November 8 and 9

1. November 8 and 9 • Today’s Agenda • Word of the Week • Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement • Unit Overview • Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience • Small Group Sections • Sharing and Notes • MLK’s Nonviolent Resistance HW: Definition of Success; Nonviolent Resistance and Comparisons

2. Word of the Week • Ineffable • Adjective • Definition: Incapable of being expressed in words • Synonyms: unspeakable, unutterable, indescribable “…the tension inherent in human language when it attempts to relate the ineffable, see the invisible, understand the incomprehensible.” -Jeffery Burton Russell, A History of Heaven

3. Word of the Week Part 2 • Vernacular • Noun, sometimes an adjective • Definition: the plain variety of speech in everyday use, often particular to social class or region Twain uses the vernacular of several different groups of people in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to give a more realistic portrayal of the antebellum United States.

4. Subject-Verb Agreement • Use a singular verb with singular subjects. • Finer points: • Do not make verbs agree with intervening prepositional phrases. • When subjects are joined by or or nor the verb agrees with the noun after the conjunction.

5. Singular Each Either, Neither Another Anyone, Anything, Anybody Someone, Something, Somebody One, No one, Nobody Everyone, Everybody, Everything Nothing Plural Both Few Many Several Depend on context None Any All More Most Some Indefinite pronouns

6. Other fine points • Collective nouns:These may be considered either singular or plural depending on the intended meaning. • Examples of collective nouns: group, committee, crowd, choir, faculty, congress, family, etc • The phrase the number is singular • Some nouns look plural but take a singular verb: news, physics, economics, etc. • Title of a single work is singular (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

7. Examples • Five hours is too long to wait. • Skip is a boy who practices his drums every evening. • Fifty dollars is a lot of money. • Measles is a contagious disease. • Everyone in the class is coming to my house.

8. Subject-Verb Agreement, cont. • Use a plural verb with a plural subject. • Compound subjects joined by and are plural unless they are considered one unit (ex: Ham and eggs is a delicious breakfast.) • The scissors cut the cloth easily. • Half the pears were eaten before we arrived home. • Physics and chemistry are difficult subjects. • Neither Rod nor his friends wish to attend my party.

9. Subject-Verb Agreement, Cont. • In sentences in which one subject is affirmative and the other is negative, the verb agrees with the subject that is used affirmatively. • She, not we, is responsible for the meeting.

10. Power of the Individual • Essential Questions • How do we balance the needs of the individual with the needs of society? • How do people form their ideas about morality? • When does the individual have a right and a responsibility to rebel against society? • How are certain flaws distinctly human, and what can we do to address these flaws?

11. Civil Disobedience • In your small groups, read your assigned section and answer the question(s) on the sheet. • Complete your section thoroughly, as you will be responsible for teaching your section to your peers.

12. Civil Disobedience Part 2 • Form two lines. You should be facing a classmate who read the same section as you in the beginning. • A’s will move one to the right. Take turns in your new pairs, sharing your section. • Fill in the notes that you get from your new partners as you go so that when you finish, each section on your sheet is completed.

13. Nonviolent Resistance • After reading Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, read Martin Luther King Jr’s Nonviolent Resistance. • On the chart in your packet, fill in similarities and differences in the ideas these men present.