Today’s agenda:
1. Sentence combining homework
2. Literary term – conflict
3. “The Wise Woman of Cordoba”
witches, full moon, luck
4. Homework – Prepare for sentence combining quiz tomorrow
Quiz#7/Replacement quiz tomorrow.
For the students who contacted me by the deadline, this quiz will replace the quiz mark that you indicated to me.
For everyone else, this will be a regular quiz.
The quiz will be three sentence combining exercises, two answers each, same as last time.
HOMEWORK
Combine each exercise
Saturday Night with the Kids
1. Samuel babysits on Saturday night.
He babysits Jeffrey.
Jeffrey is two.
He babysits Catelina.
She is four.
He babysits for several hours.
MY SOLUTION
Samuel babysits on Saturday night. KERNEL
He babysits Jeffrey.
Jeffrey is two.
He babysits Catelina.
She is four.
He babysits for several hours.
Samuel babysits on Saturday night. KERNEL
Jeffrey
two
Catelina
four
for several hours
Samuel babysits Jeffrey who is two year old and Catelina who is four years old for several hours on Saturday night.
Samuel babysits two-year-old Jeffrey and four-year-old Catelina for several hours on Saturday night.
two-year-old -description, noun acting like an adjective, hyphen, no plural ‘s’
Nouns acting like adjectives:
He has a red balloon. adjective
He has a helium balloon. noun acting like an adjective
She bought some new books. adjective
She bought some school books. noun like an adjective
I need new tennis shoes. new-adjective, tennis-noun
lunch box
snow tires
winter gloves
several nouns together acting like an adjective
The dog is five years old.
It is a five-year-old dog. hyphen, no ‘s’
It is five-years-old dog. XXX, very common error
This class is nine weeks long.
This is a nine-week class. hyphen, no ‘s’
He is fifteen years old.
He is a fifteen-year-old teenager.
‘fifteen-year-old’ is describing ‘teenager’ – hyphen, no ‘s’
Sarah cooked a delicious ten-pound turkey for Xmas.
‘ten-pound’ is a noun, but it functions as an adjective.
The turkey was ten pounds.
Your examples?
1.
2.
Top-quality sentence, ready for UBC
2. They love him.
He pillow fights.
He lets them be noisy.
He lets them watch TV.
He lets them stay up late.
They love him because he pillow fights; also, he lets them be noisy, watch TV, and stay up late.
This is real authentic English writing.
3. Sometimes, Erich comes over.
He is Samuel's friend.
He cooks fudge.
He cooks with the children.
Sometimes, Erich who is Samuel's friend comes over and cooks fudge with the children. complex sent – adj cl
4. They laugh.
They make a mess.
They laugh and make a mess.
They laugh while they make a mess.
They laugh while making a mess.
They laugh; at the same time, they make a mess.
5. Bathtime is fun.
It usually involves a water fight.
The water fight is hilarious.
The fight requires a clean-up.
Bathtime is fun; it usually involves a hilarious water fight that requires a clean-up.
6. The parents return at midnight.
They find the children in bed.
They find the house clean.
They find Samuel asleep.
He is sleeping on the couch.
The parents return at midnight and find the children in bed, the house clean, and Samuel asleep on the couch.
Your examples in chat:
1. They love him because he lets them be noisy, watch TV and stay up late; plus, he pillow fights.
ITEMS IN A SERIES I like ice cream, chocolate, and cake.
I like ice cream, chocolate and cake.
Your choice- comma before ‘and’
The Oxford Comma – To my eye, it looks a little old-fashioned. However, I often use it.
2. Sometimes, Erich, Samuel's friend, comes over and cooks fudge with the children.
3. They laugh, making a mess.
4. Bathtime is fun because it usually involves a water fight, which is hilarious but requires a clean-up.
5. Returning at midnight, the parents find the children in bed, the house clean, and Samuel sleeping on the couch. the final comma provides clarify
6. Bathtime involves a hilarious water fight and a clean-up.
7. Sometime Samual's friend, Erich, comes over, and he cooks fudge with children.
My sister, Kathy, is a nurse.
Her mother, Susan, likes to play badminton.
8. Samuels friend, Erich, cooks food with the children. Missing information
9. They love him who pillow fights because he lets them be noisy, watch TV and stay up late.
No adjective after a pronoun
Susan who is a nurse lives in Calgary.
She who is a nurse lives in Calgary. SOUNDS VERY ODD
10. The parents find the house clean, the children in bed, and Samuel asleep on the couch when they return at midnight.
11. He pillow fights and lets them watch TV, stay up late and be noisy; therefore, they love him.
This is step 1 and 2 of working with sentence combining. There are many more steps to take.
Find sentence combining books in VPL, online, etc.
This is daily, steady practice that can and will make your sentence writing great.
Literary Term – conflict
A conflict is a problem or struggle that drives a story. Common forms of external conflict are person vs person, person vs society, person vs nature, person vs technology, and person vs supernatural. Internal conflict is person vs himself or herself.
vs – versus (against)
person vs XXX
External conflicts – conflict from outside ourselves
person vs person
person vs society/culture
person vs nature
person vs technology- genetically-modified food
person vs supernatural – ghosts, witches, monsters, vampires, devil
Internal conflict
person vs herself, himself
soul – your inner spirit inside you, conscience?, deamon- inner voice?
ghost – the leftover spirit or energy of a dead person, real?
poem “My spirit is flying.” your soul, your heart, your spirit
metaphors – where is your soul? your heart is a pump for blood
religious and spiritual beliefs
soul, ghost, spirit, deamon – hard to translate
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