Thursday, April 25, 2024

Agenda 4/29-5/3

 

Agenda 4/29-5/3

Class

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

English IV 1st Period

Work time for “The Kiss” and Historical Biography

Work time for “The Kiss” and Historical Biography

 

Independent Reading.

Reading log 14 due.

“The Kiss” due.

 

Work time for “The Bamboo Trick” and Historical Biography

8th English 2nd Period

Quotation Marks

The Outsiders Chapter 3 due.

 

 

Quotation Marks

Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 4 and WebQuest

 

Independent Reading.

Reading log 14 due.

Quotation Marks Quiz

The Outsiders Chapter 4 due.

 

Capitalization

Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 5 and WebQuest

 

8th English 3rd Period

Quotation Marks

The Outsiders Chapter 3 due.

 

 

Quotation Marks

Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 4 and WebQuest

 

Independent Reading.

Reading log 14 due.

Quotation Marks Quiz

The Outsiders Chapter 4 due.

 

Capitalization

Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 5 and WebQuest

 

English II

4th Period

 

Quotation Marks

Vocabulary 8-11 due.

To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 9-11 due.

 

Quotation Marks

Work time for Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 12 and Vocabulary 12-16.

 

Independent Reading.

Reading log 14 due.

Quotation Marks

To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 12 due.

 

Quotation Marks

Work time for Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 12 and Vocabulary 12-16.

Process Analysis peer reviews

English III

5th Period

Process Analysis peer reviews

Work time for Of Mice and Men Chapter 3 and process analysis essay.

Of Mice and Men Chapter 3 due.

 

Work time for Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 and process analysis essay.

 

Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 due.

Reminder – Process Analysis due Monday.

English III

7th Period

Sentences

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 9-11 due.

Of Mice and Men Chapter 2 due.

 

Sentences

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 12 due.

Of Mice and Men Chapter 3 due.

 

Independent Reading.

Reading log 14 due.

Monday, April 22, 2024

To Kill a Mockingbird Text

 To Kill A Mockingbird - Full Text PDF - Google Docs

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 7&8

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

Chapters 7&8

1.     What has happened to Jem’s pants between the time he loses them and the time he gets them back?

 

2.     Why does Nathan Radley really put cement in the hole of his oak tree?

 

3.     Why does Jem cry at the end of Chapter Seven?

 

 

4.     Describe the process Jem and Scout have to go through to make a snowman.

 

 

 

5.     How do they make the snowman look less like Mr. Avery?

 

 

6.     Whose house catches fire?

 

 

7.     Who puts a blanket around Scout to keep her warm?

Of Mice and Men Chapter 1

 

Of Mice and Men

Chapter 1, Pages 1-16

 

1.       What are two animal images used to describe Lennie?

 

2.       Why does George tell Lennie not to drink the water? Why might this seem like an unusual instruction to give a man who has spent part of his adult life traveling the country?

 

 

 

3.       What does Lennie have in his pocket? Why does he want to keep it?

 

 

4.       Describe George’s plan for getting a job at the ranch? What do we learn about Lennie from this plan?

 

5.       How does Lennie’s desire for a touching sensation get him in trouble in Weed?

 

 

 

 

6.       Why does Lennie like George to tell the story of the ranch, even though he already knows it by heart? Why does George so readily agree to tell the story, even though he has just gotten angry with Lennie a few minutes before?

 

 

 

7.       Why does George tell Lennie to remember the spot where they are camping? What might this conversation foreshadow?

The Outsiders Chapter 2

 

The Outsiders

Chapter 2

1.     Which drive-in do Dally and the boys go to?

 

2.     How does Dally try to get the girls’ attention?

 

3.     How does Cherry react to his gestures?

 

4.     Why were the girls at the drive-in without a car?

 

5.     Why does Johnny get scared when Two-Bit shows up?

 

6.     Who, in Two-Bit’s opinion, fights dirtier, the Socs or the Greasers? Why?

 

 

7.     How are Cherry and Marcia different from each other?

 

8.     How does Cherry react to Ponyboy’s story of what happened to Johnny?

 

 

9.     Cherry say that “things are rough all over”, but what does Ponyboy think about the Socs’ lifestyle?

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Agenda 4/22-4/26

Agenda 4/22-4/26

Class

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

English IV 1st Period

No School

Work time for “Death of a Tsosti.”

Independent Reading.

Reading log 13 due.

“Death of a Tsosti” due.

 

Historical Biography third page due.

8th English 2nd Period

No School

Quotation Marks

Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 2 and WebQuest

 

Independent Reading.

Reading log 13 due.

Quotation Marks

The Outsiders Chapter 2 due.

Quotation Marks

Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 3 and WebQuest

 

8th English 3rd Period

No School

Quotation Marks

Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 2 and WebQuest

 

Independent Reading.

Reading log 13 due.

Quotation Marks

The Outsiders Chapter 2 due.

Quotation Marks

Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 3 and WebQuest

 

English II

4th Period

 

No School

Apostrophes

Work time for Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 7&8 and Vocabulary 8-11.

Independent Reading.

Reading log 13 due.

Apostrophes Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 7&8 due.

 

Quotation Marks

Work time for Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 9-11 and Vocabulary 8-11.

English III

5th Period

No School

Of Mice and Men Chapter 1 due.

 

Independent Reading.

Reading log 13 due.

Work time for Of Mice and Men Chapter 2 and Process Analysis essay.

Of Mice and Men Chapter 2 due.

Reminder – Process Analysis peer reviews on Monday.

English III

7th Period

No School

 

Sentences

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 7&8 due.

Of Mice and Men Chapter 1 due.

 

Independent Reading.

Reading log 13 due.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

The Outsiders WebQuest

1.    1.  The Author: Who was S.E. Hinton? When was The Outsiders first published? How old was the author when the novel was written?

sehinton.com

S. E. Hinton Biography - family, childhood, story, school, young, son, book, old, information, born, drugs, husband (notablebiographies.com)


2.  Fashion: What was fashion like in the 1960s? What is a madras shirt?

hRock 'n' Roll Style - Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages (fashionencyclopedia.com)

saks-madras.jpg (450×757) (ivy-style.com)



3. Events: What was going on in the world in the 1960s? More specifically, what was going on in the United States?



4. Baby Boomers: What was the baby boom?




5. Music: What kind of music was popular in 1966? Who was Elvis Presley, Hank Williams and who were The Beatles?


Elvis: Why do you think the Greaser's enjoyed the music of Elvis? Do you think he influenced their fashion?


The Beatles: Why do you think the Socs' loved The Beatles? Watch the crowd in this video, do you see any fashion trends?



6. Television: What types of television shows were popular in the 1960s?



7. Movies: What is a drive-in? What is a Nightly Double?



8. Movie Stars: Who is Paul Newman? Who is Will Rogers?



9. Cars: Describe a Corvair and a Mustang.




10. Reform School: What is Reform School?


11. What was the DX?




12. Literature: Who wrote the story Great Expectations? What is it about?



13. Robert Frost: Who was Robert Frost? Copy the poem Nothing Gold can Stay. What do you think this poem is saying?