01 Dec/2011 Thursday Day #1

Bible Scripture was due today. 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.
The following is a list of students who must stay after school on Friday to present their scripture:
Sorry but the list did not save. I will place it on the site in the morning.
The History quiz has been rescheduled until Tuesday due to scheduling problems.  Next week (Dec.06 - 09)  there will be quizzes in Literature and Grammar.

Period #1: Grammar 8 - 
We reviewed the subject/predicate pattern. We then went back into the text book 10 page 60.
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 5 - 10 on List #8. Remember: there will be a test at the end of this list. Complete exercise "exercise" on page 60 for Grammar.

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. I handed out the map that would be used on the quiz tomorrow, with all of the places labeled.

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 20 - 23 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 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.
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?
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”?
21. How did Marley’s ghost make its first appearance?
22. Explain the joke about Marley “having no bowels”.
23. Explain the line (a joke by the way) “There’s of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are”.
24. Why does Jacob Marley wear a chain?
25. What does Marley mean when he says “…no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused!”? (Page 183)
26. How had Marley been confused as to what “his business” should be and what it was? (page 183)

27. What indicators are there that Scrooge – “Mr.Tough-Guy” - is actually scared?
28.  What does Marley say will happen if “the spirit goes not forth in life”?
29.  What does Jacob mean when he says that he “Made his own chains” that hold him?

Page 183

30.  Explain “no space of regret will can make amends for one life’s opportunities misused”.
31.  What is Marley’s new outlook on business?
32. How is Marley trying to help Scrooge?
33.  Why could Scrooge not say “Humbug” but stopped at the first syllable?
34.  At the first of Stave Two, how does Dickens break the dark quiet atmosphere that he set in the first sentence?
35. What did the new visitor look like? What was this figure supposed to represent and all of the symbols supposed to represent?

Page 184.

36.  What supernatural event took place between the Ghost and the apparition?
37. How was Old Fezziwig different from Scrooge on Christmas Eve?
38.  What people did Fezziwig have at his “office” party?

Page 185.

39. Where did the apprentices sleep?
40. The spirit comments (at the bottom of page 185) that it takes very little money to make people happy but Scrooge is more impressed by something else that can make people happy and it is free but is worth a great deal. What is he talking about?

Period #5 English Grammar 7 -  Double/double LS during 5 and 6. Bring food if you like keep it simple and low caffeine and sugar.
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 - Life Skills today was on free trade chocolate and coffee.


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

HW: Why is it that the Kiskiss feel that they have to be able to give in order to belong? Is this true for all of mankind?