WEEK 2

GOOD MORNING!

Here's your work for the week:

Reminders: 
1) Be sure that all of your responses are in complete sentences. They don't need to be long sentences, just complete ones.  
2) By now you should be in the habit of looking back at the previous week's work. I may have added comments that I need you to read or have asked questions that I need you to answer. I don't always do that -- no comments just means I didn't need to correct you on anything or get clarification -- but sometimes I do.

1. Frontier vocab. 3 new words, 2 old ones. Yes, you may use any of the words from Brit Lit A for the old ones. Remember, entries for the old words will have all the steps except the guessing, so you'll need to go find its use in context. Googling the word in a news search is an easy way to find it.

3. Read chapters 6 through 20 in Frankenstein.

4. For each chapter, do the following summary (that's 15 total):

a. THREE key events from the chapter (complete sentences, but you can make these short and to the point)
b. Give the title a chapter and explain it. It may overlap a key event from part a, but that's ok.
c. Identify (and quote) one passage that is typically romantic and explain why (recall the sources for good romantic material: nature or high emotion [despair, ecstasy]).

5. Shelley believed that we're born as blank slates (philosophers called it the tabula rasa), that we start off completely neutral and are "written upon" by our experiences and environment. And while she attempted to give her creature a blank slate at "birth", we can pick up on several places throughout his account that suggest he wasn't exactly neutral, that he had some kind of hard wiring that would help him know what was good and what was bad. For example, he knew that the bird songs in the forest were lovely. How did he know that if he was a blank slate? Write a paragraph, 50-100 words, describing another example like this.

6. LBGB work. Our work in LBGB for this course will involve 1) reviewing the big ideas (I won't make you re-read entire chapters); and 2) practicing the definitions and Style & Usage items that we skipped in HSW1. 

This week we'll look at chapter 1. Here's your work:

A. Conjunctions: define the three types and write an original sentence for each. 

B. Define conjunctive adverb. Write three sentences (note the punctuation pattern in my examples!) using three different CAs. Here are a few to choose from: 

in addition, accordingly, furthermore, moreover, on the other hand, similarly, also, hence, namely, still, anyway, however, nevertheless, then, in fact, besides, incidentally, next, thereafter, certainly, indeed, nonetheless, therefore, consequently, instead, now, thus, finally, likewise, otherwise, undoubtedly, further, meanwhile

Make sure the word you're using is WORKING as a conjunctive adverb. Many of the words in this list can be used as other parts of speech.

C. Explain the difference between these pairs and use each correctly in a sentence: 

    all together / altogether

    ___ and I  / ___ and me.   



HAVE A GREAT WEEK!