Post 101

Learn to Live

Literature, English Language Arts & Social Studies  

Upper School - South Whidbey Academy

Monday                                            May 20th, 2013

Approximately ≈15 full class periods until the end of the year

csnelling@sw.wednet.edu

http://swasnelling.blogspot.com/

Half day - Friday May 24

No school - Monday May 27

Period 1

TED Today

This is Water - David Foster Wallace - 9 minutes

Response in Writing - Can you write five sentences?

DOL 23

As Leonato led his guests to their rooms, Claudio and Benedick discoursed.

“Hero is the sweetest lady I have ever seen,” shy Claudio sighed.

“Everyone to their own taste,” retorted Benedick sarcastically.

DOL 24

“Well, I don’t see anything in her,” Benedick continued honestly, “but that cousin of hers would be comely if she were not a spitting civet.”

Shakespearen Insult of the Day - Thou surly, pox-marked canker-blossom!

Analogy

PECCADILLO : SIN

A) masquerade : party

B) peasant : serf

C) sarcophagus : funeral

D) letdown : devastation

E) hex : wizard

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

No Field Trip this Week:-(- State Testing)

DOL 21

He burst anew into tears. Then he shredded the flowers and ate them, tears flowing onto the stems like rain.

DOL 22

Luckily, Wilfred realized that his epistle might have been pompous, so he went to visit Hairy to atone for his booboo.

Analogy

UNINHIBITED:RESTRAINT

A) overweight : shape

B) unhealthy : control

C) intelligent : thought

D) generous : selfishness

Read Aloud/Read Along

Ghost Canoe - chapter 2 page 19

Write vocabulary words in online journal

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

Online Study Hall

Period 4

Expeditionary Learning

Transfer field notes to Expeditionary Journal

interview in langley

interview at Bayview Corner

Edge of Nowhere - chapter 23 page 199

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.