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ELA Quarter 1, Week 2 Bell-Ringer – Write a response to one of the following quotes • “The truth about language which the fixity of print can sometimes obscure: that it is always in flux, and that its form and expression are beyond the control of schoolteachers or governments.” Robert McCrum • “...

ELA Quarter 1, Week 2 Bell-Ringer – Write a response to one of the following quotes • “The truth about language which the fixity of print can sometimes obscure: that it is always in flux, and that its form and expression are beyond the control of schoolteachers or governments.” Robert McCrum • “The English language is the sea which received tributaries from every region under heaven.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson • “The English language surrounds us like a sea, and like the waters of the deep it is full of mysteries” This Week (Homework) • Analytical Essay • Root Words Assignment • Identify three words per root word. • Identify the origin of the root word (Greek, latin, etc) • Watch and take notes: The Story of English (YouTube) • Begin Reading 7 Habits Analytical Essay due Friday at 5PM “Now you must speak the Language so you can use your Mathematical Theology in the proper Term - otherwise you will not be successful unless you do speak well, for she knows all about you.” OR Why is English a Valuable Language? Root Words (Test next Wednesday) • What is a root word? Root Words • Root words hold the essential meaning of a word. • Typically needs an affix (change of a word with a prefix or suffix) • Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots. • In science and technology words, over 90 percent What is Latin? • “the language of ancient Rome and its empire, widely used historically as a language of scholarship and administration.” • Latin was originally a dialect spoken in Latium • Considered the mother-tongue of many • Gave birth to Romance Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian For Example: • Centipede • Impediment • Millipede • Pedal • Peddler • Pedestrian • Pedicure • Quadruped • Tripod Root Words for this Week (Test Wednesday) • Sub: Under • Omni: All • Graph: Write, Written • Helio, Sol: Sun • Eu: Good, Pleasing • Mal: evil, bad • Neo, Nov: New • Retro: back, backward • Macro: Large, Long • Anti: Against, Opposite • Paleo: Old • Dorm: Sleep • Amphi: Both, two • Auto: Self • Phobia: Fear • Terra: Land, Earth • Bio: Life • Fy: Make, Do Thursday Free Write, Quill, Shared Reading, About English, Sentence Construction Writing is a Weapon • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om0xILxAbfg Reading Assignment Closing the Gap The Prevalence of the English Language About English • Vital second language • 600M people consider it their mother tongue • 59% of websites in English • Spoken by 2B people globally • 86 Countries have English as their Official Language or Second Language • 11 Asian Countries • 23 African Countries • 1 South American Country There is more to be understood in a word • A word can be defined as a “unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.” Consider This… • “Three-quarters of the world's mail, and its telexes and cables, are in English. So are more than half the world's technical and scientific periodicals: it is the language of technology from Silicon Valley to Shanghai. English is the medium for 80 per cent of the information stored in the world's computers. Nearly half of all business deals in Europe are conducted in English. It is the language of sports and glamour: the official language of the Olympics and the Miss Universe competition. English is the official voice of the air, of the sea, and of Christianity: it is the ecumenical language of the World Council of Churches. Five of the largest broadcasting companies in the world (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, CBC) transmit in English to audiences that can exceed one hundred million (McCrum, The Story of English).” Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar Mechanics refers to the rules and conventions of written language as opposed to spoken language (Joseph Moxley, Writing Commons). Capitalizatio n Parts of Speech (What can we infer about English from this dictionary?) Parts of a Sentence Punctuation Run-on Sentences Sentence Fragments Sentence Errors Sentence Patterns Sentence Structures Spelling Grammar refers to the rules and conventions of oral language as opposed to spoken language.* Morphological (The shaping of words), Phonological (the sound of words), and Syntactical rules (word order and combinations) “Usage refers to the conventional ways in which words or phrases are used, spoken, or written in a speech community (Richard Norquist).” Friday Sentence Construction, Quill Diagnostic, Reading Sentence Constructi on Unscramble the sentence parts to create one logical sentence . Express the content of the sentence with a shorter sentence.