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Live to Learn

Literature, English Language Arts & Social Studies  

Upper School - South Whidbey Academy

Wednesday                                            May 22th, 2013

Approximately ≈13 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

Radio Stories

This American Life - January 16, 1998 - “When the Wall Came Tumbling Down”

DOL 25

are you casting asparagus on my feelings do you think my love is not complete like a half-formed wish babbled a frustrated claudio  

no I am not casting aspersions on your feelings i know that a halfwarmed fish is less complete than them benedick blithely corrected his freind

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.

Shakespearen Insult of the Day - Thou gleeking, full-gorged coxcomb!

Analogy

BLANDISHMENT :COAX

A) directory : telephone

B) pavilion : promenade

C) surplus : squander

D) eulogy : praise

E) controversy : placate

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 22

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

DOL 23

Yet, when he arrived at Hairy’s apartment, Wilfred found his friend on the floor, saturated in his own tears.

Analogy

OFFER:REQUEST

A) damage : repair

B) enjoy : entertain

C) experience : participate

D) endure : continue

Read Aloud/Read Along

Ghost Canoe - A Plume of Smoke - chapter 5 page 38

Write vocabulary words in online journal

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

Yearbook