Quarter 4 Drills G H
GT Epic Drills
Drill 12
 Homework: Book 5 and Lit Circle Due 5/24
 Objective: The students will demonstrate the ability to recognize epics as long, episodic narrative poems that recount the adventures of an historical or mythical hero. The students will be able to Identify and explain the main idea or argument and information directly stated in the text.
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Drill: Write down the sentence on the next slide. Underline all the prepositional phrases.
What does ‘in the stream modify’? What is the subordinating clause.
Drill Sentence
 Drill: When Dr. Frazier came, Bennie’s grandmother told him to run down to the spring and wade in the stream that flowed from it across the pasture field to Mr. Charley
Miller’s pond, or play under the big oak tree that stood between the field and Mr. Charley
Miller’s. Grant Moss Jr.
Before the End of Summer
Drill Answer
Drill 13
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Homework: Book 5 and Lit circle 5/24
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Objective: The students will be able to Identify and explain the main idea or argument and information directly stated in the text.
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Drill: Reviewing modifiers. What is a modifier? Where is a modifier placed in a sentence?
Which sentence illustrates the correct placement of the modifiers “naked and near death.”?
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Zeus’s daughter, Athena, naked and near death, intervenes. She casts Odysseus ashore on the island of Phaeacia.
 2. Zeus’s daughter, Athena, intervenes. She casts Odysseus ashore on the island of
Phaeacia, naked and near death.
 3. Zeus’s daughter, Athena, intervenes. She casts Odysseus ashore, naked and near death, on the island of Phaeacia.
 4. Zeus’s daughter, Athena, intervenes. She casts Odysseus, naked and near death, ashore on the island of Phaeacia.
Answer
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Zeus’s daughter, Athena, intervenes. She casts Odysseus, naked and near death, ashore on the island of Phaeacia.
Modifier Review
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Modifiers are describing words. Adjectives and Adverbs are modifiers.
 Brighted-eyed Athena (Adjective)
 The boat sinks slowly (Adverb)
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Place modifying words, phrases, and clauses as close as possible to the words they modify.

Drill Answer
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When she got to her door , she dragged the boy inside, down a hall, and into a large kitchenette-furnished room at the rear of the house.
Drill 14
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Homework: Book 5 Lit Circle 5/24
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Objective: The students will be able to Identify and explain the main idea or argument and information directly stated in the text.
 Drill: Which sentence illustrates the correct placement of the modifiers “fat on others’ meat”?
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See next slide.
Fat on others’ meat
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You sit here and cannot bring yourself, fat on others’ meat, to rummage out a crust of bread for me.
2.
You sit here and cannot bring yourself to rummage out a crust of bread for me, fat on others’ meat.
3.
You sit here and cannot bring yourself to rummage out a crust of bread, fat on others’ meat, for me.
4.
You sit here, fat on others’ meat, and cannot bring yourself to rummage out a crust of bread for me.
Answer
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You sit here and cannot bring yourself, fat on others’ meat, to rummage out a crust of bread for me.
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The modifier is as close as possible to the word being modified.
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It usually comes after the word being modified.
Drill 15
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Homework: Book 6 G 5/26 H 5/27
 Drill: Choose the best synonym for “warden” as it is used in the following sentence.
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Next Odysseus and his ships came to the island home of Aeolus, who is warden of the winds.
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A. creator B. tamer C. keeper
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Write the sentence and answer in you binder.
Drill 16
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Homework: Book 6 G 5/26 H 5/27
 Drill:Choose the best synonym for “spoils” as it is used in the following sentence.
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He has a shipful of spoils from Troy, while we have nothing.
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A. rotten fruit B. battle trophies C. money
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Write the sentence and answer in your drill book.

Drill 17
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Homework: Book 9 6/1
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Drill: Choose the sentence in which the word “spoils” has the most similar meaning.
Food spoils when left in the sun.
Food spoils when left in the sun.
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He has a shipful of spoils from Troy.
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The spoils of bad behavior is detention.
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The child spoils the party by crying.
Food spoils when left in the sun.
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Ask yourself:
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How is the word used? Noun, verb, adjective, adverb?????
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Answer:
 spoils is a verb in this sentence.
What other sentence uses spoils as a verb?
Drill 18
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Drill 17
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Homework: Book 9 6/1
Drill: Choose the sentence in which the word “bear” has the most similar meaning.
Odysseus must bear the weight of his decisions.
Odysseus must bear the weight of his decisions.
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Does a bear eat berries and fish?
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The bear skin rug lay next to the fireplace.
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Next year the tree will bear fruit.
The branch might not bear the weight of the treehouse.
Drill 19
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Homework: Book 10 (X) and 11(XI)
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Self addressed stamped envelope
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Drill: Identify a theme found in the reading. Give text support for the theme.
Drill 20
 Homework: Book 10 (X) and 11(XI)
 Self addressed stamped envelope
 Drill: Sentence scramble: Organize the sentence pieces to create a complete thought.
Underline the prep phrases.
 a. and neither knew

 b. for the first fifteen years
 c. Danny and I lived
 d. of our lives
 e. within five blocks of each other
 f. of the other’s existence
Drill 20 answer
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For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither knew of the other’s existence.
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Chaim Potok, The Chosen
Drill 21
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Homework: Book 12 and 22
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Stamped envelope
 Drill:Sentence Scramble: Participial Phrases can be at the beginning or end of a sentence or split the subject and predicate. Create a sentence from these word groups.
Underline the participial phrase. a. b. and yet knowing no way to avoid it that winter my mother and brother came c. d. e. buying furniture on the installment plan and we set up housekeeping being cheated
Drill 21 answer
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That winter my mother and brother came, and we set up housekeeping, buying furniture on the installment plan, being cheated, and yet knowing no way to avoid it.
Richard Wright,Black Boy