Grade 8 (Friday, May 27)

Review:

What is the central idea of the following text?

Though forks were first used in China thousands of years ago, it took a long time for them to make their way to what is now the United States.

Ancient Greeks began using forks after the Chinese. However, they did not use forks for eating. They used them for serving food. From Greece, forks moved to the Roman Empire. Romans first used long forks for cooking and serving. By the 300s, they began using table forks to feed themselves.

The table fork spread from there to what is now the Middle East and Turkey, before arriving in Italy and becoming popular in the 1000s. It stayed popular in southern Europe, but was not used much in northern Europe until it first became popular in France and Spain in the 1700s.

The table fork arrived in England from France before making its way to the North American colonies, where it first became popular shortly before the American Revolution.

Sentence 2 is better! Why is that?

Look up what “Word Choice” is and share it.

Read, analyze, and decide how each sentence sounds like?

Read the sentences again and decide on the overall feeling their text gives?

Look up the words “Tone” & “Mood” and give an explanation of each.

Identify the mood and the tone of the following passage. Be ready to explain your answer.

Describe your mood now that the lesson is completed and the weekend is at the door.