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Tuesday, 1/26 (Periods 1,2,3) – Wednesday, 1/27 (Periods 5,6) – Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English
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Tuesday, 1/26 (Periods 1,2,3) – Wednesday, 1/27 (Periods 5,6)

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Check in in chat: PRIVATE: Hold up your notebook and show mw and then…Type your best two SMYK’s. NOT SAW OR ICONIC!

Test #10 is Thursday, 1/28 for Periods 1,2,3 and Friday, 1/29 for Periods 5,6.

Preview is here: Test10-2020Preview.

“Vocab, 1/26 (1/27)
 

  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. (2) Mr. Scrooge (“Bah, Humbug”) is the ____  _____.

What’s the difference between Pluto and Goofy?

New Vocab Word: anthropomorphic – human shaped.  (anthro = human, morph = shape)
Variation: anthropomorphism – the tendency to give human traits to other animals.

Example: Art Spiegelman uses anthropomorphic cats and mice to represent the Nazis and the Jews.

Maus by Art Spiegelman. Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1992. It took him 13 years; 8 years for Part I.

 

Read the first two pages:

IN CHAT (PRIVATE): Translate his father’s last sentence into a normal English sentence.  What does he mean?

Characters.

  • Art, aka Artie, aka Art Spiegelman: The author, Vladek’s son
  • Mala: Vladek’s current wife. Also a survivor like Vladek. She married Vladek after Anja died.
  • Anja (Zylberberg) Spiegelman: Artie’s mom, Vladek’s first wife and true love. Survived the war like Vladek, but committed suicide when Artie was 20 something.
  • Lucia Greenberg: An old girlfriend of Vladek’s from before the war.
  • The Zylberbergs: Anja’s parents. Rich before the war.

Read aloud drama stylie!