Reading maketh a full man . . . . . Speaking maketh a ready man . . . . . Writing maketh an exact man.

~~Sir Francis Bacon

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Due February 5, 2020 (3 Perspectives, Gettysburg Address, Vocabulary)

Write a story from different perspectives . . . 
In each perspective:
  • each dress up
  • 5 openers
  • 1 DEC
  • 1 or 2 M3s
  • ARDS: Anaphora or Epiphora/Epistrophe  AND one more ARD - your choice



The Gettysburg Address (divided for memorization purposes)  


Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 


We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that 

we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

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Know your vocab!



Insatiable 
adj. can’t be satisfied
A vampire’s thirst for blood is said to be insatiable.

Inversion 
n. a reversal
The culture’s norms were an inversion of our own.

Invoke 
v. to call on; to appeal to (e.g., a higher power)
The shaman attempted to invoke a demon.

Irreconcilable 
adj. incapable of being in harmony or agreed upon
The couple’s differences were ultimately irreconcilable, giving them no choice but to break up.

Lament 
v. to feel sorrow for; to mourn
Susan lamented her missed chance at going to Europe with her high school class.

Locomotion 
n. movement

Lucrative 
adj. capable of making a lot of money; profitable

Malicious 
adj. harmful, spiteful

Malleable 
adj. capable of being molded or changed

Materialistic 
adj. superficial; focus on material possessions

Physics involves the study of locomotion.


Writing books isn’t a particularly lucrative career, unless you are J.K. Rowling


The malicious spirit drove out the inhabitants from their home.


Children’s minds are malleable but only for so long.




Many people accuse Americans of being materialistic

























I thought that this might give you some inspiration!



Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Due: January 29: ABC BOOK, vocab, start recitation memorization

Welcome back everyone!
Due next week (January 29): 

1) ABC BOOK on a state  
dress ups, openers, DECs (2), M3s (2), and ARDs (2)
2) Next 10 vocabulary words
3) Learn the last part of our next recitation. 


The Gettysburg Address (divided for memorization purposes)  

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that 

we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

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Please note;
Portfolio submission will be on April 22, 2020


This is what you should have (and keep) up to date in your PORTFOLIO:

RESUME
ESSAYS to date
RECITATIONS
VOCABULARY
EXAMPLES OF DRESS-UPS, OPENERS, DECs, M3s, ARDS, 
VOCABULARY WORDS