Reading maketh a full man . . . . . Speaking maketh a ready man . . . . . Writing maketh an exact man.

~~Sir Francis Bacon

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Due Nov. 4, 2015 (Vocab test, FreeRice 5K, Descriptive essay, Bio Rough Draft)

Vocab Test on ALL 20 words. The test will include:
fill-in-the-blank
match the word to the definition
match the word to the example
true/false
These are the words you will need a clear definition for:
1) Plot
2) Protagonist
3) Cacophony
4) Doppelganger
5) Motif
6) Nemesis

Know who the protagonist was in The Sign of the Beaver.   (Matt)

Know the first and last name of the author of The Sign of the Beaver.

Know the conflict in The Sign of the Beaver.   (man v. nature/environment)

Know the category genre of The Sign of the Beaver.   (Historical Fiction)
and  . . . see the extra credit below!

Bildungsroman  EXTRA CREDIT!  Bildungsroman 
Know that a coming of age story (like The Sign of the Beaver) is also a GENRE known as a "bildungsroman." 
A bildungsroman (or, coming of age genre) is a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the main character (usually from childhood to adulthood).

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ESSAY assignment
One Descriptive Paragraph utilizing every single sense. Describe a place, event, or scene in vivid detail. Use ALL the senses to walk us through your place, event, or scene. You might want to use a different perspective to make it a bit unusual.
One paragraph . . . . One amazing paragraph!  :-)
Develop your descriptive paragraph using every sense.
More than one sentence will be needed for each sense. You may wrap this in a story or just make your descriptive paragraph come alive in the reader's mind.
~~> NO BANNED WORDS and NO CONTRACTIONS
~~> KWO, rough draft, and checklist, as always
WITs:
ly
w/w
b/c
QA
SV
#3

VARSITY:
ly
w/w
b/c
QA
SV
asia
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
T/C
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Turn in a copy of the rough draft of your biography.

Una Voce members may substitute a platform speech, I.O., etc.

Remember, a copy of your rough draft.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Due October 28 (Sign of the Beaver, vocab, Bio research)

1)  Review our summer book, The Sign of the Beaver.
Be ready to discuss the story (plot), the characters, the setting and time period, the conflicts, and conclusion.
Know who the author is! :-)
If you are having trouble remembering the book, you may go to schmoop.com
OR
 brighthubeducation.com  It may help to read the chapter summaries.

2) Vocabulary words (Vocab test on November 4)
    1. conflict
    2. flashback
    3. juxtaposition
    4. motif
    5. plot
    6. point of view
    7. protagonist
    8. symbolism
    9. mood
    10. genre


3) Keep working on your biography research. Your finished essay is due on November 11. This week you should complete your KWO and start your rough, rough drafts (at the very least).  
WITs: minimum one paragraph
Varsity: minimum three paragraphs
Una Voce students should work on platform speeches, IOs, Interps, etc. in lieu of this assignment. Una Voce students must have completed work to submit by November 11, but this "completed work" my certainly be revamped, rewritten, edited, and/or amended as necessary for competition.


Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Due October 21, 2015

UNA VOCE:
1) Portfolio Copy of Animal Perspective Essay
2) TAG & FLAG
    a) TAG LINES for your affirmative brief's possible rebuttals 
    b) FLAG or BULLET POINT your table of contents  
    c) Be prepared to explain at least 4 tag lines in class.
3) Begin researching your Biography Essay   
4) Vocabulary Words

VARSITY: 
1) Portfolio Copy of Animal Perspective Essay
2) KWO Varsity paragraphs (listed below) and be prepared to re-create them in class using just your KWO.
3) Begin researching your Biography Essay   
4) Vocabulary Words

WITs:1) Portfolio Copy of Animal Perspective Essay
2) KWO the WIT paragraphs (listed below) and be prepared to re-create them in class using just your KWO.
3) Begin researching your Biography Essay   
4) Vocabulary Words

Calendar Notes!
Descriptive Essay, Free Rice 5K, Vocabulary Test, Bio Rough Draft 11-4
Biography Essay final copy target due date 11-11 
Thanksgiving Letter 11-18 


VOCABULARY WORDS:
  1. ambiguity
  2. cacophony
  3. cadence
  4. cliche
  5. doppelganger
  6. fallacy
  7. foreshadowing
  8. innuendo
  9. nemesis
  10. refutation

Be sure that you identify part of speech, define, and use in a sentence.

Start your master vocabulary list.

Vocabulary Test on November 4, 2015

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Due October 14, 2015 (Fables)

Varsity: ALL Dress-ups, plus Openers #2, #3, #6
Please avoid banned words


WITs: 5 Dress-ups
who/which

"ly" word
QA
SV
because clause

Choose one of these Fables:
The Goose With the Golden Eggs

The Dove and the Ant
The Four Oxen and the Lion
The Dog and the Bone
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Belling the Cat
The Eagle and the Arrow

Thursday, October 1, 2015

BRECKA QUOTES

BRECKA
Don’t be afraid to take big steps. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.  David Lloyd Geirge

The kiss of the sun for pardon. The song of the birds for mirth.
One is nearer to God's heart in the garden. Than anywhere else on earth
Dorothy  Francis Gurney  (born: October 4, 1858  - died 1932)

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, on your own intelligence do not rely; In all your ways be mindful of him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

Remember that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels!  Author Unknown

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives us the test first, the lesson after.  Vernon Law   (born 1030 – American Naseball Player)

PABLO QUOTES

PABLO
“Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.”  
Pope John Paul II
Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant and then it tries to silence good.  We need to remember that tolerance is not a Christian virtue.
Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty — these are Christian virtues. And obviously, in a diverse community, tolerance is an important working principle. But it’s never an end itself. In fact, tolerating grave evil within a society is itself a form of serious evil.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

"Fiat justitia, et pereat mundus"
Latin phrase, meaning "Let justice be done, though the world perish".

“Truth is not determined by a majority vote.”    Pope Benedict XVI

We get too soon old and too late smart. Pennsylvania Dutch Proverb

시작이 반이다          
Pronunciation: Shi-jaki bani-da  (Korean idiom)
Literal meaning: Starting is half the task


KAITLYN QUOTES

KAITLYN
“He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.  Dutch proverb

“Amor tutti fa uguali”
Italian Proverb meaning “Love makes all men equal.”

“He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) English writer

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Romans 12:21


“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.”  Benjamin Franklin

AUDREY QUOTES

AUDREY
“In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein

“What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.”
 Anna Brownell Jameson

For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.  2 Timothy 1:7

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
Shakespeare’s play -HAMLET:  Polonius to the audience about Hamlet  (The modern American idiom: There is a method to his madness.)

“Qui craint de souffrir, il souffre déjà de ce qu’il craint”
(He who fears suffering is already suffering that which he fears.)
La Fontaine.

ERIN QUOTES

ERIN
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others ~ Saint John Chrysostom

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ~Vincent Van Gogh

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."
 G.K. Chesterton

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
 Benjamin Franklin

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.”  St.  Francis de Sales

SANTIAGO QUOTES

SANTIAGO

Faith is the patient seamstress
who mends our torn belief,
who sews the hem of childhood trust
and clips the threads of grief.    Joan Walsh Anglund

“Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty -- these are Christian values.”   Charles J. Chaput

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”    Benjamin Franklin

You can observe a lot by just watching.  - Yogi Berra

“Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.”  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

CARSON QUOTES

CARSON

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”    Pope John Paul II

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”     Mahatma Gandhi

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”    Socrates

“Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

COSSETTE QUOTES

COSSETTE

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.  Leo Tolstoy

A cup of sun,  . . . . a daisy. . . .  a thimble full of  snow.
 A leaf turned red from frost’s first touch; This much of God, I know.
Joan Walsh Anglund

“Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little.”
(Evaluation of Fred Astaire's very first screen test)

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”     Leopold Stokowski

Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for Thou at with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.    Psalms 23:4


GRACEANNE

GRACEANNE

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.    Dante


We need to jump at opportunities as quickly as we usually jump to conclusions    ~ Ben Franklin


If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
--G.K. Chesterton

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.  - Winnie the Pooh


The wicked are overthrown by their wickedness,
but the just find a refuge in their integrity.  Proverbs 14:32

MAX QUOTES

MAX

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”   Joan Walsh Anglund’s “A Cup of Sun,” pg 15 , published in 1967
(This quote was incorrectly attributed to Maya Angelou on a 2015 US forever postage stamp )

Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.   St John Climacus

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”   Benjamin Franklin

"When one does not profess Jesus Christ, one professes the worldliness of the devil."   Pope Francis

“In all Debates, let Truth be thy Aim, not Victory.”   Benjamin Franklin,

DIEGO QUOTES

DIEGO

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost’s  Poem: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

“When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”
Benjamin Franklin

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.  Albert Schweitzer

“Peace begins with a smile.”     Blessed Mother Teresa

Be on your guard; stands firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14

LEXI QUOTES

LEXI

“The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.   Mother Teresa

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.   Dr. Seuss

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.   Mark Twain


If you give the devil a hair, he'll want the whole beard.   Yiddish Proverb