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Chapter 9-the End

2/26/2019

From now on we are silent reading our chapters.
One chapter a day beginning in class.
If you need to finish, finish for homework.
Audible times would be: Chapter 9- 46 min., Chapter 10- 53 min., Chapter 11- 32 min., and Chapter 12- 5 min.

During class we will discuss the book, watch Robin Hood, and listen to/read connecting materials.
Work on your packet. :)

"Good Guys: The Deep Dark Open Secret"

Komunyakaa- "Facing It"

Komunyakaa- "You and I are Disappearing"

Naplam Girl

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

I highly recommend watching Les Miserables. It is at Pantages in May-ish!
$8.99 on Amazon for purchase right now. ;)
"Empty Chairs and Empty Tables"

There's a grief that can't be spoken,
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables,
Now my friends are dead and gone.
Here they talked of revolution,
Here it was they lit the flame,
Here they sang about tomorrow and tomorrow never came.
From the table in the corner,
They could see a world reborn,
And they rose with voices ringing,
And I can hear them now
The very words that they have sung
Became their last communion
On this lonely barricade, at dawn.

Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
That I live and you are gone
There's a grief that can't be spoken,
And there's a pain goes on and on
Phantom faces at the window,
Phantom shadows on the floor,
Empty chairs at empty tables where my friends will meet no more.
Oh my friends, my friends don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friend will sing no more.
Songwriters: Alain Albert Boublil / Claude Michel Schonberg / Herbert Kretzmer
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

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"Sick storks, like great birds"

2/22/2019

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All Quiet on the Western Front: Chapter 8

From the back of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) and sooner or later you
will arrive with Bruno at a fence.

Fences like this exist all over the world.
We hope that you never have to encounter one.

Why would an Irish author write about the Holocaust

Of course all this happened a long time ago and nothing like that could ever happen again.

Not in this day and age.

Sinead O'Connor- Famine

"See Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoes
All of the other food, meat, fish, vegetables
Were shipped out of the country under armed guard
To England while the Irish people starved

And then on the middle of all this
They gave us money not to teach our children Irish
And so we lost our history
And this is what I think is still hurting me

And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering and then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding"
(O'Connor).

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Story and Symbol

2/13/2019

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Period 1
Finish Chapter 6.
Silent reading 20+ min. Finish for homework.
Symbols to think about -
Bread, Wine, 3's, Garden.
The churchyard is an extra clue.
What religious allusions might these be?
What are these men facing?

Period 3
Read Chapter 7.
Listen 137-164. Finish for homework.
Symbols to think about again-
Bread, Wine, Nakedness.
Is there communion here?
Is there love? Is there peace?

Audio Chapter 7

The Twilight Zone - A Stop at Willoughby

After reading, watch the Twilight Zone's - A Stop at Willoughby.
Fill out your handout and turn it in by the end of class. You may work with a partner. Thank you.

Handout- AQW and Willoughby

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The Devil is in the ...

2/7/2019

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But the earlier phrase is actually "God is in the detail." While the "devil is in the details" means that there is often a mysterious unknown, "God is in the detail' means that we should look into things thoroughly. Both are appropriate here. Today we start note cards for symbols, characters, issues, events...the choice is yours. Whatever you choose, the details reveal both the heaven and hell that Remarque needs you to see.

A Rough Outline is just that: a rough list of ideas that you think you might want to write about. As you research you will cross things out, add, and re-order your list, but researching without an idea of what your goals are, not only takes twice as long, but results in a paper that sounds like you do not know what you are doing.

Since you are researching from an outline, every card should be thoughtful and have a place. A rough outline with cards IS a rough draft of a paper.

I will be checking rough outline, typed outline, tally marks and cards. Bring cards to class so that we can start together as a class and you can work with your partner.

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Monday-Registration!

2/4/2019

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Today we register for our Junior Year!
Make sure to bring your cards and questions!
After roll, go to your counselors door and find a way to sit outside until they are free. Do not block the hallway, but bring a phone, book, jacket, etc. and sit on either side of the hall. As soon as you are done, return to class.
When you return:
Work with a partner or small group on your hero chart for both Tristan and Lancelot.
Have 1-3 good sentences about how they fit each stage.
When the whole class returns:
Silent reading 20-30 min. (Audible takes 28 min.)
All Quiet on the Western Front, chapter 5. If you do not finish. Finish for homework.
If there is still class time:
Work with a partner or small groups again and complete packet through the questions for 1-5,
especially what you know so far about the characters.
Wednesday:
Hero Charts and All Quiet packet 1-5, due. We will review and take 1-5 quiz on Friday.

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Welcome to our Sophomore class blog!

Chapter 9-the End

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

"Sick storks, like great birds"

Story and Symbol

The Devil is in the ...

Monday-Registration!

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