Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Wednesday World Lit

Vocabulary:


1. zephyr- any soft, gentle wind
2. zenith- the culminating point of greatness
3. zealot- one who espouses a cause
4. yearling- young animal past its first year
5. wry- deviating from what is proper or right
6. writhe- to twist the body, face, or limbs in distress
7. wreak- to inflict ( as revenge or punishment)
8. wrangle- to maintain by noisy argument
9. wizen-faced- having a shriveled face
10. wittingly- with knowledge and by design

Write the final draft of your paper on Escape from Warsaw.
Please go to the Purdue OWL website for MLA help.

Read to page 32 in Hitler by Albert Marrin.
If you read on please create a timeline.

Nice to see you all back!!!



Monday, January 2, 2012

Monday/Thursday Western Civ and Lit

Thank you Angel and Tori for joining me this morning. I missed the rest of you. Your assignments are as follows:

Literature: Read Chapters 1-3 of The Scarlet Pimpernel 
History: Read pages 604-618 of Spielvogel 
If you have not turned in the history test, please make sure that I have that in my hand on Thursday!!


Define the following:
 1. Anathema
 2. Bohemia
 3. Cavalier
 4. Dastardly
 5. Enigmatic
 6. Factotum
 7. Guillotine
 8. Haggard
 9. Histrionic
10. Aristocrat

Please reserve Sunday, January 29, for a small trip to Charleston. I am working on the agenda.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Friday Girls

I cannot thank you all enough for the wonderful Christmas gifts. God bless you!

Please make sure that you have the book Hitler by Albert Marrin.

Write a rough draft of 800 words on one of the following:

1. Using Freytag's Triangle and 5 Dramatic fiction elements, trace the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and exposition through Escape from Warsaw. Please identify each element with examples from the book. Use MLA format.

2. Choose three characters from Escape from Warsaw and discuss their growth and conflict through the book. Use MLA format.

3. How realistic do you think the experiences of the Escape form Warsaw characters were? Defend your answers with examples and historic proof.

Wednesday 9:15 World Lit

Boys,
I trust that you all had a great holiday. Thank you for all of the wonderful gifts. I will see you on Jan. 4.
Please make sure that you have the book Hitler by Albert Marrin.
Write a rough draft (complete in words) with 800 words on one of the following:

1. Using Freytag's Triangle and 5 Dramatic fiction elements, trace the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution through Escape from Warsaw. Please identify the elements with examples from the book. Please use MLA format.

2. Choose three characters from Escape from Warsaw and discuss their growth and conflict through the book. Use MLA format.

3. How realistic do you think the experiences of the Escape from Warsaw characters were? Defend your answers with examples and historic proof. Please use MLA.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Monday/ Thursday Western Civ and LIt

Please study your study sheets from Spielvogel's Western Civ Chapters 18 and 19.
I will be home next week on Wednesday and Thursday around 10 a.m. if you would like to come by and take your test.
If those times do not work for you, I will be glad to send it home.

God bless,
Mrs. Fowler
Merry Christmas!!!

Please make sure that you have the next book, The Scarlet Pimpernel.

1:15 Wednesday Western Civ Lit

Merry Christmas.
Please finish reading Persuasion by Jane Austen.

I will see you on the Jan. 4

9:15 Wednesday World LIt

Thank you all so much for the wonderful gifts and holiday thoughts. I hope and pray that you have a Merry Christmas.

I will post essay questions later in the break.

God bless.