Thursday, October 31, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 41

 

1. Collect homework (or a pink sheet): What does “boring” look like?
2. Grade Ibis tests.
3. Show clever vocabulary memory tricks from yesterday’s class.
4. Using this chart to complete #5 below:

 

Sample Text Markings

(“What were you thinking?”)

 

I love this part

*Unfamiliar words/phrases

! That’s interesting

J I agree

X I disagree

? I don’t understand

 

NOTE: For every symbol you use, you must explain yourself in words (next to the symbol).

 

5. Read article “Who Made That Whoopee Cushion” – following PMR strategy
6. Write a hand-written draft of a response.

a.       Step 1: What would a cyborg learn about human behavior from this article? Answer this is the form of a statement.

b.      Step 2: (if you ask me)…Write a sentence of explanation (from your POV) about step 1.

c.       Step 3: Write “According to the article “Who Made That Whoopee Cushion,” (and complete it with either a paraphrase or a quote from the article).

d.      Step 4: Using the circles of reflection, answer the question: Why might this information matter to somebody other than you?

e.       Step 5,6,7: Finish up your paragraph…conclusion.

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 5: jaded, gist, advocate…)

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 40

 

Check homework: (completed backside of this week’s vocabulary handout)

 

WARMUP: (to be collected)

1. Read through all your writing from yesterday.
2. Next, imagine that a friend of yours is upset about something and is about to make a bad choice.
3. On a clean sheet of paper, write your friend a brief note that…
1. explains how his/her situation is just like the situation in one of our short stories and
2. how they could end up just like the character if they don’t change their ways.
4. STAPLE your note ON TOP OF all your IBIS writing from yesterday.

 

·         Return Super Soaker papers.

1. Common error: not enough information about the article.
1. It’s not okay to take the subject “super soaker” and write anything we want about it.
2. We must figure out what the key purpose of the article is and expand on it.

2. Imagine that the only things the cyborg understands about how real human beings are to behave is from what he learns from “Who Made That Super Soaker?”
• Write down 5 THINGS that he would learn about the behavior of humans if we inputted the story “Who Made That Super Soaker?” into his memory.

                                                              i.      Write them in the form of a statement, not a question.

• Choose your favorite, and rewrite it as your 1^st sentence/introduction/purpose
2. Add a single sentence of explanation.
• Don’t write “IF YOU ASK ME…” but think it, and then write your explanation. (2^nd sentence)
3. 3^rd sentence: Write “According to the article, “Who Made That Super Soaker,” …(paraphrase or add a quote from the article)
4. At your tables, create a clever way (or a trick) that would help others remember the definitions of the following words (and write them onto a whiteboard):

·         Table 1 = jaded, advocate, gist

·         Table 2 = charisma, efface

·         Table 3 = ogre, mesmerize, entity

·         Table 4 = bandy, dastardly

6. CHALLENGE (table against table):

·         What does “boring” look/feel/taste/sound/smell like?

                                                  i.      List them. Use all 5 senses…

ENGLISH homework:

1.      Without using the word “boring” “bored” or “boredom”– write a ½ page paragraph using some of your list to describe homework.

2.      Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 5: jaded, gist, advocate…)

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 39

 

“There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love…”

 

1. Number a paper 1 – 24 (skipping lines)
2. After turning in test, write out the 18 errors in the paragraph below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.      In 8 minutes: Pretend someone is unfamiliar with the concept of the “knot of cruelty” that we discussed in “The Scarlet Ibis.” Give them a taste of what it is (explain it to them in your own words) and how it is present in one of the other short stories that we have read in this class (“The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Interlopers,” “The Most Dangerous Game”).

4. They say that you can choose to use your life for good or for evil. You just wrote about a character from one of our stories that chose evil because of his knot of cruelty.

1. 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.      In another paragraph, make up what else probably happened to the character (and friends and family) because of his decision to choose meanness.

                                                          iii.      What’s a different choice they could have made given their same past/background, same situation that may have resulted in a positive?

                                                          iv.      In a paragraph, tell the story of how this would have played out.

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Complete the backside of this week’s vocabulary handout

 

Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 5: jaded, gist, advocate…)

Monday, October 28, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 38

 

·         FIND as many of the 26 errors in this paragraph as you can.

 

It’s legs were crossed and it’s claw-like feet we’re delicately curved at rest.  even death did not mare it’s grace. For it laid on the earth like a brokin vase of red flower’s and we stood around it; awed by it’s exotic beautey. “Its dead. mama said.”  “what is it,” Doodle repeated?

 

·         Review answers to “The Scarlet Ibis” review sheet (Q’s 1-8)

o   Reschedule test for tomorrow, Tuesday!

·         Pick up this week’s vocabulary word list (Lesson 5)

·         Review “Cask of Amontillado” test answers

·         Put all tests into folder – re-collect

·         Discussed the following:

a.       Your feelings sit in the backseat of your car. You are the driver of your car. Your feelings are backseat drivers always yelling out directions to you, telling you what to do and how to drive. You can listen to them, acknowledge them, but you don’t have to do what they say. You get to drive wherever and however you choose. You’re in the driver’s seat.

b.      In “The Scarlet Ibis” James Hurst wrote, “There is within me (and it is with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle.” (pg. 336)

·         TO BE COLLECTED in 15 minutes, explain what you think is the author’s purpose of this “knot of cruelty” (pg. 336) or “childish spite” (pg. 343) or “streak of cruelty within me” (pg. 343)

o   Answer one (or all) of the following questions:

1.      When (and with whom) does your knot of cruelty show up?

2.      What could you personally do differently with your knot of cruelty? What could you do differently with your spite?

3.      What could you learn from this older brother’s tragedy?

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Study your review sheet for tomorrow’s test on “The Scarlet Ibis.”

 

Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 5: jaded, gist, advocate…).

Friday, October 25, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 37

 

·         Take test (prefix/root #3)

·         Finish 1-8 test review (remember, Ibis test on Monday)

·         Make COLOR poster of 6 or 7 titles (no brainstorm)

 

1.      Mama 2.      Doodle’s brother 3.      Daddy

4.      Doodle 5.      Scarlet Ibis 6.      Swamp

7.      The weather

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

·         Scarlet Ibis test will be delayed until Tuesday so that we may review our study guides on Monday.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 36

 

If you did not turn in your 4 lists of 10 from yesterday, please put it on the center table with the others.

 

Next, find your answers to the SYMBOLISM work we completed the other day…(#2-8)…

 

Today is a study hour – after attendance, use your time wisely, quietly…

1. Complete test review 1 – 8. Turn into CENTER table when complete.
2. RECOMMENDED: Fill in an empty 3-column chart, number the first column 1 – 11 and fill it in from memory…
1. Use your flashcards (or pink sheet) to study and fill in the rest.
3. Begin #9

 

TEST REVIEW:

1.        Review terms: uneasiness, exhilaration, amusement

a.        find an example of each in the story – write it out, word for word

2.        Read page 338 – “go-to-sleep” flower…discuss vocabulary

3.        Explain the vocabulary words in each of the following quotations:

a.        “…gloriously iridescent vortex,” (pg. 338),

b.        “With success so imminent…” (pg. 337)

c.        “an invalid brother…” (pg. 334)

4.        What 3 words would you use to describe Doodle’s brother while he was teaching Doodle to walk?

5.        In "The Scarlet Ibis," Hurst (the author) uses natural elements of the setting to comment on the action of the story and the characters. These include plants, birds, insects, and weather phenomena. Make a list of 10 of these natural elements and write a paragraph on ONE of them, explaining how it relates to the action of the story or the characters themselves.

6.        Write down BRIEF definitions for the following literary terms:

a.        foreshadowing (pg. 1 on handout)

b.        conflict (pg. 1)

c.        theme (page 3)

d.        allusion, (pg. 3)

e.        metaphor, (pg. 4)

f.         simile, (pg. 4)

g.        symbolism, (pg. 4)

h.        irony, (pg. 4)

i.         oxymoron, (pg. 5)

j.         juxtaposition, (dictionary)

k.        antipathy, (dictionary)

l.         apathetic (dictionary)

7.        Using page 340 as a resource, figure out

a.        About what year (pg. 340)

b.        WHERE did this story take place?

8.        There is an allusion on page 340 in the paragraph that begins, “It was Saturday noon…” – Read the whole paragraph and name the children’s story that is being alluded to.

9.        Complete below…(World’s Thinnest Books redux)…

o    1. List characters in "The Scarlet Ibis" - 7 total – (see the chart below)

o    2. List four or more facts and details about each using your book.

·          Pretend each has written a book.

o    3. Based on the facts, create 2 book titles written by each character that reflects something he is LEAST LIKELY to know anything about.

o    4. Choose your 7 favorite titles and draw a pile of books with the titles showing on a PINK poster for our classroom (include the author/character for each title)

 

1.        Mama 2.        Doodle’s brother 3.        Daddy

4.        Doodle 5.        Scarlet Ibis 6.        Swamp

7.        The weather

 

ENGLISH homework:

Study for Friday’s Prefix test (11 prefixes from “30-15-10” list) = re- ………cred-

Study for Monday’s “The Scarlet Ibis” test

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 35

 

Parent teacher conferences (3:30 – 5:30 p.m.)

 

Collect typed paragraph (or a PINK sheet if it isn’t typed) on Super Soaker article

 

WARMUP:

In a paragraph, explain who you think is most responsible for Doodle’s death.

 

Discussed the ending of “The Scarlet Ibis” – what happened?

·         How specifically did Doodle die?

o   What do we know for sure?

·         How do we know he didn’t die by lightning? A fallen tree?

·         Is his death the narrator’s fault?

 

4 lists – 40 reasons total:

• List 10 events that happened in the story that would help convince a jury that…
• 1. Doodle’s older brother is responsible for the death of Doodle?
• 2. Doodle’s parents are responsible for the death of Doodle?
• 3. Doodle’s older brother is NOT responsible for the death of Doodle?
• 4. Doodle’s parents are NOT responsible for the death of Doodle?

 

(Is it easier to prove them guilty or not guilty?)

 

On a whiteboard, create a movie poster or comic strip (with words, drawings, and symbols) that depicts the main events covered in “The Scarlet Ibis” pgs. 333 – 338

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENGLISH homework:

Finish your list of 40 (see above) for tomorrow.

 

Study for Friday’s Prefix test (11 prefixes from “30-15-10” list) = re- ………cred-