Month: November 2019

Friday, 11/22: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test 14

Quickly Prep Sheet for Test #14.
KBAR Chart:___/20      Vocabulary h/w: ___/20     Vocabulary Practices: ___/13  ___/12  ___/12
Other Extra Credit: Period 2 +3 for vocab Relay, All others +1.

Mental Floss.

  1. Wacky Wordies. The colors are not part of the clues.
    a)    b) 
    c)  d) 
  2. Figure out what the three things in each set have in common. Each answer is a six-letter word ending in -s.
    • a) trombone, playground, microscope
    • b) railroad, muddy shoes, music cd
  3. What living creature has fur, four legs, and a tail, eats cat food, meows, and sees equally well from both ends of its body?
  4. Name an English word (there are actually two) of more than two letters that both begins and ends with the letters -he in that order. “Hehe” is not an acceptable answer.

 

Test #14.

Doodle Theme: Vacation.

Thursday, 11/21: Scramble, Vocab, Twilight Zone

3-mile Run Tomorrow, then… Thanksgiving Break!

Tomorrow’s “Test”: Vocab, Monsters (reading and video),

“Vocab, 11/21.”
   

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. You may _______ to someday be as cool as Mr. Coward. (Good luck with that.)
  6. Doing your homework every day before playing video games is a ____ strategy for success.
  7. It was hard to believe that such a huge voice emanated from such a ____ girl.
  8. Even after I apologized and cleaned my room, my mom was not _____(ed); she was still pretty mad.
  9. I could remember every detail _____(ly), almost like I was still there.
  10. The situation on Maple Street became _______ rather quickly, and then everything broke down.
  11. (2) Mr. Scrooge (“Bah, Humbug”) is the ____  _____.

Vocabulary Relay!

MoMS Test Preview.

  1. (247) “It’s a tree-lined, quiet residential American street…”  a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax   e) falling action  f) resolution  g) theme  h) irony
  2. (p249) “I had the soup on the stove and the stove just stopped working.”  a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax   e) falling action  f) resolution  g) theme  h) irony
  3. (p253) “You’re sick people–all of you. And you don’t even know what you’re starting…”  a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax   e) falling action  f) resolution  g) theme  h) irony
  4. (p254) “Why, it’s like going back to the dark ages or something.”    a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax   e) falling action  f) resolution  g) theme  h) irony
  5. (p260) “Their world is full of Maple Streets. And we’ll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves.”  a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax   e) falling action  f) resolution  g) theme  h) irony
  6. (p258) “Get Steve–Get Charlie–They’re working together!!” a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax   e) falling action  f) resolution  g) theme  h) irony
  7. (p260) “There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices…” a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax   e) falling action  f) resolution  g) theme  h) irony
  8. Who are the real “monsters”?
  9. How can we connect the meanings of The Outsiders and MoMS?

“You have just crossed over into… The Twilight Zone!”

After Video: Why do you think they decided to show the the aliens at the end if the tv version, instead of hiding them as they did in the script? Why might their physical form be important to the theme?

 

 

Number 12?

 

Wednesday, 11/20: Vocab, Poem #435, Monsters,

 

“Vocab, 11/20.”

  

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. Abby is a _____ form of Abigail.
  5. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are _____ figures in American history.
  6. She faced a _____ about turning in her friend for cheating.
  7. The villagers sacrificed a >_____< to try to _____ their angry god. (>___< = Previous vocab word = bonus.)
  8. The amount of work required in an Honors class can be quite _____.
  9. The dream was so ____ that I fell out of bed trying to fly.
  10. inspiring : daunting :: stable : ______
  11. skinflint : benevolent :: ______ : easy
  12. Give an example of a saw that is different from the one you used for your SMYK.
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
divinest = most perfect, the best
discerning = looking  very carefully/showing good judgement
starkest = most obvious
All = everything
prevail = decides/wins
assent = say yes
demur = say no

Each group “translates” one set of lines using the vocab key.
How does this relate to the quote from yesterday?

“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.”

 

“MONSTERS! Review Quiz, 11/20.” SOLO!!!! CLOSED BOOK! (5)

  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. (Be careful!!!)

Connect the Poem to the Play!

Pssst… Act! “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.

Tuesday, 11/19: Scramble, Vocab, Monsters!

 

“Daily Scramble, 11/19.” Two sentences or one with a semicolon. No commas!

  • the compsognathus
  • than a chicken
  • in fact
  • some very small dinosaurs
  • was only
  • there were also
  • slightly larger

 

 

“Vocab, 11/19.”
   

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. forgettable : iconic :: emotional : _______
  6. She has high ______(ations). She wants to rule the world.
  7. huge : diminutive :: inspiring : ______
  8. The root of this word means “life.” _____
  9. Reading Shakespeare for the first time can be rather ______.
  10. (2) They tried to ______ the angry and _____ mob by telling them their concerns would be addressed.
  11. “Dig and be dug in return” is Langston Hughes’s version of the old ____ about treating others how you want to be treated.
  12. Fifth Period tried to ____ Mr. Coward’s anger with cookies.

 

“The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.” p246.

“Sometimes I ain’t so sho who’s got him a right to say a man is crazy and when he ain’t. Sometimes I think there ain’t none of us pure crazy and ain’t none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. 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.”   (From As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner)

“Translate.” (Sum up the above in 20 words or less.)
Is he right? What makes you think so/not?

 

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?
  • “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?)

Read intro on p245.

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

Assign roles.

Let’s “act.”

 

 

Monday, 11/18: Homework, Debrief test #13, SRI

Homies: Procrastination?!

Copy homework into planer. You’re welcome very much.

Debrief Test #13. Ouch!

SRI – Round II.

Get a Chromebook. Log in. Open Chrome. Come here to middleschool.mrcoward.com.

Click:  https://h100000583.education.scholastic.com/slms/studentaccess

Click the blue RI icon on the lower left. Follow the directions. Make a note of your score. The last time we did this was 9/3. You should have written your number down back then. Compare!

Here is the chart of YEAR-END Proficiency Ranges.

If you finish early, start your vocab definitions. Link to Learnersdictionary.com.