vocabulary

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• Type  your best 2 SMYK’s – NOT METAMORPHOSIS.

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LAST WEEK OF THE SEMESTER. Grades are pretty much what they are.

Homework Check: You’re Welcome…

You should have already sent me  your KBARR chart for 1/4-1/8!!!!

SGI for TODAY, MONDAY, 1/11:

Do your dang KBAR. 

Do the Monsters Quiz (See Below).

Anyone who needs to clear a zero, stick around at the end of class.

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Sentence Scramble is Back!

“Sentence Scramble, 1/11.” Yes, several ways to do this one! Bonus: What kind of sentence is it?

• because
• but
• to wash his llama
• the llama looked worse
• he did not
• Mr. Johnson hired me
• a second time
• than it did before
• hire me

 

“Vocab, 1/8 (1/11).”

    

1. _____ (Bonus if you can translate! Good luck with that.)
2. (2) _____ and ______
3. _____
4. “Quick, Bartlett! ______ them with hope!”
5. “It’s times like these we really need to roll up our sleeves, rally together, and find a _____.”
6. Everybody has _______(s) that other people might find weird.
7. Patience with the ways of nature had been ____(ed) in her by her park ranger father.
8. The prefix of this word means across or through: _____
9. “S’up?” is an example of  _______ language.
10. In professional sports, the coach is often the _____for a team’s bad performance, even if it isn’t always his fault.
11. Some people in this class have such a _____ of points that they could skip a test, take a zero, and still have an A.
12. True/False?  The words surfeit and abundance are similar in meaning.
13. True/False?  Shaving your head is an example of a metamorphosis.
14. True/False?  When you are begrudging, you are enthusiastic.

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“I’m Nobody”
by  Emily Dickinson

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you–Nobody–too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d banish us–you know!

How dreary–to be–Somebody!
How public–like a Frog–
To tell your name–the livelong June–
To an admiring Bog!

IN CHAT – PUBLIC!!!!!

1. What do you think she means by Nobody?
2. Why would “they” banish the nobodies?
3. What does the “admiring Bog” stand for? (A bog is a swampy area where frogs and such would live.)
4. Does the narrator like being a nobody? How can you tell? Use a line from the poem to back up what you say.
5. How would you feel about being famous?

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Fame is a bee
It has a song–
It has a sting–
Ah, too, it has a wing.

IN CHAT PUBLIC: What do the song, the sting, and the wing represent about Fame?

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On your own before next time. Monsters Quiz.

You may use the script: Monsters-are-Due-on-Maple-Street-Script.

Monsters Quiz Period 5.

Monsters Quiz Period 6

Monsters Quiz Period 1

Monsters Quiz Period 2

Monsters Quiz Period 3

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SGI for Thursday, 1/7: I sent an email to those required to come in the afternoon. Anyone else who wants help or needs to try to clear a zero is also invited.

Check in in Chat (PRIVATE): Type the ANSWER, not the letter.

1. In Poem #435, Emily Dickinson 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
2. Poem #435 says that if a person looked very carefully… a) he would see that everyone is weird. b) he would see that what might look weird really isn’t. c) he would see that what might seem sane really isn’t. d) All of the above. e) b and c.   f) NOTA
3. Poem #435 says that if you disagree with the majority… a) you’re weird. b) you’re stupid. c) you’re considered dangerous. d) you’re doing the right thing.  e) all of the above.   f) NOTA

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Checking Vocab Definitions.

Words of the day: colloquial and idiosyncrasy

“Vocab, 1/6 (1/7).”

1. _____
2. _____
3. “If there are no other ideas, then it’s agreed we blame the media.” _____
4. Since I hadn’t studied, I was ______ about my chances on the difficult test.
5. The hill with the M on it is known _____(ly) as Madonna Mountain, but its real name is… (Bonus 1: Real name. Bonus 2: en Espanol.)
6. Mr. Calandro is trying to _____ a sense of kindness in the students of Laguna.
7. The replays of the rescue ____ TV watchers all over the country.
8. The _____ of two full moons in one month is called a blue moon.
9. The root of this word means “shape.”   ______
10. He didn’t think the judgement was fair, so he only paid the money ______(ingly).
11. There is always a ______of food and drink at the MidState Fair.
12. True or False? Always taking the same route to school is a good example of an idiosyncrasy. 
13. True/False? Referring to a judge as “Your Honor,” is an example of colloquial language.

 

“The Monsters are Due On Maple Street”

IN CHAT (PRIVATE – MINI QUIZ):

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. What is the inciting incident in MoMS?

 

Act/Read until end of Act I.

Watch Act II. (Screen Share, start at 10:00)

(IF YOU ARE ABSENT WHEN WE WATCH THIS, YOU MUST FINISH READING THE PLAY ON YOUR OWN FOR THE TEST!)

Link to TELEPLAY: Monsters-are-Due-on-Maple-Street-Script

If there’s time in your class:

After. IN CHAT – PRIVATE. Valid and Invalid conclusions.

• The people of Maple Street, motivated by fear, jump to several INVALID CONCLUSIONS. Name three Invalid Conclusions made about characters in the play.
• Who were the real Monsters?

 

 

 

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Check in in Chat (PUBLIC): If the rumble and the deaths of Johnny and Dally are all at the top of Plot Mountain as the parts of the Climax, tell where each of the following incidents would be (PUBLIC):  Choices: exposition, rising action, inciting incident, falling action, resolution
a)  P and J cutting their hair    b) the hearing in court    c) Revealing that the book is Pony’s essay for English   d) Johnny stabbing Bob   e) Dally hassling the girls

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Go over Homework.

SGI: Go to NEWSELA and do another reading skills check. You should have 3 done by the end of today!

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Warm Up in Chat: (PUBLIC) What do you think the following quote means? (PUBLIC.)

“It’s like it ain’t so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”

 

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–

Madness = insanity/craziness divinest = most perfect, the best discerning = looking  very carefully/showing good judgement starkest = most obvious All = everything prevail = decides/wins/rules assent = say yes demur = say no

In Chat (PRIVATE):

According to the poem:

1. Who decides who’s normal and who’s crazy?
2. What does “as ALL” mean?

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“The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” (The Twilight Zone)

Think and 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?
• In general, what are (most) humans scared of?

Link to TELEPLAY: Monsters-are-Due-on-Maple-Street-Script

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

Assign roles.

Let’s “act.”

 

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Check in in Chat: What’s one thing you’re going to do over vacay besides sleep and eat and watch TV?

Good News! We are staying with the current schedule and way of doing things until we go back LIVE!

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The Simpsons: Time and Punishment

Twilight Zone: Number 12 Looks Just Like You

Have a grand vacation. HAVE FUN!

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FastBridge Instructions:

1. Click this link: https://slcusd.illuminatehc.com/login
2. Click “Sign in with Google”
3. Click the blue “Continue to Portal” button.
4. In the grey bar on the left hand side of your screen, click “Fastbridge Learning”.
5. The assessments you’re completing today are the:
   • aReading
   • AUTOreading

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Check in in Chat: (private)Why is Dally’s death even sadder FOR THE READER than Johnny’s?

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Explanation papers are due TODAY for Periods 5,6!

Send your KBARR Chart tonight!

EVERYBODY COME AT 1:00 for SGI for Fastbridge. Same ZOOM link.

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The Outsiders.

Chapter 10 Quiz – Period 1

Chapter 10 Quiz – Period 2

Chapter 10 Quiz – Period 3

Chapter 10 Quiz – Period 5

Chapter 10 Quiz – Period 6

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Go over quiz.

Chapter 11 and 12 aloud.

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Do Outsider Plot Quiz by tomorrow:

Plot Quiz – Period 1

Plot Quiz – Period 2

Plot Quiz – Period 3

Plot Quiz – Period 5

Plot Quiz – Period 6