“There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a
knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love…”
- Complete the backside
of this week’s vocabulary handout
- They say that you can
choose to use your life for good or for evil. Yesterday, you wrote about a
character from one of our stories that chose evil because of his knot
of cruelty.
- Going backward in time, think about what might have happened to him that created this knot in their past.
i.
In a paragraph,
make up something that happened to this character that upset him and
caused him to become mean.
ii.
Also, explain what happened to him and the people
around him as a result of this decision.
- What’s a different choice they could have made given their same past/background, same situation that may have resulted in a positive?
i.
In a paragraph, tell the story of how this would
have played out.
- At our desks, we graded two papers “The Redwoods” (gave it a letter grade and told why) and “Mouse Alert” – by answering the following 3 questions for the second paper:
·
What reactions do you have to the paper?
·
What letter grade do you give it? (explain why)
·
List 2 questions you would like to ask the
writer.
- Next, we graded each other’s journal from today using the same 3 questions as above
ENGLISH homework:
Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 5: jaded, gist,
advocate…)
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