ENGLISH - 1st trimester – Day 38
· Pick up this week’s vocabulary word list (Lesson 5)
· Review answers to “The Scarlet Ibis” review sheet (Q’s 1-8)
o Reschedule test for tomorrow, Tuesday!
· MARK ON THE PARAGRAPH 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?
· 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 10 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?
3. What could you learn from this older brother’s tragedy?
· Make a poster of 6 or 7 titles (no brainstorm)
1. Mama
2. Doodle’s brother
3. Daddy
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4. Doodle
5. Scarlet Ibis
6. Swamp
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7. The weather
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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…).
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