Writing 3 Extra Credit Oppo(..rtunity)

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Grammar 3 Thanksgiving Vacation homework

Unit 6 Study Guide

This unit deals with mysteries in everyday life and in history, myth and legend. The reading examines the question of who "discovered" America. In the past, American schoolchildren were taught that Columbus made the discovery, but that opinion has become extremely controversial because the old view ignores Native Americans, who were certainly the first to arrive in the New World.

Write your study guide into your notebook. Mr. Cabalu will check your work on Tuesday, Nov. 29.

A. Vocabulary- Define the following words and phrases. (Don't forget to list the parts of speech!)

p.89-90
artifact
fragment
abbot
pottery
monk
monastery
candidate
hemisphere

p.94-99
cherchez la femme
retirement home
dwelling
flourishing
devastate
hives
rash
receptors
Hodgkin's disease
tolerable

B. Comprehension
1. According to the reading, who are the best-known candidates for the title of "discoverers" of the New World?
2. What evidence is offered that the Vikings found the New World?
3. What evidence is offered that the Irish reached North America?
4. Who were the real discoverers of America?
5. In what sense did Columbus "discover" America?

C. Identify the Grammar

How sure are each of these statements? (99% sure, not very certain, etc)
...Columbus may not have been the first to visit the Western Hemisphere.

Scholars originally assumed Vinland must have been present-day Newfoundland.

Today the assumption is that Vinland couldn't have been Newfoundland.

Could the climate have been warmer in Erickson's day?

The pottery evidence must mean something.

Notes:

Modals of certainty are different from modals of necessity. Necessity means "need" or "rule," while certainty connotes "guess" or used when we are not 100% sure of a fact or situation.

Examples:

Students must go to study hall every night. (necessity, this is a rule)

Teachers should sometimes be nice to their students. (also necessity)

It is 8:10 A.M., so Mr. Shriwise must be checking the study hall for tardy and absent students right about now. (certainty: I am 99% sure/certain that Mr. Shriwise will be doing this.)

At 2:45 P.M. most of the students should be arriving into study hall shortly. (certainty: not all students arrive into study hall at this time, especially during soccer and girls' basketball seasons. Consequently, I am not completely sure about my statement.)

past tense modal question: Could Mr. Cabalu have been away from school last week? No way! We saw him every day.