December 19, 2013

Analysis the following quote and explain

What does the mockingbird symbolized?

Who are the mockingbird in this novel?

Chapter 10

Quotation

"Atticus said to Jem one day, 'I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'

That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.

'Your father's right,' she said. 'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'"

December 18, 2013

Analysis the following quote and explain what happened between Uncle Jack and Scout.

What kind of personality does Scout have?

Chapter 9

Quotation

"Atticus said, 'You've a lot to learn, Jack.'

'I know. Your daughter gave me my first lessons this afternoon. She said I didn't understand children much and told me why. She was quite right. Atticus, she told me how I should have treated her-oh dear, I'm so sorry I romped on her.'"

December 17, 2013

Analysis the following quote and explain what just happened to Scout, and what you think Scout's view on Boo Radley now?

Chapter 8

Quotation

"'Thank who?' I asked.

'Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn't know it when he put the blanket around you.'

My stomach turned to water and I nearly threw up when Jem held out the blanket and crept toward me. 'He sneaked out of the house-turn 'round-sneaked up, an' went like this!'" 

December 16, 2013

Read the following

Describe what it is about. How do you feel about it. Does it makes sense? if so , why? if not, why?

Elvis Presley’s “Walk a Day In My Shoes”

If I could be you, if you could be me
For just one hour, if we could find a way
To get inside each others mind
If you could see you through my eyes
Instead your own ego I believe you'd be
I believe you'd be surprised to see
That you've been blind

Walk a mile in my shoes
Just walk a mile in my shoes
Before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Then walk a mile in my shoes

Now if we spend the day
Throwin stones at one another
cause I dont think, cause I dont think
Or wear my hair the same way you do
Well, I may be common people
But Im your brother
And when you strike out
Youre tryin to hurt me
Its hurtin you, lord how mercy

Now there are people on reservations
And out in the ghetto
And brother there, but, for the grace of god
Go you and i,
If I only had wings of a little angel
Dont you know, Id fly
To the top of a mountain
And then Id cry, cry, cry

December 12. 2013

Group One and two

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.

1.  "At first we saw nothing but a kudzu-covered front porch..."

2.  "...the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again...."

3.  " 'Don't get in a row of collards whatever you do, they'll wake the dead.' "

4.  "...a ramshackle porch ran the width of the house..."

5.  "An old Franklin stove sat in a corner of the porch; above it a hat-rack mirror caught the moon and shone eerily."

Group Three

Define each word and write in a complete sentences


1. Kudzu

2.  Ensuing  

3.  Prowess 

4.  Collards 

5.  Ramshackle 

6.   Franklin stove 


7.  Eerily."

December 6, 2013

Analysis and explain what these quotes is about. 



"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
Nelson Mandela


"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
Nelson Mandela



“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” 

Franklin D. Roosevelt


“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” 
Franklin D. Roosevelt

December 4, 2013

Analysis and explain the following

Quotation

"'First of all,' he said, 'If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-'

'Sir?'

'-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'" Page 39

November 22, 2013

Chapters 8-10

 

Please answer the following questions

1. What did Okonkwo do whenever he thought of his father’s weakness and failure?

2. What did Okonkwo tell himself about his part in Ikemefuna’s death?

3. What did Obierika tell Okonkwo about his part in Ikemefuna’s death?

4. Describe the meeting to determine Obierika’s daughter’s bride price.

5. The men began discussing rumors about white men. Who did the men think the white men were?

6. Describe the relationship between Ekwefi and Ezinma.

November 21, 2013

Group One and two

Define each vocabulary words 

1.  feign

2.  rebuked

3.  stunted

4.  harbingers

5.  copiously

Group Three

Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

 

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided

1.  Nwoye would feign annoyance and grumble aloud about women and their troubles.

2.  And when he did this he saw that his father was pleased, and no longer rebuked him.

3.  They went back to their caves in a distant land, where they were guarded by a race of stunted men.

4.  They were the harbingers sent to survey the land.

5.  Okonkwo sat in his obi crunching happily with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, and drinking palm-wine
copiously....

November 20, 2013

Chapters 5-7

Group One and two

 

Define each vocabulary words.

 

fibrous

 

calabashes

frenzy

intoxicating

 

bouts

 

 

Group three

 

Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.

1. The new year must begin with tasty, fresh yams and not the shriveled and fibrous crop of the previous year.

 

2. All cooking pots, calabashes, and wooden bowls were thoroughly washed, especially the wooden mortar in which yam was pounded.

 

3. The drums rose to a frenzy.

4. Old men nodded to the beat of the drums and remembered the days when they wrestled to its intoxicating rhythm.

 

5. Within a short time the two bouts were over.

November 15, 2013

Chapter 5 -7.  Please answer the following question


1. What influence did Ikemefuna have on Nwoye?

2. How did Okonkwo feel about Ikemefuna’s influence on Nwoye?

3. How did the villagers feel about the coming of the locusts, and what did they do about it?

4. What did the village decide to do with Ikemefuna?

5. Who struck the last blow to Ikemefuna, and why?

November 14, 2013

Chapters 5-7  Please answer the following question


1. Describe the Feast of the New Yam.

2. Who was Okonkwo’s favorite child, and what did he often say about the child?

3. What unacceptable thing did Okonkso do just before the Feast of the New Yam?

4. Who was Chielo, and why was she important?

5. What sport did the villagers enjoy watching during their feasting?

November 13, 2013

Using Prior knowledge and contextual Clues

Group One and Two

Using the following vocabulary words and write it in complete sentences. These words are the same words from yesterday's homework that you have to find the definition for.

1. perpertual


2.  Capricious


3.  incipient


4.  brusqueness


5.  kindred


6.  benevolent


Group Three

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.


1.  His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little
children.

2. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear
of the forest, and of the forces of nature, red in tooth and claw.

3. Okonkwo’s first son, Nwoye, was then twelve years old but was already causing his father great
anxiety for his incipient laziness.

4. But he was struck, as most people were, by Okonkwo’s brusqueness in dealing with less
successful men.

5. Only a week ago a man had contradicted him at a kindred meeting which they held to discuss the
next ancestral feast.

6. But it was really not true that Okonkwo’s palm kernels had been cracked for him by a benevolent
spirit.

November 8, 2013

Read Chapters 4-6, then do the following:

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.

1. The new year must begin with tasty, fresh yams and not the shriveled and fibrous crop of the

previous year.

2. All cooking pots, calabashes, and wooden bowls were thoroughly washed, especially the wooden mortar in which yam was pounded.

3. The drums rose to a frenzy.

4. Old men nodded to the beat of the drums and remembered the days when they wrestled to its

intoxicating rhythm.

5. Within a short time the two bouts were over

November 6, 2013

November 1, 2013

After you read chapter 1 and 2 of Things Fall Apart. Please answer the following questions:

1. According to the first paragraph of Chapter 1, for what is Okonkwo famous?

2. According to the last paragraph of Chapter 1, for what else is Okonkwo known?

3. For what is Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, known?

4. Why does Okonkwo’s father go to the Oracle? What does the Oracle tell him?

5. The story tells us that Okonkwo “ruled his household with a heavy hand.”   What does this mean?

 

 

 

 

 

 

OCTOBER 28, 2013 (PART 2)

OCTOBER 28, 2013

October 25, 2013

As we completed chapter 6 and 7 of the Grapes of Wrath, Please write a summary for each chapter by using the 5 W's  - 

When, Where, Who, What, Why

October 24, 2013

Answer the following questions for chapter 6


Group One

1.  What was the Monster?

2,  Who did the monster send to speak to the tenant?

3.  Who is the person who drove to the farmer house with the tractor?

4.  Identify Muley Graves.

5.   Who did Muley Graves talked to?


Group two

1.  What was the Monster, and why men couldn't control it?

2.  What is the Monster plan with the farm land after it all used up?

3.  Identify and describe Muley Graves

4.  Who did Muley Graves talked to and what did they talked about?

October 22, 2013

Group One

Define the following vocabulary words


Ensnared

Inquiring


Beseech


Luxuriously


taut


truculently


Obligation




Group Two

Define the vocabulary words and make it into a sentence

October 21, 2013

As we completed Chapter 5. Please write a summary for the chapter using the 5 W's


Who

What 

When

Where

Why

October 18, 2013

Analysis and explain the following

The Bank—or the Company—needs—wants—insists—must have—as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling,which had ensnared them.

October 17, 2013

Analysis the following quote and explain what it mean to you.

. "But let a man get property he doesn't see, or can't take time to get his fingers in, or can't be there to walk on it—why, then the property is the man. He can't do what he wants, he can't think what he wants. The property is the man, stronger than he is. And he is small, not big. Only his possessions are big—and he's the servant of his property. That is so, too."

October 16, 2013

Analysis the following quote and explain what it means to you.

"Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and it's like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn't doing well, and feel fine when the rain falls on it, that property is him, and some way he's bigger because he owns it. Even if he isn't suc­cessful he's big with his property. That is so."

October 15, 2013

Recall the summaries for chapter 1 - 4 that we created last Friday.  Answer the following questions


1.  What does Steinbeck (Author of the book) describe in Chapter 1?

2.  Where was Tom Joad coming from and where was he going to when he hitched a ride with the truck driver?

3.  Identify Jim Casy? What was his occupation?

4.  What is the turtle's most outstanding characteristic?

5.  Why was Tom is jail, and what was his attitude towards his crime?

 

 

 

October 10, 2013

Name: ___________________                                                   Date:__________________


Please read Page 22 through 24 in the book.

On page 23,  Jim Casy made a bold statement, and I quote, " The hell with it! There Ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue.  There's just stuff people do.  It all part of the same thing."


Please answer the following questions.


1.  What is he referring to?





2.  What is he trying to say?





3.  Who is he talking to?

October 9, 2013

Name: ______________________                                                      Date: ___________________


Using Prior knowledge and contextual Clues

Group One and Two

Using the following vocabulary words and write it in complete sentences. These words are the same words from yesterday's homework that you have to find the definition for.

1.  Perplexity


2.  Reassured


3.  Anlage


4.  Declivity


5.  hypocrite


6.  Prodigal


Group Three

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.

1.  After a while the faces of the watching men lost their bemused perplexity and became hard and angry and resistant.



2.  The driver was reassured. He knew at least that Joad was listening.



3.  . . . sleeping life waited to be spread and dispersed, every seed armed with an appliance of dispersal, . . . all passive but armed with appliances of activity, still, but each possessed of the anlage of movement.



4.  Joad speeded his pace against the sun, and he started down the declivity.



5.  I figgered there just wasn't no hope for me. an' I was a damned ol' hypocrite. But I didn't mean to be.



6.  Maybe Tom'll kill the fatted calf like for the prodigal in Scripture.

 

October 8, 2013

Name: _______________________                                         Date: _____________________


Anatomy of a Dust Bowl - GROUP ONE : Fill 2-3 causes in each column below.

GROUP 2: on the following lines, explain in 2 or more sentences what HUMAN and ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES led to the Dust Bowl happening.


NATURAL CAUSES                                            HUMAN CAUSES
OF THE DUST BOWL                                         OF THE DUST BOWL






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GROUP THREE:  Personal Reactions - Recall the video clips that we watched this morning, write 2 or more sentences in reaction  to what the survivors share, as well as your thoughts on what it might have been like to experience a dust storm.


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October 7, 2013

Name: _________________________                                                                  Date; _____________



Define each word


1.   Perplexity



2.  Reassured



3.  Anlage



4.  Declivity



5.  Hypocrite



6. Prodigal

September 26, 2013

September 25, 2013

Read the following passage and answer the question.


Commanding General Nelson A. Miles

"During the night Colonel Forsyth joined the command with reinforcements of several troops of the 7th Calvary.  The next morning he stationed his troops around the camp, placed two pieces of artillery in position, and demanded the surrender the arms of the warriors.  this was complied with by the warriors going out from the camp and placing the arms on the ground where they were directed. Chief Big Foot, an old man, sick at the time and unable to walk, was taken out of a wagon and laid on the ground.



Joseph Horn Cloud
Lakota


" While this was going on, the same officers said to the Indians, 'I want you all to stand in a rank before the officers . . . I want the same number of soldiers to stand in front of the Indians and take the cartridges out of the guns and [then] aim at their foreheads and pull the triggers.  after this you will be free.' Some of the Indians were getting wild at such talk and some said,'Now he sees that we have nothing in our hands, so he talks this way.' Other said, 'We are not children to be talked to like this.' A man cried out:'"Take courage! Take courage!' Big Foot spoke up,'Yes, take courage. There are too many children and old people."


Q:  What did Big Foot mean when he said "take courage. There are too many children and old people."?