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Literature, English Language Arts & Social Studies
Upper School - South Whidbey Academy
Thursday May 23rd, 2013
Approximately ≈12 full class periods until the end of the year
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http://swasnelling.blogspot.com/
Half day - Friday May 24
No school - Monday May 27
Period 1
TED Today
FILMED FEB 2013 • POSTED APR 2013 • TEDxSeattleU
Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
DOL 26
Claudio taunted Benedick for his views on love and marriage. Benedick warned Claudio that, if he wasn’t careful, he would soon be a husband. Benedick then went on and on about how he would never, never fall in love or marry. Perdition would freeze over before that would happen.
DOL 27
“Like you, my friend, I swore I’d never marry. If it was Hero that would be my wife, though, I would succumb to Cupid’s arrows,” acceded Claudio.
“Never in a million years,” vociferated Benedick. “Not I. I shall die a bachelor.”
Shakespearen Insult of the Day - Thou pribbling, cross-gartered flax-wench!
Analogy
PRAGMATISM :PHILOSOPHY
A) elevation : pinnacle
B) cancer : malady
C) electricity : outlet
D) cacophony : opera
E) chemistry : element
Apex - see shared doc “last name apex”
Revision - 4 units, complete writing activities in online google doc for unit 1 only, TST for all units - TST copy question/topic and your response in online apex doc - make sure you include apex id number
Kittens
English 100 Units 1, 2, 7, 8 CST and TST required
Kats
English 200 Units 1, 3, 4, 7 CST and TST required
Book Report - Google Presentation Document - Book cover original drawing, character, setting and plot discussion (use apex knowledge). Divide jobs between group members. Produce one document and present.
Period 2
DOL 23
Yet, when he arrived at Hairy’s apartment, Wilfred found his friend on the floor, saturated in his own tears.
DOL 24
The remnants of Bertha’s flowers hung from Hairy’s lips.
Wilfred gathered Hairy up in his arms, apologized for his gaffe, and listened to Hairy’s tale of woe.
Analogy
FILAMENT: LIGHTBULB :: BLADE : PROPELLER
A) misunderstanding : conversation
B) blade : propeller
C) car : gearshift
D) outlet : economy
Read Aloud/Read Along
Ghost Canoe - An Eternal View of the Sea - chapter 6 page 46 of 193
Write vocabulary words in online journal
fathom
satchel
uncanny
vestiges
implicit
skookum chuck
pillar
primeval
Chinook Jargon
muck-a-muck
goading
soot
prow
apparition
tender
helmsman
buffet
sou’wester
Continue with report on article into discussion forum space on Schoology
Go to the schoology.com web site, go to the course English/Social Studies Middle School, find the Ghost Canoe folder, open and work through the documents from top to bottom. You will get some detailed background on the author, the setting and the Native American people who play an important part in the story.
Each pair of students listed below will read and report on one resource in the Ghost Canoe folder on the schoology site.
Your report/summary will take the form of a post on the schoology discussion forum “Ghost Canoe Background”. Post on one partners schoology account but sign the post at the bottom with both yours and your partner’s name.
BTW, you might not see other students’ posts until after you make your post.
Adah/Kareena - “Meet Will Hobbs”
Luna/Darien - “Writing Ghost Canoe”
Grace/Erric/Sarah - “Makah Village 1491”
Livia/Fayth - “Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians” Discribe falling the tree and some of the tools used in working with these giant plants
Hudson/Alex/Holley - “Indian Fishing - Early Methods of the Northwest Coast” Just describe two types of hooks and how they were made.
All groups - “Ghost Canoe Media” Describe in your own words what the images tell us. Post this in the other partner’s schoology account.
Continue with documentary film - The West
Essential Question - Why do people move from place to place?
Look for reasons for and means and examples of the movement of groups westward in American history.
Period 3
Onliners Study Period
Period 4
Expeditionary Learning
Transfer field notes to Expeditionary Journal
interview in langley
interview at Bayview Corner
Edge of Nowhere - chapter 23 page 199
Erric Wiggers
The Makah were very adept at preforming ceremonies. For example, the woman when her husband was hunting whales would face towards the beach and lay still so the whale would do the same and come to the shore peacfully. Another thing they did in the story was that the Makahs had to give away their song to someone before they died. If you didn't, the song would die along with you. Over all, it was a good story. I really thought the phrase, " I want the sea. That is my home land,” was cool. It was a very interesting choice of words to pick at the time and it was a great story.
luna butters-shore
Adah Barenburg
Will Hobbs is an acclaimed writer and interesting person. He has lived in many different places and has had many life changing experiences which he shares with his readers in his many books. This makes his books feel like they could happen in real life. An important part of his stories' believability is that many of his books are based on real places and people. This makes it easier for a reader to believe his characters’ stories and want to keep reading.
Another part of Will Hobbs' story telling that makes his books seem so real, is his attention to using the five senses in his books. In the article "Meet Will Hobbs" he says that "My biggest breakthrough was learning how to write with the five senses." I think this shows through in all of his books on nature. This encourages children to enjoy the beauty in the wildness of the natural world by describing it's many aspects in great sensory detail.
He does this in one of his books called 'Ghost Canoe'. The setting is one of Washington's places called Cape Flattery where the weather is described as fierce. The main character in the book describes it's unique beauty in constrast to when he, at other times, calls it fierce.
Through his writing he has been a good influence in many ways, other than encouraging his readers and budding writers to appreciate nature. He also stresses the importance of trying again and again through his characters. Before he was a writer he was a reading teacher and it took him several years before he was able to publish his work. This achievement shows that if you work hard anything is possible. The reason that he loves writing so much is because of reading as a child. He says "If you like reading stories, you too might start thinking, I want to try that. I want to write a story!"
In his life he has published twenty-one books. He has won many awards for his writing. I highly recommend his books because of his attention to the five senses, his beautiful descriptions of the natural world, and how he stresses the importance of trying over and over.
He wrote the book because he got inspired by another book called Treasure Island. He says on his blog, "Some of my research came before I knew it was research." What he means by that is that he was researching before he knew he was. Some of his research was riding little rafts as a kid. Of course, he wouldn't know at that time he would want to write a book. Also, adventuring out into the woods as a kid, and just going places, were experiences that he could and would put into his book later. So pretty much, all his life, he’s been studying to write this book, and he finally did write the book. And he said he hopes that we enjoy it as much as he enjoyed "Treasure Island" which means, it must be good.
Will Hobbs has many years of experience in writing stories and novels, and lots of good places to build his stories off of. And with all his travels, his books will surely keep building up and getting better.
As I read, I noticed that Will Hobbs wrote many books on the theme of indians, rivers, and mountains. After all, he did write that he always loved living around rivers and mountain ranges as a child. And he must have truly loved the mountains, for he and his wife now live in Colorado, where there are many mountain ranges, such as the Rocky Mountains.
Will Hobbs is also a very well educated man, as he does write many novels, and at a point in his life was a language and reading teacher. He also gave out the fact that as a child he always loved to read. And it is very evident that he was very well inspired, for as you now know, he loves to write many, many books.
Making large bentwood hooks
bentwood hooks are made from drift wood and turned into 4 hooks 33cm each
Each hook would be sharpened to the right point. The sharpened sticks are put in kelp tubes.
They would add water at the end of the tube and wrap the stick in a clump of moss.
The kelp tupes are laid in hot ashes left to steam for the night. in the morning the tube should be
split and the wood should be bendable and then they would bend the stick into the form of a hook
Each hook in laid in a wooden mold and left to harden. Once the hooks have dried they they would tie a bone for the barb with with spruce or cedar roots on the end of the hook.
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