Monday/ Thursday Girls

Happy Birthday, Presley!!

Please remember that we will not meet next week. I will be in town if you have a question.

Vocabulary: Exam on the 100 words of the new semester.
Literature: Read Chapters 1-6 of Animal Farm.


Have a wonderful holiday.
We serve a risen Savior.

Wednesday, 1:15 Literature

We will not meet next week. We will resume on April 11.
Please be ready for the vocabulary exam. Use study sheet for prep.
Complete Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

Do at least one hour of research on American and English authors. You are looking for characteristics that they have in common or differ.

Have a great holiday.

Wednesday, 9:45 World Lit

Please remember that we will not meet next week. We will resume on April 11.

Vocabulary: Exam on the 100 words of the semester.
                     Please substitute the following for Week 9 on your handout:
                     1. inert: inanimate
                     2. infamy: total loss of honor
                     3. infidelity: disloyalty
                     4. infirmity: physical, mental or moral weakness
                     5. ingenuity: cleverness
                     6. innocuous: harmless
                     7. innuendo: insinuation
                     8. insurgence: uprising
                     9. inundate: fill with overflowing abundance
                     10. irradiate: to render clear and intelligible

Choose one of the following and write 600-800 words:

1. Choose three characters from No Promises in the Wind and discuss three character qualities about each.
    Please address how each character added to the novel. Use MLA where appropriate.

2. Using the time period of Air Raid or No Promises in the Wind, create a fictional story. It may be first person.

Friday World History and Lit

Vocabulary: 
1. inert: inanimate
2. infamy: total loss of honor
3. infidelity: disloyalty
4. infirmity: physical, mental or moral weakness
5. ingenuity: cleverness
6. innocuous: harmless
7. innuendo: insinuation
8. insurgence: uprising
9. inundate: to fill with an overflowing abundance
10. irradiate: to render clear and intelligible

Literature: Choose one of the following and write a 600-800 word paper.
                   Please use MLA where appropriate.
               
                   1. Choose three characters from No Promises in the Wind and
                        show how they were important to the story. Please include at
                        least three qualities for each person.


                   2. Write a work of fiction using Air Raid as a background. Make sure all work is
                        original.

             Find one poem by an American or British poet written anywhere from 1850 -1900.
             Please be ready to share with the class.

History:  Complete the study sheet for Chapter 22 of Spielvogel.      
               Please bring both 20 and 22 with you to class.
  
Movie night: April 15.


                     

Monday/ Thursday Western Civ and Lit

Vocabulary:
1. inert: inanimate
2. infamy: total loss of honor
3. infidelity: disloyalty
4. infirmity: physical, mental, or moral weakness
5. ingenuity: cleverness
6. innocuous: harmless
7. innuendo: insinuation:
8. insurgence: uprising
9. inundate: fill with an overflowing abundance
10. irradiate: to render clear and intelligible


Literature: Frankenstein Paper.
                  Please make sure that you have a copy of Animal Farm.


History: We will review Chapters 24 and 25 on Monday. Test on Thursday.
               Please make sure that your study sheets are complete.

No class the week before Easter.

Wednesday 1:15 Literature

Vocabulary: 
1. inert: inanimate
2. infamy: total loss of honor or reputation
3. infidelity: disloyalty
4. infirmity: physical, mental, or moral weakness
5. ingenuity: cleverness
6. innocuous: harmless
7. innuendo: insinuation
8. insurgence: uprising
9. inundate: fill with an overflowing abundance
10. irradiate: to render clear and intelligible


Literature: Read Chapters 11-22 in  Frankenstein.
Pay special attention to literary allusion and the metanarrative techniques.


Noah and Clayton, can we touch base and make sure that we are wired?
We miss you guys.

Wednesday 9:45 World Lit

Vocabulary:
1, inert: inanimate
2. infamy: total loss of honor
3. infidelity: disloyalty
4. infirmity: physical, mental or moral weakness
5. ingenuity: cleverness
6. innocuous: harmless
7. innuendo: insinuation
8. insurgence: uprising
9. inundate: fill with an overflowing abundance
10. irradiate: to render clear and intelligible

Literature: Please finish reading No Promises in the Wind.


Choose one of the following and write a 600-800 essay or story:


1. Choose three characters from No Promises and discuss their importance in the book.
    Highlight three qualities for each character giving specific examples from the text.
    Use MLA format when appropriate.

2. Using Air Raid as a reference, develop an original story from the day that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
    Please do make the selections too long, but develop your characters. Use literary allusion.

Monday/ Thursday Western Civ and Lit

Vocabulary:  Quiz on Thursday!!!
History: We will continue the Study sheet on Chapter 25 of Spielvogel. Please bring both 24 and 25 to class.

Literature:
 Choose one of the following and write a 600-800 word essay. MLA format please!!

1. Do our personal choices have consequences to ourselves or even society?
    Answer the question in light of the novel and what it taught. Give specific examples.

2. Is there responsibility that lies with the quest of knowledge?
    Answer the question in the light of the novel.

2. Briley's pick: Using the novel as a backdrop, discuss if the "creation" in Frankenstein was a picture of Adam or Satan.
    Use specifics from the text.

Because of the nature of these essays, first person will be allowed!!

Friday World History and Lit

Vocabulary:
1. itinerate: to wander form place to place
2. leaven : to make light with fermentation
3. malevolent: ill will
4. mitigate: to make milder
5. necrosis: the death of one part of the body
6. occlude: to absorb, as a gas by a metal
7. pandemic: affecting a whole people
8. relent: to yield
9. sedition: conduct directed against public order
10. succumb: to cease to resist

Literature: Complete No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt.
                   Please make sure that you have a copy of The Elephant and the Tiger.


History: Finish reading Chapter 22 of Spielvogel.


Coming up----Movie night!!!!

Monday/ Thursday Western Civ and Lit

Welcome Briley!!!

Vocabulary:
1. itinerate: to wander from place to place
2. leaven: to make lighter with fermentation
3. malevolent: ill will
4. mitigate:  to make milder
5. necrosis: the death of one part of the body
6. occlude: to absorb, as a gas by a metal
7. pandemic: affecting a whole people
8. relent: to yield
9. sedition: conduct directed against public order
10. succumb: to cease to resist

Literature: Finish reading Frankenstein.
                  Please make sure that you have a copy of Animal Farm.


History:  Complete the study sheet for Chapter 25.
                I will email it to each of you.

Happy Birthday, Angel!!!

Wednesday 1:15 Literature

Vocabulary:
1. itinerate: to wander from place to place
2. leaven: to make light with fermentation
3. malevolent: ill will
4. mitigate: to make milder
5. necrosis: the death of one part of the body
6. occlude: to absorb, as a gas by a metal
7. pandemic: affecting a whole people
8. relent: to yield
9. sedition: conduct directed against public order
10. succumb: to c ease to resist

Literature: Read Chapters 1-10 in Frankenstein.

Wednesday 9:45 World History

Vocabulary:
1. itinerate: to wander from place to place
2. leaven: to make light with fermentation
3. malevolent: ill will
4. mitigate: to make milder
5. necrosis: the death of one part of your body
6. occlude: to absorb, as a gas by a metal
7. pandemic: affecting a whole people
8. relent: to yield
9. sedition: conduct directed against public order
10. occlude: to cease to resist

Literature:   Finish reading reading No Promises in the Wind.

Wednesday Classes

I got behind today. I will post the vocabulary words in the morning. Sorry!!

Monday/ Thursday Western Civ and Lit

Vocabulary: Quiz on Thursday.
Literature: Read Chapters 15-20 of Frankenstein.
History: Finish the remainder of Chapter 25 in Spielvogel.
              Please be sure that your Chapter 24 study sheets are complete.

Hayley,
We missed you!!!

Friday Girls

Vocabulary:
1. accede: to agree
2. ado: unnecessary activity or ceremony
3. bole: trunk or body of a tree
4. brine: waster saturated with salt
5. covey: a flock of quails or partridges
6. diatribe: bitter criticism
7. dictum: a positive utterance
8. fishmonger: one who sells fish
9. lexicon: a dictionary
10. mania: insanity

 Literature: Read Chapters 1-5 in No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt.
History: Read pages 626-638  in Chapter 22 of Spielvogel.

Monday/Thursday Western Civ and Lit

Literature: Read Chapters 8-14 of Frankenstein.

History: Complete the study sheet on Chapter 24 of Spielvogel.

               Read pages 768-761 of Chapter 25.

Vocabulary:

1. accede: to agree

2. ado: unnecessary activity or ceremony

3. bole: trunk or body of a tree

4. brine: water saturated with salt

5. covey: flock of quail or partridges

6. diatribe: bitter criticism

7. dictum: a positive utterance

8. fishmonger: one who sells fish

9. lexicon: a dictionary

10. mania: insanity

Wednesday 1:15 Literature

Vocabulary:
1. accede: to agree
2. ado: unnecessary activity or ceremony
3. bole: the trunk or body of a tree
4. brine: water saturated with salt
5. covey: a flock of quail or partridges
6. diatribe: bitter criticism
7. dictum: a positive utterance
8. fishmonger: one who sells fish
9. lexicon: a dictionary
10. mania: insanity

Literature: Read the introductions and the four letters in Frankenstein by Mary Shelly.

Wednesday 9:45 World Lit

Vocabulary:


1. molt: to cast off
2. onus: a burden or responsibility
3. petulant: displaying impatience
4. proctor: an agent acting for another
5. quay: wharf or artificial landing
6. regale: to give unusual pleasure
7. retrench: to cut down or reduce
8. sapid: affecting the sense of taste
9. staid: of a steady or noble character

Finish your final draft of your paper.
Read Chapters 1-5 of No Promises in the Wind.

Monday/ Thursday Western Civ and Lit

History: Review Chapter 24 of Spielvogel.
Lit: Read Chapters 1-7 of Frankenstein.

Friday World History and Lit

There is no vocabulary this week!!
Literature:  Final drafts of research papers are due.
History: Read Chapters 20 of Spielvogel.

Monday/ Thursday Western Civ and Lit

There is no vocabulary this week.
History: Read the remainder of Chapter 24 of Spielvogel.
Literature: Read the introductions and the First Four Letters of Frankenstein.
 Movie night will be Sunday at 6:30.