•Directions: Journal Response: Choose one of the following prompts & respond in your notebook. (Minimum: 4 sentences)
•Begin a list of questions that you'd like to have answered. They may be about the future or the past. OR If you could change one law, what law would it be and how would you change it? LIT #8: cacophony (look up the definition & provide an example in your NB)
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“How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they see themselves.”
(Copy the quote and your “spin” into your notebook!) Lit #7: Rhetoric (look up the definition and provide an example in your NB) DQ #46 (Journal Response)
Choose one of the two prompts, copy it into your NB, and respond in 3-4 sentences/a list. •What would you do if you could live a day without consequences? »OR …. •What are the top ten qualities a friend should have? “If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.”
– Maya Angelou (Copy the quote into your NB & write your “spin”) LIT #6 - Connotation •Connotation = an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. •Most of the time, it’s either positive or negative (or neutral). Example: Depending on the context of what's around the word, "She's strong-willed" could either mean -She's determined (positive connotation) -She's stubborn/intolerant (negative connotation). You need what is in BOLD in your notebook :) “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” - MLKJR (You only need to copy what’s in bold into your notebook, but write your “spin” on the whole thing.) DQ 43 (Journal Response)
Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert, or a little of both? Explain why & support your thoughts with at least one scenario from your life. (4-6 sentences) Lit term #5 onomatopoeia (look up definition & an example & add to your notebook!) DQ #42 -- "Don't let your struggle become your identity."
:Lit Term #1 - euphamism #2 - personification #3 - anaphora #4 - alliteration DQ #39 - “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
(Copy the quote into your notebook and as part of your “spin”, answer the question – What’s the difference between the melting pot and mosaic metaphor?) DQ #40 - "A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. (Copy the quote into your NB & write your “spin” on it)" DQ #41 - "“A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.” ― Albert Einstein (Copy the quote into your NB & write your “spin” on it) 1. Daily Quote #38
“Running away from the problem only increases your distance from the solution.” 2. Pre-Reading Research for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian •Create a file on Google Drive for our notes and activities pertaining to this novel. •Look up the following & answer 5 W’s for each: Who? What? When? Where? Why? –Native American (Indian) Reservations –Spokane Indian Reservation –Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 3. Read The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (see Mrs. Howes for a copy of this) & answer the following questions: (short story by Sherman Alexie, who also wrote The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian) Post-Reading Q’s (Complete in your NB, but not on the same page as your DQs so you can tear it out later.) -How does the story show the way some outsiders perceive Native Americans from the reservations? -How does Victor (the narrator) feel about his relationship with his ex-girlfriend? -What is the significance of the final line, “I know how all my dreams end anyway.”? What does Victor mean by this? How does he feel all of his dreams end? |
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