Month: December 2023

Have a relaxing vacation!

LET’S PLAY SCRABBLE.   Scrabble Practice Round.

• Each person draws a letter. The letter closest to A goes first. (Blank beats A.)
• Draw continues clockwise (to the left) after that.
• If no one volunteers, the person with the letter farthest from A is scorekeeper.
• Put those letters back and draw seven (7) each.
• Keep a running total, like this (don’t write what’s in the parentheses):

Jimmy (First Player) 17 (first turn) 6  (second turn) 23 (total so far) 14 (third turn) 37 (total so far)

Johnny (Second Player) 23 15 38 7 45

• First player must put the word down with a letter on the Star (2x word)  in the middle.
• Left to right, top to bottom; not diagonal, not bottom to top!
• Suggestion: no more than 2 minutes per person.
• NO! NO! NO!
  • NO abbreviations or contractions
  • NO foreign words
  • NO proper nouns (nouns you would normally capitalize)
• Check the dictionary.

Multiplier squares are one use only! Once they’re covered up, they’re used up!

Advisory Slides Link???

Periods 1 and 3: PLEASE FINISH BOOK ONE in MAUS BY THE TIME WE GET BACK (JAN 8). In the online version you are in the early p140s.

LINK TO ONLINE MAUS.

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Rechecking Interview Questions.  By January 10:

• Answers to questions/follow-ups.
• Notes on setting and set-up.
• Notes on physical appearance/attitude/isms
• ON PAPER OR TYPED UP IN A GDoc!

Examples of Finished Interview Essays.  More on the website.

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“TZ Quiz, 12/19.”

1. Why is the desk clerk very uncomfortable around Mr. Schmidt when he checked in? (Be specific.)
2. What was the name of the town? (Bonus for correct spelling.)
3. Where was the Captain hiding after the war?
4. What did all the Nazis’ claim after the war when asked why they did it?
5. Why does Rod Serling (the Narrator) say that we must preserve the remnants of the camps?

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“It’s a Good Life”

 

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“Warm Up, 12/18.”

1. What do all the main characters in all three of our books so far have in common?
2. Which character so far has shown the most savvy?

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Examples of Finished Interview Essays.  More on the website.
Rechecking Questions.
By January 10:

• Answers to questions/follow-ups.
• Notes on setting and set-up.
• Notes on physical appearance/attitude/isms
• ON PAPER OR TYPED UP IN A GDoc!

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Art Spiegelman Interview from January.

Deaths-Head Revisited

Vladek will end up in Dachau.

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MadLib!  (NOT Periods 1 and 3.)

MAUS in Periods 1 and 3.

Prep Sheet for Test #16:
KBARR: ____/24  SMYK: ___/10  Other Extra Credit:

 

Mental Floss.

1. What famous fictional character is represented here?   ants, beetles, termites, rabbit
2. An archeologist claims to have dug up a coin that is clearly dated 46 B.C. How do we know he’s lying?
3. A man walks into a room, turns around and walks out the same door he went in. When he gets out he is in a different room than when he started. How is this possible?
4. What number should come next? 144, 121, 100, 81, 64,  _____  (Alert: math.)
5. Spell the word candy with just 2 letters.
6. How many F’s (capital or small–no trick here) are in the following sentence? (Alert: Counting.)
   Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years.  

 

Test #16.

Doodle Theme: A NEW TOY!

“Tutorial” Schedule.

Tomorrow’s Test: Husker Du, Vocab, Vladek, Dr. Seuss. Preview after Period 2.

BRING A BOOK.

120’s are postponed until after break.

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“Interview, 12/14.”
While I check questions, answer the following questions in your notebook using complete sentences:

1. Who are you interviewing?  (“I chose…”)
2. Relationship to you? (They are my…”)
3. Why did you choose this person? (“I chose them because…”)
4. When/How do you plan to do the interview?  How/When are you planning to set it up?  (My plan is…”)
5. What are you most interested in finding out?  (“I would like to know…”)

 

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SMYK’s

“Vocab, 12/14.” mesmerize, quarantine, hypochondria, pandemonium, defray, miser, resolute, intercede, disgruntled, wallow, pauper
   

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. Artie is worried about furthering the racist stereotype of the ____(ly) Jew, but Vladek actually fits it.
6. The root of this word is a guy’s name. ____
7. The root of this word meant “poor.” _____
8. The roots of this word meant “undo the cost.”_____
9. The roots of this word meant “all the demons.”_____
10. The roots of this word meant “the soft part under the ribs.” _____
11. The roots of this word meant “go between.” _____
12. The roots of this word meant “to not utter little grunts.”  (haha) _____
13. The original root of this word meant “to disintegrate or dissolve.”_____

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Debrief Test #15. Improvement!

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“Yertle the Turtle.”

Beginning 😉

https://youtu.be/EkwGOVH17Y8?si=wdTjxCqroeatzDW6  (Start at 2:20)

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Vladek into Book 2.