{"id":1021,"date":"2023-09-27T11:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2023-09-27T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:25:50","slug":"week-5-jss-2-second-term-english-studies-lesson-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-5-jss-2-second-term-english-studies-lesson-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 &#8211; Jss 2 Second Term English Studies Lesson Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK FIVE<br \/>\nLESSON 1: COMPOSITION<br \/>\nTITLE: Argumentative Essay<br \/>\nIntroduction: An argumentative essay is one that makes student to carefully consider an issue which has two sides to it and which has two sides to it and prove that one side has more merit than the other. It is like a debate in which you have to decide the one that has more merit than the other. Generally, topic in this category demand that you observe the following: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Prove a point\n<\/li>\n<li>Express an opinion\n<\/li>\n<li>Strike a balance between two side of an issue\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0TITLE: Herbal Medicines are more potent than orthodox medicine<br \/>\nGuideline in handling this essay<br \/>\nFirstly, make sure you are really convinced about the side you are supporting i.e. the side you truly believe in.<br \/>\nSecondly, do not draw general conclusion from only one example or a few point. To reach a convincing conclusion, you would need a number of points at least three or four.<br \/>\nIn addition, do not be illogical in your arguments so be sure that your points can support the conclusion you want to reach.<br \/>\nFinally, have many good points at your disposal, for and against. Note that for every point you have for an argument, there is most likely to be another points against.<br \/>\nMore on essential tip<br \/>\nReference: New Oxford for Junior Secondary School. Book 2, page 107.<br \/>\nAssignment<br \/>\nWrite nothing than 200 words on the topic: HERBAL MEDICINES ARE MORE POTENT THAN ORTHODOX MEDICINES<br \/>\nLESSON TWO<br \/>\nSPEECH WORK: Rhythm \u2013 Identification of the appropriate rhythms in a given poem.<br \/>\nReference: New Oxford English for junior secondary school 2 page 16. Title &#8211;  LEISURE<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0LEISURE<br \/>\nWhat is this life if, full of care <sup>a<\/sup><br \/>\n\t\tWe have no time to stand and stare <sup>a<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0No time to stand beneath the boughs <sup>b<\/sup><br \/>\n\t\tAnd stare as long as sheep or cows <sup>b<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0No time to see, when wood we pass <sup>c<\/sup><br \/>\n\t\tWhere squirrels hide their nuts in grass <sup>c<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0No time to see, in broad daylight <sup>d<\/sup><br \/>\n\t\tStream full of stars, like skies at night <sup>d<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A poor life this if, full of care <sup>e<\/sup><br \/>\n\t\tWe have no time to stand and stare <sup>e<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0LESSON THREE<br \/>\nGRAMMAR: REPORTED REQUESTS (SPEECH)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Reference to week Nine (9) lesson two of the second term.<br \/>\nIn addition, if what is being reported is always true, then the verb in the direct speech does not change from present to past tense e.g. The Moon shines in the night, Bola said. The moon shines in the night so here, the reported speech will be: Bola said that the moon shines at night.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Assignment<br \/>\nProgressive English: An elaborate coverage. Exercise 18A, page 143. No 11 \u2013 20<br \/>\nChange from direct to indirect speech. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0LESSON FOUR: LITERATURE \u2013 IN \u2013 ENGLISH<br \/>\nTITLE: Identification of some figures of speech in the recommended prose text.<br \/>\n&#8220;THE DANGEROUS REWARDS&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Assignment<br \/>\nLook out for the following figures of speech in act 1 and 2<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Simile\n<\/li>\n<li>Metaphor\n<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs\n<\/li>\n<li>Irony\n<\/li>\n<li>Hyperbole\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK FIVE LESSON 1: COMPOSITION TITLE: Argumentative Essay Introduction: An argumentative essay is one that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-second-term-jss-2-english"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}