English 10

Study the painting below by Sir Anthony Van Dyck Use your creative writing skills to describe what you think is going on and taking place here. Make up a story. Which feelins are evoked in this image? How can you tell?

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ELEMENTS OF FICTION DIAMOND POINTS      Writers Manual 1) Develop a Protagonist Description in Prose Description in your book is a bit different than in your profile. A good description can give the reader a glimpse at the character's personality traits as well as their appearance. There are many different ways to write a great character description, but they all have one thing in common: they're creative and anything but boilerplate. Many new writers opt for the list-style of description, thinking that less is more. They often look like this: “He had piercing green eyes, sandy blond hair, and stood a stocky and solid six-foot-two. He had a slight limp and the musculature of a man who works hard for his living.” While this may be fine for a minor character, it falls a little flat for a major character that you want the audience to know intimately. So for ideas on how to write character descriptions, let's look at some examples from...

Past Simple: talk about something that happened in the past.                   We ate breakfast yesterday.                    I didn't care if the food was cold.  Past Progressive to show:  Continuous action that was taking place when another action happened.                 We were reading when the door bell rang.  Two continuous actions that were taking place at the same time.                   While   were eating breakfast the sun was shining through the window.  A continuous action that was taking place at a specific time in the past .                When the tea spilt o n me, I was laughing .  

William  Blake's  "A Poison Tree"    1794 Should we be tolerant of hate? What do you do with your hate?     Task 1:  What do you think he is thinking, feeling and why?  Why did this author wrote a poem called A Poison Tree?  Check your inferencing skills with the passage below.  William Blake's poem was written in 1794 and first appeared in his book Songs of Experience which followed on from his earlier Songs of Innocence. Society at that time was encouraged to bottle up emotions and to present a polite and unruffled persona to the world. Blake thought this approach unhealthy and advocated a more expressive mode of being, especially with regards to potentially festering emotions. His ideas were against the prevailing attitudes of the church and state. The original title Blake had for this poem, Christian Forbearance, reflects this. A Poison Tree  uses metaphor, antithesis and biblical associations t...

Stative Verbs List of Stative Verbs agree appear (seem) appreciate be (exist) believe belong to concern consist of contain cost deny depend on deserve detest disagree dislike doubt equal feel hate have (possession) hear imagine include involve know lack like look (seem) love matter mean measure mind need owe own possess promise realize recognize remember resemble satisfy see seem smell sound suppose surprise taste think (opinion) understand want weigh wish Stative Verb Exercises Complete each sentence using the stative verb from the parenthesis: Do you _________ the answer? (depend on, know, include) Jim _________ dessert every day. (has, eats, possesses) I _________ good about the race’s outcome. (am, were, feel) She _________ her mother. (imagines, resembles, walks with) Do you _________ they will win? (think, involve, promise) They really _________ everything you did for them. (include, appreciate, disli...

RELATIVE CLAUSES "Sweet Baby James" By James Taylor There is a young cowboy,  (     1    ) lives on the range.  (     2   ) horse and his cattle are his only companions. He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons, (      3     ) he is waiting for summer and his pastures to change. And as the moon rises he sits by his fire (      4      ) he is thinking about women and glasses of beer.  Closing his eyes as the dogies retire, he sings out a song (       5      ) is soft but it's clear as if maybe someone could hear... Goodnight you moon light ladies, rock-a-bye sweet baby James Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose, won't you let me go down in my dreams? And rock-a-bye sweet baby James Now the first of December (     6     ) it was covere...

1. Complete these conditional sentences with the verbs in the correct tense. (0 and 1) 1. If she _________________(have) a free evening tomorrow, she ________________(take) you to the cinema.  2. If you heat water to 100°c, it _______________ (boil)  3. She can help you if you ___________ (ask) her.  4. If you ______________(not water) plants regularly, they die. 5. If you walk ten miles with me, you _________________ (feel) tired. 6. I won’t go out if it __________________(not stop) raining. 7. If the temperature is lower than 0°c, water __________ (freeze). 8. You can waste lot of time if you ___________________ (watch) too much tv. 9. If the climate gets warmer I _____________ (not wear) this jacket.  10. I _______________(not enjoy) the party if you _______________ (not come). 11. If the apartment is too expensive we ______________ (not rent) it.  12. If it .................................(be) cold this evening, I ...................

 "perfect girl" and "perfect boy"  Google Search STEREOTYPE  AND                                                                                                                                       GENDER What is gender vs. sex? Are gender differences socially constructed or biological?                                                                 How would you test your theory/hypothesis/question?  Are there neurological ...