Download Genre of Literature

2/3/09
Do Now: Break down morphologically this word: /prosecutorially / How many
morphemes, syllables? What does the word mean?:
Vt –er = N
Vt-or-=N
Observation
9. Every a verb will have a subject., but every noun doesn’t necessarily have a verb.
With good writing , the subject almost always come before the verb.
e.g. A bevy of black birds flocked eastward to Georgia.
N
N
V
N
When ever the noun is the object of a preposition, that noun can never be the subject.
Eg
The outraged father ran after the boy who rapped his daughter.
Sub
V
sub
V
Nouns functioning as verbs ending with –ed are participles.
10. In addition to having a subject, some verbs also have an object.
11. Nouns are the “ big dogs” in the sentence- Key words in the sentence.
Paradox occurs when a universal truth goes against or clashes against common sense.
First Day
Genre of Literature
(Types)
Fiction- From the imagination.
Examples
Folk Tales
Fables
Short Story
Greek Mythology
Poetry
Vocabulary
Schema- Existing knowledge
Constraints- limitations
Non Fiction- Based on fact
Narrative ,
Auto Biographies
Biographies
Journals
Sedentary- Sitting for a long period of time.
Hie- go quickly
Carte Blanche- “free will” white card
Nettle- To irritate or bother
Placard- Poster
Furrowed- rows raised brow
Alacrity-willing; eager to do something
Adjectives- Answer the questions like which one ? Which kind?
Adverbs- answer when, where, to what extend and in what manner.
unlike any other word class, the adverb can move any where in a sentence.
The articles (a, an, the) says a noun is coming.
A preposition says a noun is coming. It always express a relationship with a noun or
pronoun.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
after, before ,until, during, in (time)
inside, outside, between, into, in (space)
by, for, to , from (cause)
to, from, toward, behind, up, down (direction)
on, underneath, beneath, around, behind (position)
A possessive case says a noun is coming, it is by nature an adjective
There are six types of pronouns ( Personal, Possessive, Reflexive, Demonstrative,
Indefinite and Relative
2/21/09
Article and preposition says a noun is coming, possessive case says that too.
Pronoun and demonstrative pronoun says noun is coming.
When “ to” appears before noun it is a preposition. If “to” appears before a verb it is an
infinitive.
Adjective and nouns have a natural position (place in attributive position “side by side”.)
Examples:
.
Predicative Position because the adjective is modifying the subject
The Obama girls are pretty.
Art Adj N V Adj
Predicative Position
His response to her is immaterial.
PN N
PN V
Adj.
Only nouns count, meaning only nouns are singular or plural. Verbs must agree in
construction with counting nouns, but only the noun count.
1/22/09
Laughing at the injured child, the obnoxious young beaux had to be taken from the
A Adj
N
A
Adj
N
Prep A
upstairs cafeteria before the Black History month program even began.
Prep
N
Prep A
Adj
N
Verbs that function as adj. are called participles.
Verbs that function as nouns are called Gerin
Morpheme- Smallest , meaningful part of a word.
Example Mississippi –How many Morphemes
2/23/09
Obj. To write fabulous compositions and essays replete with good sentence structure,
lovely sentence variation, appropriate grammatical conventions and coherent
organizational structure.
Standard: The student produces well written, well-organized persuasive essays that
maintain coherency and focus throughout.
Do Now- Construct a sentence that employs at least six empirical observations about
nouns.
Review contractions
Student example,
The tired runner, tripped over a starting bloc at last week’s track meet.
A adj
N
Pr
adj
N
N
The desk’s shiny patina offers a polished look to the furnishing.
N
adj
N
adj
N
N
Possessive case says a noun is coming.
Participle is always an adjective.
2/26/09
Do Now: Construct one sentence that includes the following: possessive case, infinitive ,
preposition and coordinating adjectives.
Jack’s dog wanted to run on the blue and white carpet.
Pk
n
prep
adj
adj
n
Placard,
alacrity,
insolence,
aptly,
proximity
irascible
Copious
Unabashed
Hie
Nettle
Built
Core element (root word)
Review definition of Morphemes-study of structure or how something is built, or
formation.
1/27/09
Construct a sentence sentence that has a possessive pronoun , a word ending in /-ment/, a
preposition and an infinitive,
3 morphemes in injuriously.
Words ending in ious are adjectives
Inconsequentialities- Not important
Sequence (order)
con (together) app (in) ial (adj) -ity (n) es (plural)
Mecurial- Changing often, going up and down.
Ponder v - im, able, ly,
1/28/09
Do Now: Breakdown morphology this word: unpredictability/ How many morphemes?
What does the word mean?
un predictabilities- 5 morphemes
Vocabulary Quiz-
1/29/09
Break down this word /infamously/ How many morphemes are present? The word
meaning ?
Voc. #2
Lambast (n) - attack a person, put down demoralize, accost, assail, assault, badger
Maligned - bad, harmful
credulity, (n)- gullible, easily fooled, naive
avaricious (adj),- highly greedy
furtively,- (adj)- sneak, secretive
fusillade – Quick succession,
doughty – brave ,heroic
,foreshadowing- Events leading to a prediction , foretell
Ample-enough, sufficient
Imminent- sure to come
Infamous- To be known in the worst way,
Fame (n) in-
ous (adj) ly- makes it a (adv)
1/30/09
Do now: Break down morphology this word /immobilization/ How many morphemes ?
The word’s meaning?
When morphemes are added to the end of a word it changes the parts of speech (word
class) but it does not change the meaning.
When they are added to the beginning of a word, the meaning changes but the word class
stays the same.
RECALL
Who is ______?
How did _____?
What is ____?
Where did _____?
When did_____?
Cause and EffectWhat caused or causes ?
What are the effects of?
What would happen if?
What influence /impact did?
If, Then ?
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