David Thomas

Final Exam

As the final exam approaches, many of you may want to get a head start.  I am posting both the review sheet and links to handouts and powerpoints which will help you study for this material.

Download Final Review 2012 post

Download Clause Powerpoint

Download State of Being powerpoint

Download SimpleCompoundandCplexSentences

Download Handout

Download PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE notes (student highlights)

Download Parallelism powerpoint

Download 02k-ActiveandPassiveVoiceOffice2003

Movie Maker

http://hillgrovelibrary.edu.glogster.com/book-trailers/

Tuesday May 8, 2012

-Take up questions from Chapter 16

 

Summary: 

Victor agrees to make a female but in the course, destroys the female, knowing that results of his invention.

The Creation then kills Clerval, and the town-due to circumstantial evidence-assumes Victor killed Clerval.

The evening after the wedding, begins chapter 23 as Elizabeth and Victor return to a secluded cottage.

 -Read Chapter 23

 -Directions for Movie trailer.

http://www.mpsaz.org/edtech/programs/resources/files/moviemaker.pdf

Rubric:

 Homework: Continue Trailer.

Quotes to analyze for Friday

I will put the first few words and last few words of the quote.  As you come to these sections in the chapters, pause and analyze the meaning and significance of the quote.

"For a long time I could not conceive...Disgust and Loathing"

"And what was I?  O possessed no money, no friends...all men disowned?"

Of what a strange nature is knowledge...did not understand"

"Other lessons were impressed upon me ...mutual bonds"

Quiz Chapters 8-12

Survival log: Hour by hour account of escape.

Stream of Consciousness writing: In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative modethat seeks to portray an individuals point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions (Wikipedia)

Example Passages

“One the Road” with Jack Kerouac.
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 1, Ch. 1

• "And as I sat there listening to that sound of the night which bop has come to represent for all of us, I thought of my friends from one end of the country to the other and how they were really all in the same vast backyard doing something so frantic and rushing-about.
  - Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 1, Ch. 3
• "I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was — I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds."
  - Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 1, Ch. 3

• "The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream."

 Homework: Catch up on Frankenstein

Tuesday May 1, 2012

Download Don,t judge a bookArticle: Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover

Download Teen Mag anger poemPoem: Origin of Hate

Read chapters 11-12 of Frankenstein and complete graphic organizer

Homework: Complete Chapter and graphic organizer

Monday April 30, 2012

Remainder of the year schedule.Download May 2012

-Hook: Analyze poem.  Mutability by Percy Shelley.  Summarize each stanza and note theme.  How does imagery mirror content?

Process:  Title, Paraphrase, theme.

-Read Chapter 10 of Frankenstein.  Locate quotes which show the power of nature. 

Sublime: (noun): Quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic.

Daemon: Daemons are good or benevolent nature spirits beings of the same nature as both mortals and gods, similar to ghosts, spirit guides, forces of nature or the gods themselves (Unlike the negative connotation of the word demon)

-Homework: Answer questions chapter 10

Monday April 23, 2012

Today is senior project speech practice in front of the Junior class.  Because everyone will return to the class at a different time, we will workshop the rest of class, improving and making changes to the speech based on advice given by the Junior class.

Make sure to go by your boards night room in order to verify that all of your technology is working.  If you are using a room with a MAC computer, make sure to check technology and understand that MACs do not have access to student numbers.

Homework: Make sure you have chapters 1-7 read of Frankenstein.

Thursday April 19, 2012

Frankenstein: Complete Chapter 7/ Answer questions

Turn in portfolios

Speech practice

Homework: Complete chapter 7.  Improve speeches for senior project.

Wednesday April 18, 2012

Second Block: show room assignments.  Pike E-mail for Mac rooms

 Read Narratives: The Creation perspective

Who is Prometheus and why is the novel subtitled: The Modern Prometheus?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

Read Chapter 7:  (Outloud reading of letter.  Silent read to complete chapter.

Monster Creation scene.

Senior Project workshop.  Classroom presentations