Tuesday, February 3, 2015

SNOW DAY – Monday, February 2, 2015

ENGLISH – HOURS 1 & 3 – Day 35

1.      Using your Literary Terms packet, review the definitions of symbols and inferences.

2.      Write down what you think the cask in “The Cask of Amontillado” symbolized.

1. What other 5 things in the story might be considered symbols?
2. In the whole world, what other “casks” can you think of?
3. What is your “cask”?

                                                              i.      What are your goals? Dreams? What are you willing to risk in order to get it?

                                                            ii.      What if you find out that, like the Amontillado, your dream doesn’t exist? What if it will cost you your life to get it?

4. What is Poe trying to warn you about?
5. What does Fortunato’s death suggest about our own casks/focused intents?
6. Fortunato’s PRIDE/EGO is his ultimate downfall.

                                                              i.      What are other downfalls that people initially think are strengths?

3. PREVIEW the story on pages 333 – 338, “The Scarlet Ibis.”
4. Began reading the first half ONLY of “The Scarlet Ibis” pgs. 333 – 338 – paying special attention to the symbols…
5. list 10 things that MIGHT BE SYMBOLS
6. Using the following format, write down 2 predictions about what you think will ultimately happen in “The Scarlet Ibis” (pg. 333) based on what you have read so far. Use this format for your predictions:
1. Because the story says, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________, I predict __________________________________.

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1 & 3:

·         Finish #5 and 6 (above)

·         Study for Friday’s fill-in-the blank Prefix test (the next 11 prefixes from “30-15-10” list) including the following prefixes from your sheet = dict - therm

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ENGLISH – HOURS 4 & 5 – Day 35

Collect homework: Open-notes, take-home test on Act 1 of Romeo & Juliet

Take Romeo & Juliet Act 1 Quotations test – “WHO SAID IT?”

COMPLETE # 1 – 5 below (TO BE COLLECTED)

1.      After turning in your test, use the list (in your textbooks) on page 805 and definition on page 1245 to write down 3 sets of foils from Romeo & Juliet (not including the example on page 1245 J)

2.      Write down what proof you have that each set of characters (that you listed above) are foils?

3.      Before reading Act 2, look at the 4 famous lines on pg. 846, lines 33-36 and paraphrase them into 4 easy to understand lines.

Read Act 2, Scenes 1 and 2 (pages 843-853)

4.      Write down what 4 things are being compared in the extended metaphor lines 177-184 (pg. 852)

5.        Draw a SMALL PICTURE of the following Shakespearean (extended) metaphor from Romeo and Juliet Act 2.2:

ROMEO
25                                                                   She speaks!
26   O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
27   As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
28   As is a winged messenger of heaven
 29   Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
30   Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
31   When he bestrides the lazy puffing clouds
32   And sails upon the bosom of the air.

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 4 & 5:

Finish 1 – 5 (above)