Friday, May 23, 2014

Read Things Fall Apart Chapters 12 and 13 (pages 1150-1157)

Group 1: Carolina, Alexia, Andres, Giuli Arza

Group 2: Aron, Samuel, Giuli Oneto, Damaris

Group 3: Tanzi, Jazmin, Anderson, Alexandra

Group 4: Angelo, Lucas, Helena, Samuel J

Prepare your myth. One person is the storyteller.  One person provides the analysis.  Two people act out the myth using their bodies/facial expressions.

Unit 14 Vocabulary: #1-10 due Tuesday, May 27; #11-20 due Thursday, May 29. Vocabulary Quiz Tuesday, June 3.

#1-10
alacrity, alleviate, antithesis, appall, bellicose, disparage, dissonant, droll, edict, elucidate.

#11-20
laud, loll, loquacious, magnanimous, mandatory, nondescript, phlegmatic, rescind, vivacious, whet.

Friday, May 9, 2014

Journal due Monday, May 12.

Read Chapter 3-4 of Things Fall Apart. Create a journal, in the form of a petition, that addresses the leader of Boko Haram.  Use positive cultural values that were evident (analyzed in class or discovered in your reading)  to convince the leaders of Boko Haram to release the girls. Try to persuade him to value these girls. You must include 2 quotes from Chapters 1-4 in your journal.

Minimum of 3/4 page, include 3 vocabulary words from Unit 13.