of your final grade.

16. Primary/Secondary Sources Table • Article Title/Website’s Name/Author/Source Type • Summary of the article • Essential Problem? Solution? Causes? Historical Background? • What is the central idea of the article? The table must be completed by the end of the period. It’s worth 25 points. 0 points if it not completed by the end of the period. Once the student has found their first source, please raise your hand and ask if this is a reliable source before you can begin reading it.

17. Allsides.com www.allsides.com “We expose people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world — and each other. Our balanced news coverage, media bias ratings, civil dialogue opportunities, and technology platform are available for everyone and can be integrated by schools, nonprofits, media companies, and more.” Find your topic and search secondary sources about your topic. Update information pertaining to how your topic is impacting the nation as of today. Left-Center-Right of the political spectrum

18. Friday, November 1st, 2019 Mr. Burns’ response to the Question of the Week Composition book check Continue working on the 6 sources packet: (Due by the end of the period) • 2 sources about the problem • 2 sources about the problem’s solution • 1 source about the history of the issue/topic • 1 source about what caused the issue/topic