Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English

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BRING CHROMEBOOKS AND INTERVIEW NOTES TOMORROW AND ALL WEEK LONG!
DO NOT SHARE YOUR INTERVIEW NOTES WITH ME!
IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE 120, BE PREPARED TOMORROW!

• IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE 120 Seconds YET, BE PREPARED TO GO STARTING TUESDAY.
• KBARR ! Read 15 minutes, get chart signed DAILY (in notebook), respond 1 page by Friday. Four signatures  (M, T,W,Th) due Friday.
• Vocab due Tuesday, Thursday.
  • due Tuesday– Definitions in notebook.
  • due Thursday– Copy and Finish the SMYK’s.
• Interview Essay  due NEXT Wednesday, 1/17.

“New Year Husker Du.”

1. I love running in PE.  a) adjective   b) adverb  c) noun  d) verb
2. I like the sound of running water. a) adjective   b) adverb  c) noun  d) verb
3. you:  a) first person b) second person c) third person  d) fourth person
4. it:  a) first person b) second person c) third person  d) fourth person
5. Two-Bit nodded wisely. ‘Nice cut, too. Makes you look like a tough guy.’    Adjectives?
6. The part where Marlin and Nemo are reunited and Nemo saves Dory.   a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) climax  e) falling action  f) resolution g) plot
7. When you forget to call your mom. Simple, Compound, Complex, Fragment, Run-on?
8. Balancing a duck on his head, the llama climbed lazily up the very steep hill. Simple, Compound, Complex, Fragment, Run-on?
9. The llama thought he was OK until he wasn’t. Simple, Compound, Complex, Fragment, Run-on?
10. Why did Vladek think it was safe to go with the smugglers?  
11. What is ironic about Vladek’s decision to try to go to Hungary and give their spot at Mrs. Motonowa’s to Miloch and his family?  
12. Why does Artie call Vladek a murderer at the end of Book 1?

“Interview Activity”

Illustrate one exchange you had during your interview.
4 Panels with dialogue (and thought?) balloons.
Show at least one close up.
Stick figures ok. But each “character” should be distinguishable. (Think Vladek with glasses or Artie with a cig.)
Show where/how.

Vladek Book 2. Yes, I know some of you have read some of this, but…it’s been 3+ weeks.

ATTENTION: FINALLY A LINK TO MAUS FOR ABSENTEES: Book 2

Have a relaxing vacation!

LET’S PLAY SCRABBLE.   Scrabble Practice Round.

• Each person draws a letter. The letter closest to A goes first. (Blank beats A.)
• Draw continues clockwise (to the left) after that.
• If no one volunteers, the person with the letter farthest from A is scorekeeper.
• Put those letters back and draw seven (7) each.
• Keep a running total, like this (don’t write what’s in the parentheses):

• First player must put the word down with a letter on the Star (2x word)  in the middle.
• Left to right, top to bottom; not diagonal, not bottom to top!
• Suggestion: no more than 2 minutes per person.
• NO! NO! NO!
  • NO abbreviations or contractions
  • NO foreign words
  • NO proper nouns (nouns you would normally capitalize)
• Check the dictionary.

Multiplier squares are one use only! Once they’re covered up, they’re used up!

Advisory Slides Link???

Periods 1 and 3: PLEASE FINISH BOOK ONE in MAUS BY THE TIME WE GET BACK (JAN 8). In the online version you are in the early p140s.

LINK TO ONLINE MAUS.

Rechecking Interview Questions.  By January 10:

• Answers to questions/follow-ups.
• Notes on setting and set-up.
• Notes on physical appearance/attitude/isms
• ON PAPER OR TYPED UP IN A GDoc!

Examples of Finished Interview Essays.  More on the website.

“TZ Quiz, 12/19.”

1. Why is the desk clerk very uncomfortable around Mr. Schmidt when he checked in? (Be specific.)
2. What was the name of the town? (Bonus for correct spelling.)
3. Where was the Captain hiding after the war?
4. What did all the Nazis’ claim after the war when asked why they did it?
5. Why does Rod Serling (the Narrator) say that we must preserve the remnants of the camps?

“It’s a Good Life”

“Warm Up, 12/18.”

1. What do all the main characters in all three of our books so far have in common?
2. Which character so far has shown the most savvy?

Examples of Finished Interview Essays.  More on the website.
Rechecking Questions.
By January 10:

• Answers to questions/follow-ups.
• Notes on setting and set-up.
• Notes on physical appearance/attitude/isms
• ON PAPER OR TYPED UP IN A GDoc!

Art Spiegelman Interview from January.

Deaths-Head Revisited

Vladek will end up in Dachau.

MadLib!  (NOT Periods 1 and 3.)

MAUS in Periods 1 and 3.

Prep Sheet for Test #16:
KBARR: ____/24  SMYK: ___/10  Other Extra Credit:

Mental Floss.

1. What famous fictional character is represented here?   ants, beetles, termites, rabbit
2. An archeologist claims to have dug up a coin that is clearly dated 46 B.C. How do we know he’s lying?
3. A man walks into a room, turns around and walks out the same door he went in. When he gets out he is in a different room than when he started. How is this possible?
4. What number should come next? 144, 121, 100, 81, 64,  _____  (Alert: math.)
5. Spell the word candy with just 2 letters.
6. How many F’s (capital or small–no trick here) are in the following sentence? (Alert: Counting.)
   Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years.  

Test #16.

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