Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Jack London: The Law of Life
The Law of Life
https://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/343/london_law_of_life.htm
Jack London: The Law of Life – Listen and Read
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Romeo and Julius (What We're Reading)
Grade 10
Questions
"Julius
Caesar" after Act I, Scene iii
Thinking
about Act 1
1. Respond: Which character interest you
most? Why?
2. (a) Recall: How do the workmen
celebrate as the play begins? (b) Analyze: Why does their celebration annoy
Flavius and Marullus?
3. 3. (a) Recall: What warning does the
soothsayer give to Caesar? (b) Infer: What does Caesar’s reaction tell you
about him?
4. (a) Recall: What does Brutus say when
he hears the shouts of the people? (b) Infer: What mixed feelings does the
shouting arouse in Brutus: (c) Analyze: How does Cassius take advantage of
Brutus’ conflicting feelings?
5. Apply: Explain how Brutus, Cassius, and Caesar
represent qualities that can be found in people of any time period.
6. Predict: What do you suspect is going
to happen in the next part of the play? Why?
Romeo and Juliet
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1112
Romeo and Juliet
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1112
Romeo and Juliet
Thinking About Act 1
1.
Respond: If you were Romeo or Juliet,
would you pursue a relationship? Explain
2.
(a) Recall: Based on Act 1, what facts do you
know about Romeo’s and Juliet’s lives? (b) Compare and Contrast: How are these
characters’ personalities alike and different:
3.
(a) Recall: What information about the two
households is presented in the Prologue? (b) Connect: How does Juliet’s comment
in Act 1 Scene v lines 137-138, echo the Prologue?
4.
Analyze: How do the comments of Montague and
Benvolio in Act 1 help you understand the character of Romeo?
5.
(a) Analyze; What threats to Romeo and Juliet’s
love already exist in Act 1: (b) Support: How does Shakespeare use these
threats to generate suspense in the first act?
6.
Evaluate: Based on Romeo’s behavior
in Act 1, do you think Shakespeare accurately portrays a teenager in love? Explain.
Monday, February 18, 2019
The Sky Is Cheap Entertainment: Biggest Full Moon of 2019
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| Since many of us are in the snow. |
Year’s biggest supermoon on February 19
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: CLAIR DE LUNE
Friday, February 15, 2019
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Happy Valentine's Day with up so floating many bells down
[anyone lived
in a pretty how town]
anyone
lived in a pretty how town
(with up
so floating many bells down)
spring
summer autumn winter
he sang
his didn’t he danced his did.
Women and
men(both little and small)
cared for
anyone not at all
they
sowed their isn’t they reaped their same
sun moon
stars rain
children
guessed(but only a few
and down
they forgot as up they grew
autumn
winter spring summer)
that
noone loved him more by more
when by
now and tree by leaf
she
laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by
snow and stir by still
anyone’s
any was all to her
someones
married their everyones
laughed
their cryings and did their dance
(sleep
wake hope and then)they
said
their nevers they slept their dream
stars
rain sun moon
(and only
the snow can begin to explain
how
children are apt to forget to remember
with up
so floating many bells down)
one day
anyone died i guess
(and
noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk
buried them side by side
little by
little and was by was
all by
all and deep by deep
and more
by more they dream their sleep
noone and
anyone earth by april
wish by
spirit and if by yes.
Women and
men(both dong and ding)
summer
autumn winter spring
reaped
their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Island of the Blue Dolphins
PDF Island of the Blue Dolphins
http://playpen.meraka.csir.co.za/~acdc/education/Dr_Anvind_Gupa/Learners_Library_7_March_2007/Resources/books/bluedolphins.pdf
PDF Questions and Activities Scholastic
https://www.scholastic.com/content/dam/teachers/activities/migrated-files-in-body/island-of-the-blue-dolphins-bookfiles.pdf
Monday, February 11, 2019
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare: The Life and Times Of (FULL DOCUMENTARY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafnuBH8KPs
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