Grammar Video Project — “Introductory phrases, complete sentences and fragments” with Jadon L.

Me and Jadon’s topic was about complete sentences, fragments, and introductory phrases. Each of these are somewhat important to learn in writing, because you can open any book and find a handful of these in a page or two. It’s crucial to know them, when to use them, and how to use them. Building a complete sentence is like
building a house. Every complete sentence requires 3 major things, like how building a home requires 3 major parts of a building. A complete sentence wouldn’t be a complete sentence without its subject, its verb, and a complete thought. Like how every house needs some beams, some walls, and a house.

Some complete sentences may have an introductory phrase. An introductory phrase is still a part of the house, but it’s supposed to welcome you before reading the complete sentence. Think of the front yard of a house, it might have some flowers, or it might be in ruins. Whatever it is, you still read the introductory first, like how you see a yard first before the house.

The fragments are just parts of the components. But not all of them together. Think of just the beams, the wall, and the roof alone. Not really is a house is it?

 

 

 

Test Questions
1) What is a complete sentence?
a – when the sentence has lived a complete life.
b – a sentence that has a verb, subject and a complete thought
c – a sentence with a period and capitalization.
d – a sentence with an introductory sentence.

2) An example of a fragment is

a– Jadon ran home.

b—On the way home, he found

c—”What is the dog doing?”

d—a piece of broken glass

3) What is a introductory sentence?
a –  a sentence that kindly introduces itself.
b – a sentence that only has the subject and the verb.
c – a sentence that gives the context to a complete sentence
d – a sentence with a complete thought

 

4) Which of the following is a complete sentence?
a – “He ran.”
b – “Walk home.”
c – “Johnny mourns his dog.”
d – None of the above

5) Which of the following is NOT a complete sentence?
a – “He studied the map for class.”
b – “Ran for miles.”
c – “I was eating ice cream in the park.”
d – “All alone, Jeremy had to fight the boss himself.”

 

December 15, 2021 English 9 No Comments on Grammar Video Project — “Introductory phrases, complete sentences and fragments” with Jadon L.

Indigenous Exploration – Kamloops Industrial School

This project was really fun to work on and filled me with knowledge of industrial schools. Making a podcast of it was entertaining and intriguing. I, Jadon, and Devon’s approach to research this topic was creating a word document we can all access and edit and creating separate sections for each other. We’d assign each other different topics to search up about the school. However, there was a handful of challenges we had to face when choosing this school.

One of them was only being able to find one source of information for a specific topic. Ron Ignace was the only person that we could find that attended the school, survived, and was interviewed on it. The second challenge was finding the information ourselves. For this school specifically, you have to scavenge for specific details or buttons to find something about this school. The worst-case scenario was looking through an entire page that’s subject is unrelated to the school.

We managed to get around them and we created a script we can read off to avoid stuttering or lagging when trying to improvise.

 

Communication: The ways we communicated our learning was using a third-party program that lets us communicate through voice chat, share URLs, pin certain ideas and messages, and screen share. It’s called Discord and it is very user-friendly.

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A Mountain Journey – Questions

A Mountain Journey – Questions

Brent A.                                                                                                          10/4/21

 

  1. Dave is out on a trip to prove to himself he can withstand nature and the cruel cold. He shows good examples of his resilience when he is chilled to the point where he has icicle stubs on his mustache or refusing to set up camp after falling into the river.
  2. The moment Dave found out he was in a deep pickle was finding out the cabin he was going to was burnt to ashes. He even tries to turn his lighter on, but his hands were frozen to the point where it seemed impossible to move.
  3. The mistakes Dave made were all about refusing to back down from the cold even
    just for a moment. Like not stopping at the first tree to set up for camp and give himself a breather, not even bothering to change his clothes after falling into the ice-cold river. That could have prevented him from his hands freezing up. He chose to start trapping in the winter in March, which looks like the cold weather hit its ultimate prime time. Going trapping just a bit later could have at least eradicate his fear of getting frozen. I’d say his biggest mistake was not setting up camp earlier.
  4. The title of this book is “A Mountain Journey,” written by Howard O’ Hagan. The story is about a man that goes by the name of Dave Conroy, who strides alone in a cold forest, clinging to his life while desperately trying to find shelter. The initiating incident was when he decided to not set up camp under a tree. Him moving on from not so bad camp idea was the reason he fell deeper and deeper into this rabbit hole, and the chances of him not freezing up grew narrower and narrower. The first rising action of the story is when he fell into the ice-cold river, causing his hands to freeze up. The second rising action was finding out the cabin he was going to stay in for shelter was burnt to just a few atoms. Meaning his time to warm up and shelter himself from the cold was postponed. The third rising action was making the final decision, to abandon his furs and was to stride 80 miles ahead for a cabin he hoped he wouldn’t find disintegrated to ashes. The climax was when Dave stumbles into the snow, and his hallucinations become stronger and stronger, and in the falling action, it reveals Dave was losing grip of his consciousness
  5. The setting is in an insanely cold forest in a mountain, not only would this be difficult for Dave in itself, seeing how difficult it was for him to deal with the weather. It’d make it even harder for him to find other people.
  6. The cabin represented anticipation and disappointment. It was false hope, Dave refused to camp out because he was convinced the cabin would be there to grant him, even more, warmth and comfort, only having it 5 miles away would be nothing to him. Yet the unexpected happens, having Dave find out the loss of a cabin due to a heated fire.
  7. Metaphor – “The cold nibbled on at his nose.”

Personification – “The fire gutted the cabin.”
Simile – “Curved and smooth and thin, like of a pen upon the snow.”

Metaphor – “The cold was an old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes.”

 

 

 

 

 

October 7, 2021 English 9 No Comments on A Mountain Journey – Questions