September 10, 2012
In Agenda write:
1) Helping Verbs
2) Alliteration/Assonance
Homework: Read for AR
4) Honors Homework:
Hyperbole page 4
Helping Verbs
• A Helping Verb helps the main verb express
action or show time. They are combined with
the main verbs to form verb phrases.
• The bear has run away.
• A few verbs can serve as either helping verbs
or main verbs.
• The bear has a baby cub.
Common Helping Verbs
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2JWKY63K0
• Forms of Be: be, is, am, are, was, were, been,
being
• Forms of Have: has, have, had
• Forms of Do: do, does, did
• Others: could, should, would, may, might,
must, can, shall, will
Helping Verbs
• Look at the handout. We are going to make a
flip book to help us memorize our helping
verbs. Watch and listen as I demonstrate how
to make the flip book.
• On the top flap write Helping/Linking Verbs
• On the bottom of the first flap write Helping
Verbs.
• Copy the Helping verbs from your handout
onto the first page of your flip book.
Helping Verbs
• We will complete page 32 as a class.
• Read each sentence and find the helping verb
or verbs. Underline the helping verb and
circle the main verb. Write them on the line
provided. If the sentence does not have a
helping verb write none.
Assonance –
repetition of vowel
sounds in words
that are close to
each other
Assonance Example # 1
Upon an island hard to reach,
The East Beast sits upon his beach.
Upon the west beach sits the West Beast.
Each beach beast thinks he’s the best beast.
Which beast is best?…Well, I thought at first
That the East was best and the West was worst.
Then I looked again from the west to the east
And I liked the beast on the east beach least.
Assonance Example #2
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
The Bells
By: Edgar Allen Poe
• Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that over sprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Christina Rossetti
• Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you,
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
• Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I,
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
Annabel Lee
By: Edgar Allen Poe
• As a class we will read Annabel Lee. You will
need two colored pencils.
• Yellow/green – alliteration Remember that is
the repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
• We will underline – assonance Remember that
is the repetition of vowel sounds that are in
the words next to each other.
Assonance Activity
• You will be given a color and an object. With a
group you will write a 4 lined poem. Be sure
you have used assonance.
• Below is an example. You may not copy the
example!
I like to lay my head on a red bed
The bed is where my latest book was read
And my dog Ted rests on that bed
When I’m tired, it where I’m led