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Learn to Live

Literature, English Language Arts & Social Studies  

Upper School - South Whidbey Academy

Wednesday                                            May 15th, 2013

Approximately ≈17 full class periods until the end of the year

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Half day - Friday May 24

No school - Monday May 27

DOL 21

Don Pedro interjected, “There is the sparring match. End round one!  My dear Leonato, we will be staying here at least a month.  These two will have a plethora of time to spar further."

DOL 22

While this repartee was going on, Claudio became enraptured by the silent Hero.  The mere sight of her affected his heart.  Her long black hair hung to her tiny waist and her shy smile effected a quickening of his breathing.

Shakespearen Insult of the Day - Thou saucy, ill-nurtured minnow!

Analogy

WRETCHED:CHEERFUL

A) territorial : terrestrial

B) innocuous : dangerous

C) floundering : struggling

D) redacted : censored

E) solitary : confined

Today’s TED

Angela Lee Duckworth and Malcolm London

Title your response with one name or the other

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 19

Wilfred wrote Hairy the pompous note, and Bertha sent him a bouquet of flowers.

When the doorbell rang, Hairy, hoping it was news from Hilda, crept out from his hiding place in the bathtub and agitatedly answered the door.

DOL 20

He adored the flowers from Bertha, but he was insulted by Wilfred’s inadvertently unkind note. Hairy felt overwhelmed as he had been jilted by his girl, insulted by his friend, and had his warts vilified.

Analogy

NETWORK : CONNECT

A) statue : memorialize

B) funeral : eliminate

C) telephone : hear

D) device : create

Read Aloud/Read Along

Begin close reading of Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs

Group Read - Table of Contents and Chapter 1

Write vocabulary words in online journal

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

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

Yearbook