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Wednesday, 11/9: Husker Du, Vocab + Relay, MoMS

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/world/lice-comb-discovery-earliest-sentence-alphabet-scn

Tomorrow’s Test: Husker Du, Vocab, Alyce, MoMS. Preview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G5FE6vnYvMI0Q04gRkNlaAfZ5-HFnvjOKGXeR33aAdg/edit?usp=sharing

“Warm Up, 11/9.” COPY and LABEL . (10)
I like relaxing in the comfy library; it is also a great place to study.

“Vocab, 11/9.” divine, stark, discerning, assent, demur, transfix, metamorphosis, prevail, idiosyncrasy

  1. Emily Dickinson says that someone who is _____ can tell Madness from Sense.
  2. When the group wanted to jump off the cliff, I ____(ed) and said I’d rather live.
  3. We were behind at half, but I had confidence we would still _____.
  4. Since I hadn’t studied, I was hoping to be saved by some _____ intervention that would cancel the test. But the angel never showed up.
  5. It was unanimous; everyone ____(ed) to the llama’s plan.
  6. We were all _____(ed) by the parade of magic llamas.
  7. The roots of this word meant “own private mixture”
  8. The roots of this word meant “to transform.”
  9. The roots of this word meant “to fasten through.”
  10. The roots of this word meant “to have greater power.”
  11. The roots of this word meant “severe or strong.”
  12. The roots of this word meant “to feel or think towards.”
  13. The roots of this word meant “to separate apart.”

 

VOCAB RELAY SPRINT!

“Monsters Review, 11/9.”

  1. What do the people of Maple Street think the UFO is at first?
  2. Who gets them thinking it might be something else?
  3. So far in the play, who is the scapegoat for all of the fears of the people of Maple Street?
  4. Why?
  5. What was our inciting incident?

 

Monsters on Maple Street, Act II...

Link to Play for those at home: https://www.springtownisd.net/cms/lib3/TX21000442/Centricity/Domain/575/u1_the_monster_due_se.pdf

 

Tuesday, 11/8: TMA Wrap, Vocab + 1, Drama!

“Warm Up, 11/8.” Answer, not letter.

  1. When the midwife rejects Alyce the first time she comes back.  (PM)
  2. When the midwife finally accepts Alyce back.  (PM)
  3. When Alyce fails to deliver Emma Blunt’s baby and runs away from the village.  (PM)
  4. Alyce learning to read. (PM)
  5. What does the TMA dedication mean?
  6. Poem #435 says that “the Majority” always prevailed on the question of…   a) what is the right thing to do. b) who’s weird and who isn’t. c) who’s cool and who isn’t. d) who’s important and who isn’t. e) All of the above.  f) NOTA
  7. Poem #435 says that if you disagree with the majority… a) you’re Mad. b) you’re stupid. c) you’re dangerous. d) you’re doing the right thing.  e) all of the above.   f) NOTA

“Vocab, 11/8.” divine, stark, discerning, assent, demur, transfix, metamorphosis, prevail
   

9. “In this brief fraction of a moment, they take the first step toward performing a _____ that changes people from a group into a mob.”
10. She has a very _____ eye for bargains and always gets the best deal.
11. There was a very _____ contrast between the two candidates; they were very much on opposite sides.
12. After the expensive makeover, she looked and felt ______…
13. …and everyone was _____(ed) as she walked down the street.

Add to Vocab List: Idiosyncrasy: an unusual way in which a particular person behaves or thinks. Examples!?

“Monsters…”
Discuss:

  • What is the purpose of fear? In other words, why do we get scared?
  • What fears might be called “universal”; shared by most almost all humans?
  • Why do we like it sometimes? (Don’t say, “It’s fun.” Duh.)
  • How does fear affect the decisions you make?
  • “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Meaning?  (Bonus: Who said that famous quote?)
  • Why do people act so dumb in a group? (What if they’re scared too?)

 

“The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”

Read intro on p245.

Basic script vocabulary: pan, zoom, voiceover, etc.

Assign roles.

Let’s “act.”

Link to Play for those at home: https://www.springtownisd.net/cms/lib3/TX21000442/Centricity/Domain/575/u1_the_monster_due_se.pdf

Monday, 11/7: Homework, Debrief Test #11, Vocab, Alyce

Slides Link for Homies: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lKP5feLlI6TGIEDpyk7GSY48Qf4TuPtlPM9SqcEMJF0/edit?usp=sharing

Copy homework into planner.

 

Madness = insanity
All = everythingCopy This week’s Vocab:divinest = most perfect, the best
discerning = able to see and understand things clearly and intelligently
starkest = most obvious
prevail = wins
assent = say yes
demur = say no
metamorphosis = a major change in the
appearance or character of someone or something
transfix = to surprise or shock someone into not moving		 Poem #435
by Emily Dickinson 

Much Madness is divinest Sense–
To a discerning Eye–
Much Sense–the starkest Madness–
‘Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail–
Assent–and you are sane–
Demur–you’re straightway dangerous–
And handled with a Chain–
  1. Copy this week’s vocab and defs. into your notebook.
  2. Each Color is a different group, 1-6.  “Translate” your line.
  3. What is the message of the poem?

 

Debrief Test #11. Ugh.

TIP FOR ABSENTEES: You can keep up with the TMA reading by going here for an online version:

https://fliphtml5.com/bmca/czvi/basic

ALYCE – Chapter 16 and 17?

  1. Alyce has three good options in Chapter 17; but instead of choosing one of these, she decides to return to the village.
    -What are her three options?  -Why does she decide to return to the village instead?
  2. Initially, Jane Sharp would not allow Alyce to be her apprentice again. Why?
  3. Did Alyce find what she was looking for from life?
  4. What do you think the main theme of the book is?
  5. Read the dedication. What does it mean?

-What might Alyce think about living here today and going to 7th Grade classes at Laguna? What makes you think so? What attributes does she have that might make her be successful here and now.

 

Thursday, 11/3: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #11

Prep Sheet for Test #11:

KBAR: ___/28     Vocab Practices: ___/13  ___/11

“Mental Floss.”

  1. From what can you take away the whole, and still have some left?
  2. I am more microscopic than microscopic; I am more minuscule than minuscule. I am smaller than small and I am tinier than tiny. Yet surprisingly, I am still big. What am I?
  3. Wacky Wordy. What 6-word phrase is represented?

    T
    A
    H
    W
    		 M
    U
    S
    T
    		 D
    O
    W
    N
  4. Wacky Wordy: (2 words, one hyphenated)
    1. Do Do
    2. Dew Dew
    3. Due Due
  5. A cat had three kittens: Mopsy, Topsy, and Spot. What was the mother’s name. Remember to please capitalize the name of the momma kitty when you write it for me.
  6. What do these three things have in common? Corn, Weasel, Balloon

Test #11.

Doodle Theme: It‘s not what it seems…

Wednesday, 11/2: Husker Du, Vocab TMA

Tomorrow’s Test: All review except TMA questions. Preview Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gfY0Qixt9n2C69FO_SV2w3Ij7r0S5iTDhG7j8Ekd51o/edit?usp=sharing

“Warm Up, 11/2.”
Simple, Compound, Complex, Fragment, Run-on?

  1. Words like since, unless, and because signify that a sentence is… _____
  2. The presence of a comma and one of the FANBOYS usually means the sentence is…_____
  3. The llama was being childish, so his mom ate the cheeselog._____
  4. His doctor recommended buying a llama and going water-skiing._____
  5. The llama thought he was OK until he wasn’t._____
  6. When you use a dependent clause as a sentence._____
  7. The _____ lounge is usually off-limits to students. (More than one teacher.)  
  8. _____ llama is that?  (who)
  9. I think that llama is _____.   (they)
  10. I think ____ going to be OK. (they)

“Vocab, 11/2.”  savvy, conform, ironic, gallant, indignant, conducive, discreet, patronize, exploit, sullen

  1. It was rather ____ when the Animal Rescue truck ran over the stray llama.
  2. I was ____ and bored when my mom made me attend my sister’s dance recital.
  3. He tried to be ___ when cheating, but he was caught anyway.
  4. I will never ____ that store again after the llama was so rude to me.
  5. I was ____ when the llama accused me of breaking the lamp instead of my brother.
  6. Cherry felt like she had to ____ to certain standards in her social life as a Soc.
  7. He was able to _____ his knowledge to take advantage of the less informed llama.
  8. Please don’t _____ the llama; he knows how to sharpen his pencil himself.
  9. Everyone agreed that Johnny was _____ in saving those kids from the fire.
  10. The llama may not be “book-smart,” but he has a lot of _____ about the world.
  11. Having a lot of distractions and noise around is not _____ to good studying.

The Midwife’s Apprentice… Through Chapter 15.

TIP FOR ABSENTEES: You can keep up with the TMA reading by going here for an online version:

https://fliphtml5.com/bmca/czvi/basic

TMA Slides Part 2…