Month: February 2024

“Advisory” schedule today.

Checking 1-1-1’s for Giver.

“Spelling, 2/6.”

1. (2) If you ____ it, you can ____ it. (Inspirational Phrase.)
2. (2) The _____king’s ______was full of bizarre surprises.
3. (4) List the 4 words on your list that are exceptions to the I/E rule.
4. Why is vein NOT an exception?

“Phrase/Clause Practice, 2/6.” Write out each finished sentence. The extra phrases/clauses may precede the original as well.

1. What does a clause have that a phrase doesn’t?
2. What does Complex sentence have that a Compound one doesn’t?
3. The llama wept.   (Add a dependent clause to make a COMPLEX sentence. Tip: Maybe a clause that explains WHY.)
4. The llama wiggled.  (Add TWO PREPOSITIONAL phrases that show how, where, or which llama, but keep the sentence SIMPLE.)
5. The llama danced.  (Add an independent clause and a conjunction to make a COMPOUND sentence that also shows what you or someone else did.)

“Vocab, 2/6.”
      
augment, wretched, meager, suppress, exuberant, impede, fleeting, wry, lethargic, entity, escalate

1. Pic of a giant, fallen tree blocking the road.
2. Pic of a bear seriously napping.
3. Cartoon of Uncle Sam’s hand over someone’s mouth and the word QUIET!
4. Pic of a joyful grandma leaping into a lake!
5. Pic of a celebrity smirking.
6. Pic of clock dissolving into confetti.
7. Pic of two forlorn women resting on a mattress in a garbage dump.
8. Pokemon Go is an example of a game that uses _____(ed) reality, adding extra features to the real world through technology.
9. After the second offense the punishment _____(ed) from scolding to use of the discipline wand.
10. One division of the company was sold off as a separate _____.
11. This word was actually created as a name for a new invention in the 1920s.
12. (2) Vladek tried to ____ the ____ amount of food they were allowed by working on the black market.

“Giver 1-3.” Answer, not letter.

1. What rule gets broken all the time by everyone?
2. What happens at the ceremony of 12?
3. How is that decision made?
4. Why is Jonas concerned about that decision?
5. Why does Jonas want his father to chastise Lily?
6. What quality does Jonas think Gabriel’s eyes have that other people’s don’t.  a) color  b) depth c) reflection  d) love  e) NOTA
7. True or False? One of the jobs of a Speaker is to publicly chastise those who break minor rules.
8. True or False? Asher also noticed something had changed about the apple they were tossing.
9. The Giver is told in _____.  1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person omniscient, 3rd person objective, 3rd person limited

Giver aloud

Copy Homework into Planner. Until I can get more physical copies, the at-home reading will have to happen online: The Giver.

• KBARR = The Giver. There will be a reading check quiz every day, preceded by a Q/A session. Come prepared with questions about ANYTHING you don’t understand.  Response = DAILY = 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 sentence summary per NIGHT, 1 sentence reaction PER NIGHT, 1 thoughtful question PER NIGHT. Reading assignments might change depending on how far we get in class, so pay attention!  LINK FOR THE GIVER: The Giver.
  • Monday night: to the end of chapter 3.
  • Tuesday night: to the end of chapter 5
  • Wednesday night: to the end of chapter 7
  • Thursday night: to the end of chapter 9
• Vocab due Tuesday and Thursday per usual.

“Warm Up, 2/5.” Copy the bold-faced word in each sentence, filling in the blank appropriately. Do not use the same word twice.

1. The person _______ the counter is the owner.
2. A flock ___ llamas were grazing _______ the fence.
3. The llama flew _______ the clouds.
4. The llama who lives _______ us plays the oboe.
5. Your napkin is lying _______ the table.
6. The books _______ my desk are overdue _____the library.
7. The flowers _______ the house bloomed early.
8. I looked _______ my llama when I came home.
9. Please meet me _______ the museum.
10. The painting _______ the wall was created _____ my llama.

Spelling 2/5. Write the misspelled word correctly or write “all correct” if they are all correct.

1. achieve, beleive, brief, all correct
2. friend, patience, pierce, all correct
3. theif, ceiling, reign, all correct
4. seize, receive, protein, all correct
5. foriegn, weird, vein, all correct

The Giver aloud.

What can we tell about this place SO FAR?

1. Where is this?
2. When is this?
3. Was this community created as a utopia or a cult or something else?
4. Why?

Prep Sheet for Test #19:
KBARR: ___/24 OG Quiz: ___/9 SMYK: ___/10 Euphemisms: + ___ Other Extra Credit:

Mental Floss.

1. What’s the common link?
   • a) tailor, wrestling match, bowling alley
   • b) watermelon, tournament, flower
   • c) hurricane, needle, potato
   • d) barber, rooster, beehive
2. A man builds an extraordinary house where all four sides face south.  A bear walks up to one of his windows and peers in. What color is the bear?
3. Serena needed to go to the store to buy some ingredients to cook with. She started writing them down: butter, milk, eggs, duct tape, cashews, toilet paper, oranges, vinegar, lemon juice…     What was Serena making?
4. Cross out six letters and you’ll find an easy word. What is the word?  SBAIXNLETATNERSAS
5. A donkey behind another donkey,
   I’m behind that second donkey,
   But there is a whole nation behind me.
   It is a murder you can describe in a word: ______

Test #19.

Doodle Theme: Design a killer new bike!

“Tutorial” Schedule.

Tomorrow’s Test: Gramma, Vocab, Last Few Pages of Maus, OG, Giver.

“Warm Up, 2/1.”

1. Why do the Poles leave Anja alone after the war?
2. What gives Anja hope about Vladek after the war?
3. True or False? One of the similarities between a utopia and a cult is that neither has a fear of the outside world.
4. True or False? One of the differences between a utopia and a cult is that a utopia doesn’t have a leader.
5. We went to  Jimmy _____ house. (Jones)

“Spelling, 2/1.” COPY the clue. Then COPY the correct pair. NOT THE LETTER; THE WORDS! NOT COLLABORATIVE!

1. center/group  a) corpse/core  b) core/corpse  c) corps/corp  d) corps/core  e) core/corps
2. Cheerios/#25489   a) serial/cereal  b) cereal/cerial  c) cerial/serial  d) cereal/serial
3. who owns/who is    a) whose/who’s  b) who’s/whose  c) who’se/who’s  d) who’s/whos’
4. it is/it owns   a) it’s/its  b) its’/its  c) it’s/its’
5. belongs to them/location   a) their/they’re  b) there/their  c) their/there  d) they’re/there
6. inactive/hero  a) idole/idol b) idel/idol c) idle/idol d) idol/idle

“Vocab, 2/1.”
 
tentative, infringe, reprieve, benign, profound, indolent, euphemism, relinquish, exasperate, (in)conspicuous, (un)scrupulous, haphazard

1. _____ Pic of the classic statue, The Thinker.
2. _____Cartoon of two guys looking out from the top of a skyscraper saying, “Yes, the view is nice—but I mostly want people to look up here and think how rich I am.”
3. _____Pic of a pack of dogs with a fox blending in.
4. _____ Pic of a cute little lamb taking its first steps. (NOT: benign, scrupulous, haphazard, or indolent, or any other “it could be’s.” Sigh.)
5. He soon found that studying for the test would have a _____ (positive) impact on his grade! OMG!
6. He prepared so ______(ly) that his presentation was painful to watch. (Not: tentative.)
7. After asking for (*previous vocab word for bonus*), the student received a _____ and was released from detention.
8. In exchange for safety and peace, communities sometimes _____ a lot of freedom.
9. Some thought that the new law would _____ upon their right to protest, and they protested that.
10. Sometimes fourth period can be ______(ing), but when certain people are absent, it can be a nice class.
11. If you search more systematically, instead of so ____(ly), you will be more likely to find whatever you’re looking for.
12. The roots of this word meant “to seize back.” _____
13. The roots of this word meant “good speaking.” _____

Dah Giver. Read aloud.

Preview of Questions for tomorrow. Here’s a link for the online version of the book if you want to review: The Giver.

1. What two words did Asher confuse?
2. What word does Jonas finally settle on to describe his feelings?
3. Why does everyone know that Lily’s comment about keeping Gabriel has to be a joke?
4. What rule did Jonas’s father break?
5. What rule gets broken all the time?
6. What happens at the ceremony of 12?
7. How is that decision made?
8. We are in the ______ of the story.  exposition, rising action, inciting incident, falling action, climax, resolution
9. The Giver is told in _____  (1st, 2nd, or 3rd) person?