1. HOW DOES OUR CULTURE AFFECT
THE DECISIONS WE MAKE?
2nd Quarter: Day 1

2. GETTING STARTED…
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In your writer’s notebook:
Write about an important decision you have made in
your life. What influenced it? How did you figure out
what to do? What people or situations may have shaped
this decision?
 Be prepared to share!
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3. LET’S REVIEW.
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VERBS show action or
state of being and
make up the main part
of the predicate of a
sentence.
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In your writing, use
STRONG action
verbs…don’t overuse
WEAK linking verbs!
(is, are, was, were)
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VERBALS are words
formed from verbs, but
they function like
another part of speech.

4. THE PARTICIPLE
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PARTICIPLES look like verbs, but act like
adjectives! They are a type of verbal.
The reading student
 A fallen leaf
 A tried solution
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5. COMMON ENDINGS FOR PARTICIPLES
-ing
 -ed
 -en
 -t
 -n
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Reading
 Returned
 Broken
 Lent
 Mown
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6. EXAMPLES!
The singing girl drove to school.
 The opened can of chili was thrown away.
 He saw the broken window in the abandoned
house.
 The lent library book got lost in the move.
 The dog ran through the freshly mown grass.
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7. THE PARTICIPIAL PHRASE
…consists of the participle and any words that
modify it or connect it to these words!
 Remember, participles function as adjectives, so
the phrases will include the nouns they modify.
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8. LET’S TALK ABOUT…ENGLAND?

12. WHY IS SHAKESPEARE IMPORTANT?
He wrote about basic themes of human life, such as
love, war, and the potential for good and evil in
everyone.
 He was one of the first writers to use modern prose.
 He expanded our vocabulary!
 “He was not of an age, but for all time!” –Ben
Jonson
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13. THE RENAISSANCE
Renaissance means
“rebirth”
 This time period in
England brought new
artistic discoveries,
technology, and a new
outlook on religion.
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14. THE RENAISSANCE
Literature focused on imitating classic Greek and
Latin works, focused on religion, politics, and
education
 New inventions were: the printing press (Johann
Gutenberg), the telescope (Galileo Galilei)
 Nicolaus Copernicus also discovered that the sun is
at the center of our solar system.
 Columbus sailed to the New World
 Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation
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15. SHAKESPEARE HIMSELF
We don’t know his actual birthday, but we know that
he was born in the village of Stratford-upon-Avon
 The estimated date for his birthday is April 23, 1564
 He married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 and
she was 26. They had 4 children.
 Was part of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, an acting
troupe that became the King’s Men
 Wrote many plays and poems at this time
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29. THE THEATER IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME
Only morality plays were really popular before the
Renaissance
 The new genre of comedy was introduced;
tragedies were also performed
 Plays used to be performed in courtyards before
theaters were built during this time
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30. THE GLOBE THEATER
This was the most popular theater in England at the
time
 Built on the south bank of the river Thames in 1599
 Could hold several thousand people
 Plays were very popular at the time, brought in lots
of money
 The actors just followed prompts; the actual plays
were written and produced after the performances
 Men played female roles
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31. THE GLOBE THEATER
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The audience:
Groundlings: commoners who stood in the pit by the
stage
 Gentry: sat in galleries in the main theater area
 Nobles: could sit at the side of the stage
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On June 29, 1613, a fire broke out and destroyed the
original Globe. A new one was built, but that one was
also destroyed in 1642 when the Puritans influenced
Parliament to ban theaters.
 The original site of the Globe was discovered in the 20th
century and a third one was built there.
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