ENGLISH - 1st 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…”
- Take Scarlet Ibis test
- After turning in test, write out the 18 errors in the paragraph below:
4. TO BE COLLECT FOR A GRADE (5 paragraphs total) : Pretend you meet someone who is unfamiliar with the concept of the “knot of cruelty” that we discussed in “The Scarlet Ibis.”
a. In a paragraph, explain it to them in your own words.
b. In another full paragraph, explain to the same person them how this “knot” 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”).
- 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…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’s friends and family because of his decision to choose meanness.
iii. In a 3rd paragraph: Explain how by making different choice the character could have changed his situation into something positive.
ENGLISH homework:
Complete the backside of this week’s vocabulary handout (due tomorrow)
Finish the 5 paragraphs (see above) – due tomorrow
Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 5: jaded, gist, advocate…)
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