Yesterday in class, we reviewed the grammar exercises from Tuesday.We are contiuing today with reading/ listening to Andrew Jackson's Removal Speech.
Over the weekend, please listen / read this over again in preparation for analysis and application of the work you have done with point of view, diction (connotation / denotation) and imagery.
Yesterday in class, we reviewed the grammar exercises from Tuesday.We are contiuing today with reading/ listening to Andrew Jackson's Removal Speech.
Over the weekend, please listen / read this over again in preparation for analysis and application of the work you have done with point of view, diction (connotation / denotation) and imagery.
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As stated on Tuesday, we will review exercise 4, as this one was particularly challenging, and those who sent this along and were correct received bonus credit.
We'll also go over exercise 3.
1. As soon as she saw the smoke, Laura (run) into the house to save her dog.
As soon as she saw the smoke, Laura ran into the house to save her dog.
2.Jenn (throw) out the food that had been sitting in the refrigerator for weeks.
Jenn threw out the food that had been sitting in the refrigerator for weeks.
3. When you get here, the valet (show) you to your room.
When you get here, the valet will show you to your room.
4. Will returned the book and (get) a receipt from the clerk.
Will returned the book and got a receipt from the clerk.
5. By the time we arrived on the scene, the cars (tow) away.
By the time we arrived on the scene, the cars had been towed away.
6. Real estate prices have increased dramatically over the past year; I should (buy) that property months ago.
Real estate prices have increased dramatically over the past year; I should have bought that property months ago.
7. The horse (race) across the finish line as we are speaking.
The horse is racing across the finish line as we are speaking.
8. Bill saw the movie a week after he (read) the book.
Bill saw the movie a week after he had read the book.
9. Lulu (take) ballet for three years now.
Lulu has taken ballet for three years now.
10. By the time you finish this project, we (grow) very old.
By the time you finish this project, we will have grown very old.
Avoiding Shifts- Exercise 4
Directions: Revise each sentence to correct the faulty shift (underlined). This is a challenging exercise. You may have to move sevral words around in the sentence, as well as change the verb tense.
1. 1.Computers have become much more affordable in the last ten years, as their prices drop.
Computers have become much more affordable in the last ten years as their prices have dropped.
2. We should dress in formal attire because weddings are when formality is expected.
We should dress in formal attire because formality is expected at weddings.
3. Go home after school and you should do your homework.
Go home after school, and do your homework.
4. Peers should not be able to control your life; one should be able to make his or her own decisions.
Peers should not be able to control your life; you should make your own decisions.
5. Not every student learns in the same way because they all have different learning styles.
Not every student learns in the same way because each student has a different learning style.
6. Lucy wrote her paper and finishes her algebra homework before going out with friends.
Lucy wrote her paper and finished her algebra homework before going out with friends.
7. The Baltimore Zoo takes great measures to keep cages clean, and awards have been received by the zoo for excellent animal care.
The Baltimore Zoo has taken great measures to keep cages clean, and it has received awards for excellent animal care.
8. Eat the banana and you should try the peanut butter ice cream.
Eat the banana and try the peanut butter ice cream.
9. My excuse for breaking up with her is because she does not have enough time for me.
: I broke up with her because she does not have enough time for me.
OR
She does not have enough time for me, so I broke up with her.
OR
My excuse for breaking up with her is that she does not have enough time for me.
10. The president speaks to the crowd and waved a hand of welcome.
The president spoke to the crowd and waves a hand of welcome.
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NEW MATERIAL; continuing the theme of prejudice and
discrimination
Learning Targets: I can find parallels between the discrimination experiences of the Native Americans, Serena Williams and Claude McKay.
I can identify the theme or central idea in Andrew Jackson's Removal Speech
I can give examples of how imagery is used to develop the central idea or theme in Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal speech.
I can give examples of how diction is used to develop the theme or central idea in Andrew Jackson's removal speech.
I can give examples how point of view is used to develop the central idea or theme in Andrew Jackson's removal speech.
Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal audio to 9:52
By President Andrew Jackson 1830
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was the seventh president of the United States. In this speech he discusses the “Indian Removal Act,” which forcibly relocated native tribes to what is now Oklahoma.
"It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent (1) policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation.(2) Two important tribes have accepted the provision (3) made for their removal at the last session of Congress, and it is believed that their example will induce the remaining tribes also to seek the same obvious advantages.
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The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United States, to individual States, and to the Indians themselves. The pecuniary(4) advantages which it promises to the Government are the least of its recommendations. It puts an end to all possible danger of collision between the authorities of the General and State Governments on account of the Indians. It will place a dense and civilized population in large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters. By opening the whole territory between Tennessee on the north and Louisiana on the south to the settlement of the whites it will incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier and render the adjacent (5) States strong enough to repel future invasions without remote aid. It will relieve the whole State of Mississippi and the western part of Alabama of Indian occupancy, (6) and enable those States to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power. It will separate the Indians from immediate contact with settlements of whites; free them from the power of the States; enable them to pursue happiness in their own way and under their own rude institutions; will retard (7) the progress of decay, which is lessening their numbers, and perhaps cause them gradually, under the protection of the Government and through the influence of good counsels, to cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, and Christian community. [1]
1. Benevolent (adjective): well-meaning
2. completion
3. a provided thing, usually necessary for surviva
4. relating to money
5. Adjacent (adjective): next to or adjoining something else
6. the act of dwelling in a place 7. an archaic term that was used to describe the process of slowing down or delay
7. slow
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What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages(8) our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion?
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The present policy of the Government is but a continuation of the same progressive change by a milder process. The tribes which occupied the countries now constituting the Eastern States were annihilated or have melted away to make room for the whites. The waves of population and civilization are rolling to the westward, and we now propose to acquire the countries occupied by the red men(9) the South and West by a fair exchange, and, at the expense of the United States, to send them to land where their existence may be prolonged and perhaps made perpetual. Doubtless it will be painful to leave the graves of their fathers; but what do they more than our ancestors did or than our children are now doing? To better their condition in an unknown land our forefathers left all that was dear in earthly objects. Our children by thousands yearly leave the land of their birth to seek new homes in distant regions. Does Humanity weep at these painful separations from everything, animate and inanimate, with which the young heart has become entwined? Far from it. It is rather a source of joy that our country affords scope where our young population may range unconstrained in body or in mind, developing the power and facilities of man in their highest perfection. These remove hundreds and almost thousands of miles at their own expense, purchase the lands they occupy, and support themselves at their new homes from the moment of their arrival. Can it be cruel in this Government when, by events which it cannot control, the Indian is made discontented in his ancient home to purchase his lands, to give him a new and extensive territory, to pay the expense of his removal, and support him a year in his new abode? How many thousands of our own people would gladly embrace the opportunity of removing to the West on such conditions! If the offers made to the Indians were extended to them, they would be hailed with gratitude and joy.
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And is it supposed that the wandering savage has a stronger attachment to his home than the settled, civilized Christian? Is it more afflicting to him to leave the graves of his fathers than it is to our brothers and children? Rightly considered, the policy of the General Government toward the red man is not only liberal, but generous. He is unwilling to submit to the laws of the States and mingle with their population. To save him from this alternative, or perhaps utter annihilation,(10) General Government kindly offers him a new home, and proposes to pay the whole expense of his removal and settlement."
8.. Though commonplace at the time — indeed, it is even used in the U.S. Declaraction of Independence — the term "savages" in reference to indigenous peoples is both archaic and considered highly offensive.
9. An archaic term, now considered very offensive, for Native Americans
10. Annihilation (noun): the complete destruction of something
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