10/21 and 10/22

Attendance
Prayer
Vocab Quiz #9
New Vocab

1. ambiguous
2. baffle
3. convoluted
4. dilemma
5. enigma

"The Black Cat"
*Please update your reading list to reflect "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat"

Answers to Homework...excercises 4,5,6,7,8
Ex. 5
Participial Phrase Word modified
1. Hoping to be the first to reach the South Pole Robert Scott
2. Leading Scott, a British explore, by sixty miles expedition
commanded by Roald
3. Learning about Amundsen Scott
4. Plagued by bad weather and bad luck Scott
5. Reaching the pole on January 17 British
6. Weakened by scurvy, frostbite, and exhaustion explorers
7. overcome by exhaustion and injuries member
8. leaving the camp at night member
9. sent to find out what had happened mission
10.acclaimed for its heroism expedition
Ex. 6
Gerund Participle
1 subject 3 scout
2 indirect object 4 sister
5 subject 7 ballerina
6 predicate nominative 10 he
8 object of preposition
9 direct object
Ex. 8
to perform-adverb
to travel-direct object
to leave-adverb
to drive-direct object
to forgive-subject
to excel-adverb
to go-adverb
to learn, to live-adjective/predicate nominative
to eat-adverb
to improve, to practice-adjective/predicate nominative
Ex. 9
Infinitive phrases/clauses
to read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/predicate nominative
to write a report on Maya Angelou’s descriptions of her childhood/direct object
To grow up in Stamps, Arkansas, in the 1930’s/to know great hardships/subject/predicate nominative
to show the everyday lives of African Americans during the Great Depression/direct object
To accomplish this purpose/subject
to capture vivid details in her writing/adjective
us see her grandmother’s store through the eyes of a fascinated child/direct object
to experience life beyond her hometown/adverb
her to achieve success as a writer, a dancer, and an actress/direct object
to dramatize her African American heritage/subject

HOMEWORK:

Read Pages 483-484 in Elements of Language
Excercise 10 and Chapter 14 Chapter Review (1-40) in Elements of Language