30 Nov/11 Wed. Day 6

Bible Scripture is due tomorrow Thursday,Dec. 01. It must be presented by 3:20 or you will have to stay in Friday until it is done. If you do not have it completed, be sure that your parents are aware that you will not be ready to be picked up at 3:00. Make other arrangements, i.e. you will call them when you are ready. If you are traveling with someone else then you have bigger problems. Short solution - have it memorized on time.
History has been rescheduled until Tuesday to scheduling problems.  Next week (Dec.06 - 09)  there will be quizzes in Literature and Grammar.

Period #1: Grammar 8 - There was Chapel this morning so there was no period #1.
We went back into the text book today.
List #8 - 1. onus 2. disseminate 3. entity 4. calamity 5. cynical 6. ostentatious 7. extricate 8. engulf 9. ensure 10. modify 11. ostracize 12. entrails 13. discern 14. cogitate 15. rancid 16. ascertain 17. quibble 18. embark 19. validate 20. estrange 21. analytical 22. marginal 23. notorious 24. disenchanted 25. burgeoning.   
H.W. - Spelling tonight  will be words 1 - 5 on List #8. Remember: there will be a test at the end of this list.

Period #3 History 7 and 8 - History Quiz on Monday, Dec. 05 - due to scheduling problems. This will be on Unit 4.3 and will be a "fill in the blank". There will be no words supplied for the blanks and they must be spelled correctly. There will also be a map quiz on that day.
We started on Section 3, Chapter 4. We started the Hittites and we went over the map.

H.W.-  Know the locations for the following places:(These will be spelled for you on the Quiz)
  a) Euphrates Rivers, b) Carthage, c) Sidon, d) Jeruslem, e) Mt. Sinai, f) Gulf of Suez, g) Jordan River, h) Brook of Egypt, i) Syrian Desert,j) Goshen, k) Jericho, l) Dead Sea, m) Tyre, n)Tigris River, o)Hattusas. p) Tyre.

Period #4 English Literature 7
Went over the HW and continued through the story.
HW : Answer questions 17 - 20 on the blog. Read to page 199 in "A Christmas Carol".

  A Christmas Carol - Questions

Supplemental Questions (These are in order as they appear in the story – pretty-much)

1. Read over the first two paragraphs again. What is the purpose of the author talking about Marley’s death?
2. Since you have read into the story for a while, explain why you think the author stressed that Scrooge was his “sole… Sole…etc”
3. Notice in the movie, the name on the door of Scrooge’s office.(You can only do this after we have seen the movie)
4. What do you learn about Scrooge’s psychological character from paragraph 2 column “A”? Explain how the weather was used to reveal his character.
5. How did the citizens of the local community view Scrooge?
6. What did Scrooge think of what others thought about him and why?
7. How is the weather, in the last paragraph in column “A”, used again to influence the story?(Pathetic fallacy)
8. What is with the “Humbug” thing???
9. How can Scrooge be seen as having a pessimistic attitude towards Christmas?
10. What is Scrooge’s nephew’s attitude towards Christmas?
11. How can the nephew be seen as being positively persistent?
12. Explain what Dickens meant when eh said “It certainly was; for they had been two kindred spirits”.
13. Scrooge does not want to give money for the poor and destitute because they are already taken care of. How does he feel that they have already been provided for?
14. Explain Scrooge’s little speech in lines 8 – 14 0n page 180.
15. Bob Cratchit appears a little different after leaving the office as opposed to when he was there. Explain.
16. How can Scrooges whole life be seen as melancholy?
17. What was so peculiar about the knocker on the door of Scrooges apartment house?
18. Explain the statement from page 181 “darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it”.
19. What is Scrooges “checklist” when he gets home every night?
20. Why do you suppose on this night that he “double-locked himself in”?

Period #5 English Grammar 7 - 
List #6 - 1. Apparition, 2. Cultivated (Not as in agriculture) 3. dilapidated, 4. Quaint, 5. rustic, 6. cursory, 7. Etiquette, 8.artificial, 9. opulent, 10. rigour, 11.Scant, 12. odour, 13. obliterate, 14. morph, 15. delinquent, 16. plaid, 17. unique, 18. punctual, 19. proficient, 20. obnoxious, 21. activism, 22. bond, 23. movement, 24. occupy, 25. stocks.

List #7 - 1. bailouts, 2. defaulting, 3. corporate, 4. loiter. 5. repugnant, 6. procrastinate, 7. solicit, 8. crowd mentality, 9. manifest, 10. graven, 11. vain, 12. sabbath, 13. adultery, 14. covet, 15. Decalogue, 16. theocracy,  17. default, 18. momentum, 19. corporation, 20. repossess, 21. innovation, 22. visionary, 23.CEO(Chief Executive Officer) 24. vaccines, 25. jolt.

List #8 - 1. onus 2. disseminate 3. entity 4. calamity 5. cynical 6. ostentatious 7. extricate 8. engulf 9. ensure 10. modify 11. ostracize 12. entrails 13. discern 14. cogitate 15. rancid 16. ascertain 17. quibble 18. embark 19. validate 20. estrange 21. analytical 22. marginal 23. notorious 24. disenchanted 25. burgeoning.    
 
H. W. - Spelling words 5 - 10 in List #6. Memorize the order of parts in a simple sentence, as we went over it in class.

Period # 6 - Physical Education.


Period # 7 English Literature 8 - Checked HW.
We went over the story with inserts from students HW.

HW: If you were a student in the same classroom as the Kiskis children, what would you have done to try to help them to cope with their situation? (You can answer this from a broad perspective or by being specific) Around a quarter of a page in length. You could use first person to answer this, but I would prefer that you would answer it using third person.