ADVANCED ENGLISH 6

February 26-27

To Do Today: You need your journal, Oliver Twist book, and computer from Cart B. Log on, but do not go past the Windows screen.

Discuss contemporary and grammar patterns and

rules.

Discuss Oliver Twist chapters

8-14.

Read Oliver Twist chapters

15-16.

Have matrix time.• Turn in creative

journal 1.

BRONTE SISTERS• The Brontës: 19th Century literary family-Yorkshire, England. • Charlotte (1816–1855) Jane Eyre• Emily (1818–1848) Wuthering Heights• Anne (1820–1849) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall• Novelists-originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and

Acton Bell. • Their stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the best, for their passion and

originality. The three sisters and their brother, Branwell, were very close and during childhood developed their imaginations first through oral storytelling and play set in an intricate imaginary world, and then through the collaborative writing of increasingly complex stories set therein.

• The deaths of first their mother, and then of their two older sisters marked them profoundly and influenced their writing, as did the relative isolation in which they were raised.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE- THE OLDEST- CURRER BELL

Jane Eyre

EMILY BRONTE-MIDDLE CHILD-ELLIS

Wuthering Heights

ANNE BRONTE-THE BABY-ACTON BELL

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is mainly considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels.

Grammar: Phrases: VerbalsVerbals• Verb phrases used as different parts of speech• Used as only one part of speech (adjective, adverb,

noun, etc.) or as a single part of the sentence (subject, direct object, etc.)Gerund

• -ing verb form used a noun• Reading Oliver Twist is not as boring as I thought.• He enjoyed eating pizza.• Mr. Sowerberry likes taking Oliver with him to

funerals.

Grammar: Phrases: VerbalsParticiple

• Any verb form used as an adjective

• End in –ing, -ed, -en, or any other verb form• The dilapidated

houses were falling apart.

Participial phrases• A participle with its

own modifiers or object• Yelling at Oliver,

Noah started to hit him.

• Oliver, fighting bravely, still was unable to overpower Noah, Charlotte, and Mrs. Sowerberry.

Misplaced modifiers• Putting the

participial phrase next to something that it does not modify• Chewing his gum,

a fly flew past Robert’s ear.

• Slathered in butter, George enjoyed the pancakes.

Infinitive phrases• Groups of words

made from the to form of the verb

• Make nouns, adjectives, or adverbs• To read is always

a pleasure.• The book to read

is Oliver Twist.• I love to read.

• Split infinitives=NO-NO!• Oliver learned to

never gobble his gruel.

• Oliver learned never to gobble his gruel.

Grammar Patterns and Rules“Oliver, having taken down the shutters, and broken a pane of glass in his efforts to stagger away beneath the weight of the first one to a small court at the side of the house in which they were kept during the day, was graciously assisted by Noah, who having consoled him with the assurance that ‘he’d catch it,’ condescended to help him” (Dickens 57).

Oliver Twist Chapters 8-14Write any questions or predictions your group had on the whiteboards at your tables.

Go to Kahoot! and join the game. This Kahoot will serve as our comprehension check. Do your best!

What questions do you still have after the game?

What stood out to you in these chapters?

Oliver Twist Chapters 8-14Why do you think Jack Dawkins is known as “The Artful Dodger”?

At the trial, Oliver is unable to speak. What do you think his silence symbolizes?

Describe the “justice” system for the poor.

How does Mr. Brownlow’s home contrast to Fagin’s house and the workhouse?

When Nancy goes to the police station to search for information about Oliver, she dresses up (pages 122-123). When Oliver stays at the home of Mr. Brownlow, he wears nice clothing. What do you think is the significance of the clothing?

Oliver Twist Chapters 15-16

Matrix

Creative Journal: 1 TODAY and 1 due

Tues., Mar. 20-A and Wed., Mar. 21-B

Start reading Oliver Twist

chapters 17-27 by Thursday,

March 8 (A Day) and Friday, March

9 (B Day). Be ready for a

comprehension check.

Add to the Vivid Vocab. and/or Social Issues

Board (find text evidence to

support the social issues listed on

the chart).Digital

Portfolio

Derivatives Activities

(Vocabulary.com, Freerice.com)