Thursday, December 6, 2012

Post 29



English Language Arts American Literature & Social Studies
Upper School - South Whidbey Academy

Lunch count - 3
Thursday December 6th, 2012

Notebook Check -
period 1 = AJ
period 2 = Adah and Grace
period 3 = Davin

DOL 48
“This banishment will be over in a few weeks, and we’ll work something out,” Romeo asserted as he waved a final farewell from under Juliet’s window.

DOL 49

No sooner had Romeo surreptitiously left the scene than Mrs. Capulet arrived at Juliet’s door.

Analogy
LOQUACIOUS : QUIET
forgiven : annulled
trivial : crucial
salacious : impure
enduring : ongoing


Period 1 - High School English
Take Moodle Quizzes tonight!
Classic American Musical Theater - Cabaret
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Period 1 = Chapter 22 = audio 3:26:52
Henri the Painter

Adventure of English
Take notes and write a short and sweet summary of the main ideas from this episode/segment
label = disk 5 - 2nd bit
period 1 = disk 5


Transfer the following to Google Docs (school version)
Topic - the phase and the lesson learned
Focus statement - actual sentence that includes the time period and how you were changed by that period
Prewrite - freewrite on your phase and resulting change
Chart - as seen on page 105 of Write Source 9000
Example -
Key Events
Details
Feelings
Portland
long night
Sambos
fear
then exaltation
Reynosa
Stuck at the border
fear, uncertainty, doubt
Belize City
Bill Russell
Krugerrands
fear, uncertainty, doubt
Free at last?
Mango Creek, Dangriga
Andre Duguesney
Southern Highway
Happy
Big Yemeri


Period 3
Cannery Row - chapter 12 - audio 1:53:50
Write a response to chapt 12 - Why did Steinbeck include this chapter in the novel, in your opinion? Give evidence from the story.

Phase Autobio - See above components

Period 2  Middle School English/Language Arts and Social Studies
DOL
Make sure you have finished all of the Johnny Tremain quizzes (1-12) on the Moodle web site
Woods Runner - chapter 12 - Gary Paulsen

Declaration of Independence - John Adams in Philadelphia - First Continental Congress

Notes in Notebook -
1. Name as many delegates to the first Congress and the colony they belong to and represent
2. What are some of the arguments for and against independence?

Work on writing assignment - Short essay - draft in notebook or on computer; final typed into Google Docs/Google Drive/Google Apps and shared with csnelling@sw.wednet.edu (your login is alabadens and password is swhidbey)

1. Look up information on the authors - compare and contrast.
How does the biographical information explain the difference in the way the two stories are written?

2. Describe the setting (place and time) of each story. Compare

3. Describe an important object (for example a weapon or piece of clothing) from each story. Research the objects and write a summary of your findings.

Period 4
Advocacy - town meeting


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