1. Happy Monday! 8/21 Vocab Letter D
Debunk- verb (used with object) -1. to expose (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated
Example: to debunk advertising slogans.
I saw this sentence in the news and thought it was funny: “For scientists, this eclipse may eclipse all other eclipses.”
Happy Monday! 8/21

2. Happy Monday! 8/21 Get a textbook. Pair up with a partner.
In your journal, choose two of the examples on page 345 to:
Identify the parallel phrases/words
Explain the effect on the sentence
Get a slip of colored paper. Using the structure of one of the examples from the book, write you own, original sentence utilizing the parallel structure. WE WILL POST IN ROOM
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3. Warmup
“In our nation work and wealth abound. Our population grows. Commerce crowds our rivers and rails, our skies, harbors, and highways. Our soil is fertile, our agriculture productive. The air rings with the song of our industry—rolling mills and blast furnaces, dynamos, dams, and assembly lines—the chorus of America the bountiful.
Replace the bolded verbs above with are and is. Compare the impact of the sentence.
What does Eisenhower’s use of bountiful, instead of beautiful or amazing, tell us about his attitude of America?
Tuesday 8/22

4. ECAP Today
Wednesday 8/23

5. Warmup
“Brown as a coffee-berry, pistoled, spurred, wary, indefeasible*, I saw my old friend Deputy-Marshal Buck Caperton, stumble, with jingling rowels**, into a chair in the marshal’s outer office.” (O Henry-The Lonesome Road)
*something that can’t be canceled
**sharp-toothed wheel in the end of a spur
Both bolded words above are nouns, but used as adjectives. How does this develop the characterization?
Indefeasible is usually used to describe a contract or legal document. Why does the writer use it here and how does it impact the reader?
Th/Fri 8/24-25