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MORE LITERARY TERMS:

1. King of the Mountain (photo by em'n'm): What is personified in this photo? To speak directly to this king would be an example of an apostrophe. (Click here for the definition.) Create an apostrophe with while also using the punctuation mark called the apostrophe! Email your example of this to me...please!

NEXT ACTIVITY:

• Reread "John Chapman" and let's review the answers. No term terms from this passage!

GRAMMAR TIME!

1. Participials....

Check out Khaled Hosseini's syntax (add this definition to your literary terms):

The Kite Runner, Chapter Two, Paragraph 1
When we were children, Hassan and I used to climb the poplar trees in the driveway of my father’s house and annoy our neighbors by reflecting sunlight into their homes with a shard of mirror.

We would sit across from each other on a pair of high branches, our naked feet dangling, our trouser pockets filled with dried mulberries and walnuts.

We took turns with the mirror as we ate mulberries, pelted each other with them, giggling, laughing.

I can still see Hassan up on that tree, sunlight flickering through the leaves on his almost perfectly round face, a face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood: his flat, broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes like bamboo leaves, eyes that looked, depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire.

I can still see his tiny low-set ears and that pointed stub of a chin, a meaty appendage that looked like it was added as a mere afterthought. And the cleft lip, just left of midline, where the Chinese doll maker’s instrument may have slipped, or perhaps he had simply grown tired and careless.

NOW with this in mind, begin drafting in your blog a post on the topic of civil wars...could be about friends or family who do not get along, might be about the differences amongst political parties, or...you choose the topic! Intentionally include sentences formatted much like Hosseini's.
Homework:

Finalize your blog post.

Read for Friday, January 15:

1. The Kite Runner: thru page 142
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns: thru page
3. Silas Marner: thru page 52