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.

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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?



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Monday, April 15, 2024

“Death of a Tsosti” Worksheet

 

“Death of a Tsosti”

 

  1. What is Spike’s role in his gang?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Why does Spike not want Walter’s friends to visit the reformatory?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What present is Spike given by the narrator when he leaves the reformatory?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. When Spike gets out of reformatory, what does he ask permission to carry?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. In what ways do you think Spike has free will and in what ways is he fated?
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"Death of a Tsosti" Text

 PC1_1_6_5.pdf (ukzn.ac.za)

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"The Kiss' Worksheet

 

“The Kiss”

 

1.      What is Ryabovich’s job?

 

 

 

 

2.      Describe how the kiss takes place?

 

 

 

 

3.      What is Ryabovich’s initial reaction to the kiss?

 

 

 

 

4.      What is the reaction of one of his friends as Ryabovich describes the kiss to him?

 

 

 

5.      At the end, what changes Ryabovich’s attitude toward the kiss?

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Fate and Freewill Poems Text

 The Road Not Taken 

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

 

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

 

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.


Mr. Flood's Party

BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night

Over the hill between the town below

And the forsaken upland hermitage

That held as much as he should ever know

On earth again of home, paused warily.

The road was his with not a native near;

And Eben, having leisure, said aloud,

For no man else in Tilbury Town to hear:

 

"Well, Mr. Flood, we have the harvest moon

Again, and we may not have many more;

The bird is on the wing, the poet says,

And you and I have said it here before.

Drink to the bird." He raised up to the light

The jug that he had gone so far to fill,

And answered huskily: "Well, Mr. Flood,

Since you propose it, I believe I will."

 

Alone, as if enduring to the end

A valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn,

He stood there in the middle of the road

Like Roland's ghost winding a silent horn.

Below him, in the town among the trees,

Where friends of other days had honored him,

A phantom salutation of the dead

Rang thinly till old Eben's eyes were dim.

 

Then, as a mother lays her sleeping child

Down tenderly, fearing it may awake,

He set the jug down slowly at his feet

With trembling care, knowing that most things break;

And only when assured that on firm earth

It stood, as the uncertain lives of men

Assuredly did not, he paced away,

And with his hand extended paused again:

 

"Well, Mr. Flood, we have not met like this

In a long time; and many a change has come

To both of us, I fear, since last it was

We had a drop together. Welcome home!"

Convivially returning with himself,

Again he raised the jug up to the light;

And with an acquiescent quaver said:

"Well, Mr. Flood, if you insist, I might.

 

"Only a very little, Mr. Flood—

For auld lang syne. No more, sir; that will do."

So, for the time, apparently it did,

And Eben evidently thought so too;

For soon amid the silver loneliness

Of night he lifted up his voice and sang,

Secure, with only two moons listening,

Until the whole harmonious landscape rang—

 

"For auld lang syne." The weary throat gave out,

The last word wavered; and the song being done,

He raised again the jug regretfully

And shook his head, and was again alone.

There was not much that was ahead of him,

And there was nothing in the town below—

Where strangers would have shut the many doors

That many friends had opened long ago.

Hay for the Horses

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He had driven half the night
From far down San Joaquin
Through Mariposa, up the
Dangerous Mountain roads,
And pulled in at eight a.m.
With his big truckload of hay
        behind the barn.
With winch and ropes and hooks
We stacked the bales up clean
To splintery redwood rafters
High in the dark, flecks of alfalfa
Whirling through shingle-cracks of light,
Itch of haydust in the 
        sweaty shirt and shoes.
At lunchtime under Black oak
Out in the hot corral,
---The old mare nosing lunchpails,
Grasshoppers crackling in the weeds---
"I'm sixty-eight" he said,
"I first bucked hay when I was seventeen.
I thought, that day I started,
I sure would hate to do this all my life.
And dammit, that's just what
I've gone and done."
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Fate and Freewill Poems Worksheet

 

“The Road Not Taken”

1.      What makes the poem’s persona (speaker) choose the road he takes?

 

 

2.      According to the persona, what will he likely not ever do, even though he’d like to?

 

 

“Mr. Flood’s Party”

3.      Why does Mr. Flood go to town?

 

 

4.      Who does Mr. Flood meet on the road back from town? (Caution! Trick question)

 

 

“Hay for Horses”

5.      The persona in this poem first “bucked” hay when he was seventeen. He doesn’t like doing it. Why has he kept doing it for fifty-one years?

 

 

 

 

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"The Kiss" Text

 Short Stories: The Kiss by Anton Chekhov (eastoftheweb.com)

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How Much Land Does a Man Need? Worksheet

 

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

 

#1  At the beginning of the story what is Pakhom being fined for?

 

 

 

 

 

#2  Who hears Pakhom say,  “If I had all the land I wanted, I wouldn’t fear the Devil himself”?

 

 

 

 

 

#3  What is the agreement Pakhom reaches with the Bashkirs?

 

 

 

 

 

#4  In the end, how much land does Pakhom need?

 

 

 

 

 

#5   Why do you think Pakhom wants so much land?

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How much Land does a Man Need? Text

 How Much Land Does a Man Need (wordpress.com)

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