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WEDNESDAY WEEK 2 ______________________________ LANGUAGE PRACTICE Name 1. Name the type of poetry. There once was a cook with a spoon 5. Replace the incorrectly-used words on the sign. Who stirred by the light of the moon. Her crumpets were sweet. They couldn’t be beat. What dish will she make come high noon? 2. Write a topic sentence for a paragraph that discusses a nutritious school lunch program. 3. Add quotation marks to the passage below. Do you know how long the longest banana split was? asked Jeff. The people of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, do. They made a banana split that was 4.55 miles long. 4. What is the meaning of this statement? I am so hungry I could eat a horse! THURSDAY WEEK 2_________________________________ LANGUAGE PRACTICE Name 1. Write two meanings of the verb mull. _________________ _________________ 5. What is the main idea of the passage? Can new brands compete with the original? In 1930 Ruth Wakefield made the very first chocolate chip cookie at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. When she sold her recipe to Nestle, the chocolate company began to market semisweet chocolate morsels. Today you can buy dozens of different flavored cookie chips—raspberry, peanut butter, butterscotch, mint—as well as many varieties of chocolate chips. Recently taste-testers ranked the original chocolate morsels a respectable third in a comprehensive taste test. 2. Choose the literary element used in the sentence. Susan suddenly sensed the sublime aroma of warm chocolate. simile onomatopoeia alliteration 3. Choose the type of sentence. Caramelizing onions takes lots of time and requires patience. interrogative declarative 4. Underline the direct object in the sentence. Grandma’s fresh rolls require room-temperature butter. © 2007 Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN 9 Use It! Don’t Lose It! IP 612-4 FRIDAY WEEK 2 ________________________________________ LANGUAGE PRACTICE Name Read Read the paragraph about the breakfast casserole before answering the questions. Any crisp December Sunday at daybreak you’ll find Grandma in the kitchen humming quietly as she fixes her special Maple Sausage and Waffle Casserole. She knows that a crowd will arrive hungry after early church services and she wants to be prepared. She browns the sausage, smothers the links in a bath of brown sugar mixed with maple syrup, and pops them into the oven. Then she combines the waffle mix, eggs, and milk, stirring just enough to moisten the dry ingredients. With one eye on the waffle iron and another on the frying pan, she carefully creates the main components of the casserole—waffles and scrambled eggs. She piles the waffles in a stack and turns off the burner under the frying pan. Before long the waffles, eggs, and syrupy sausages are layered in a mouthwatering concoction. Grandma turns the oven to low, places her casserole inside, and waltzes upstairs to get ready for company. Write Compose a clear and concise list of steps (like you would find on a recipe card) for making a Maple Sausage and Waffle Casserole. Use It! Don’t Lose It! IP 612-4 10 © 2007 Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN MONDAY WEEK 3 ______________________________________ LANGUAGE PRACTICE Name 1. Use the context to develop a definition for garrulous. Old Simon Wheeler was a garrulous storyteller whose stories went on and on spinning tales first in one direction and then reversing to continue —Mark Twain in another. 5. Explain what you think Mark Twain meant when he wrote: 2. Edit the sentence. born samuel langhorne clemens mark twain grew up in hannibal missouri on the west bank of the mississippi river 3. Choose the complex-compound sentence. a. When he was 21, Mark Twain fulfilled his dream and became a Mississippi riverboat pilot. b. Twain’s pen name is a riverboat pilot’s term for water that is just barely deep enough for safe passage: mark twain. 4. What is colloquial language? TUESDAY WEEK 3 _____________________________________LANGUAGE PRACTICE Name 1. Divide the word into prefix, root, and suffix. Explain the meaning of each part: conjecture 5. Combine the short sentences into longer, more complex sentences. Keep the meaning clear and add transitional words as needed. 2. Think of two explicit verbs that could replace told in this sentence. Mark Twain told humorous stories. • The Civil War broke out. • The Mississippi River was closed to commercial traffic. 3. Identify the errors and correct them. a. The characters, a runaway slave and a white youth, personifies the injustices of a slaveholding society. • Riverboat pilots were no longer needed. • Mark Twain ventured west to seek his fortune. b. Each of the characters bring a unique perspective. 4. Use the context to determine the meaning of the underlined word. Mark Twain’s stories are set in a mélange of locations: the small mining town of Angel’s Camp, the capitals of Europe, and a cave beside the muddy Mississippi. © 2007 Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN 11 Use It! Don’t Lose It! IP 612-4 WEDNESDAY WEEK 3 ______________________________ LANGUAGE PRACTICE Name 1. Match the word with the correct definition. holy • • having holes holey • • completely; fully • entry word • pronunciation wholly • • sacred • part of speech • etymology 5. Draw lines to label the dictionary entry. • usage example • definition 2. Correct the punctuation and spelling errors. Use the proofreading symbols. • syllabication through his final books were filled with the deprevity of human nature twain is cheifly remembred today for capturring the brash optimistic spirit of americans • out-of-date usage di•lap•i•date \de-‚la-pe-dat\ vb –dated; -dating [L dilapidatus, pp. of dilapidare to squander, destroy, fr. Dis+ lapidare to pelt with stones, fr. Papid-, lapis stone] vt (1565) 1: to bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin 2: archaic: SQUANDER ~ vi: to become dilapidated 3. Write single or plural to label the subject. a. Mark Twain’s wit and humor enthralled lecture audiences. b. Neither gold nor silver brought fame to Twain, the prospector. 4. Write the comparative and superlative adverbs for often. THURSDAY WEEK 3 _________________________________ LANGUAGE PRACTICE Name 1. Explain what Mark Twain meant. “A habit cannot be thrown out the window, it must be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time.” – Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar 5. Write the genre classification for each novel. 2. Choose the correct literary term. The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. simile personification metaphor A. B. an is Hank Morg s o c n nsciou knocked u ntury in 19th-ce t and u c ti Connec King in s awaken land g n E s Arthur’ in 538. 3. Add an apostrophe and dashes to make the meaning of this sentence clear. Mark Twains childhood home Hannibal, Missouri was a frequent stop for steamboats arriving from St. Louis and New Orleans. 4. Correctly capitalize the following Twain titles. • advice for little girls • the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county Use It! Don’t Lose It! IP 612-4 12 Real-life events of 1547 England, whe n King Henry VIII died and his son, Edward VI, took over the throne . C. A collection of 11 letters from the Earth, in which Satan comments on the human race to archangels Gabriel and Michael. © 2007 Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN FRIDAY WEEK 3 ________________________________________ LANGUAGE PRACTICE Name Read Enjoy this except from The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the 1867 story that brought Mark Twain his first fame as a writer. Calaveras County is in Northern California. The story takes place in the early 1860s in a general store in a small mining town called Angel’s Camp. Simon Wheeler, a garrulous resident of the mining camp, is describing how Jim Smiley, a local resident, trained his jumping frog. Smiley ketched a frog one day and took him home, and said he cal’klated to edercate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump. And you bet you he did learn him, too. He’d give him a little punch behind, and the next minute you’d see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut, see im turn one summerset, or maybe a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat. He got him up so in the matter of catching flies, and kept him in practice so constant, that he’d nail a fly every time as far as he could see him. Smiley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do most any thing—and I believe him. Why, I’ve seen him set Dan’l Webster down here on this floor—Dan’l Webster was the name of the frog—and sing out, “Flies, Dan’l, flies!” and quicker’n you would wink, he’d spring straight up, and snake a fly off’n the counter there, and flop down on the floor again as solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as indifferent as if he hadn’t no idea he’d been doin’ any more’n any frog might do. You never see a frog so modest and straightfor’ard as he was, for all he was so gifted. And when it come to fair and square jumping on a dead level, he could get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see. Jumping on a dead level was his strong suit, you understand; and when it come to that, Smiley would ante up money on him as long as he had a red. Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for fellers that had traveled and been everywheres, all said he laid over any frog that ever they see. From The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain 1. Identify at least two examples of colloquial language in the story. Explain which rules of grammar, spelling, or punctuation are ignored in the characters’ speech. 2. What amazing things can Smiley‘s frog do? What personality traits does Wheeler attribute to the frog? 3. What parts of Wheeler‘s description do you find particularly absurd? Write Think of a performer who uses colloquial language and exaggeration for comic effect. How does this person‘s use of exaggeration compare with Wheeler‘s? © 2007 Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN 13 Use It! Don’t Lose It! IP 612-4 MONDAY WEEK 4 ______________________________________ LANGUAGE PRACTICE Name 1. Use the context and your knowledge of root words to determine the meaning of the underlined word. 5. What made Katzenjammer Kids unique in the comic strip industry? Familiar comic–strip iconography—such as stars for pain, speech and thought balloons, and sawing logs for snoring—originated in Rudolph Dirk’s strip, “Katzenjammer Kids”. • Many consider Rudolph Dirk’s “Katzenjammer Kids,” which appeared on December 12, 1897, in the Journal American, to be the first modern comic strip. 2. Find three compound words and one additional word that are misspelled and correct them. In the comic strip “Pea nuts,” Charlie Brown always feels up set after his base ball team looses. • Previously, cartoon panels had no in-panel dialogue, but in the Katzenjammer Kids dialogue was directly applied within a word balloon indicating the speaker. 3. Explain the usage error in the following sentence and correct it. “Mutt and Jeff“ was one of the most early strips to appear in color. • Also, until then no strip had ever consisted of more than the single panel format of the editorial or political cartoon. 4. What literary device does Garfield exemplify? TUESDAY WEEK 4 _____________________________________LANGUAGE PRACTICE Name 1. Define the phrase comic strip. 5. Edit the passage. 2. Edit the following sentence. In 1924 the adverchur comic stripe was born george washington tubbs ii the mane character of a commic strip created by roy crane imbarked on a search for baried treashure readders were enthralled by the cereal cliff hangers featuring wash tubbs in a famous comment on the ecological crisis the opossum pogo said we have met the enemy and he is us 3. What was Pogo’s creator Walt Kelley trying to say when he wrote the comment in problem two? 4. You must write a research paper about comic strips. Narrow the broad classification to a manageable topic and write three research questions you would answer as part of your preparation for writing. Use It! Don’t Lose It! IP 612-4 14 © 2007 Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN