Thursday morning ( Bluffton)

Vocabulary : No quiz this week. PLease review last three lists. They begin with incite, skiff and filament.


Literature:
Write a 700-900 word essay on The Old Man and the Sea.  You may choose form one of the following:

This will be your rough draft.

1. Discuss the relationship that Santiago has with the sea.  How does Hemingway portray it? Use research and specifics from the text.
2. Compare Santiago's approach to fishing to the younger fishermen in the village. Use specifics from the text.
3. Discuss Santiago's relationship with the boy. How is it portrayed by Hemingway? Use specifics from the text.
Please make sure you have a copy of Frankenstein for class.

US History: Read Chapter 11 and the first section of Chapter 12. Answer all Section Review questions.

PRESIDENT QUIZ!!!!

Wednesday morning girls

Vocabulary: Quiz on the derivatives of the following: You need to know definition and the derivatives.

Greek:

1. dokein: think, have an opinion (doxology, orthodoxy)
2. orthos: straight ( orthodontist)
3. barbaros: foreign ( barbaric)
4. ergon: work ( energy)
5. monos: alone, solitary ( monologue, monk)

Latin:

1. bellum: war, combat ( antebellum)
2. durus: hard to the touch ( durable)
3. labaro, laboratum: work ( work)
4. rideo, risum: laugh, make fun of (riddle, ridicule)
5. solus: alone, only ( solo)


Literature: Correct your Pilgrim's Progress paper.
Answer the following research questions about Washington Irving:

1. How was Irving educated?
2. Give some background on Irving's family
3. Why was Irving considered among the Romantics?
4. How did Irving describe his homeland to the world?
5. What did scholars believe Irving was saying in his story of Rip Van Winkle?
6. When did Irving become a successful writer?
7. What other writers admired Irving?
8. Did Washington Irving ever meet his namesake?
9. Where did Irving live in New York? (name the farm)
10. Why did Irving describe the natives of New York as superstitious?

Tuesday morning class

Vocabulary: Review words form the last three weeks. We will review in class.

Literature: The rough draft of your Old Man and the Sea paper is due on Tuesday morning. Please strive to bring a hard copy to class. I am going to try and look at those in class.
Bring your copy of Frankenstein to class.

US History: You will have your president's quiz in class.
If you miss this quiz it must be taken by February 9.
 Read the remainder of Chapter 11 and answer all the Section Review questions.
Also, read the first section of Chapter 12.

Thursday afternoon

Vocabulary: Quiz on the following next week:

Greek:
1. hyper: above, beyond
2. ana: up, back again
3. kata: down, against
4. akros: topmost, highest
5. elektron: amber

Latin:
1. pendo, pensum: hang down, judge
2. ago, actum: do, act, perform
3. duco, ductum: draw, attract, lead
4. plus, pluris: more, many
5. gradus: step, degree


Literature:
Research the following about Washington Irving:

1. How was Irving educated?
2. Give some background of Irving's family.
3. Why was Irving considered among the Romantics?
4. How did Irving describe his homeland to the world?
5. What do scholars believe Irving was saying in his story of Rip Van Winkle?
6. When did Irving become a successful writer?
7. What other writers admired Irving?
8. Did Washington Irving ever meet his namesake?
9. Where did Irving live in New York? ( name of the farm)
10. Why did Irving describe the natives of New York as superstitious?

Wednesday morning girls

Vocabulary: Quiz next week on the following:

Latin:
1. pendo, pensum: hang down, judge
2. ago, actum: do, act, perform:
3. duco, ductum: draw, attract, lead
4. plus, pluris: more, many
5. gradus: step, degree

Greek:

1. hyper: above, beyond
2. ana: up, back again
3. akros: topmost, highest
4. kata: down, against
5. elektron: amber


Literature:  Read the remainder of " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle".

Tuesday morning ( Beaufort and Thursday morning ( Bluffton)

Vocabulary: Quiz next week on the following:

1. filament: a threadlike structure
2. carapace: hard outer covering or case of certain organisms
3. mysticism: obscure or irrational thought
4. phosphorescence: a fluorescence that persists after radiation has ceased
5. fathom: a linear measurement for water depth
6. ineffectual: producing no results
7. plankton: group of small organisms that float or drift in water
8. iridescent: varying in color when seen in different lights

Literature: Research the following about The Old Man and the Sea as well as Ernest Hemingway:

1. How do the baseball references in the novella help the reader know the exact time the story takes place? When was the story set?

2. Was any of The Old Man and the Sea autobiographical for Hemingway?

3. Research Hemingway's careers.

4. How is Hemingway's journalistic influence shown in The Old Man and the Sea? What do experts say?

5. What was Hemingway's " principle of the iceberg"? How does it relate to the text?

6. How is Santiago seen my some scholars as a picture of Christ?


 The prompts for next week:

Write a 700-900 word essay on The Old Man and the Sea. Please use MLA.

1. Discuss Santiago's relationship with the sea. How does Hemingway portray it?  Use research and specifics from the text.

2. Compare Santiago's approach to fishing with the younger fishermen in the village. Use specific examples from the text.


US History:
 Complete your take home test on Chapters 9 and 10. Come prepared to discuss your specific research question/topic.

Thursday afternoon class

Vocabulary: Quiz next week on the following:

Latin:
1. fides: faith
2. felix, felicis: happy
3. loquor, locutus: speak
4. vox, vocis: voice
5. specto, spectatum: to look, to see
6. pax, pacis: peace
7. rumpo, ruptum: break, burst, split
8. sub: under, below
9. super: on top, above

Greek:
1. hypo: under, below

Literature: Read the rest of " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and " Rip Van Winkle".
Please make note or mark your vocabulary words.
Watch for the tone of Irving and for evidence of Romanticism.