Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English

Copy homework into planner.
1st and 3rd periods have no KBARR.
Giver Movie v Book Blog Post is due Thursday.

Spin Da Wheel o’ Doom!
Period 1:    Period 3:    Period 4:    Period 5:

Go over Test #31.

Finish “The Earth Men.”

 

Prep sheet for Test #31:
Flying Machine: ___/12     Husker Du: ___/6  ___/6  ___/6    Vocab h/w: ___/20
Vocab Practices: ___/11  ___/10  ___/10
Other Extra Credit: +3 for 4th period for Vocabulary Relay!

Mental Floss. (Some Reruns!)

1. Figure out what the animals are! (Example: a dull person  = boar.)
   a) first you get a parking ticket, then you get this   b) hair-control foam    c) to run away or escape
2. Wacky Wordie:  PinnAcLeS  (Pinnacles are mountain peaks.)
3. You have 27 marbles. You have 4 cups. Put an odd number of marbles in each cup.
4. Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive?
5. Inside each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, lo & behold, you’ll make a familiar phrase. For example,  Skyrocket/Trolleyman conceals Rock & Roll.
   a) Surprised/Trashiness   b) Delaware/Bordering    c) Thundershower/Intellectual
6. A magazine competition invited people to come up with “invented” inventions of the cyber-age. For example, a solar powered clothes drier (a rope) and a hand-held word processor (a pencil). Can you guess what this one is?
   It is a portable arcade. A hand-held amusement resource with no cartridges or batteries. Access games of speed, dexterity, memory, cunning. Produce magical effects or construct lofty towers. Some games can increase your income.

 

Test #31.

 

Tomorrow’s Test: Husker Du for your class, Vocabulary, What we’ve read this week.

“Husker Du, 5/5.” Period 1.
saw, pragmatic, pacify, iconic, aspire, skinflint, volatile, diminutive, dilemma, daunting, vivid

1. (2) She faced a ______     ______ about turning in her friend for cheating.
2. The villagers sacrificed a scapegoat because they were trying to ______ their angry god.
3. The memories that the Giver transferred to Jonas were much more than simply _____ dreams.
4. You may _______ to someday be as cool as Mr. Coward.
5. Doing your homework every day before playing video games is a _______ strategy for success.

“Husker Du, 5/5.” Period 3.
approach, conduct, sanction, allegory, aspect, cache, caricature, promote, contrast, complex, absolution

1. Art Spiegelman didn’t want to show his father as a racist _____  of a Jew, but he wanted to show him honestly.
2. Please ________ yourself properly in the library.
3. Now that he had found religion, the former criminal wanted ______ for the things he had done.
4. My brother found my ______ of candy and ate it all.
5. As part of his occupation, he owed a llama with a leather jacket.  a) S  b) CD  c) CX
6. Since he didn’t want to embarrass the llama, he didn’t act affectionate.  a) S  b) CD  c) CX

“Husker Du, 5/5.” Period 4.

1. I really like mystery novels because of all the adventure and _____.   a) ebb    b) nondescript  c) apprehensive  d) intrigue  e) palpable
2. “He looked like I felt when I saw that boy doubled up and still in the moonlight.”  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) simile  d) irony  e) NOTA
3. She saw _____ grave!  a) Elvis’  b) Elvis’s  c) Elvi’s
4. _____ are not allowed…  a) Students  b) Students’  c) Student’s  d) NOTA
5. …in the ____ lounge.  a) teacher’s  b) teachers’  c) teachers’s  d) NOTA
6. When we find out that the book is Ponyboy’s essay.  a) exposition  b) rising action  c) inciting incident  d) climax  e) resolution  f) NOTA

“Husker Du, 5/5.” Period 5.

1. We have three _________ in the class. (Jesus)
2. How did Dally get out of the hospital? a) Snuck out. b) Bribed a nurse to let him out. c) The doctor said he was well enough to leave. d) “Talked” the nurse into it. e) NOTA
3. This was foreshadowed when…  a) Dally told Pony and Two-Bit that he was “gonna be at that rumble no matter what.”  b) Two-Bit told Pony he thought Dally would find a way to be there.  c) When Pony said that he had a feeling.  d) When Dally asked for Two-Bit’s knife.  e) It wasn’t foreshadowed.
4. What lie does Dally tell the police officer as his excuse for speeding? a) He was late for work.  b) He had to visit Johnny in the hospital.  c) Pony was hurt and needed medical help.  d) His car was breaking down, and he had to get it to a gas station quickly.  e) He was being chased.
5. As Dally drives to the hospital (p147) he says, “…you get tough like me and you don’t get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin’ can touch you…” This is ironic because…  a) Dally isn’t that tough.  b) Dally tried to harden himself, but something touched him anyway.  c) Johnny was tough, but got hurt anyway.  d) It isn’t ironic at all.
6. When Johnny smiles before he dies, it’s because…  a) he’s dying a hero.  b) the greasers won the rumble.  c) he wanted to die anyway.  d) Dally was proud of him.  e) he remembered a joke Pony made in the church.

“Vocabulary, 5/5.”

       
1-10: Write the word. You will use each word ONCE!

 

Vocabulary Relay!

 

Poem #435 by Emily Dickinson   Much Madness is divinest Sense– To a discerning Eye– Much Sense–the starkest Madness– ‘Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail– Assent–and you are sane– Demur–you’re straightway dangerous– And handled with a Chain–

assent = say yes demur = say no discerning = showing good judgement starkest = most obvious divinest = most perfect

Together with your group, “translate” the poem.

1. What does she mean when she says “‘Tis the Majority In this as ALL, prevail…”?
2. What is the message of the poem?
3. Give the poem a title that isn’t the first line.

 

“The Earth Men”

 

 

Checking Show Me You Know sentences.
Bonus Question for extra credit: Which of the four main types of conflict is not present in The Giver? (BOOK version!)   a) man v himself   b) man v man  c) man v nature  d) man v society  e) It has them all.  (Be careful!)

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“Husker Du, 5/4.” Period 1.
saw, pragmatic, pacify, iconic, aspiring, skinflint, volatile, diminutive, dilemma

1. The swastika is a(n) ________symbol of evil.
2. The amount of work required in an Honors class can be quite _______.
3. The word anthropomorphic means ______   ______
4. What did Vladek’s father do to try to keep him out of the army?  a) Hid him.  b) Made him break a leg.  c) Starved him  d) Made him leave the country.  e) NOTA
5. As a soldier, Vladek fights in one battle. What does he do?  a) gets in trouble for having cold gun. b) gets in trouble for having warm gun. c) shoots a “tree.” d) gets captured. e) all of these.
6. How does the German guard know Vladek isn’t used to physical labor?  a) Vladek complains.  b) Vladek’s hands.  c) Vladek’s clothes.  d) The amount
   of money Vladek was carrying.  e) NOTA

“Husker Du, 5/4.” Period 3.
approach, conduct, sanction, allegory, aspect, cache, caricature, promote, contrast, complex

1. The essay prompt asked you to compare and ______ the two characters.
2. They _______(ed) the new web site with ads on tv.
3. Which one is the allegory?  a) Mickey Mouse acting like a human.  b) You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.  c) “The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg”  d) He slept like a rock.  e) Using mice and cats to represent Nazis and Jews in MAUS.  f) B and D.
4. Words like  although, because, since, and if at the beginning of a clause make that clause _____.  a) dependent  b) independent  c) a sentence  d) compound  e) a fragment  f) NOTA
5. The prefix of this word means between.  _____     a) mesmerize  b) intercede  c) subjugate  d) resolute  e) NOTA
6. Which cannot be used as a verb? a) wallow  b) defray  c) mesmerize  d) pandemonium  e) quarantine

“Husker Du, 5/4.” Period 4.

1. “He looked like I felt when I saw that boy doubled up and still in the moonlight.”  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) simile  d) irony  e) NOTA
2. The subject of an imperative sentence is always ____.  a) they  b) I  c) that guy  d) it  e) NOTA
3. A sentence like you might find in an encyclopedia entry would be called a(n) ____ sentence.  a) declarative  b) exclamatory  c) imperative  d) interrogative
4. An exclamatory sentence must contain an interjection such as wow, OMG, or oh. a) True  b) False
5. Who said? “Ponyboy…you’re not like the rest of us and don’t try to be.”  a) Dally.  b) Steve.  c) Darry.  d) Soda.  e) Two-Bit.
6. Why is Two-Bit relieved when he sees Pony picking up the broken glass?

“Husker Du, 5/4.” Period 5.
intrigue, benevolent, apprehensive, wheedle, sift, transgression, aghast, ebb, enhance, supplementary

1. I found your story ______(ing), but ultimately unbelievable. 
2. “Why don’t you get a job?”   asked Steve.  “What?” Two-Bit was ______ “And ruin my rep?”
3. In his classroom, the least ____ is met with serious consequences.
4. Ponyboy was ______ about appearing in juvenile court.
5. The principal had to ____ through all the conflicting stories to get at the truth.
6. The fan ____(ed) her way into the sold-out concert by flirting with the security guard.

 

“Vocabulary, 5/4.”
   

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. He seemed smart, even though most of the facts he knew were rather ________.
6. He pinched her arm, a little bit with _____(ity), and a little bit with meanness, to get her to pay attention.
7. Why do we have to go through all this ________ just to add on to our house?
8. somber : jovial :: humility : _______
9. “…masks that smiled or masks that frowned, according to the owners’ _________.”
10. An architect should be good at visualizing ______ concepts.

 

“The Flying Machine.” For 1-9, write the CAPITAL letter.

1. The Flying One understands why the Emperor is killing him.  a) True  b) False
2. The Emperor enjoys having the Flying One killed.   a) True  b) False
3. The mechanical garden that the Emperor “dreamt to being” represents…  a) how the Emperor is as skillful in his own way as the flying man.  b) the fragility and beauty of the Emperor’s kingdom.  c) how China must look from the sky.  d) all of the above.  e)  none of the above.
4. The Emperor has the Flying One killed because… a) he thinks he will drops stones on the Great Wall.  b) he thinks that the man has an evil heart. c) he fears that someone will use the man’s invention for evil. d) he is jealous of his inventiveness.  e) none of the above.
5. On page 247, when the Emperor says that it is “well for her” that the Flying One’s wife is asleep, what does he mean?  a) She won’t have to see her husband killed  b) She won’t be mad at the Emperor.  c) It won’t hurt when he has her killed  d) She will get a large settlement.  e) NOTA
6. The Emperor is really afraid of… a) inventiveness.  b) the future.  c) the Flying One.  d) flying machines.  e) NOTA
7. Which of the following groups of words best describe the theme of the story? a) Strength, pain, joy. b) Foolishness, anger, endurance. c) Communication, friendship, honesty. d) Fear, frustration, bewilderment.
8. “The butterfly now touches the earth. And suddenly…a clumsy worm.” (p246) The Servant is using a _________ to describe the Flying One and his apparatus.  a) simile  b) flashback  c) foreshadowing  d) metaphor  e) NOTA
9. “…The Flying One enters, proud of his feat, proud of his equipments, which he brandishes…”  (p246) The word brandishes as it is used here, most nearly means…  a) drops.  b) shows off.  c) tosses away.  d) puts away.   e) points with.
10. “The unmarked grave is dug where Time, some little while, must sleep to wake again some other year.” (p251) The Emperor is speaking metaphorically, and most likely means…
11. There are several places where the author foreshadows that the Emperor is worried about the Flying One’s feat. Quote one from page 246 or before.
12. Explain the Servant’s comparison in #8.

 

“The Earth Men” from The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

What happens (historically) when two very different cultures meet?

What does telepathy literally mean? What would having true telepathy be like?

“The Earth Men” p16.

“Husker Du, 5/3.” Period 1. Write the answer.
saw, pragmatic, pacify, iconic, aspiring, skinflint, volatile, diminutive, dilemma

1. Mr. Scrooge (“Bah, humbug!”) is an example of a(n) __________.
2. It was hard to believe that such a huge voice emanated from such a _______ girl.
3. The way they made decisions in the Community was very _____.
4. The students weren’t shocked by the kid’s outburst; they always thought he was touchy and _______.
5. They tried to _______ the angry mob by telling them their concerns would be addressed.
6. Maus is told in ____ person.  a) 1st  b) 2nd  c) 3rd  d) 4th

“Husker Du, 5/3.” Period 3. Write the answer.
approach, conduct, sanction, allegory, aspect, cache, caricature, promote, contrast, complex

1. Mr. Coward does not _______ the use of phones in class.
2. Some people think that the Narnia series is a religious  _______.
3. In some ways, many people’s perception of a typical seventh grader is both a stereotype and a _______ of what a real seventh grader is
4. I politely ______(ed) Sadie about borrowing her Porsche for my date.
5. His doctor recommended buying a goat and going water-skiing.  a) S  b) CD  c) CX
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6. It seemed essential to eat broccoli, but I watched TV instead.  a) S  b) CD  c) CX

“Husker Du, 5/3.” Period 4. Write the answer.
diligent, compelling, convene, heedless, turmoil, cordial, abundant, haggle, diffident, grovel

1. The lawyer’s argument was so _____ the jury acquitted his client.
2. He practiced the skate trick __(ly) until he got it right.
3. The clown _____(tion) filled the parking lot with tiny cars.
4.   In the fable “The Tortoise and the Hare,” the tortoise is ______ …
5. …and the hare is _____.
6. Please tell me what Limburger is    a) declarative  b) exclamatory  c) imperative  d) interrogative

“Husker Du, 5/3.” Period 5. Write the correct form of the word for each blank. You might have to pluralize and/or possessify.

1. _____ bright idea was this?  (who)
2. It was every single ____ nightmare. (student)
3. The llama wagged ______ tail. (it)
4. All the ___ clothing is on the second floor. (more than one man)
5. All the ____ uniforms were new. (player)
6. The best era for music was the ____ (70)

 

 

“Vocabulary, 5/3.”

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. (2) Santa Claus is usually portrayed as a _____, smiling, fat man with a very pleasant ______.
6. To his _____, his mom was waiting up when he tried to sneak in.
7. Minneapolis has been rather ______ since the death of Prince since he grew up there.
8. We spent the evening playing ______ Pursuit, trying to answer obscure questions.
9. Many prepositions, like the words over and under, are about _______ relationships
10. The mad scientist demonstrated his _____ by building a time machine and trying to change history. Of course he just made things worse.

 

Finish Giver Movie if needed.

Think! How might the next story connect to The Giver AND “Old Glory” AND “The Pedestrian”?

“The Flying Machine” by Ray Bradbury.

 

Pssst. ACT!