Wednesday, November 12, 2014
11/12 Second round of progress monitoring for Polk County.
Today we are taking the second round of the progress monitoring writing test for Polk County.
11/10 Greek Theatre and Oedipus Rex
Today we read about Greek Theater and it's origins. We then read a story about "Oedipus Rex" which is a prequel to Antigone.
All of the links that I have found are an actual play and the length is way too long. I will copy the story from my textbook and post it later. Thanks!
All of the links that I have found are an actual play and the length is way too long. I will copy the story from my textbook and post it later. Thanks!
11/7 Literary Terms for Antigone
Students should copy the Literary Term and the complete definition for their notes, and then turn them in to be graded.
There are 2 definitions that you will be unable to read---they are posted below.
dramatic irony--noun --irony that is inherent in speeches
or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but
not grasped by the characters in
the play.
In medias res--uadverb
uinto the middle of a narrative; without preamble.
11/5 & 11/6 Everyday Use by Alice Walker
On Wednesday and Thursday, we read Everyday Use
Before reading Everyday Use by Alice Walker, students complete anticpation guide questions. Students should use complete sentences, or I will mark them wrong:
Here is a link to the story:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/quilt/walker.html
We were going to complete character worksheets for the story, but we have to go on so that we can finish the Antigone Unit before Thanksgiving, so I am sure you will all be saddened that we did not get to do the worksheet...LOL yeah right!
Before reading Everyday Use by Alice Walker, students complete anticpation guide questions. Students should use complete sentences, or I will mark them wrong:
1. Think about the objects in your home. Which objects have been passed down from other family members?
2. Why do they continue to have a place in your home?
3. If you were to move away to live on your own, which objects in your home would you want to take with you? Explain why for each object selected.
4. How would your parent/guardian feel about you taking each item? Explain your response.
Here is a link to the story:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/quilt/walker.html
We were going to complete character worksheets for the story, but we have to go on so that we can finish the Antigone Unit before Thanksgiving, so I am sure you will all be saddened that we did not get to do the worksheet...LOL yeah right!
11/3 & 11/4 The Masque of the Red Death
On Monday, we began to read Masque of the Red Death
Here is a link to the story: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/masque.html
Students then answered the higher order thinking questions to go along with it.
Here is a link to the story: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/masque.html
Students then answered the higher order thinking questions to go along with it.
“The Masque of the Red Death” Annotation Guide
1. What is the main characteristic of the Red Death?
2. How quickly does it kill its victims?
3. What is the significance of the name “Prospero”?
4. What is the outlook of Prospero and his courtiers regarding the Red Death?
5. On the back of this page, draw an aerial-view picture of the suites in which Prospero and his courtiers are partying.
6. How does the final chamber differ from all the rest? What is the significance of this difference?
7. What is the significance of the narrator’s observation that Prospero’s “conceptions glowed with barbaric luster”? (p. 344)
8. What is the effect on the reader of the metaphor of the masquerade as a dream? (p. 344-345)
9. What happens at the stroke of midnight?
10. Why does Prospero react negatively to the figure of the Red Death?
10/28 Read new Article then write essay answering the prompt.
Today, students were with a sub, they were to read the article below, then they are to answer the prompt in an essay.
Remember to include an introduction, a conclusion, and at least three body paragraphs. Hint: Each body paragraph should have one of the literary devices as its topic. Example body paragraph one should be all about tone, body paragraph two should be all about imagery,body paragraph three should be about character. You should give one example from each text for each of the body paragraphs. These will be due on Friday 10/31.
LI woman remembers Halloween she got poison with candy
Modal Trigger
NOT SO SWEET: Stories of Helen Pfeil, a Long Islander who gave arsenic to kids in ’64, stirred parents’ worries of tainted candy.Photo: AP
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Razor blades in apples and poisoned candy have been the stuff of Halloween lore ever since the very first trick-or-treaters.
But in one Long Island town almost 50 years ago, every costumed kid’s worst nightmare actually came true.
It was Oct. 31, 1964, when Elise Drucker, her sister Irene and a school pal set out along Salem Ridge Road in Greenlawn to fill their sacks with goodies.
“We were hobos,” said Elise Gray, 60, then a teen enjoying one of her last Halloweens.
When they arrived at Helen Pfeil’s house, it started as a typical interaction between candy seeker and candy giver.
“Aren’t you a little old to be trick-or-treating?” Pfeil, then 47, softly teased.
The housewife — a mother of teenage children herself — dropped what appeared to be a load of sugary loot into each of the three bags.
The youngsters had no way of knowing that arsenic pellets had been mixed in with the candy, wrapped in napkins.
It wasn’t until the girls returned home that the sinister truth was revealed.
Gray, now married and living in Maine, said her mom dutifully spread the colorful treats out on the table at their Centerport home to investigate.
And it’s a good thing she did.
Inside a napkin was a bottle-cap-shaped ant trap with the warning “poison.”
“It would have tasted awful,” Gray said. “Somebody older like me, I would have spit it out.”
The arsenic never found its target, but the woman who put it there immediately became one for the police.
Cops set out on a manhunt with the young trick-or-treaters.
Church leaders and volunteers combed through treat bags throughout the area to look for other potentially lethal tokens. Cops found 19 pellets.
Pfeil was arrested that night.
“They went into the house, and they found what they were looking for,” Gray said.
Pfeil’s husband told cops the whole thing was “a joke.”
The housewife said she had passed out poison only to those three teens because they were “too old” for trick-or-treating.
Her own sons, 15 and 16, were out trick-or-treating.
Police sent Pfeil out for a mental evaluation at Central Islip Hospital, and she was subsequently charged with two counts of child endangerment.
She pleaded guilty in the middle of her trial, and a judge suspended her sentence in 1965, cops said. She faced two years.
“It really was what started checking candy,” Gray said.
The incident is credited with sparking the Halloween urban legend of evil people giving out toxic treats — although there are a few earlier cases, including a post-World War II incident in which a sadist in Texas heated pennies on a skillet and scorched children’s palms.
On Halloween and the three days that followed in 1982, 12 incidents of candy tampering were reported across the nation, but no children died.
“We don’t believe in ghosts and goblins,” said sociologist Joel Best, who studies Halloween sadism
“We believe in criminals. We have revised what the Halloween menace is — [from] the homicidal maniac [to] a person so crazy that he poisons the candy of strangers.”
Gray said the scare spooked her off the holiday forever. She never wore a costume again.
“That was the end of Halloween for me.”
When finished reading the article, students should begin planning their essay to the prompt
Write at least a 5 paragraph essay to answer the following prompt:
How do the authors evoke emotion within the reader by using tone, imagery, and character?
Remember to include an introduction, a conclusion, and at least three body paragraphs. Hint: Each body paragraph should have one of the literary devices as its topic. Example body paragraph one should be all about tone, body paragraph two should be all about imagery,body paragraph three should be about character. You should give one example from each text for each of the body paragraphs. These will be due on Friday 10/31.
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