Present Continuous Tense

Present Continuous Website:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfectcontinuous.html

Exercises 7 - 14 can help you greater understand how to use the past, perfect, and perfect continuous tense in your writing for the newspaper writing this week.

Reliable (Trustworthy) News Sources

www.guardian.com

www.bbc.com

www.nytimes.com

www.washingtonpost.com

www.theatlantic.com

www.motherjones.com

www.reuters.com

www.aljazeera.com

Newspaper Template Link for Google Docs

Here is a template link for you to use on Google Docs to make your newspaper headline.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fagiNfZ6fp-IjaJdVavRQzMWX-81mpGdyVrPYT5qv-o/edit?usp=sharing

Common Irregular Past Participles in English

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/past-and-past-participles-of-common-irregular-engl.html

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/unreg_verben.htm

Make a list of 10 past participle verbs and use them in a sentence.

(5 points extra credit)

Project: Protest in America

What are protest movements that are currently occurring in the United States?

What is the main idea of these protest movements?

What is the purpose of these movements?

Research reliable news sources with articles ONLY from the past 3 months.

Identify what the people in this movement are struggling for, what progress have been made in the movement, the conflict / actors of this movement, and any resolution in this protest movement.

- police brutality

- black lives matter

- women's rights

- environmental movements (climate change)

Read ahead, chapters 4 - 6 before class.

Conflict in Literature

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/7-types-of-narrative-conflict/

Every work of literature, and much nonfiction narrative, is based on at least one of the following conflicts. When you write a story or a biography, or relate a true event or series of events, you need not focus on such themes, and there’s no reason to state them explicitly (except in passing, perhaps, to provide insight about a biographical subject), but you’re wise to identify the conflicts inherent in your composition and apply them as you write.

1. Person vs. Fate/God
This category could be considered part of conflict with self or with society (many people count only four types of conflict, including those two and conflict with another person or with nature). That’s a valid argument, as one confronts fate as part of an internal struggle and religion is a construct of society, but explicitly naming fate (Oedipus Rex) or God — or the gods (The Odyssey) — as the antagonist is a useful distinction.

2. Person vs. Self
A person’s struggle with his or her own prejudices or doubts or character flaws constitutes this type of conflict (Hamlet).

3. Person vs. Person
Any story featuring a hero and a villain or villains (The Count of Monte Cristo) represents this type of conflict, though the villain(s) is/are often representative of another antagonist in this list, whether a villain is in essence an alter ego of the protagonist (thus representing the conflict of person versus self) or stands in for society.

4. Person vs. Society
When the protagonist’s conflict extends to confronting institutions, traditions, or laws of his or her culture, he or she struggles to overcome them, either triumphing over a corrupt society (I draw a blank here), rejecting it (Fahrenheit 451), or succumbing to it (1984).

5. Person vs. Nature
In this conflict, the protagonist is pitted against nature (Robinson Crusoe) or a representation of it, often in the form of an animal (Moby Dick).

6. Person vs. Supernatural
Superficially, conflict with the supernatural may seem equivalent to conflict with fate or God, or representative of a struggle with an evocation of self (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) or nature (The Birds). But this category stands on its own feet as well.

7. Person vs. Technology
Humanity’s innate skepticism about the wonders of technology has resulted in many stories in which antagonists use technology to gain power or in which technology takes over or becomes a malign influence on society (Brave New World).

Interview Clip with John Steinbeck

1.) As you listen, try to write the question asked.

2.) Identify why the interviewer asked the question.

3.) Write a similar question and use evidence from your first article.

4.) Research additional facts about John Steinbeck and the Grapes of Wrath.