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September 10, 2012. In Agenda write: 1) Helping Verbs 2) Alliteration/Assonance Homework: Read for AR 4) Honors Homework: Hyperbole page 4. Helping Verbs. A Helping Verb helps the main verb express action or show time. They are combined with the main verbs to form verb phrases.
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September 10, 2012 In Agenda write: 1) Helping Verbs 2) Alliteration/Assonance Homework: Read for AR 4) Honors Homework: Hyperbole page 4
Helping Verbs • A Helping Verb helps the main verb express action or show time. They are combined with the main verbs to form verb phrases. • The bear has run away. • A few verbs can serve as either helping verbs or main verbs. • The bear has a baby cub.
Common Helping Verbs • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F2JWKY63K0 • Forms of Be: be, is, am, are, was, were, been, being • Forms of Have: has, have, had • Forms of Do: do, does, did • Others: could, should, would, may, might, must, can, shall, will
Helping Verbs • Look at the handout. We are going to make a flip book to help us memorize our helping verbs. Watch and listen as I demonstrate how to make the flip book. • On the top flap write Helping/Linking Verbs • On the bottom of the first flap write Helping Verbs. • Copy the Helping verbs from your handout onto the first page of your flip book.
Helping Verbs • We will complete page 32 as a class. • Read each sentence and find the helping verb or verbs. Underline the helping verb and circle the main verb. Write them on the line provided. If the sentence does not have a helping verb write none.
Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close to each other
Assonance Example # 1 Upon an island hard to reach, The EastBeast sits upon his beach. Upon the west beach sits the West Beast. Each beach beast thinks he’s the best beast. Which beast is best?…Well, I thought at first That the East was best and the West was worst. Then I looked again from the west to the east And I liked the beast on the east beach least.
Assonance Example #2 Gaily bedight,A gallant knight,In sunshine and in shadow,Had journeyed long,Singing a song,In search of Eldorado.
The BellsBy: Edgar Allen Poe • Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that over sprinkleAll the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time,In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Who Has Seen the Wind?Christina Rossetti • Who has seen the wind?Neither I nor you,But when the leaves hang trembling,The wind is passing through. • Who has seen the wind?Neither you nor I,But when the trees bow down their heads,The wind is passing by.
Annabel LeeBy: Edgar Allen Poe • As a class we will read Annabel Lee. You will need two colored pencils. • Yellow/green – alliteration Remember that is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds. • We will underline – assonance Remember that is the repetition of vowel sounds that are in the words next to each other.
Assonance Activity • You will be given a color and an object. With a group you will write a 4 lined poem. Be sure you have used assonance. • Below is an example. You may not copy the example! I like to lay my head on a red bed The bed is where my latest book was read And my dog Ted rests on that bed When I’m tired, it where I’m led
