Week Six (April 27-April 30)
Monday, April 27
Journal: How hard a worker are you? How willing are you to work hard to make your dreams come true?
Grammar: Commas with Direct Quotations. Read 291. Do 292 Exercise 4, #1-10
Example:
1. Casey Stengel joked, "Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits."
IXL 30 minutes each day
TEX--Read pages 84-105
Reassigning this haiku assignment today. Click on hyperlink below, make sure you go back to first slide, and answer directly on Peardeck.
Google Slides: Writing a Haiku Poem.
Read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. This is a bizarre story about superstition and life in a small town in New England.
Answer the questions below.
1. What is the setting of the story?
2. About what year do you think this story takes place? Why do you think so?
3. What time of year is it?
4. How many people live in the village?
5. What does Mr. Summers bring out and put on the stool? What do you think is the use for this item?
6. How long has the village been using this box?
7. How long does the lottery take in this village?
8. Whar did the village use in the black box before they began using sheets of paper?
9. Why did the village switch to paper?
10. What are some of the rituals that have been abandoned by the villagers?
11. Who in each family must draw the paper from the box?
12. Who ends up with the marked paper?
13. How does his wife react to this?
14. Once the men draw, and there is a 'winner', what further drawing is done next?
15. How can you tell that 'winning' the lottery is a bad thing by how people act at the ceremony?
16. What is on Tessie's paper?
17. What do the townspeople do to Tessie?
18. Is this a surprise ending? What were you expecting to happen?
19. Why do you suppose this tradition got started?
20. Why do you suppose the villagers haven't gotten rid of the tradition?
Tuesday, April 28
Journal: What is your prized possession? Why?
Grammar: End Marks with Direct Quotations. Read 292-293. Do 293 Exercise 5 #1-10
IXL 30 minutes each day
TEX--Read pages 106-124
Bridge Creative Writing Activity: Do on slides
Read The Open Boat by Stephen Crane A true story about a shipwreck off the coast of Florida. You have two days to read it, as it is long. Answer the questions and turn in on Wednesday. Read half today and half tomorrow.
Here are several really good haiku poems written by classmates. Don't forget to do yours.
walking down the street,
in the darkness of night time.
without a jacket.
As the purple tunnel sets
I calmly walk slowly next to you
hanging tunnels devouring my heart.
Wednesday, April 29
Journal: How important is being honest to you? In yourself? In others?
Grammar: Capital letters with direct quotations. Read 294. Do 295, Exercise 6, #1-10
IXL 30 minutes each day
TEX--Read pages 125-145
The Open Boat, Day Two
Answer the Questions:
1. What is the size of the lifeboat the men are stranded in?
2. How many men are there in the boat. Who are they?
3. What do the correspondent and the cook argue about?
4. What animals come and watch the men?
5. What do the men see in the water that lets them know that they are near land?
6. What do the men make a sail from? How does it work?
7. How long has it been since the men have eaten or slept?
8. What does the correspondent find in his coat pocket?
9. Why do they give up on trying to beach the lifeboat?
10. What do the men see on the shore?
11. What color flag or coat is one of the men holding up?
12. Why is there a bus on the beach?
13. Why don't they get rescued that day?
14. What animal do they see in the water during the night?
15. How many of the men survive the trip onto the beach?
16. What is unusual about the man who rescues them?
Thursday, April 30
Journal: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?
Grammar: NO grammar. Test on the use of commas, end marks with quotes, and capital letters with direct quotes today.
IXL 30 minutes each day
TEX--Read pages 146-160
Read The Fly
Published in 1922, The Fly is often heralded as one of Katherine Mansfield's finest short stories. But it does not reward lazy readers! Your enjoyment of this story depends on how well you read the story. So please take your time and read it with careful attention. Readers will wish to contemplate the symbolism of the fly, and notice that the ending of the story plays on one of Woodfield's problems mentioned nearer to the beginning of the story.
Answer the questions
1. What has happened to Woodifield?
2. How many times a week does he get out of the house?
3. Who does he visit?
4. If this story is from 1922, then it is only a few years after WWI. What does Woodifield's boss have hanging on his wall that has to do with the war?
5. What does the boss offer Woodifield?
6. Where has Woodifield been in France and why?
7. Who else is buried in the same cemetery in France?
8. After Woodifield leaves, what does the boss do?
9. What happens to the fly?
10. How does the boss feel about the fly?
11. Does he think that the fly might live at first? Why?
12. Does the fly end up living? Why or why not?
13. What does the boss do with the fly?
14. After he does this, why can't he remember what he was thinking about before the fly distracts him?
15. What was the boss's plan for his son? What happened to his son?
16. What do you think the fly symbolizes? Why?
17. Does it seem like the boss is truly sad that his son has died from his behavior in the story? Why or why not?
Journal: How hard a worker are you? How willing are you to work hard to make your dreams come true?
Grammar: Commas with Direct Quotations. Read 291. Do 292 Exercise 4, #1-10
Example:
1. Casey Stengel joked, "Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits."
IXL 30 minutes each day
TEX--Read pages 84-105
Reassigning this haiku assignment today. Click on hyperlink below, make sure you go back to first slide, and answer directly on Peardeck.
Google Slides: Writing a Haiku Poem.
Read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. This is a bizarre story about superstition and life in a small town in New England.
Answer the questions below.
1. What is the setting of the story?
2. About what year do you think this story takes place? Why do you think so?
3. What time of year is it?
4. How many people live in the village?
5. What does Mr. Summers bring out and put on the stool? What do you think is the use for this item?
6. How long has the village been using this box?
7. How long does the lottery take in this village?
8. Whar did the village use in the black box before they began using sheets of paper?
9. Why did the village switch to paper?
10. What are some of the rituals that have been abandoned by the villagers?
11. Who in each family must draw the paper from the box?
12. Who ends up with the marked paper?
13. How does his wife react to this?
14. Once the men draw, and there is a 'winner', what further drawing is done next?
15. How can you tell that 'winning' the lottery is a bad thing by how people act at the ceremony?
16. What is on Tessie's paper?
17. What do the townspeople do to Tessie?
18. Is this a surprise ending? What were you expecting to happen?
19. Why do you suppose this tradition got started?
20. Why do you suppose the villagers haven't gotten rid of the tradition?
Tuesday, April 28
Journal: What is your prized possession? Why?
Grammar: End Marks with Direct Quotations. Read 292-293. Do 293 Exercise 5 #1-10
IXL 30 minutes each day
TEX--Read pages 106-124
Bridge Creative Writing Activity: Do on slides
Read The Open Boat by Stephen Crane A true story about a shipwreck off the coast of Florida. You have two days to read it, as it is long. Answer the questions and turn in on Wednesday. Read half today and half tomorrow.
Here are several really good haiku poems written by classmates. Don't forget to do yours.
Wednesday, April 29
Journal: How important is being honest to you? In yourself? In others?
Grammar: Capital letters with direct quotations. Read 294. Do 295, Exercise 6, #1-10
IXL 30 minutes each day
TEX--Read pages 125-145
The Open Boat, Day Two
Answer the Questions:
1. What is the size of the lifeboat the men are stranded in?
2. How many men are there in the boat. Who are they?
3. What do the correspondent and the cook argue about?
4. What animals come and watch the men?
5. What do the men see in the water that lets them know that they are near land?
6. What do the men make a sail from? How does it work?
7. How long has it been since the men have eaten or slept?
8. What does the correspondent find in his coat pocket?
9. Why do they give up on trying to beach the lifeboat?
10. What do the men see on the shore?
11. What color flag or coat is one of the men holding up?
12. Why is there a bus on the beach?
13. Why don't they get rescued that day?
14. What animal do they see in the water during the night?
15. How many of the men survive the trip onto the beach?
16. What is unusual about the man who rescues them?
Thursday, April 30
Journal: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?
Grammar: NO grammar. Test on the use of commas, end marks with quotes, and capital letters with direct quotes today.
IXL 30 minutes each day
TEX--Read pages 146-160
Read The Fly
Published in 1922, The Fly is often heralded as one of Katherine Mansfield's finest short stories. But it does not reward lazy readers! Your enjoyment of this story depends on how well you read the story. So please take your time and read it with careful attention. Readers will wish to contemplate the symbolism of the fly, and notice that the ending of the story plays on one of Woodfield's problems mentioned nearer to the beginning of the story.
Answer the questions
1. What has happened to Woodifield?
2. How many times a week does he get out of the house?
3. Who does he visit?
4. If this story is from 1922, then it is only a few years after WWI. What does Woodifield's boss have hanging on his wall that has to do with the war?
5. What does the boss offer Woodifield?
6. Where has Woodifield been in France and why?
7. Who else is buried in the same cemetery in France?
8. After Woodifield leaves, what does the boss do?
9. What happens to the fly?
10. How does the boss feel about the fly?
11. Does he think that the fly might live at first? Why?
12. Does the fly end up living? Why or why not?
13. What does the boss do with the fly?
14. After he does this, why can't he remember what he was thinking about before the fly distracts him?
15. What was the boss's plan for his son? What happened to his son?
16. What do you think the fly symbolizes? Why?
17. Does it seem like the boss is truly sad that his son has died from his behavior in the story? Why or why not?
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