Post 31

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

Lunch count -
Tuesday December 11th, 2012

½ day am only on Wednesday

Notebook Check -
period 1 = AJ
period 2 =
period 3 = Davin


DOL 50  
“Juliet, you have a date tonight to go to a Sting concert with that genial Paris boy,” she informed her distraught daughter.
DOL 51

“Never!” blurted out the sobbing Juliet.

Her mother left in a huff. “We’ll see about that,” she flung out.

Analogy
NOTE : MELODY
bone : skeleton
movie : film
meal : restaurant
career : job



Period 1 - High School English
Take Moodle Quizzes tonight!
Classic American Musical Theater - Cabaret continued Thursday?
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Period 1 = Chapter 23

Quick study questions -
1. How does everyone treat Mack and the boys after the party?
2. Why does Monterey lose five conventions for the following year?
3. Who gets sick at the Palace Flophouse, causing “genuine panic” there?
4. What advice does Dora give Mack?
5. The narrator says: “For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism–either a man emerges determined to be better, purer and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.” Do you agree? Support or refute that statement with “real world” evidence. Has the narrator treated this theme earlier in the book?

Adventure of English
Take notes and write a short and sweet summary of the main ideas from this episode/segment
label = disk 6 - 1st bit
period 1 = disk 6


Create or transcribe the following to Google Docs (school version)
file name = “Christoph phase autobio part 1”
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, background 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 14
Quick study questions for chapt 14 -
1. What are the two soldiers and two girls doing? What is their mood?
2. How is the watchman in this chapter like the Captain in the previous chapter?
3. As you imagine this scene in your mind, what colors do you see? Why do you suppose Steinbeck mentions these colors? What mood do they create?

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 14 - Gary Paulsen

Declaration of Independence - John Adams in Philadelphia - First Continental Congress continued - part 2 = 46 minutes in

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 - Right to Risk part 2 = meet the producer