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

Lunch count -
Wednesday December 11th, 2012

½ day am only - students dismissed at 11:30

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


DOL 51

“Never!” blurted out the sobbing Juliet.

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

DOL 52
Being only 14 years old the diminutive hysterical juliet couldnt stand the pain and the pressure

Analogy
LIFEJACKET : BOAT
medicine : disease
seatbelt : plane
shield : sword
hat : helmet



Period 1 - High School English
Take Moodle Quizzes tonight!
Classic American Musical Theater - Cabaret continued Thursday?


Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Period 1 = Chapter 24

Study Questions for chapter 24 of Cannery Row
1. What does Mary Talbot love more than anything else?
2. How does Mary act when her husband Tom gets depressed?
3. How does “Mrs. Cassini”make Mary Talbot cry?
4. What do you think of Mary Talbot? Is she pathetic? upliftingly cheerful? naive? Will she make a good mother?

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 - does not meet today
Cannery Row - chapter 15
Quick study questions for chapt 15 -
1. How can Mack and the boys fell that the Captain’s wife is away?
2. What does the Captain share with the boys?
3. Are the boys successful at catching frogs? How many do they get?
4. What does Mack take from the Captain after he falls asleep?
5. Do you think Mack and the boys have the right to take anything from the Captain?

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 15 - 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 - does not meet today
Advocacy - Town Meeting and Senior Council - Thursday