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8th Grade Language Arts

Agenda:

1. Warm-up: Spelling Test

2. Vocabulary

3. Grammar

4. Literature

Assignments:

-Lit Circles (W)

-Finish The Outsiders (F)

-Vocabulary Writing (F 9/21)

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Draw the Relationship

agile name

battle timid

audacious crusade

rumble dub

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Draw the Relationship

era heritage

typical harmonize

legacy grapple

exceptional period of time

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Draw the Relationship

legendary appearance

contemplate gather

mien muse

unknown muster

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Draw the Relationshipstamina stance

minor agile

flexible

pivotal endurance

one's personal

attitude

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Verbs....

Four basic forms (principle parts)• present• present participle• past• past participle

*Used to make all of the forms and tenses of the verbPresent Present Participle Past Past Participlesaillift

(is) sailing (has) sailedsailed(has) lifted(is) lifting lifted

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Regular Verbs- a verb whose past and past participle are formed by adding -ed or -d to the present; adds -ing to the present tense to make the present participle

Review

traveledequipped

is sleepingswitch included

provided

have usedis improving

outclasses

finished

standssits

is succeeding

Present Present Participle Past Past Participle

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Irregular Verbs

Irregular Verbs- verbs whose past and past participle forms are not made by adding -ed­ or -d­

win

cost

teach

speak

run

steal

shake

shrink

swim

setGROUP 1The forms of the present, the past, and the past participle are all the same

GROUP 2The forms of the past and past participle are the same

bring brought(has) brought

burst burst(has) burst

GROUP 3The past participle is formed by adding -n or -en to the past.

GROUP 4The past participle is formed from the present, often by adding -n or -en

GROUP 5The last vowel changes from i in the present to a in the past, to u in the past participle

begin began (has) begun

blow blew (has) blown

bite bit (has) bitten

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1. American bicyclist Lance Armstrong ( ) the 2,287-mile Tour de France in 1999.

2. Several years earlier, doctors ( ) him less than 40 percent chance of surviving cancer.

3. Armstrong ( ) an aggressive treatment plan.

4. Now Armstrong has ( ) the disease.

5. After the cancer, he ( ) his career all over.

6. The experience has ( ) him different outlook.

7. It also has ( ) him with a leaner body.

8. Armstrong's lighter weight ( ) off when he had to cycle through mountains.

9. So ( ) his training, in which he cycled the toughest portions of the course.

10. Armstrong's amazing victory has ( ) other cancer patients to maintain hope.

winwon

givegave

chose chosen

beat beaten

began begun

gavegiven

leaveleft

paypaid

did

done

teachedtaught

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Irony (n); Ironic (adj): When something turns out the opposite of what you would expect. Also, sort of like sarcasm. Examples:

• It was ironic that the fire station burned down.

• It was ironic that the police station was robbed.

Give an example of irony from The Outsiders and one from real life.

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Figurative Language­ MetaphorsAuthors often use figurative language to make their writing interesting and more meaningful to the reader. One type of figurative language is the metaphor. A metaphor, stating that one thing is the other, makes a comparison between two unlike things. For example, Pony describes Dally's eyes in this way: "His eyes were blue, blazing ice..." Dally's eyes are being compared to ice because he looks at people coldly and with hate.

1. "Her words were sugar." Her words are being compared to sugar. What is being said about her words?

2. "It's raining cats and dogs." The rain is being compared to cats and dogs. What is being said about the rain?

3. "He is my fortress": To what is "He" being compared? What is being said about him?

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert FrostNature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

hue=

subsides=

Eden =

­ How did they "sink to grief"?

So = like, in the same way

1. What do you think Robert Frost is trying to say?

2. How does this poem apply to events/characters of the novel so far?

(What "gold" did Ponyboy have that didn't last?)

3. Is this supposed to be a sad poem? What makes you think so/not?

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Frost makes the use of the metaphor to communicate his message about young people. He begins by writing that nature's first green, things such as new plants, trees, grass, and especially young people are gold.

4. Gold is precious and expensive metal. What comparison can be made between "nature's first green" and gold?

5. Another metaphor in Frost's poem is "Her early leaf's a flower." Explain how nature's "early leaf," or someone's youth, can be like a flower.

6. How is the youth of someone's life "gold"?

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