Month: January 2025

Tomorrow’s Quiz: Picks from your class’s review test + Vladek. About 15 questions. No Preview. Go study your class’s test!

Periods One and Two
“Test 2, 1/15.”

Period 3
“Test 5, 1/15.”

Period 5
“Test 4, 1/15”

Period 6.
“Test 12/2, 1/15.”

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Vladek Quiz.

1. p221, first panel, the one on the right.
2. Why did Vladek ask for the kapo’s piece of paper?
3. p223, the mouse in stripes.
4. Why did Anja’s kapo change her attitude toward Anja?
5. What was “Black Work”?
6. p228, second to last panel, the one in stripes. _____

Maus Chapter 3.  Online Version

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Last Chance to Work on ESSAYS!

Interviews. Share FINISHED ESSAY (Not Notes) with me by end of day THURSDAY, 1/16.

Checklist and Rubric.

• Introduction: Setting. Description of scene/setting. How it was set up. Why you chose this person. Relationship to this person.
• Description of person. Show, don’t tell.
  • Looks. (Details.)
  • Voice and choice of words. Delivery.
  • Personality. (Bitter? Enthusiastic? Happy? Lost in memories? Crabby?  What?)
• The intro/description should be 200-300 words.
• Interview.
  • Questions you asked, followed by answers and follow up. (“My first question was…”  “I started by asking…” Etc.)
  • You may summarize their answers, but please include at least three good quotes (word for word, as close as you can get, using quotation marks) that use the person’s actual words.
• Conclusion: Discuss what you learned, most surprising info, most interesting, change in attitude toward older people, etc. About 50-75 words.
• Name and Period and AN INTERESTING TITLE actually typed into the document.

Sample 1, Sample 2, Sample 3, Sample 4

Spin the Wheel of Doom for Review. Quiz Thursday: I pick 7 0r 8 from today and tomorrow + Vladek questions.

“WoD, 1/14. Period 1.”

 

“WoD, 1/14. Period 2.”

 

“WoD, 1/14. Period 3.”

 

“WoD, 1/14. Period 5.”

 

“WoD, 1/14. Period 6.”

 

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Debrief Test #16. Some good, some not. #11? Really?

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1. How did Vladek manage to get over to Birkenau and actually see Anja?
2. Why does Vladek get beaten by a guard?

Maus p220 – end of Chapter 2? Online Version: p60–>

Time? Work on Essays.

 

“Advisory” Schedule. No school Friday. Semester ends Thursday. No TuTu this week, so no FlexiSkeddy.

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Copy “homework” into planner:

Final Draft of Interview Essay due end of day THURSDAY!

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FASTBRIDGE (I know…)

Check your headphones before starting Fastbridge.

• https://slcusd.illuminatehc.com/login
• Sign in with Google (red button).
• Continue to Portal.
• Select Fastbridge Learning from the sidebar.
• Fast Track Reading.
• Do the aReader and the AutoReader (Do all of the mini tests.)
• Do anything that says Reading until they’re all gone

 

Finished? Work on Essay.

Interviews. Share FINISHED ESSAY (Not Notes) with me by end of day THURSDAY, 1/16.

Checklist and Rubric.

• Introduction: Setting. Description of scene/setting. How it was set up. Why you chose this person. Relationship to this person.
• Description of person. Show, don’t tell.
  • Looks. (Details.)
  • Voice and choice of words. Delivery.
  • Personality. (Bitter? Enthusiastic? Happy? Lost in memories? Crabby?  What?)
• The intro/description should be 200-300 words.
• Interview.
  • Questions you asked, followed by answers and follow up. (“My first question was…”  “I started by asking…” Etc.)
  • You may summarize their answers, but please include at least three good quotes (word for word, as close as you can get, using quotation marks) that use the person’s actual words.
• Conclusion: Discuss what you learned, most surprising info, most interesting, change in attitude toward older people, etc. About 50-75 words.
• Name and Period and AN INTERESTING TITLE actually typed into the document.

 

“TuTu” Schedule.

FOV: Fish Operated Vehicle

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Prep sheet for Test #16:

KBARR: ___/24   SMYK: ___/10  Vocab 1-9: ___/13    Other Extra Credit: Period 5 gets +2 for Vocab Relay; all other classes get +1.

Mental Floss.

1. What two words contain the most letters?
2. Wacky Wordy: my you’re way
3. Can you figure out the logic I used to decide the order of the following words? (Hint: Sing them to yourself.)
   gun, shoe, spree, door, hive, kicks, heaven, gate, line, den
4. Below are clues to two homonyms. Figure out what pair of words the clues are describing. Example: Rabbit fur = hare hair. You must get the order of the words correct and spell them correctly.
   a) What a metal thief would do.     b) A basic truth about a school leader.     c) A loud noise from tennis devices.
5. This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!
6. What is this poem talking about?
   “The beginning of eternity
   The end of time and space
   The beginning of every end,
   And the end of every place.”

 

Test #16.

Doodle Theme: A car that matches your personality!

 

Tomorrow’s Test: Paragraph Scramble, Vocab, Vladek. Link after period four.

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“Paragraph Scramble, 1/9.” Write out the paragraph in the correct order.

1.  Summer is a beautiful time of year.
2. There are more vehicles on the road; thus there are more accidents.
3. At the beaches, people are playing in the sand and water.
4. In addition, older people may be more prone to heart attacks.
5. On the other hand, summer can be a hazardous time.
6. Beaches, picnics, vacations, and fun are in store.

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“Vocabulary, 1/9.” fastidious, insinuate, improvise, shrewd, allegory, absolution, consign, agitate, sanction
   

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____ (Not allegory)
5. Jean is very _____ about her silverware; she won’t eat at that restaurant because she thinks the forks aren’t clean enough.
6. The protesters _____(ed) for change in the unfair law.
7. She said she found the cute, slightly-used dress for a low price at the _____(ment) store.
8. The roots of this word meant “other speaking.” ______
9. The original root of this word was “unforeseen.”______
10. The roots of this word meant “to loosen, to free.”______
11. This root of this word originally meant “an evil person or thing,” but gradually the connotation changed to a positive one. _____
12. The root of this word was “to mark with the sign of the cross.” _____
13. Which one is the allegory?  a) Mickey Mouse acting like a human.  b) You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.  c) “The Sneetches”   d) He slept like a rock.  e) Diary of a Wimpy Kid  f) B and D  g) NOTA

VOCAB RELAY!!!!!

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Vladek to p. 219. (p59 in online version)

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Interviews. Share FINISHED ESSAY (Not Notes) with me by end of day next Wednesday, 1/15.

Checklist and Rubric.

• Introduction: Setting. Description of scene/setting. How it was set up. Why you chose this person. Relationship to this person.
• Description of person. Show, don’t tell.
  • Looks. (Details.)
  • Voice and choice of words. Delivery.
  • Personality. (Bitter? Enthusiastic? Happy? Lost in memories? Crabby?  What?)
• The intro/description should be 200-300 words.
• Interview.
  • Questions you asked, followed by answers and follow up. (“My first question was…”  “I started by asking…” Etc.)
  • You may summarize their answers, but please include at least three good quotes (word for word, as close as you can get, using quotation marks) that use the person’s actual words.
• Conclusion: Discuss what you learned, most surprising info, most interesting, change in attitude toward older people, etc. About 50-75 words.
• Name and Period and AN INTERESTING TITLE actually typed into the document.