Welcome 7th Grade English!! You will find the class's daily work posted here on this website. Feel free to ask questions that pertain to the classwork and homework. This is not a social gathering, so keep conversation on an educational basis only.
ASSIGN YOURSELF: Study the week's literary elements, the story, "Broken Chain," complete subject, complete predicate, simple subject, simple predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
DO NOW: Create five sentences that include adjectives and adverbs. Each sentence must have at least one adjective and one adverb.
OBJECTIVE: Identify the parts of speech.
Identify the types of conflict, foreshadowing, and the plot in a short story.
Class Assignment(s):
Study the following for tomorrow's exam:
- Exposition - the characters, setting (time and place), and conflict (the problem) of the story.
- Rising Action - events that lead to the climax of the story.
- Climax - the turning point of the story where a major change in the protagonist occurs.
- Falling Action - events that occur after the climax.
- Protagonist - the main character in the story that undergoes a change; the reader follows the protagonist from the beginning of the story to the end.
- Noun - names a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Verb - an action.
- Adjective - a word that describes a noun.
- Adverb - a word that describes a verb.
- Complete subject - the part of a sentences that tells who or what the sentence is talking about. Complete predicate - the part of a sentence that tells what happened in the sentence.
- Simple Subject (ss)- the one word that tells who or what the sentence is about. Simple Predicate (sp) tells in one word the action that occurred in the sentence.
- Broken Chain - be able to understand the story and answer questions about the characters and the plot (story is on page 6).