Day 24

Objective:  The students will discuss their Monte Cristo Project.

1.  WP #10   Turn in Packet 1-10

2.  Keep vocabulary from yesterday until we do that story next week.

3.  Discuss MC Chapters 4-5

4.  Discuss Monte Cristo Soundtrack Project

5.  Read Monte Cristo Chapters 6-7 (13 pages)

Have a great weekend. 

 

WP:  Monte Cristo Chapters 1-5

     France during the 1800’s was divided politically with two different partys fighting for control.  There were those that supported the king called royalists, and there were those that supported Napoleon called the bonapartists.  If Edmond Dantes was found to have a letter on him from Napoleon, he would be considered a traitor and put in prison.  That starts the entire conflict in “The Count of Monte Cristo.”

Day 23

Objective:  The students will complete a vocab assignment.

Sorry about another vocab so soon, but this was supposed to be for next week's stories, but I have to be out today, so I wanted to give you something that's not just busy-work.

1.  "Everyday Use" vocabulary.  You know what you have to do.  Yes... you have to do sentences. 

1.  Sidle (v)

2.  Furtive (adj.)

3.  Doctrines (n)

4.  Cowering (v)

5.  Rifling (v)

6.  Oppress (v)

7.  Doleful (adj.)

8.  Ignominiously (adv.)  ig no min ee ous ly

9.  Contempt (n)

10. Irreverent (adj. )

Day 22

Objective:  The students will discuss the first three chapters of Monte Cristo.

Get out your MC Book and your study guide questions. And two sheets of paper. 

1.  MC Quiz 1-3

2.  Discuss Chapters and Study Guide Questions.

3.  MC Timeline and Character Chart.

4.  Read MC Chapters 4-5 (10 pages) 

Day 21

Objective:  The students will read the first three chapters of Monte Cristo.

1.  Go over vocab words and turn in.

2.  Monte Cristo Intro Notes:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LAGBfuICNY2lgBjGswHsVp7UONKSbrKtUlb23OpmL9w/edit?usp=sharing

3.  Elba Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gG_mSduwW0&t=19s

4.  Monte CRisto 1-10 Study Guide:  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3L_VvieQoSoaHhRTjcxMjI0UjA/edit?resourcekey=0-rFpshMYn51zHaRHVlXQioA

5.  Read Chapters 1-3.  Quiz tomorrow.

Day 19

Objective:  The students will know important words for the first part of Monte Cristo.

Note:  Tomorrow I have to get my wisdom teeth pulled.  I hate being out of school and having to miss, so please be great for the sub. Be ON TIME.  Be respectful and do the work.  If the sub says no phones, then do what he/she says.  If your name is left, you will get an automatic ZERO on the assignment. 

Put your MC Book on your desk for 10 points. 

1.  WP #9

2.  Monte Cristo Vocab #1 

Vocab Words

1. Purser
2. Vexation (or vex)
3. Denunciation
4. Lithe
5. Insolent
6. Usurper
7. Betrothal (betrothed)
8. Obsequious
9. Martyr
10. Livid

Day 18

Objective:  The students will write an intro paragraph using the inverted triangle format.

1.  WP Number 8

2.  Write an Inverted Triangle Format Intro

3.  Turn in Long Way Home (Questions, Story, Writing)

4.  Hand back all graded work from folders.  You now have ONE WEEK FROM TODAY to rewrite your essay.

5.  Bring Monte Cristo tomorrow. 

 

WP Activity

“Long Way Home”

 

     Like Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” Charles Waugh writes of what he thinks the future will be like in his story titled Long Way Home.  The story has a father thinking, about the day that his son left his home.  Jack the son went to become a space explorer.  Most fathers would be happy about this profession for there son, but this decision means that he will never see his son again.

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“The Pedestrian” versus “Long Way Home” Essay

Writing Situation:  Many authors of science fiction present ideas of what they think the future will be like in their literature.  Some of them present a society where its citizens have no control of their everyday lives, while others present a society where the citizens have free will and choice.

Writing Directions:  Using “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury and “Long Way Home” by Charles Waugh, explain both authors’ idea of what they feel the future may hold for society.  Then, tell which story presents the most likely to happen scenario based upon the world today.