Please don’t forget your 200 word essay, lose paper, hand written.
It was due THURSDAY JUNE 6th, however due to to the ENLACE test, I expect it to be handed in on FRIDAY JUNE 7TH!!!
Please make sure you hand it in, we have our exam on Monday June 10th and I need your homework graded by then.
Oh look! a baby Tasmanian Devil!
I want to give you some pointers on what I will be looking for in regards to historical context, of course you may add your own to get the best grade possible:
-Politics ( what was going on at that time, was the country at war? were they recently invaded? were people happy with their president/king/dictator…lol)
-Inventions ( What were the newest inventions at that time?)
-Clothing (how did rich people dress, how did poor people dress?)
-Food ( what did those people eat, how was it cooked, what were their kitchens like?)
-Money ( what was their currency like? how much did things cost?)
-Music (What were people listening to at that time? what were their dances like?)
-Fads and trends ( just like now the trend is for women to wear ugly extra long finger nails with crystal stones on them ( ughhh!) what were common trends in those times?)
Get ready for the big expo!
Don’t forget it’s coming somewhere in June, first, maybe second week…BEE PREPARED!
…wait… that was the spelling bee… right? The thing with BEE instead of be….My bad, ok,
Remember it has to be a person who has changed the lives of their country or the world, a scientist, a famous writer…
USE YOUR IMAGINATION! FEEL FREE TO CREATE!
Look at other people’s presentations on you tube, ask for help/advice with other teachers!
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX! ! ! ! ! ! !
I am looking forward to seeing your projects,
Hey guys. did you finish your work??? nooooo???? what????
ok so you MUST finish it as homework, need I remind you it’s Authors in Depth, pages 143 and 149
🙂
Look up an extraordinary person who is REAL, LIVING AND NOT YOUR FAMILY MEMBER
Write a 350 word essay on what this person does, what makes him extraordinary, why do we need more people like him/her, and what can you do to be a little bit like him/her.
Homework is to be handed in on loose paper and is due Monday April 29th, 2013.
I suggest you take a look at CNN Heroes. ( that’s right boys and girls, click the link)
By the way, this is MY PERSONAL HERO… I always cry when I watch him get his award
Dear students: YOU ROCK!
Please don’t forget to finish your Mark Twain assignment ( page 129, Critical Thinking, number 3: Look up the California Gold Rush in a history book , or internet, compare Twain’s account with the historical one)
NEW ASSIGNMENT
Write a 350 word research report about any theme you want.
The report must contain bibliography like the one suggested on your student book, page 200.
Please note that copy-pasting will NOT be tolerated and will result in a BIG FAT ZERO ( you don’t want this, trust me, I’m a doctor).
Homework is to be handed in on lose paper, and is due Tuesday April 16th.
Copy the selection to your notebook. Then write one sentence with each boldfaced word. Copy the next exercise and solve it.
Watch the video and be silly.
Bill Cosby gives it up
What does Bill Cosby have in common with Robin Williams and Jim Carey –besides being funny? In the late 1990’s Cosby’s income was around thirty-six million dollars, an amount of money that placed him on Forbes magazine’s 1997’ Top 40 list of the most prosperous entertainers. He was there alongside other famous comics like Robin Williams and Jim Carey.
Jokes aside, Cosby is serious when it comes to money. Cosby has played many roles in television shows, movies and his stand up comedy routines, but he equally enjoys the role of giver and helper. As a benefactor, Cosby gives out of his own pocket to disadvantaged people and other worthy causes. Like other celebrities who make charitable donations, such as Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Jordan, he shares his success with others. Frequently, Cosby has performed stand-up routines and given speeches for benefits that raise funds for commendable causes. He donated twenty million dollars to Spelman College to build a variety of new facilities and pay for teaching positions. Before this, no individual had ever donated such a large amount to an African American college; only three other individual donations to any cause had been larger than his. Cosby and his wife, Camille, also set up a foundation to provide assistance for people with dyslexia, a type of learning disability. The future Filmmakers Program at New York University was established by Cosby to help encourage and provide opportunities for students in the film industry.
Although his benevolence is greatly appreciated, Bill Cosby doesn’t donate for recognition or fame; his acts of charity come from his hart and from his belief that the road to success starts with one important word – education. This belief could seem kind of funny coming from somebody who was better at cracking up his friends in class than cracking open a book. However, Cosby was determined to achieve his goals , despite his resistance to schoolwork. Because he was a natural comedian, but not a natural student, his road to success was not straight and immediate. At one point, he even dropped out of high school. Nicknamed Shorty because he was tall as a kid, Shorty did not come up short; he realized that he would never really succeed in a personal way if he didn’t have some solid ground under him, and that ground was education. He showed great perseverance by continuing to work on his degrees even as he achieved success working in the entertainment industry. He became so focused on his goal that he eventually earned a Ph.D. in education – no joke. Although it may seem that Cosby’s dream was to be in the spotlight, his personal dream was to finish college. You could say that education is no laughing matter to Bill Cosby, and donating his income to educational causes shows how serious he is.
CONTEXT CLUES
Use context clues from the selection to match the vocabulary word from the box with its definition below. Write the word on the line.
*benefactor *benefits *benevolence *commendable *disadvantaged *donations *recognition *resistance *perseverance *prosperous
1.__________: wealthy and successful
2.__________: credit or appreciation.
3. __________: person who makes a gift or donation
4. __________ worthy of praise
5. __________ events intended to make money for a cause
6. __________ gifts or contributions
7. __________ steady action or belief, usually over a long period of time
8. __________ lacking basic resources, such as food and housing.
9. __________ generosity and helpfulness, often toward people who are suffering.
10.__________ opposition to something or somebody.
Copy the text to your notebook, then write one sentence with each BOLDFACED word. Then copy the exercise and answer.
STATUES THAT WAIT
Easter island is situated 2,400 miles west of Chile in the South Pacific Ocean. Geographically, there is nothing Unusual about this island, yet it is one of the most famous islands in the world. The Dutch were the first to colonize Easter Island, bringing settlers from Europe in 1722. They were also the first Westerners to see the remarkable sight that has amazed people for over 250 years.
They found a series of fascinating sculptures –more than six hundred of them- scattered over the island. Some of the sculptures were carved in the shape of long, thin faces with no eyes. The sculptures have long ears, jutting chins and tiny legs. The sculptures’ only adornments are around their stomachs. It took incredible skill and artistry to create the statues. This is evident in the careful carving and precise placement of one stone on top of another. Some of the statues had red stone cylinders balanced on their enormous heads like hats, but all of these have long ago fallen off. Experts who have studied the statues believe their creator carved them with hand picks out of rock from an extinct volcano on the island.
Some of these monumental statues stand as tall as a three-story house and weigh over fifty tons. Many people find it incomprehensible that a primitive society could have moved such huge, bulky, cumbersome stones and put them into place facing the ocean.
Others have looked for an answer to why mysterious statues were built in the first place. Were they meant to represent something, or have a symbolic purpose? One theory claims that they were made to commemorate, or honor the memory of, the builders’ ancestors. Another theory points to the fact that the statues look out to the ocean, as though they were waiting for something. Perhaps the statues were meant to form a citadel, or fort, to protect the islands against a hostile attack from the sea. A French writer who visited the island in 1870 put it best when he wrote, “They have no eyes, only deep cavities under their large, noble foreheads, yet they seem to be looking and thinking…”
B) WORD GROUPS
As you read each pair of words, think about how they are alike. Write the word from the box that best completes each group.
*Adornments *artistry *citadel *colonize *commemorate *cumbersome *incomprehensible *monumental *situate *symbolic
1. settle, establish, ___________
2. craft, skill, ___________
3. unbelievable, incredible, ______
4. bulky, awkward, __________
5. representative, meaningful, __________
6. honor, remember, ___________
7. decorations, ornaments, ___________
8. fort, refuge, ___________
9. gigantic, massive, __________
10. place, locate. ___________
C) SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS
copy the exercise below. Put a check-mark in the synonyms column if the words are synonyms, put a check-mark in the antonyms column if they are antonyms.
Antonyms Synonyms
1. commemorate-ignore ___________ __________
2. citadel-fortress ___________ __________
3. incomprehensible – understandable ____________ __________
4. monumental – unimportant ____________ __________
5. artistry – talent ____________ __________
Copy the COMPLETE exercise and answer.
CONTEXT CLUES
In each sentence a word or phrase is underlined. Use context clues from the selection to help you determine the meaning of the red words. Choose a rd word to replace the underlined word or phrase in each sentence. Write the word on the line.
adjacent demonstrated descendants forebears latitudes migrants nomadic probable strait uninhabited
1-According to many scientists, it is reasonable to believe that people from Asia crossed a land bridge and entered North America 12,000 years ago.
2-These people came from northeast Asia, the land lying next to what is modern-day Alaska.
3-These tribes were constantly wandering people who eventually moved south through areas of Canada into what is now the United States.
4-As they entered warmer regions of the north or south of the equator,there were major differences in the climate and natural surroundings.
5-These roving people saw plains and huge forests of spruce and fir.
6-These lands had been not lived in by different people and were overflowing with animals, fish and many different kinds of plants.
7-The ancestors of today’s Native Americans became skillful hunters and fishers.
8-Like their offspring who would come after them, they respected the land around them and the animals living on it, and they tool only what they needed to survive.
9-As they proved by their actions, they were prepared to meet the challenges of this new environment.
10-The wandering spirit of these Asian peoples had taken them far away from the narrow channel connecting two larger bodies of water that they first crossed to enter this new world.
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