ROOTS:- greg - herd
- hypn - sleep
- helio - sun
- What word means an obsession with self?
- What word means a piece of writing that is at upon the top scale of wit.
- What word means to carry food with in your body?
- Click here to practice identifying Fused Sentences and Comma Splices.
- Now move into a little practice using commas. Click here.
- Ten men were in a boat on the river Ganga. The boat turns over, and all men sink to the bottom of the river, yet not a single man got wet! Why?
- Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
- I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
- How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?
- In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink! What color is the staircase?
- If I drink, I die. If i eat, I am fine. What am I?
- Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
- Now you write an original riddle for our class. Due next week!
- What kinds of technological inventions have the Goblins made? p.59
- In what ways so far, has Bilbo been an unintentional hero? Why do you think Tolkien allows him to be so lucky?
- How would you describe the relationship between the giants and nature?
- How about the Goblins and nature?
- Name as many quotes with foreshadowing as you can find in Ch. 4
- Cite as many references as you can find to light or dark in Ch.4.
Journal 6: Consider Gollum: How does he embody evil? What was he like before finding the ring? Describe Gollum’s corruption through its power. Find a passage that explains the transformation.
