5/24 HW: Our last vocab quiz is tomorrow. Study. Also, all the work that you turned in (other than the final) is now in the IC. Be sure everything looks accurate; if it does not, let me know.
5/23 HW: Study for final.
5/22 HW: Prepare for your final--notes, outlines, reviewing TKaM. Last vocab quiz tomorrow--study.
Details about the final are now available in the documents/handouts section of this website. Check them out!
5/21 HW: Finish reading "Marigolds." Write a page of two-column notes. Answer the following question: How does the story help us understand TKaM? Come up with three deep questions for our last Socratic Seminar tomorrow.
Study vocab if you are taking the test (not the essay). If you look in the documents section of this website, you will see a document with all of our vocabulary from TKaM.
If you are writing the essay, start thinking, outlining, sticky-note-ing!
5/18 HW: Decide on whether you want to take the test or write the essay; vocab exercises due Monday; last vocab quiz is Wednesday. Enjoy the rain--great for reading, tea, and chocolate.
5/14 and 5/15 and 5/16 and 5/17 HW: Work on rereading the rest of the book. Take two pages of notes (quotes and analysis). Due Friday for periods 1, 2, and 4. Periods 5 and 6--Monday!
5/11 HW: Reread Chapters 22-24. Take two pages of notes. On the left, write quotations, and on the right, analyze them. 5th and 6th period: if you did not turn in your lawyer packet, finish that too!
Don't forget that vocab quiz is Monday!! (Tomorrow!)
5/10 HW: Periods 1, 2, 4 need to finish vocab and lawyer packet; Periods 5 and 6 need to relate to Scout's and Dill's innocence.
5/9 HW: Periods 1, 2, 4: A page on how you relate to Scout's and Dill's innocence. All classes: Reread Chapters 20 and 21. Potential quiz tomorrow.
5/8 HW: 1st Period: draw picture of end of Chapter 14; everyone else, nothing!!
5/4 HW: NONE
5/3 HW: Reread Chapters 15-19. Plot quiz over those on Mondary or Tuesday. You MAY use notes, so take them if you'd like!
5/2 HW: Values assignment and studying for quiz on Thursday.
5/1 HW: Values assignment and studying for vocab quiz on Thursday (Wednesday for period 4).
4/30 HW: Reread Chapters 12-14 and answer questions 10, 11 and 14.
4/27 HW: Reread Chapters 9-11 and answer questions 12 and 13.
4/26 HW: study for analysis quiz (Chaters 1-8) for tomorrow.
4/25 HW: study vocab for quiz; 2 ways in which Miss Caroline is good, 2 ways in which she is bad.
4/24 HW: study vocab for quiz; I will collect charts (from presentations), scripts, and works cited tomorrow.
4/23 HW: study vocabulary for quiz.
4/19 HW: Work on your presentation. For Monday, you need: your typed and double-spaced script, your visual, your works cited, your parathetical citations and attributive tags in your script. Be sure to practice!!!
4/18 HW: Vocabulary exercises due Tuesday of next week; Character Poems due Thursday 4/19.
4/16 and 4/17 HW: Reread Chapters 4-8 and do the relevant DQs. Take notes on a character for a tiny project in class on Wednesday.
4/12 HW: Reread Chapters 1-3 and do DQs 1-4; Find a meaningful quotation and write it down. Explain its literal meaning. Then, analyze it by either close reading it, connecting it to something later in the novel, connecting it to another text, or relating it to your own life.
4/11 HW: Complete quiz study guide. You can have just the first 25 prepositions (and 5 compound prepositions) memorized for tomorrow. I will quiz on on the others on Monday.
4/10 HW: Finish Tom Sawyer discriptive passage--due Wednesday. Complete study guide for preposition quiz--Due Thursday.
4/4 and 4/5 and 4/6 HW: Finish TKAM; memorize those prepositions!! Don't forget to enjoy spring. =)
4/3: Finish reading TKAM; study prepositions.
4/2: Finish reading To Kill a Mockingbird; Clean out your binder; Exercise A if you have not done it in class.
Spring break homework: Please read ALL or MOST of To Kill a Mockingbird. Enjoy the beautiful spring weather! Also, if you were absent on Thursday or Friday and did NOT turn in your essay, it is your responsibility to hand this in as soon as we return from break.
3/19 HW: work on expanding and polishing your essay. You must work for at least half an hour.
3/15 HW: If you lost your Pearl anthology, please bring in $8 by Friday; if you got a blue dot, please remember to turn in your passages. Extra credit parallel structure quiz is tomorrow during lunch--EXTRA CREDIT!
Finish Tom/Parallel Structure
3/5 HW: Finish Tom questions if you have not! Due Tuesday for Periods 1 and 5. Due Wednesday for Periods 2, 4, 6.
3/6 and 3/7 and 3/8 HW: If you got an incomplete on your creative writing/analysis of someone else's unique passage, please fix it by Friday, staple to Storm Packet and resubmit into the missing box. If you got a magical blue dot, clean up your passages, make them be 1.5 spaced, create titles for them, get rid or "unique" and "cliche" labels, and print them on seperate sheets of paper. If you'd like, get rid of your name.
Tom Sawyer/Finish Commas
2/27 HW: Reread and answer questions on Chapters 17-21; study for comma quiz (tomorrow); bring The Pearl anthology to class tomorrow--I WILL collect it this time!!
2/28 HW: Prepare storm packet and description assignment--this is due Friday! Come in with questions tomorrow if you are confused.
2/29 HW: Reread Chapters 22-24 and answer questions. Oral tomorrow.
3/1 HW: Have storm packet and descriptions ready to hand in; finish Dobbins analysis worksheet with commas labeled.
3/2 HW: Reread 25-30 and answer all questions in complete sentences. You ARE turning this in. The questions on the last set of chapters will be due in the middle of next week. Do them this weekend if you don't want homework over the TCAP week.
Tom Sawyer/Commas
2/21 HW: Be ready to discuss Aunt Polly by completing steps 1, 2, 3, 4. Reread Chapter 16 and answer questions. Be ready for oral sometime this week.
2/22 HW: Work on your satire packet. It is due Friday; however, you should work on it tonight and come in with questions tomorrow in class.
2/23 HW: Satire packet
2/24 HW: Comma quiz review; finish making observations about the two storms and writing sentences; observe an event and create clichéd and unique descriptions of this event.
Tom Sawyer/Commas Week
2/13 HW: Reread Chapter 12 and answer questions; Is Tom a realistic character writing assignment.
2/14 HW: Commas exercise--don't forget the rules!
2/15 HW: Comma story
2/16 and 17 HW: Fix comma story; reread chapters 13-16 and answer questions.
Tom Sawyer/Finish Coming-of-Age Essays/Commas Week
Monday 2/6 HW: Reread Chapter 4-8 in Tom Sawyer; check IC, clear us watching "The Simpsons" with your parents.
Tuesday 2/7 HW: Reread Chapters 9-11 and answer questions in your packet; complete comma exercises 2 and 3 in the comma worksheet. Both of these pieces of homework are due Thursday!!!
Wednesday 2/8: computer lab
Thursday 2/9: organize your binder; prepare your essay to be handed in.
Friday 2/10: None!
Commas/Read Memoirs/Begin Tom Sawyer Week
Monday 1/30 HW: Library group must finish Part 1; classroom group must finish just the first comma exercise on the comma worksheet. Everyone should bring Tom Sawyer books tomorrow!
Tuesday 1/31 HW: write a story in which you use all grammar rules.
Wednesday 2/1 HW: complete reading comprehension questions for the first three chapters of Tom Sawyer.
Thursday 2/2 HW: Find an instance in the book where you can relate to Tom Sawyer. Write it down and explain why you feel this connection.
Writing Week
Monday 1/23 HW: Finish bracketing my "The Lie" paragraph if you didn't get to it in class and do your free write. The point of the free write is to have a good idea as to how you will go about writing your character development paragraph. See Documents/Handouts tab for worksheet.
Tuesday 1/24 HW: Study for confusable word pair quiz tomorrow (Wednesday); finish outline if you haven't done so in class.
Wednesday 1/25 HW: Fix outline and write the elaboration to your evidence. First draft of essay due Friday.
Thursday 1/26 LAB DAY HW: Work on your essay. The content and structure should be in good shape by class time Friday.
Friday 1/27 Work on order and transitions in class. Polish. Turn in first draft. HW: 1. f you did not give me your essay, turn it in on Monday. 2. Organize your binder.
Coming of Age Stories Last Week
Tuesday (1/18): HW: Work on your figurative language paragraph on "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." See my PowerPoint for help.
Wednesday (1/18): PRESENTATIONS! HW: Work on your figurative language paragraph.
Thursday (1/19): HW: None.
Friday (1/20): HW: If your metaphor paragraph is good, write one about ANOTHER metaphor. If your paragraph was weak, FIX it! Also, study for confusable word pair quiz on Wednesday!!! Confusable word pair review STORY is due MONDAY!
Coming of Age Story Unit: Week 4 1/2
Monday (1/9): HW: Work on your journal entries about your character (Jerry or Millicent).
Tuesday (1/10): HW: Finish your characterization chart (on the back of the fitting in handout) and your two journal entries. Staple the journal entries and the chart together and have them ready to hand in. Please make sure you put 100% effort into completing this assignment. Really try to explore WHY these boy and girl want to fit into their various social groups and how they benefit from NOT becoming a part of the group.
Wednesday (1/11): HW: read "Boys of War" and be ready for oral or written quiz Thursday of Friday.
Coming of Age Story Unit: Week 3 1/2
Wednesday (1/4): In class: Writing Workshop; HW: Work on editing memoirs.
Thursday (1/5): In class: "Through the Tunnel" group work. HW: Finish Task 2 in "Through the Tunnel," read "Initiation," and answer Task I questions.
Friday (1/6): In class: "Through the Tunnel" discussion. HW: Finish "Through the Tunnel" worksheet.
Coming of Age Story Unit: Week 3
Monday (12/12): HW: "Unfairness" free write--Task 2
Tuesday (12/13): HW: Students who were not a part of the discussion need to finish "The Lie" worksheet and revision of their character paragraph and read "Through the Tunnel." ALL students should continue with their memoirs. Office hours are tomorrow; come in with questions on memoirs!
Wednesday (12/14): HW: Finish reading "Through the Tunnel"; Prepare for discussion by completing the comprehension questions on the worksheet.
Thursday (12/15): HW: 2 complex sentences on "Unfairness"
Friday (12/16): Winter Break HW:
- Read Tom Sawyer. If you have trouble understand it, get it an audio version and listen WHILE you read.
- Check IC and make sure your grades are accurate.
- Prepare your confusable word pair presentation. Check the documents and handouts section of this website for the following information: a) Your words and when you are going. b) suggestions on how to make your presentation clear and engaging. Be sure to email me if you want to do a confusable word pair presentation for extra credit. Also, email me if the day on which you are scheduled to present does not work for you. Read this for PowerPoint help: 7_powerpoint_mistakes_that_dri.html
Period 1 Sign Up Sheet
Period 2 Sign Up Sheet
Period 4 Sign Up Sheet
Period 5 Sign Up Sheet
Period 6 Sign Up Sheet
Coming of Age Story Unit: Week 2
Monday in class (12/5): Quiz, presentation instructions; HW: "The Lie" Task 1 questions.
Tuesday in class (12/6): Finish Whitman, Bradbury, and Heker. HW: Read "So Much Unfairness of Things" and answer questions in Task 1--Due Monday
Wednesday in class (12/7): Computer Lab. HW: Prepare presentations.
Thursday in class (12/8): Confusable word pair presentations.
Friday in class (12/9): Memoir and "The Lie" HW: "Unfairness" and Task 1
Coming of Age Short Story Unit: Week 1
Monday in class (11/28): Walt Whitman; HW: Walt Whitman Reflection
Tuesday in class (11/29): Begin "The Sound of Summer Running" HW: finish "Running" and answer Task 1 (questions 1 and 2 in the packet)
Link to the story: TheSoundofSummerRunning.pdf
Wednesday (11/30) in class: Conversation about EVERYTHING; HW: organize binders, study vocabulary.
Thursday (12/1) in class: "The Sound of Summer Running"
Friday (12/2) in class: Discuss memoir, begin "The Stolen Party" HW: Finish "Running" packet (1st period only); Read "The Stolen Party" and complete Task 1; Read "The Lie" (we will discuss this text on Tuesday).
Thanksgiving Break Homework for Periods 1, 4, 5, 6: organize your binders!
Thanksgiving Break Homework for Period 2: organize binders, finish vocabulary quiz, fix run-on story. Mwaahahaha!
Start thinking about how you will get your paws on a copy of Tom Sawyer!
Homework for the week of November 7th--Public Speaking Unit
Monday, November 7th HW: Study for grammar quiz; do all vocabulary exercises--due Wednesday.
Tuesday, November 8th HW: Write the introduction for your speech
Wednesday, November 9th HW: Write the the step by step sequence of your speech; get your essay ready--make sure you highlight the new draft and staple everything in the RIGHT order BEFORE class bell rings!!!
Homework for the week of October 31st--Public Speaking Unit
Wednesday, November 2nd HW: Read the John Hilton speech. (Due Thursday)
Thursday, November 3rd HW: Come up with 3 speech ideas. (Due Friday)
Friday, November 4th HW: Look up and define the following list of words. Only write down he definition and the part of speech that has to do with speaking. You may type or write neatly.
1. Taciturn
2. Succinct
3. Terse
4. Pithy
5. Pith
6. Glib
7. Verbose
8. Prattle
9. Garrulous
10. Vapid
11. Lucid
Grammar/Writing Unit
Monday (in class): Compound Sentences. Homework: Answer the second set of "Land" questions using FANBOYS (Due Tuesday, October 25th)
Tuesday (in class): Complex sentences. Homework: Complete exercise 8 in grammar packet (Due Wednesday, October 26th All classes EXCEPT Period 2)
Wednesday (in class): Thesis statements; begin Tolstoy. Homework: Complete exercises 9 and 10 in grammar packet (Due Thursday, October 27th for All classes EXCEPT Period 2. Period 2's HW is Exercise 8.)
Thursday (in class): Go over homework; read stories. Homework: 10-12 sentences with no punctuation or capitalization due Friday, October 28th. Hold on to this writing assignment; we will be using it in the beginning of next week.
Friday (in class): Tolstoy and Pushkin. HW: none =)
Monday: Run-ons and comma splices HW: finish exercises 13, 14, 15 in your grammar packet --due Tuesday, November 1st; finish comparison worksheet on "Land," "Fisherman," and The Pearl--due Wednesday, November 2nd.
Tuesday: Writing Workshop HW: Revise your partner's run on story, and finish the comparison worksheet (due November 2nd; Grammar review is due Nov. 4th; essay final drafts are due November 10th.
"Fisherman" Link: fish.htm
Wednesday: Discuss "Land," "Fisherman," and The Pearl; Beign Speaking Unit!!!
Vocabulary for The Pearl Chapters 4-6
Complete the vocabulary exercises following my directions EXACTLY. Come in with these on Friday, October 21st.
Persuasive Literary Analysis Essay
Your goal for the weekend is to work on your body paragraphs. In particular, focus on evidence, including introducing it and elaborating on it. Make sure your paragraphs have topic sentences as well, but these don't have to be perfect. Just something as simple as "Kino is impulsive" will work for now.
On Monday, come in with a hard copy of your body paragraphs. We will do some in-class work on topic sentences and thesis statements in the beginning of next week.
On Tuesday, come in with a hard copy of your body paragraphs with your topic sentences in good shape.
Complete numbers 1-6 on the checklist and update your essay. On Wednesday, come to class with a hard copy of your new and much improved essay.
"How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
To read the story, click on the link below:
HowMuchLand.html
Please read this story by Monday the 17th and answer the worksheet questions. If you do not have a copy of the questions, they are on the windowsill in my room.
Essay Plan of Action
Please complete numbers 1-4 on the essay plan of action sheet for tomorrow, Tuesday. Make sure that you fill in the worksheet designated for you and the outline. The outline is worth 8 points. It does not have to be perfect, but it should be filled out to the best of your ability. I will be meeting with you individually to go over your outline.
Free Write
On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following question:
What can YOU learn from The Pearl? Your answer can be any length you wish; however, it needs to reflect real effort and thought. Think deeply about what you can take away from this novella. Go beyond "don't be greedy." That can be a start, but not the whole answer. Think: in what ways am I, my family or our society in general sometimes driven by greed (desire for more money, bigger houses, etc, etc)
Socratic Seminar Worksheet is due Thursday; be sure to come up with 3 of your own questions!!
Fairytale final draft is due Friday
Make sure your newest draft is stapled to the front of the packet that came back to you on Friday.
If you had a language exercise sheet stapled to your packet, this is the order for stapling: a) Your sheet with sentences pulled out ("Improving our Fairytales"), b) The final and updated draft, c) The rest of the packet.
I MAY NOT TAKE YOUR STORY UNLESS YOU HAVE THE ENTIRE PACKET STAPLED TOGETHER AND READY TO GO BEFORE CLASS BEGINS! PLEASE BE RESPONSIBLE AND ORGANIZED!
*See me if you need help revising your story*
Chapter 6
Please read Chapter 6 by tomorrow (Tuesday). Be ready for a reading quiz sometime this week.
Chapter 5 Reading Comprehension Questions
Over the weekend, read Chapter 5 and answer these questions in your notebooks. Use complete sentences. Your answers shouldn't be much longer than a sentence in length.
1. What does Juana attempt to do with the pearl, and what does Kino do to her as a result?
2. Why does Juana return the pearl to Kino even when she has the chance to throw it into the sea?
3. For what reason must Kino and Juana flee the city?
4. What happens to Kino's canoe and to his house?
5. What does Juan Tomas tell the villagers about Kino's whereabouts?
6. In the end, why does Kino say he cannot give up his pearl?
Be sure you send your fairytale story to yourself for tomorrow (Friday). We will be working on these at the computer lab.
Vocabulary
For Thursday, find 3-5 words you do not know in Chapter 4. Do the same vocabulary exercises with these words as we did with the words from the first three chapters. Scroll down if you do not remember. Save your document on your computer. You will add to it as we work our way through the novel.
"Elephant"/Big Picture Diagrams
On Wednesday, you will be presenting your "Elephant"/Big Picture diagrams to your peers. Please make sure that your diagram is "presentable"--neat, thoughtful, and logical. In your notebooks, write several sentences to summarize what you've done to prepare for your presentation.
Chapter 4 Reading Comprehension Questions
Answer these questions in your NOTEBOOKS. Use complete sentences. You should be able to answer each one using one sentence only.
1. Do the pearl buyers act as individuals, or is there in reality one main pearl buyer?
2. On page 316, what do Kino's neighbors say they would do with the pearl if they had it?
3. In the past, the villagers sent two agents to the capital to sell their pearls. According to the conversation between Kino and Juan Tomas, what happened to these agents?
4. The first pearl buyer practices legerdemain. What is the meaning of this word?
5. What does the first pearl buyer say about Kino's pearl?
6. After hearing what all the buyers have to say, why does Kino not sell the pearl to them?
7. What happens to Kino in the end of the Chapter?
Chapters 1-3 Quiz
Please come in with specific questions on your study sheet tomorrow--Wednesday. The Quiz is on Thursday. If you missed any class days, make sure to get the notes from a classmate.
Fairytales
The second draft of fairytales is due on Thursday. Make sure you have the whole packet (planning sheet, old draft, new draft, rubric) ready before class begins.
"By Any Other Name"
Please click on the link below, read, and understand the story. This reading will be due Monday, September 19th.
By_Any_Other_Name.pdf
Mood in The Pearl Worksheet
If you did not finish this worksheet in class, please finish it by Wednesday, September 14th.
Vocabulary Corrections:
Vocabulary corrections are due Tuesday, September 13th. Please see below for instructions. Follow them exactly. Your assignment is on time if it is stapled and ready to be handed in the moment class bell rings.
Fairytale Revision Rubric
Read the fairytale revision rubric and KNOW it. Due September 9th.
Fairytale Revisions:
Planning sheet, completely filled out and in complete sentences, is due September 8th.
First draft, which should represent your very best intellectual effort is due Monday, September 11th. Please make sure it's about 500 words, typed, double-spaced, and stapled to your planning sheet. Your assignment is on time if it ready to be handed in the moment class bell rings.
Figurative Language Posters:
2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th period should do AS MUCH AS THEY CAN to complete the posters and the worksheets by class time tomorrow, September 8th. We will revisit this project again in class tomorrow.
Please Note: The vocabulary homework is still due tomorrow by 3 o'clock. Thursday's homework (the paraphrase of the illusions passage in Chapter 3) is now due Tuesday. The website was down last night, and I realize that it would be taxing to complete both of these assignments in one night.
Vocabulary
Directions: (a) In a Microsoft Office document, type the best 10 words from your 15 new vocabulary words which you found in Chapters 1-3. These words are in your notebooks. Underline and number them. Look up each word in the dictionary, and write down the full definition including the part of speech after each word. (b) Then, copy down the sentence from The Pearl in which the word appears. (c) Finally, rewrite the sentence substituting the appropriate definition in the place of the vocabulary word. Format your paper so that it is easy to read and understand. When you are finished, put your name (first and last) date, and period number on the top right-hand corner of the document.
When you are finished, save, print, and staple your document. This assignment is worth 30 points.
Your assignment should look like this:
1. a. Amiable: adj. having or showing agreeable personal qualities; pleasant; affable. 2 friendly, sociable. 3. agreeable; willing to accept the wishes, decisions, or suggestions of another.
b. Jack is an amiable boy, for he always says, "Good morning, Ms. Rabinovich," when she sees him in the hallway.
c. Jack is a pleasant and friendly boy, for he always says, "Good morning, Ms. Rabinovich," when she sees him in the hallway.
Thursday's Homework (Due Thursday)
You may work with a partner on this assignment.
1. Reread the passage on page 295 that begins with "Although the morning was young."
2. In your notebooks, paraphrase this passage using your own words.
3. Find two more passages in Chapter 2 that have to do with the mirage or illusions. Read them. If you don't know the meanings of the word mirage and illusions, look them up in the dictionary.
4. In your notebooks, answer the following question: Are the people of the Gulf (the natives) confident in what they see with their eyes? Support your answer with specific quotations from the text.
Wednesday's Homework (Due Wednesday)
Read Chapter 3.
In complete sentences, answer Chapter 3 questions in your notebooks. You do not need to write down the question, but you should rephrase it and make it into a statement within your answer.
1. The entire town finds out that Kino has found the Pearl of the World. What five people or groups of people are especially interested in the pearl?
2. What four things does Kino want to do now that he is a rich man.
3. Kino feels hatred when he sees the doctor because "hundreds of years of subjugations were cut deep in him." Look up the word subjugation in the dictionary and then explain the meaning of this line.
4. Why does Kino let the doctor enter the hut?
5. What happens to the baby after the doctor gives him the white powder?
6. What scary event occurs in the middle of the night?
7. What does Juana tell Kino about the pearl?
8. Make a list of 5 more new vocabulary words. Include page numbers.
Tuesday's Homework (Due Tuesday)
Please note: if you got a 13/15 on your notecard, that is because you did not write your name (first and last), date, and period number on the back side.
In complete sentences, answer Chapter 2 Questions in your notebooks. You do not need to write down the question, but you should rephrase it and make it into a statement within your answer.
1. Why is the canoe "the one thing of value" that Kino owns?
2. How does Juana treat her baby, and why does she believe in the effectiveness of this remedy?
3. Does Juana succeed in treating Coyotito? Include a quotation from the ending of the chapter to support your answer.
4. Has Juana and Kino's faith been influenced by the European colonizers? Find a quotation that supports your answer; it may come from either the first or the second chapter.
5. Make a list of 5 more new vocabulary words. Include page numbers.
Monday's Homework:
Read Chapter 2 of The Pearl.
Friday's Homework:
Period 1: Finish group work questions 1 and 2.
Period 2: Finish ALL group work questions.
Period 4: Finish group work questions 1 and 2.
Period 5: Finish group work questions 1 and 2.
Period 6: Finish group work questions 1 and 2.
Group Work Questions:
1. What is the mood of the opening passages? Decide on an excellent adjective and support it with five quotations from the text. Write a sentence explaining each quotation. (Refer to Homework Question 1)
2. Characterize either Kino, Juana, or the doctor. (Just the character that I circled on your sheet.) Decide on an adjective and support it with three examples or quotations from the text. Write a sentence explaining each quotation you use.
3. What do the differences between the natives' and the doctor's neighborhoods reflect about teach group of people? In particular, look at the descriptions of nature and animals. (Refer to Homework Question 3)
4. In the end of the chapter Kino and the doctor's servant feel shame. Look up the meaning of this word in the dictionary and record the most fitting definition.
All work must be written in your notebooks using complete sentences.
Thursday's Homework:
Read the guiding questions in your The Pearl packet.
Wednesday's Homework:
1. Reflect on what you learned about fairytales and the oral tradition. Fill one side of a 3x5 notecard with your thoughts and conclusions. Write in clear, logically-structured sentences. On the back of the card, write your name, date, and period number.
2. Read Chapter 1 of The Pearl and answer questions from the board in your notebooks and using complete sentences. The questions are below:
- Kino is happy with his life in the beginning of the novel. Find three supports for this claim.
- Describe Kino's neighborhood. Describe the doctor's neighborhood. Your descriptions of each should include three distinct elements.
- Identify three conflicts in the story. Explain each conflict using one or two complete sentences.
- Make a list of 5 words that you do not know from the Chapter. Include the page on which you found each word.