Monday, 4/05/04 -- Seventh Grade
Copy homework into assignment book.
Preview Thursday's English Assembly. Kendall Haven
1. It is important to start a story or expository essay by deciding what is going to happen. (T/F)
2. Story plot is more important than story characters. (T/F)
3. The goal of good writing is to get it right the first time. (T/F)

Warm Up.

  1. DW anagram: Girl eat green.
  2. DW anagram: Steamer girl.
  3. DW anagram: I'm Walt Swish.
  4. DW anagram: Fig slims pet!
  5. DW anagram: Be rat bird!
Capitalization III.
  1. I. drama

    2.     a. elements of drama
            1. setting
  2. "I like," Luther commented, "chunky, rather than creamy, peanut butter."
  3. "Watch out!" yelled the mine inspector. "the cable has snapped!"
  4. In julius caesar, Mark Antony says, "friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."
  5. "I think," said the doctor, "that you need a good rest."
Correct Test #21.
Dragonwings aloud.

The sounds of Chinese.
Nickelodeon (the Real ones...)...The Great Train Robbery
"Simple Gifts.mp3", St. George and the Dragon
Spoken Chinese...
Chinese, like the other languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, is a tonal language, meaning that different tones, or intonations, distinguish words that otherwise are pronounced identically. The four Chinese tones are (I) high level; (2) high rising; (3) low rising; (4) high falling to low. It is not unusual for a syllable to be pronounced in each of the four tones, each yielding a word with a completely different meaning. For example, the word ma in tone one means "mother," while ma2 means "hemp," ma3 means ''horse," and ma4 means "to curse." In fact each tone usually offers a large number of homonyms. Yi in tone one can mean, among other things, "one," "clothes," "doctor," and "to cure"; yi2 "aunt," "doubt, ""suitable," and "to shift"; yi3 "already," "because of," and "by"; yi4 "easy," "strange," "benefit," and the number "100 million."

from: http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/Chinese-language-introduction.html