Week Seven May 4-May 7
Monday, May 4
Journal: What is your happy place?
Grammar: Apostrophes
Read pages 301-302, Do 302 Exercise 2, #1-10
Writing: Write a one-page story about a young boy or girl's first meeting with a new pet of any kind.
Literature: Read One Friday Morning by Langston Hughes
Answer the questions:
1. What is the setting of this short story?
2. Who is the protagonist (the main character who tries to overcome the conflict)?
3. What is the conflict in this story?
4. What is the name of the main character? Describe her.
5. What do her parents do for a living?
6. Are her parents educated?
7. Where has the family moved from? Why?
8. What are some of her talents?
9. How is she treated by most of the other students and teachers at the school?
10. What award has she won?
11. Why is this so important to her?
12. What is her watercolor about? What does it show?
13. Who is the black woman on the park bench?
14. What is the black woman on the park bench looking at? What is the symbolism of that?
15. What time of year is it in the watercolor? What do you think that symbolises?
16. What makes her art teacher such a good teacher?
17. Why can't she tell her parents what she has won?
18. When will she be presented with the award?
19. Why is she called down to the office the day of the award?
20. Why is she denied the prize?
21. What does the principal tell her about how the Irish used to be treated? Why does she tell her?
22. What is the irony of the story ending with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag?
23. What do you think the stars on the flag symbolize to the main character? Why do you think so?
Read TEX: 160-178
30 minutes English IXL, preferably on use of apostrophes
Tuesday, May 5
Journal: Who do you like up to and why?
Grammar: Other Uses of Apostrophes.
Read page 304, DO p 305, Exercise 4, #1-20
Literature: Read The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty
Answer these questions:
1. What is the setting of the story?
2. What is the conflict in the story?
3. What is going on at the beginning of the story?
4. What does the sniper do to the machine gunner in the armored car?
5. Why does he kill the old woman?
6. Who shoots the sniper?
7. Where is he hit?
8. How badly wounded is he? How can you tell?
9. How does he trick the enemy sniper into shooting at him?
10. How does he trick the enemy sniper into thinking that he is dead?
11. What does he use to shoot the enemy sniper?
12. Why does he want to go check the body?
13. Who has he killed?
14. Why does the story stop here, in your opinion, without giving you any more information?
Read TEX: 179-193
30 minutes English IXL, preferably on use of apostrophes
Wednesday, May 6
IReady testing. No homework today.
30 minutes English IXL, preferably on use of apostrophes
Thursday, May 7
IReady Testing. No homework today. Test on Monday
Journal: What is your happy place?
Grammar: Apostrophes
Read pages 301-302, Do 302 Exercise 2, #1-10
Writing: Write a one-page story about a young boy or girl's first meeting with a new pet of any kind.
Literature: Read One Friday Morning by Langston Hughes
Answer the questions:
1. What is the setting of this short story?
2. Who is the protagonist (the main character who tries to overcome the conflict)?
3. What is the conflict in this story?
4. What is the name of the main character? Describe her.
5. What do her parents do for a living?
6. Are her parents educated?
7. Where has the family moved from? Why?
8. What are some of her talents?
9. How is she treated by most of the other students and teachers at the school?
10. What award has she won?
11. Why is this so important to her?
12. What is her watercolor about? What does it show?
13. Who is the black woman on the park bench?
14. What is the black woman on the park bench looking at? What is the symbolism of that?
15. What time of year is it in the watercolor? What do you think that symbolises?
16. What makes her art teacher such a good teacher?
17. Why can't she tell her parents what she has won?
18. When will she be presented with the award?
19. Why is she called down to the office the day of the award?
20. Why is she denied the prize?
21. What does the principal tell her about how the Irish used to be treated? Why does she tell her?
22. What is the irony of the story ending with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag?
23. What do you think the stars on the flag symbolize to the main character? Why do you think so?
Read TEX: 160-178
30 minutes English IXL, preferably on use of apostrophes
Tuesday, May 5
Journal: Who do you like up to and why?
Grammar: Other Uses of Apostrophes.
Read page 304, DO p 305, Exercise 4, #1-20
Literature: Read The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty
Answer these questions:
1. What is the setting of the story?
2. What is the conflict in the story?
3. What is going on at the beginning of the story?
4. What does the sniper do to the machine gunner in the armored car?
5. Why does he kill the old woman?
6. Who shoots the sniper?
7. Where is he hit?
8. How badly wounded is he? How can you tell?
9. How does he trick the enemy sniper into shooting at him?
10. How does he trick the enemy sniper into thinking that he is dead?
11. What does he use to shoot the enemy sniper?
12. Why does he want to go check the body?
13. Who has he killed?
14. Why does the story stop here, in your opinion, without giving you any more information?
Read TEX: 179-193
30 minutes English IXL, preferably on use of apostrophes
Wednesday, May 6
IReady testing. No homework today.
30 minutes English IXL, preferably on use of apostrophes
Thursday, May 7
IReady Testing. No homework today. Test on Monday
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