1.3/1.4 Wed/Thu warm-up: welcome back activity 1: argumentation FRQ activity 2: grammar 3 close: upcoming schedule/midterm HW DUE: grammar 3 HW Tonight: read “Mystery Text” and complete the activities for it. Upcoming: 1.3/1.4: grammar 3 1.3/1.4: argumentation FRQ (formal) 1.5/1.8: Begin MC bootcamp 1.9/1.10: Turn in MC bootcamp 1.11/1.19: Bring your copy of The Great Gatsby 1.12 / 1.16 / 1.17 / 1.18: midterm (argumentation test) 1.23/1.24: Begin diction/syntax/tone unit 1.23/1.24: Ch. 1 of Gatsby due 1.23/1.24: vocab. 6 due 1.31/2.1: Gatsby 1-3 assessment 2.6/2.7: grammar 4 due 2.12/2.13: Gatsby 4-6 assessment 2.14/2.15: vocab. 7 due 2.23/2.26: Gatsby 7-9 assessment 2.27/3.2: Rhetorical analysis FRQ 2.28 (“B” day)/3.1 (“A” day): Diction, syntax, tone test 3.6: ACT day 5.16: AP Lang test

1.3/1.4 activity: Grammar 3 (Modifiers) Modifiers: things that modify. . . . Ok, well you know two sorts of modifiers, right? Adjectives and adverbs. The quick fox jumped quickly. But that’s simple. Shea’s notes how things like participles and prepositional phrases can modify, and you don’t know what those things are. Well, let’s define.

1.3/1.4 activity: Grammar 3 (Modifiers) Participle: a word formed from a verb (workworking/worked) and used as an adjective (e.g., working woman) or a noun (“He likes working”). There are present participles (formed by adding –ing to the end of a verb) and past participles (usually just the past tense of a verb). Playplaying (present)/played (past) Bringbringing/brought Gogoing/gone etc.

1.3/1.4 activity: Grammar 3 (Modifiers) Participles function as adjectives in all sorts of ways, in all sorts of different parts of a sentence. Bruisebruising/bruised His bruised face was a result of Benny Paret punching him. (ADJ describes face) Benny delivered a bruising left hook. (ADJ describes left hook) Emile’s face is bruised. (ADJ describes face) That is a nasty bruising you received there. (NOUN) You should see that in each of those examples, the participle forms of bruise are not verbs.

1.3/1.4 activity: Grammar 3 (Modifiers) Prepositional phrases: Well you should know what these are. They are phrases that have a preposition and a noun. There are way too many prepositions to list here, and that means there are too many to memorize. But you know a lot, and it can be easy to remember more. I can prove it: Where is the cat in relation to the tree?

The cat is beside the tree.

The cat is on the tree.

The cat is under the tree. You see that, right???

The cat is from the tree (?) Ok, so it’s not perfect, but you get the idea. Anyhow, Merry Catsmas.

1.3/1.4 activity: Grammar 3 (Modifiers) Prepositional phrases (“on the tree,” “under the tree”) function as adjectives or adverbs. In other words, as modifiers. The cat sat on the tree. Here “on the tree” modifies the verb “sat.” It’s an adverb! The cat from hell returned there. Here “from hell” modifies the noun “cat.” It’s an adjective!

1.3/1.4 activity: Grammar 3 (Modifiers) Dolores offered a rather unique view of the situation. Well, first of all, you can’t qualify “unique.” Something either is unique or it’s not. Second, “offered” is a very boring verb. I prefer a nice simple sentence: Dolores’ view was unique. But I suppose we make that modifier a little more punchy: 1. Dolores advanced a compelling view of the situation.

1.3/1.4 activity: Grammar 3 (Modifiers) I realize to my horror that rap—music seemingly without melody, sensibility, instruments, verse or harmony, music with no beginning, end or middle, music that doesn’t even seem to be music—rules the world. seemingly (adv): creates doubt without melody ... harmony (prep. phrase): enumerates complaints; creates learned yet pedantic tone with no beginning, end or middle (prep phrase): furthers tone noted above even (adv): highlights and heightens verb (seem) I’m probably missing a few here, but you get the point, right? (I think that is functioning as an adjective which makes that doesn’t even seem an adjective clause, but it’s difficult to parse out.)

1.3/1.4 activity: Grammar 3 (Modifiers) Anyhow, correct grammar and we’ll take the quiz in just a few sentences. If you’re wondering more about “that,” it has many functions in English.

CLOSE and HW 1.3/1.4 HW: Read “Mystery Text.” Complete the activities for it. Buy The Great Gatsby. See 1.12: 1st block midterm (argumentation test) 1.16: 2ND block midterm 1.17: 3rd block midterm 1.18: 4th block midterm 1.23/1.24: Begin diction/syntax/tone unit 1.23/1.24: Ch. 1 of Gatsby due 5.16: AP Lang test