05 Dec/2011 Monday, Day #2

I have morning duty all week next week so extra help will only be available at noon and after school unless you get it down stairs in my duty room. 


Period #1: Grammar 8 -  Quiz on Thursday, Dec. 08.
We reviewed the subject/predicate pattern. We then went back into the text book 10 - 20 page 60. We started diagramming sentences
List #8 - 1. onus 2. disseminate 3. entity 4. calamity 5. cynical 6. ostentatious 7. extricate 8. engulf 9. ensure 10. modify 11. inevitable  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. 
List #9 - 1. wistfulness, 2. beguiled, 3. timidity, 4. decorum, 5. gregarious, 6. specter, 7. oblivious, 8. conjured, 9. contrite, 10. mayhem,      
H.W. - Grammar exercise "D" page 62. Spelling tonight  will be words 10 - 15 on List #8. Remember: there will be a test at the end of this list.exercise "A" on page 61. It is looking like Thursday or Friday for the test/quiz.

Period #3 History 7 and 8 - History Quiz on Tues, Dec. 06 - 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 reviewed Section 3, Chapter 4. We started Chapter 5. I handed out the map that would be used on the quiz tomorrow, with all of the places labeled.
The names of the next few emperors are unusual and largely unfamiliar so it would do you well to become familiar with their names before we study them. Try doing two or three a night. We will connect them in class with what they did in history.
Chapter 5
      The Assyrian Empire (Assur) - capital Nineveh
          Significant Emperors - Tiglath-Pileser III (745 B. C. - 727 B. C.)
                                             Shalmanaser V (727 - 722)  Deported 10 Tribes of Israel in 722.
                                             Sennacherib (705 - 681)
                                             Ashurbanipal (669 - 626)
          Ninevah fell to the Chaldeans in 612
      New Babylonian Empire (Chaldean Empire)
            Significant Emperors - Nabapolassar (625 - 605)
                                               Nebuchadnezzar (605 - 562)
                                               Nabonidus (556 - 539)
                                               Belshazzar (539 -
      The Persian Empire
             Significant Emperors - Cyrus the Great (559 - 550)
                                                Darius (522 - 486)

H.W.-  Study Unit #4. Read over pages 42 to 45. 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 In-class writing to be handed in to be marked. Quiz on Friday, Dec.09
Went over the HW and continued through the story.
HW : Answer questions  27 - 31 on the blog. Read to the end of "A Christmas Carol". Start working on a character sketch of Scrooge - start with the physical description.

  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 -  Grammar Quiz on Thursday, Dec. 08.
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.   

 List #9 - 1. wistfulness, 2. beguiled, 3. timidity, 4. decorum, 5. gregarious, 6. specter, 7. oblivious, 8. conjured, 9. contrite, 10.  
 
H. W. - Spelling words 11 - 15 in List #6. Memorize the order of parts in a simple sentence, as we went over it in class.

Period # 6 - Life Skills. Next week will continue on this and into world water/hunger etc. Any requests for particular songs in these areas?? E them to me if you do.


Period # 7 English Literature 8 -  Life Skills today. Quiz on Friday, Dec.09. Also, paragraph to be written in class this week to be submitted to be marked.