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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)
- _____
- _____
- _____
- Abby is a _____ form of Abigail.
- George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are _____ figures in American history.
- She faced a _____ about turning in her friend for cheating.
- The villagers sacrificed a >_____< to try to _____ their angry god. (>___< = Previous vocab word = bonus.)
- The amount of work required in an Honors class can be quite _____.
- The dream was so ____ that I fell out of bed trying to fly.
- inspiring : daunting :: stable : ______
- skinflint : benevolent :: ______ : easy
- (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!