October 15-19

12-2 English. 
Work on essay on independent novel study.  Due in one and a half weeks, Wednesday, 24nd.  Study notes on literary periods I-IV.  Practise test is up on class page. Test on Tuesday.

7 Writing:
Students are working on a new essay, to add to their portfolio.

11-0 Culinary
Monday, journals and recipes to be caught up for the last two weeks.  Notes on employee/employer expectations on the job.  In the lab on Thursday and Friday.  Study all notes so far.  Test on Wednesday, 17th.

English 10
Plot of Book Report should be finished by Monday, October 15th.  Character section should be finished by Thursday.  All of book report due by October 24th..  Test on verbs and tense Monday, October 15th.  Notes to study are below:

Notes on Verbs:

 Verbs are a part of speech that express action or state-of-being (that something exists).

Example:  Sam ran a marathon last Tuesday (“ran” is an action verb).

Sam is in the school somewhere (“is” indicates that Sam exists somewhere in the building).

 

Tense of Verbs:

Tense indicates in a general time frame of when an action takes place or when something exists.

 

Before tense is applied to a verb, we say that it is in the infinitive form.  Infinitive form can be detected by “to” in front of the verb. 

Examples of the infinitive form:  to be, to watch, to smile, to play, to taste, to walk, to see

 

Simple Tense indicates simple past, simple present, and simple future. 

 

Simple present:  This tense is used to indicate action is taking place now, in the present time.  To make the simple present, remove the “to” from the infinitive form: 

Infinitive: “to see”, present tense= to see, see.  I see him now.  See indicates the action is now.

Simple past:  This tense indicates the action has already taken place, sometime in the past.  To make the simple past tense, add “ed” to the present tense, or change the spelling for a few irregular verbs.

Regular verb:  “To jump”  change to present= jump, add “ed” = jumped.  The horse jumped the fence.

Irregular verb=  “ sing” The spelling changes to  “sang.”  Yesterday, Susan sang “O Canada.”

Simple future:  This tense indicates the action takes place in the future.  To make the future tense, add “will” or “shall” to the present tense.  Use “shall” with the first person singular and plural, and use “will” with all of the rest. 

Example:  I shall finish my assignment tomorrow.

                 Susan will leave school at 3:30.

 

Perfect Tense is used when one action occurs before another.  This can happen in the past perfect, one action happened in the past before another action in the past; in present perfect, the action has occurred just before the present time, and in future perfect, the action will be finished  before another action, both in the future.

Examples:  Past Perfect:  John had finished his lunch, before the alarm sounded.

Present Perfect:  I have finished my lunch (meaning just before the present time).

Future perfect:  Sam will have finished his chores, before he will be allowed to go out for the evening. (meaning the chores will be completed before the action of going out, both actions in the future).

 

Progressive Tense is used when an action is on-going.  To make progressing tense, add the verb “to be” to a verb, and end the verb in “ing”.  The verb “to be’ will change to make past, present and future progressive tense, while the verb will remain in the gerund form (“ing” on the end of the verb).

Examples:  Past progressive:  I was taking music lessons every Thursday last year.

                   Present progressive:  I am taking music lessons every Monday this year.

                   Future progressive:  I shall be taking music lessons every week next year.