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

Lunch count - 1
Tuesday January 8th, 2013

Welcome Guest Instructor

Notebook Check - for Wednesday
period 1 = Sabrina
period 2 = Grace
period 3 = Karri

DOL 57
My Dearest Romeo,

I am here in my family’s mausoleum. Please come and bring me food. Let’s run away. My parents don’t empathize with the way I feel. We’ll survive somehow.

DOL 58 (page 204 of Caught’ ya Grammar with a Giggle)

Juliet’s epistle went awry and no one came to bring her food.

While Juliet was starving in the family crypt, too proud to admit defeat, everyone was getting very concerned about her whereabouts.

Analogy
PROPAGANDA : OPINION
sermon : morality
commercial : economy
battle : violence
diatribe : negativity
eulogy : death



Period 1 - High School English
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Period 1 = Chapter 32 - read; finish questions below.

Study Questions for chapter 32 of Cannery Row
1. What does Doc do the morning after the party?
2. How does Doc feel as he recites to the white rats and to himself?
3. Did Doc have a good time at the party?  Why does he choose music and poetry with a melancholy tone during and after a rowdy party?


Adventure of English (an option)
Take notes and write a short and sweet summary of the main ideas from this episode/segment
label = disk 7 - 5th bit
period 1 = disk 7 = 20:03 (already cued in the window behind this one)

Phase Autobio part 2

Pick 5 types of leads from the list and write a lead statement or topic sentence for each type for your phase autobio topic
(lead examples in window behind the others)
Write Source pages 107 - 134 for help

Rough draft of opening paragraph - hook and establish the territory - add your first paragraph and any additional rough drafting for today in the same Google Doc as “Phase Autobio part 1” - just make a line and a subtitle “Phase Autobio part 2” above part 1


Period 3 -
Cannery Row - chapter 17 (print or kindle Sarah Stone or Karri Poggi-Blethen can assist with kindle version)

Quick study questions for chapt 17 -
1. Why does Doc go to La Jolla?
2. Why had Doc once walked through Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina and Georgia to Florida?
3. Why does Doc tell his hitchhiker to get out of the car?
3. How and why does Doc lie to the waitress?
4. Why do you think Doc drinks the beer milkshake?
5. Why do you think people “didn’t like him for telling the truth” about his walk from Indiana to Florida?

Phase Autobio part 2 - see above

Period 2  Middle School English/Language Arts and Social Studies
DOL 58 (as above)
Give Me Liberty by L.M. Elliott - continue reading aloud to the end of chapter 2 and chapter 3 as time allows
(Kindle version only - see window behind - Adah, Grace or Darien can assist)
Finish summary of main ideas from first chapters as Keynote document


Period 4 -
Semester Portfolio?
Advocacy - students can work on assignments from other classes
Senior Council meeting?