Day 11 August 17, 2016

ACT Marlon is bowling in a tournament and has the highest average after 5 games, with scores of 210, 225, 254, 231, and 280. In order to maintain this exact average wheat must be Marlon’s score for his 6th game? 200 210 231 240 245

ACT Study 1 differed from Study 2 in which of the following ways? G. fortis finches were captured during Study 1 but not during Study 2. G. fuliginosa finches were captured during Study 1 but not during Study 2. The beak depth of captured birds was measured during Study 1 but not during Study 2. The beak depth of captured birds was measured during Study 2 but not during Study 1.

Example Card (Front) Felicity (Back) Part of Speech: Noun Definition: A feeling of extreme happiness Sentence: I felt a feeling of felicity when I passed my test. Synonyms: Happiness, Exuberance Antonym: Melancholy

Bellringer Identify: Subjects, Verbs, DO, IO, OC, PA, PN, Prepositional Phrases, Appositives, and Participles Because of the frigid atmosphere, the saturating rain, tiny drops of water, feels wet and cold. Feeling intense love in his heart, the man wrote his wife, Megan, a love poem. After hours of debate in the hall, we elected Marcus vice-president of the club, a reduced position.

Gerunds Gerunds are verbals. What are verbals?

Gerunds and Gerund Phrases The simple description is a gerund is a verb that is acting as a noun. It can be replaced with a pronoun like it, he, she, them, etc. They end in -ing. REMEMBER that you must also take any prepositions into account when looking at a gerund phrase!

Examples Running is my favorite activity. My favorite activity is running. You should give running a chance. She likes running. These shoes are for running. Notice anything?

Look at some phrases Running in the street is not permitted. These tickets are for getting into the show. My mother likes cooking in the morning. Ethan and John are running around the gym. The rule is no swimming after eating.

“Ulysses” Let’s look to the future. Let’s look at writing.

Homework Write one introduction using the formula we learned in class: Is the scarecrow an effective metaphor for showing Eliot’s meaning in his poem? Also, 563: 1-10 (goes onto 564)