Monday, 2/24/14 - Late Star Schedule.
Copy homework into assignment book.
Warm Up. Use your spelling list.
- theory : valid :: judge : _______ (2)
- car : vehicle :: guarantee : ________
- detour : temporary :: treasure : _______ (2)
- restaurant : menu :: tourist : ________
- speech : pauses :: writing : _______
Go over Test #20
New Novel!
What do you know about Hitler and the Holocaust?
Maus by Art Spiegelman. Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1992. It took him 13 years.
Maus Log: Sort of like KBAR Responding for in-class reading.
5 minute write - 5 points each - Checked Friday w/KBAR.
"Maus Log I - 2/24/13"
a) Read the first two pages:
- Translate his father's last sentence into a normal English sentence.
- What does he mean?
b) Why do you think the drawings so simple and not more realistic? Why cats and mice?
c) What is your first impression of Vladek?
Aloud. Chapter One. Drama style with parts.
- Artie
- Artie's wife, Froancoise
- His father Vladek
- His mother Anja (Anna) -- now dead.
- His stepmother Mala -- now married to Vladek
- Lucia Greenberg
After-- Maus Log II.
Response.
Valentino, gefilte fish, Czestochowa, Poland, Sosnowiec, Auschwitz