Thursday, March 29, 2012

29 March 2012 Thursday, Day #1

Read the Blog every night.
The third quarter ends on Thursday April 05.
Double Double tomorrow - 5 and 6.
Grammar 8 -    Grammar Test on Unit 10 and review of 1- 9 during the week of April 26 - 30. It is looking like next week now. (Beka test)

LIST # 15 - 1. pragmatic, 2. expansive, 3. cunning, 4. instigator, 5. prognosis, 6. vile, 7. animosity, 8. tersely, 9. degenerate, 10. context, 11. extrapolate, 12 slur, 13. emulate, 14. relapse, 15. divine, 16. appease, 17. analogy, 18. nocturnal, 19. communal, 20. sabbatical, 21. ascertain, 22. computation, 23. connive, 24. postulate, 25. chagrin.  

 LAST LIST #16 - 1. plausible, 2. ambiguous, 3. vent, 4. prodigious, 5. tectonic, 6. seismic, 7 fault, 8. continuous, 9. cautious, 10.redeem, 11. phaseout, 12. celebrity, 13. diode, 14. plausible, 15. potential, 16. facilitate, 17. gregarious, 18.halitosis, 19. ignominy, 20. urgent, 21.condor, 22. legitimate, 23. monotonous, 24. negligible, 25. optimum.

Home Work - Spelling List # 15 words 15 - 20. Grammar exercise Exercise "B" on page 112.

Period #3 History 7 and 8 - Went over map, wrote quiz, went over first Punic war.
  Note the new date:Quiz on pages 67 - 74. on Tuesday, April 03. (A. Beka test.)

 
Chapter 7.2a Questions                                              History 7-8                                                    March/2012
1.       Give a brief description of the early growth of the Roman Empire. (Include an explanation of the Latin League (Roman League).) This is on pages 71 and 72.
2.       Explain the meaning behind the expression, “A Pyrrhic victory”.
3.       Make a list, in sentence form, of the policies that the Roman’s adopted that kept conquered people from wanting to rebel. (There should be eight in all. Second paragraph in column "A", on page 72.)
4.       Explain why Rome looked at Carthage as an imposing force that might come against their own emerging empire.
5.       Why do they call the wars with Carthage the Punic Wars?
6.       Explain the events of the First Punic War. (Causes, events, outcome and effects) You may eventually find some over-lap when you go into the subsequent Punic Wars as the effects of one war often are or lead to the causes of the next war.
7.       Explain Rome’s new motive for acquiring an empire.
8.       Same as “5” but with the Second Punic war.
9.       Same as “8” but with the Third Punic War.
10.   Briefly explain the war with Macedonia and then explain the clever way that Rome “conquered” Greece.
11.   Add to your map: Carthage, Spain, Africa, Syria, Egypt(or show where it should be), Palestine, and Pergamum. Don't forget that we also did the Tyrrhenian Sea.
   
 Home work.-  Answer Question # 6, and 7 above.

Period #4 English Literature 7 
We answered questions 3 and 4. We worked on questions 5 and 6.
 Questions for "Shelter from the Storm"
1. Who was Martin Luther? Check him out on the internet. (BE sure that you are studying the founder of Protestant Reformation. Write a brief paragraph or list six facts (in sentence form) about his life.
2. Why did Martin's  father work so hard and why was he not successful?
3. How did Martin's faith and determination provide for his education?
4. How did Luther overcome his desire to become a lawyer?
5. Explain the quotation "...great Christians are often the ones who have realized how wicked all sin really is."
6. What aspect of Christ was Luther missing when he tried to deal with his sin?
7. Why did reading the Bible for himself, change Luther's life? The church did not allow common  people to read the Bible before this time.
8. As a preacher Luther was exposed to many "wrong ways" to heaven. What was the "right way" that he saw?
9. What was the second kind of storm that Luther had to stand against in this story?
Home Work: Answer question five and six above.

Period #5 English Grammar 7 - There will be a Grammar Test on Unit 9 and review of 1- 8. This will be during the week of April 02 - 06.
Spelling Quiz on Monday, April 02.
Life Skills tomorrow.
List # 14 - 1. alleviate, 2. misconstrue, 3. acclimatize, 4. coagulate, 5. prognosticate, 6. proximal,   7. distal, 8. recollect, 9. vulnerable, 10. disassociate, 11. ghetto, 12. gigabyte, 13.refract, 14. deluge, 15. postulate, 16. soliloquy, 17. analogue, 18. regurgitate, 19. discern, 20.promulgate, 21. immune, 22. retrospect, 23. compilation, 24. ameliorate, 25. nemesis.


  LIST # 15 - 1. pragmatic, 2. expansive, 3. cunning, 4. instigator, 5. prognosis, 6. vile, 7. animosity, 8. tersely, 9. degenerate, 10. context, 11. extrapolate, 12 slur, 13. emulate, 14. relapse, 15. divine, 16. appease, 17. analogy, 18. nocturnal, 19. communal, 20. sabbatical, 21. ascertain, 22. computation, 23. connive, 24. postulate, 25. chagrin.    

Home Work - Spelling words 20 -25 on List # 14. Grammar Exercise "A" 95.

Period # 6 - Life Skills

Period # 7 English Literature 8 -  Literature TEST on April 03
  We are starting a unit on Short Stories again. I talked about diction again today. Hard words(cacophonic), soft words (Euphonic), archaic, old English, alliterative, symbolic, colourful, foreign, subject specific, cliche, slang, simple, complex, technical, connotative, formal, informal, shocking, local-isms, 


Questions on The Silver Outrigger
“The Silver Outrigger” is a story of complications and suspense. The author uses descriptive words (diction) to get the reader’s interest and hold it.

1.                        Comment on the diction that Howard Pease uses by giving examples of his great use of adjectives.
2.                        Show how the author gets the rising action going in the story and keeps raising it with more coincidences, speculations, and complications.
3.                        Why did Rinaldo want to leave the plantation?
4.                        How does the author point the reader in the direction of thinking that Mr. Williamson is delusional?
5.                        What is pathetic fallacy and how is it used in this story?
6.                        What is revealed by Tod's description of Williamson? (Page 232, column “A”)
7.                        Explain the Jim Hart story.
8.                        Why does Williamson have a guilty conscience?
9.                        What clues are dropped to hint that this might be a “who-done-it” story rather than the ramblings of a delusional man in solitude too long? (Page 233 and 235)
10.                    What might lead a person to begin to suspect that Jim Hart might have been murdered?
11.                    What did Mr. Williamson mean when he said “You’ve given me back my life”

Home Work: Have a good night.

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