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January 22, 2025 – Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English
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Wednesday, 1/22: Scramble, Spelling, Maus

“Spelling, 1/22.”  corps/core, capitol/capital, kernel/colonel, idol/idle, cereal/serial, principle/principal, whose/who’s, their/they’re/there, its/it’s

  1. (3) ___ been said that many stereotypes sometimes start with a ___(2) of truth.
  2. (2) Knock, knock!    ______  ______?
  3. (2) “____ the Army _____ of Engineers to help with the flooding.” (The answer to #2’s knock, knock.)
  4. Vladek tried to get Artie to take home the almost empty ____ box.
  5. (3) ____ at it again over _____, driving one of _____ strange cars.
  6. A basic truth about a school leader: A _____ _____

“Scramble, 1/22.” Write out the paragraph in order.

  1. Nothing.
  2. She crept closer.
  3. And then nothing again.
  4. Beetle watched it.
  5. She crept up to the bag and found the cat tangled in the sack.
  6. A sudden movement sent her scurrying back to the tree.
  7. Nothing.

Maus Quiz, 1/22.”

  1. Where does Vladek say his “troubles began”?
  2. What was the biggest “trouble”?
  3. Why did the French man share his food with Vladek?
  4. (2) If Vladek was too weak to walk, how did he get on the train out of Dachau?
  5. Where was the train headed?
  6. What was Vladek’s explanation for his racism?

Maus.

“A quiet triumph, moving and simple–impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics.”  –Washington Post

What do you think? Is that true?


Vladek’s exact words…

Read aloud Chapter 4, p274–>  Online Version: p114—>