02/04/2012 Monday, Day#3

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I have early morning bus duty this week.

Mrs. Loveless asked me to remind  you that you have a Grammar Test on Monday. You have now been eminded.
The third quarter ends on Thursday April 05. Be sure that you have any unwritten tests or quizzes completed before Thursday April 04.
Double Double Monday, April 02 during periods 6 and 7.
Grammar 8 -    Grammar Test on Unit 10 and review of 1- 9 during the week of April 04 or 05. Looking like Thursday. (Beka test.)
Working on the review for the test next week.

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 20 - 25. Grammar exercise Exercise "E" on page 113.

Period #3 History 7 and 8 -   Note the new date:Quiz on pages 67 - 74. on Tuesday, April 03. (A. Beka test.)

 We went over the Eastern Conquests..

     Chapter 7.2b Questions
    1. Who was Antiochus III and what dealings did he have with Rome.
     2. What was Pergamum?
     3. Explain how the collapse of the Roman Republic was more of the "same-old-same-old"?
     4. What is meant by the expression "bread and circuses"?
     5. How is the Colosseum competition similar to modern day USA?
 

10.   Briefly explain the war with Macedonia and then explain the clever way that Rome “conquered” Greece.

   

 Home work.-  Answer Question 1 and 2 above.

Period #4 English Literature 7  Literature Quiz on "Shelter from the Storm" and diction. JLCH quiz. Fill in blanks and short answers. To be written on Thursday, May 05.
We answered questions 5 and 6. We worked on questions 7, 8, and 9.

Questions on A Song is in the Heart.

1.       When a person feels as though they are a failure, they will often put up with a lot, including bulling, in order to have friends. Show how this is true of Stradivarius.

2.       Explain the expression “The song is in the heart, and there are many ways of making music.”

3.       Research “Stradivarius violins” on the internet. What did you find?

4.       Explain how Stradivarius “made a purse out of a sow’s ear”.

5.       What lesson of life can be found in the expression “One small bit of work done well each day, was what made a great violin in the end.”

6.       What do you think is your “God-given talent” and how might you use it for good?

9. What was the second kind of storm that Luther had to stand against in this story?

Home Work: Read the next short story A Song is in the Heart. Be sure to read it.

Period #5 English Grammar 7 - There will be a Grammar Test on Unit 9 and review of 1- 8. This will be either  April 04 or 05. (BEKA test.)
We wrote the Spelling Quiz on list # 14.

Life Skills.
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 - We will start List # 15 on Tuesday. Grammar Exercise "A" 95.

Period # 6 - Life Skills: Hungry for change.

Period # 7 English Literature 8 -  Literature TEST on April 03. This will cover plays and the short story "The Silver Outrigger".
  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, etc.

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: Answer questions 4, 5 and 6 above.