Day 5: Reading Comprehension

Visit the following links. Read each passage and complete questions 1-10. Be sure label each passage.

Click Here for Passage One & Questions 1-10.

Click Here for Passage Two & Questions 1-10.

Day 4: Flocabulary

Flocabulary Frayer Models

Instructions: Construct frayer models using your most current Flocabulary list. Make a frayer model for every word on your list. There is an example below.

Day 3: Context Clues, Vocabulary

Directions: Read each paragraph. Using context clues, determine the meaning of the bold word as it is used in the passage. Be sure to label your answers 1-15.

An Excerpt From The Great Gatsby

He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a [1] reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was [2] privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the [3] confidences were unsought—frequently I have [4]feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was [5] quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is [6] parceled out unequally at birth.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at am sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous [7] excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction— Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected [8] scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is [9] dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what [10] preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and [11] shortwinded elations of men.

My family have been [12] prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we’re [13] descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on to-day. The practical thing was to find rooms in the city, but it was a warm season, and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town, it sounded like a great idea. He found the house, a [14] weatherbeaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington, and I went out to the country alone. I had a dog—at least I had him for a few days until he ran away—and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.

It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. “How do you get to West Egg village?” he asked helplessly.

I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually [15] conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

Day 2: Commonly Confused Words

Visit the following website: http://moorewiley.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/13284226/commonly_confused_words.pdf Here you will find commonly confused words and their meanings. Assignment:Choose ten of the words (not ten pairs, just ten of the words). Compose a 200-300 short story (school appropriate) or skit in which you demonstrate correct use of the words. ***COMPLETE & RETURN WITHIN 5 Days***

Day 1: Persuasive Strategies

DAY ONE The persuasive strategies used by advertisers who want you to buy their product can be divided into three categories: pathos, logos, and ethos. Pathos: an appeal to emotion. An advertisement using pathos will attempt to evoke an emotional response in the consumer. Sometimes, it is a positive emotion such as happiness: an image of people enjoying themselves while drinking Pepsi. Other times, advertisers will use negative emotions such as pain: a person having back problems after buying the “wrong” mattress. Pathos can also include emotions such as fear and guilt: images of a starving child persuade you to send money. Logos: an appeal to logic or reason. An advertisement using logos will give you the evidence and statistics you need to fully understand what the product does. The logos of an advertisement will be the "straight facts" about the product: One glass of Florida orange juice contains 75% of your daily Vitamin C needs. Ethos: an appeal to credibility or character. An advertisement using ethos will try to convince you that the company is more reliable, honest, and credible; therefore, you should buy its product. Ethos often involves statistics from reliable experts, such as nine out of ten dentists agree that Crest is the better than any other brand or Americas dieters choose Lean Cuisine. Often, a celebrity endorses a product to lend it more credibility: Catherine Zeta-Jones makes us want to switch to T-Mobile. ASSIGNMENT: 1. Find an advertisement for a product in/on one of the following: TV, Youtube, radio, a magazine, etc… 2. In a paragraph, a. describe the ad b. discuss the ad’s purpose c. discuss (don’t just identify) the persuasion strategies used in the ad **COMPLETE & RETURN WITHIN 5 DAYS***