ENGLISH – HOURS 1 & 3 – Day 11
a. Take prefix test – the test is named: “30-15-10 TEST #1”
a. Imagine that “The Most Dangerous Game” was a fable for cyborgs. Write down 5 positive lessons (or truths) that cyborgs would learn from the story if we inputted it into his memory. They must be positive.
i. For example: All people, all nationalities, are to be respected.
· Take out your Literary Terms handout (page 4) – read the 3 definitions at the top of the page - metaphor, simile, personification.
· NEXT: Complete the following:
o Identify metaphor, simile, personification in 7 examples from “The Most Dangerous Game”
Metaphor, simile, personification?
1. . . . but even you can’t see four miles or so through a moonless night.” “Nor four yards,” admitted Rainsford. Ugh? “It’s like moist black velvet.”
2. “It’s so dark,” he thought, “that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids.”
3. He struggles up to the surface and tried to cry out, but the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face.
4. Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to his ears—the most welcome he had ever heard—the muttering and growling of the sea.
5. The revolver pointed rigidly as if the giant was a statue.
6. Rainsford’s impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther.
7. Zaroff was the cat; he was the mouse.
HANDOUT: Complete the “CONFLICT” handout for “The Most Dangerous Game” (on overhead)
ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1 & 3:
Finish above.
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ENGLISH – HOURS 4 & 5 – Day 11
By yourself, or with a partner, read the next several books of The Odyssey (pgs. 1059 – 1074 – “The Enchantress Circe” and “The Land of the Dead” and “The Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis”
COMPLETE questions 29 – 52 for Monday.
ENGLISH homework – HOURS 4 & 5:
Finish questions #1 - 52 from the Odyssey packet of questions (TO BE COLLECTED MONDAY)
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