Wednesday, 9/16

1. Grammar Review & Warm-Up: Verbs, Adverbs & Adjectives

-Complete exercise 46-9 on Bedford page 484, chapter 46c and exercise 46-13 on page 486, chapter 46e. You may annotate in your Shelfit app or write out the identified words in your "Parts of Speech" notes.

Summary of notes from the book:
Verbs
Reminder: verbs express action or being.
Three kind of verbs can make up verb phrases: 
Helping verbs(forms have, do and be), can also be main verbs
Modal verbs (can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would) are helping verbs that cannot be main verbs.
Main verbs (changes form based on tense)
Particles (bring up, call off)--words that look like prepositions but are so close to the verb in meaning that they become part of the verb phrase.

Adjectives--modifies a noun or pronoun
Which one? What kind of? How many?
May follow a linking verb when modifying the subject ("The decision was unpopular")
Articles (a, an, the) can be classified as adjectives.
Pronouns and nouns can function as adjectives.

Adverbs--modifies a verb, adjective, or another verb
When? Where? How? Why? Under what conditions? To what degree?
Not and never are adverbs.
May intensify or limit the meaning of another adverb or adjective.

*Pray Psalm 13

2. Our origins, familial, geographic, and emotional, make up our identities. Read Lyon's poem "Where I'm From," and brainstorm your own poem that uses 3 "I'm Froms" and at least 5 examples of imagery to explore your own origins and identity. Due one week from today ( Wednesday, 9/23)

3. Download three things from our Google Drive folder titled "The Odyssey" and open in Notability--"The Odyssey Intro Notes," "Letihart_Ancient Epic," and "Letihart_The Odyssey." Take notes in your reading section.

HW: Have Essential Homer ready to read by Block.