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Reminder- Literary Terms- round 3

2/22/2019

Last day/first day of the month
Test #3: March 1st
Test #4: March 21st (Possible)

Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Antagonist
Archetype
Aside
Autobiography
Biography
Character
Climax
Comedy
Conclusion
Concrete Poetry
Conflict
Connotation
Couplet

Dehumanization
Denotation
Dialogue
Dramatic Irony
Dynamic Character
Exposition
Fable
Falling Action
Flat Character
Foreshadowing
Free Verse
Genre
Metaphor
Novel
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Plot

Point of View
Prose
Protagonist
Quatrain
Rising Action
Round Character
Setting
Short Story
Simile
Situational Irony
Stanza
Static Character
Stereotype
Suspense
Symbolism Theme
Verbal Irony

Remember the definitions are on the drop-down vocabulary tab. :)

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Vocabulary 1-20 Thursday

2/20/2019

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Thank you students who came by to check. Here are the roots that I didn't get back to you. :)

Vocab. 19
urb- city
ven, vene, vent- to come
verb- word
ver, veri- true

Vocab. 20
vers, vert- to turn
vid, vis- to see
vit, viv- life, to live
voc, vok- to call, voice

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Cost of Leadership

2/12/2019

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Ender's Game: Chapter 13, Valentine
Loving your enemy, facing yourself, and what that costs as a leader.

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Love Ender's Game? Wondering what to read next? There are two parallel series to choose from. Ender's Shadow is book one in a series that begins at the same time period as Ender's Game. While Game follows Ender's life and point of view, Shadow follows Bean's. Arguably more intelligent than Ender, Bean arrives at Battle School after Ender has already been chosen as the one, but it turns out that Bean is needed, too. One problem, Bean has to learn what comes to Ender naturally-- empathy. Without love or trust, will anyone follow him?

Ender's Shadow Series, Book 1, "Bean's past was a battle just to survive. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender...." (Amazon).

Option two is Speaker for the Dead. While this is technically the second book in the Ender series, it takes place decades after the war, unlike the Shadow series. A more mature and psychological book, an older Ender must face his past, risk his life, the lives of three cultures, and try to stop history from repeating itself.

Ender's Game Series, Book 2, Speaker for the Dead, "In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.

Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth" (Amazon).

Remember- I came across Card and the Ender's series' because a student recommended it to me about 20 years ago. It was the first book a student gave to me to read. Since then hundreds of student have read Ender's Game and I have read about 13 books a year recommended by students. My board is always open to student recommendations! I take the homework you assign to me seriously, and I am always on the look out for good books to share, or possibly, to add to our official curriculum. Sophomore year's student recommended book? The House of the Scorpion. Look for it forth quarter next year!

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Veni Vidi Vici

2/5/2019

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I Came. I Saw. I Conquered.

Latin. Attributed to Julius Caesar.

Today we finish the last 20 min. of How to Train Your Dragon.
Please pay attention carefully to our last hero motif stages.
Hiccup has lost everything. Now it is time to face everything. Like many heroes he trains and gathers an army, but also like most of our heroes, he has to face the Evil and the final battle --alone.
Stages: Hell, Devil, Death, and Resurrection.
Pay special attention to: hero stages, symbols linking Hiccup to Toothless, links to previous foreshadowing, falling or other worlds apart from the human realm. We will discuss charts when I return.

Read Veni Vidi Vici--Ender's Game Chapter 11.
Think about how Card is drawing plots together: the mind game, the battle room, the "real world" of the boys at school, and the bugger war. What similarities to you notice? What questions is Card asking the reader to think about? How does this track with the hero motif and Dragons.
Finish chapter and work on packet with class time and for homework.
Edit: Packet check 1-12 and Quiz 9-12 on Thursday- 2/21.

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Reminder- Literary Terms- round 3

Vocabulary 1-20 Thursday

Cost of Leadership

Book Recommendations

Veni Vidi Vici

I Came. I Saw. I Conquered.

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