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Assignments (3/30-4/1) – DUE Monday, April 6th

Sentence analysis assignment:

Analyze/chart/diagram the following sentences each on a separate piece of loose-leaf paper. Parse the words listed with each sentence and answer the thought question completely. It is not necessary to write the question but make sure you answer the question completely in well-written sentences.

1. When the wind is blowing, a man who ventures onto the frozen void is pushed backwards by the hands of an invisible enemy.

PARSE: who, void, is pushed, backwards

THOUGHT QUESTION: What is meant by “hands of an invisible enemy”? How do these words affect the tone?

2. Our Empire beyond the seas will carry on the struggle until the New World with its power and might, steps forth to the rescue.

PARSE: struggle, until, forth

Assignments for April 20th - 24th

Copy dictation “Good Fellowship” on loose-leaf paper and in your BEST handwriting. (This text was sent home on Monday, April 20th, and is also available online here.)

Take your time and do this well--only cursive, no printing. Look up any words you do not know the meaning of and write them on the back of your dictation page along with the definition of each word.

Grammar Assignment (wk21)

1. Analyze and diagram:

The young King looked about him and beheld peace and amity among all these noble lords where, aforetime, had been discord and ill-regard.*

*discord and ill-regard are subjects of the verb “had been”

2. Parse: young, lords, and aforetime

3. Give a synonym and the principal parts of the verb beheld.

4. Tell in a few sentences what may have changed the “discord and ill-regard” of Arthur’s knights into “peace and amity.”

Assignments for April 27th - May 1st

Copy dictation “Guarding the Crusader King” on loose-leaf paper and in your BEST handwriting.

-Take your time and do this well--only cursive, no printing.

-Look up any words you do not know and write them on the back of your dictation page along with the meaning of each word.

Grammar Assignment (wk22)

1. Analyze and diagram:

Long did Edward kneel beside the remains of his uncle, with his face hidden and with thoughts beyond our power to trace.

2. Parse: Edward, hidden

3. Give the principal parts of “hidden” and “to trace”.

4. Explain the tone of this sentence in 2-3 well-written sentences.

Assignments for May 4th - May 8th

• Copy the text “Garden Recreation” on loose-leaf paper and in your BEST handwriting. Take your time and do this well--only cursive, no printing.

• Analyze the following sentences on this paper (no charts or diagrams). Review your notes on verbals.

  • Use PENCIL - circle verbals and write PART, INF, GER above them.

  • We will discuss these in our Zoom class on Thursday, May 7th.

1. A Moorish house in the midst of a garden, now trampled and destroyed, was the place that the Provencal knight led the English Prince.

2. In the midst of the room lay a coffin, covered with the banner.

3. Long did Edward kneel, with his face hidden and with thoughts beyond our power to trace.

4. Entering the doorway of a court, they saw the stone doorway of the house guarded by two figures.

5. Kneeling and chanting were things that the priests were doing.