Thursday September 29....what to do...what to do

use the time wisely

here's what needs to be done for Friday:


1. complete the first venn diagram comparing the film and the book.....differences between the book and the film on the outside and what they have in common in the middle...think hard on it and fill the diagram in as much detail as possible

2. Vocabulary: find one word from each of the first eight chapters of the book that you were unfamiliar. write it out....define it (you can look it up)....include the sentence you found it in (and a page reference) and include it in a sentence of your own on a topic of your own

do it on the back of the venn diagram handout and hand in completed page (both sides) tomorrow

3. catch up with blogs

4. read chapter 8

5. complete blog for chapter 8 (as a matter of fact, have all blogs completed and up to date

#12 Gift for the Darkness (136-159)

read.....respond

#11 Shadows and Tall Trees (119-135)

the story is getting darker and now there really is a beast (well a guy in a parachute)....your comment on this chapter

#10 Beast from Air (103 -115)

your thoughts...consider fear, beasts, terror, dreams, the unknown etc. (what did you think of the chapter?)

#9 ch 5 Beast From Water (81-102)

what happened , but, more importantly, what is your take on it? what surprised, interested, puzzled, angered, frustrated, perpelexed you?....etc

wed sept 21

in 239.....catch up with blogs (remember to follow me at: wwww.gr10english.blogspot.com

and, begin reading chapter five.....read form 81 to the bottom of pg 90 for Thursday

see you then.

#8 ch 4 (pp 60-80) Painted Faces and Long Hair

insturctions as per #6

#7 Chapter 3 (pp48-59) Huts on the Beach

instructions as per entry #6

#6 chapter 2 (pp30-47) Fire on the Mountain

for all entries reflecting on the literature (Lord of the Flies), consider the reader response rubric and complete entries of 6-8 sentences each time. Your entries should focus on your response to the section rather than what goes on in the selection. Do not waste time on plot summary...don't talk about happened in the section, deal with your thoughts/reactions/feelings to what you are reading

#5 Why "do good"

back to the question, why do you think people ("you", the people you know etc) do the right thing? what motivates people to treat each other well/ do good works etc?

#4 Bullying

in your opinion, where does it come from?....why does it still happen depsite all of the attention spent fighting it? is there any real difference betweeen male and female bullying?

#3 Lord of the Flies 1-25

the story so far.....your reactions, thoughts, responses to the first part of the book

The Rising : to begin the Inauguration of President Obama

The Rising - Live

#2 your memoir "event"

why did you end up choosing the one you did? explain

#1 gr 9 English

one abiding memory from your Engish class of last year.....please share