Student-Generated Writing Prompts for The Old Man and the Sea

Student-Generated Writing Prompts for 
The Old Man and the Sea

Grade 9 P. 4 English 10 Taylor

        1.  What did the struggle with the fish and/or sharks symbolize?

        2. Santiago’s inner thoughts; what do they mean?

        3. What/who could Santiago symbolize? (Jesus, Francis, etc…)

        4. Does Santiago give up after getting 1)hurt, 2)criticized, 3)attacked by sharks? 

       5. Does Man olin care about Santiago like 1)a parental figure, 2)a friend, 3)a      god

       6. What mental state was Santiago in? Did his mentality affect him in any way?

       7. What role does Santiago have in the town? (crazy… wise… poor… etc…)

       8. What did the shark represent? (evil… the devil… etc…)

Citing Sources: MLA and APA Styles (Essay, Research Paper)

Citing references in a persuasive essay.
https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/c.php?g=563800&p=4339726

APA Citation Guide: In-Text Citations (How to Cite Within your Paper)

https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/c.php?g=563800&p=4339726

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html

Why Cite Sources

Once you have located and read an adequate number of sources, incorporated ideas from your reading with your own understanding of the topic, and presented your analysis of your topic in a research paper, it is essential to cite the sources and you must use the proper bibliographic format to do so.

The main reason for citing your sources is to give credit to those authors whose ideas you used in your research. Even when you do not quote directly from another work, if reading that source contributed to the ideas presented in your paper, you must give the authors proper credit by including their work in your bibliography. Citing your sources allows readers of your work to easily find the sources to which you've referred.

If you do not cite the sources upon which your research is based, you will be guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism is using the ideas and writings of others and representing them as your own. Even if you do not copy another source word-for-word, but rather rephrase the source without attributing it to the original author by including a citation, you are guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism is a serious violation of academic standards and is punishable with a failing grade, possible expulsion from the institution, and may subject you to ostracism by your peers. The increasing availability of electronic information has unfortunately made it easy to copy another author's works.

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That's Sort of Punny

How to Teach Persuasive Writing

How to Teach Persuasive Writing

https://www.wikihow.com/Teach-Persuasive-Writing

High School Scored Sample Essays

https://community.ksde.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=2unyOrLrm58%3D&tabid=5636&mid=13733 

Persuasive Essay Samples

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Questions: Out of the Silent Planet

Out of the Silent Planet Questions

Quizlet

https://quizlet.com/30393451/out-of-the-silent-planet-flash-cards/

Out of the Silent Planet Questions

What is the main conflict in Out of the Silent

Planet?

In Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis, what are some of Weston's fears?

What are at least three character traits for the main character, Ransom, in the book Out of the Silent Planet?

Can you summarize the Postscript of C. S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet?

   Please summarize Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis.

Character Sketches from Our Novels

8 Sherlock Holmes
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sherlock-Holmes

9 The Old Man and the Sea: Santiago

https://neoenglish.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/character-sketch-of-santiago-in-the-old-man-and-the-sea/

7 God's Smuggler: Brother Andrew

Andrew van der Bijl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_van_der_Bijl

11 Henry Fleming (the youth)

The Red Badge of Courage 

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-red-badge-of-courage/characters/henry-fleming-the-youth

10 Ransom Out of the Silent Planet

Dr. Elwin Ransom

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/out-of-the-silent-planet/characters/dr-elwin-ransom

It's Grammar Time! Week of 1/14/19

7 Grammar book plurals and possessives
up to p. 46

8 Grammar book plurals and possessives
up to page 27

9 Study.com MLA

Commas, Independent and Dependent Clauses

 Independent & Dependent Clauses: Subordination & Coordination

10 Study.com MLA

 Commas, Independent and Dependent Clauses

  Independent & Dependent Clauses: Subordination & Coordination

11 Study.com MLA

Commas, Independent and Dependent Clauses

  Independent & Dependent Clauses: Subordination & Coordination

12 Study.com MLA

Commas, Independent and Dependent Clauses

 Independent & Dependent Clauses: Subordination & Coordination

Scandal in Bohemia! Sherlock Holmes

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaDfTP7zohQ

Las Vegas Has Fine Art? Infinitely

My pic inside the Infinity Room--taken on my Christmas visit to my kids who live in Vegas.

Landmark Exhibition by Japanese Artist Yayoi Kusama Now Open at Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art in Las Vegas

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Time Magazine Yayoi Kasama

http://time.com/collection-post/4299687/yayoi-kusama-2016-time-100/

MLA Notation-citing in an essay

Short story quotes cited in an essay

https://www.wikihow.com/Cite-Short-Stories-in-MLA

What Is MLA Style?

https://www.mla.org/MLA-Style

MLA Style Guide – Quick & Easy

https://library.csun.edu/egarcia/documents/mlacitation_quickguide.pdf

Out of the Silent Planet: Characters

Characters

• Dr. Elwin Ransom – A professor of philology at a college of the University of Cambridge, hence gifted with languages. He befriends first many hrossa, then some sorns, and at last Oyarsa.
• Dr. Weston – A thick-set physicist, savage, arrogant and greedy, who considers himself ultra-civilized. He mocks "classics and history and such trash"^[5] in favor of the hard sciences and imperialism and, boasting to Ransom about his achievements in interplanetary travel, declares, "You cannot be so small-minded as to think that the rights of an individual or of a million individuals are of the slightest importance in comparison with this."^[6]
• Dick Devine – Later a politician, Weston's "power-hungry accomplice"^[7] possesses "that kind of humour which consists in a perpetual parody of the sentimental or idealistic clichés of one's elders."^[8] "He was quite ready to laugh at Weston's solemn scientific idealism. He didn't give a damn, he said, "for the future of the species or the meeting of two worlds."^[9] He instead is motivated solely by greed for wealth and seeks to exploit Malacandra for its gold.
• Hyoi – Ransom's first hross friend; they meet in Chapter 9, and Hyoi begins to teach him the Old Solar language and the practical philosophy of the hrossa. Hyoi is murdered by Weston.
• Hnohra – An older hross who teaches Ransom to speak Old Solar.
• Augray – A sorn who saves Ransom from near death on his freezing mountain-top, asks him many questions about Earth, and carries him to Meldilorn to meet Oyarsa.
• Kanakaberaka – A pfifltrigg who carves Ransom's portrait onto a stone at Meldilorn.
• Oyarsa is undying, wise, and compassionate. He is the greatest eldil to visit Malacandra and functions as its ruler. Oyarsa tells Ransom that he "sent for" Ransom to visit him from Thulcandra (thus establishing Ransom's special qualities in later books).

Getting to Know MLA and APA-and Turabian, too

MLA PowerPoint Presentation

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_powerpoint_presentation.html

MLA format for beginners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX5lCmFpCvY

Citing Sources in MLA Format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp0dmbTWK2Q

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html

Teaching Writing and APA Formatting

for Teachers

http://users.misericordia.edu/ted121/APAteachers.html

Turabian: the Chicago Style of citation

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/turabian/citation-guide.html 

God's Smuggler: Brother Andrew

Under the Radar: God’s Smuggler Brings Gospel to Darkest Places on Earth

http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2015/November/Gods-Smuggler-Brings-Gospel-to-Darkest-Places-on-EarthGods-Smuggler