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…)