Monday, January 4, 2016

ENGLISH – Day 18

Open your book to page 1082 and answer the following questions:

1.            According to our textbook,

a.            What is another word for INCREDULITY?

b.            Explain why Telemachus is feeling such incredulity.

2.            What is dramatically ironic in this section?

3.            If the Greeks (from the time of The Odyssey) believed that without gods, man is nothing…name an example from the story that confirms this belief.

Review the following list...“What’s Most Important in a Friend?”

What’s Most Important in a Friend?

__Family income level

__High moral values/standards

__Honesty

__Intelligence/education

__Interests/hobbies

__Kindness towards others

__Knows how to have fun/likes to have fun

__Is law-abiding

__Looks/personal appearance/clothes

__Loyalty

__Physical fitness/good health

__Political beliefs

__Popularity/social status

__Race/ethnicity/cultural background

__Religion/religious beliefs

 

1. Write down your TOP 5

2. Write down your BOTTOM 5

3. If you had to switch the place of one item from one list to the other, which item from each list would you move?

NEXT: Read the following 11 statements and

1.       Choose 5 of the 11 statements.

2.       Choose 5 of the statements and write them down, word for word.

3.       After each statement:

a.       TABLES 1 & 3 & 5 & 7 write AGREE next to ALL 5 of your statements.

b.      TABLES 2 & 4 & 6 write DISAGREE next to ALL 5 of your statements.

4.       Without repeating the statement, write down a 5-sentence scenario that explains an example of someone who would believe your position (for each statement). In other words, explain why some people feel this way about this issue.  (25 sentences total)

FOR EXAMPLE: Let’s say one of the statements was:

All family members should leave me alone once I turn 15.

(my 5-sentence response) AGREE: If a person grew up in a questionable household, he may not respect his parents. Perhaps they were abusive.  If that were the case, he would want nothing to do with them. He may have little respect for their opinions. And by the time he is 15, he may be completely done listening to them. He may actually be trying to save his siblings from them as well.

1.            Violence can solve problems.

2.            Boyfriends and girlfriends are more important than family.

3.            There are times when secrets must be told.

4.            Teenagers don’t know what true love really feels like.

5.            Parents should have the final say in the people that you date.

6.            You are the pilot of your own life. There is no greater force determining your outcome. You determine your own outcome.

7.            You should know someone for at least a year before you marry them.

8.            Deceiving people is all right if it is for a good cause in the long run.

9.            Parents are ultimately responsible for their children’s choices.

10.          “Luck” is a figment of someone’s imagination; there is no such thing as luck.

11.          Love at first sight is possible.

ENGLISH homework:

Finish 5 of 11 paragraph assignment from above for tomorrow.