Lesson 4-Wisdom of Bear Wood I Text Analysis Writing Devices Action Verbs: e.g.clatter,topple,puzzle,stumble,huddle Short sentences or sentences broken up by commas Function:creating tension and drama. Synonyms e.g.for describing activities running,dashing,rushing,plunging,fleeing,heading toward,moving slowly,making one's way toward,etc. To be continued on the next page. BACK
W B T L E Lesson 4 - Wisdom of Bear Wood Action Verbs : e.g. clatter, topple , puzzle , stumble , huddle Short sentences or sentences broken up by commas Function: creating tension and drama. Synonyms : e.g. for describing activities running , dashing , rushing ,plunging, fleeing , heading toward, moving slowly, making one’s way toward, etc. I. Text Analysis Writing Devices To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4-Wisdom of Bear Wood I. Text Analysis 图 Further Discussion About the Story What was Pompeii like before it became a dead city? 中 How did its sudden end come about? What does the author say Pompeii was like on its last day?What was everybody doing on that day? What was people's first reaction to the eruption?Did they know it was a volcano eruption? What happened minutes later?What was the first thing to fall on Pompeii? WB T L E To be continued on the next page
W B T L E Lesson 4 - Wisdom of Bear Wood What was Pompeii like before it became a dead city? How did its sudden end come about? What does the author say Pompeii was like on its last day? What was everybody doing on that day? What was people’s first reaction to the eruption? Did they know it was a volcano eruption? What happened minutes later? What was the first thing to fall on Pompeii? I. Text Analysis Further Discussion About the Story To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4-Wisdom of Bear Wood I、 Text Analysis 阁 Further Discussion About the Story +What made the Pompeiians feel that their doom was at hand before any actual damage was done?What caused the first deaths? How did most of the people meet their death? Did anybody survive? WB T L E To be continued on the next page. BACK
W B T L E Lesson 4 - Wisdom of Bear Wood What made the Pompeiians feel that their doom was at hand before any actual damage was done? What caused the first deaths? How did most of the people meet their death? Did anybody survive? I. Text Analysis Further Discussion About the Story To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4-Wisdom of Bear Wood III.Sentence Paraphrase 1 AD79(1) In full:Anno Domini,Latin for the Year of Our Lord. The Christian myth has it that AD1 was the year Jesus Christ was born(He was probably born years earlier).Time before AD is called BC,i.e.,Before Christ. W B T L E To be continued on the next page
W B T L E Lesson 4 - Wisdom of Bear Wood III. Sentence Paraphrase 1 AD 79 (1) In full: Anno Domini, Latin for the Year of Our Lord. The Christian myth has it that AD1 was the year Jesus Christ was born( He was probably born years earlier). Time before AD is called BC, i.e., Before Christ. To be continued on the next page
Lesson 4-Wisdom of Bear Wood III.Sentence Paraphrase 2 Nearby was the Bay of Naples,an arm of the blue Mediterranean.(3) a long and narrow area of land or water that is joined to a broader area. This is an inverted sentence.The subject is "the Bay of Naples". Inversion occurs because the subject with an appositive "an arm of the blue Mediterranean"makes it too long It is moved to the end of the sentence to avoid top heaviness(the situation in which the subject of a sentence is too long while the predicate too short). W TLE To be continued on the next page. BACK NEXT
W B T L E Lesson 4 - Wisdom of Bear Wood III. Sentence Paraphrase 2 Nearby was the Bay of Naples , an arm of the blue Mediterranean. (3) This is an inverted sentence. The subject is “the Bay of Naples”. Inversion occurs because the subject with an appositive “an arm of the blue Mediterranean” makes it too long . It is moved to the end of the sentence to avoid top heaviness (the situation in which the subject of a sentence is too long while the predicate too short). a long and narrow area of land or water that is joined to a broader area. To be continued on the next page