Weekly Task List - Assignments Due week of 9/21

Weekly Task List

9/21
Monday
• Night (pp 27-51)
• Answer questions based on Night reading (SEE BELOW)
• Read articles on the death penalty, answer questions and do vocabulary
• Rewrite of Born Evil essay based on peer’s comments

9/23
Wednesday
No class!


Night questions pages 27-51
Directions: Please answer the questions in complete sentences. Use your own words, do not copy directly from the text. Type out your answers

What had Mrs. Schachter foreseen that actually happened when they arrived in Birkenau?

Why were Wiesel and his father told to change their ages when they entered the concentration camp?

Who were the Kapos? (you can look up on the internet who exactly the were if it’s unclear from the book)

Why does Weisel lie to Stein about how his family is doing?

Why did Weisel have to go to the dentist at the concentration camp?

The Great Gatsby assignment for April 20th

Please read The Great Gatsby pages 125 to 151. Answer the questions below (typed!) in complete sentences. Please be prepared for a quiz on the reading.

1. At the hotel Tom and Gatsby have an argument. In your own words describe what the argument was about.

2. During the argument, what is discovered about Gatsby’s business affairs?

3. Who hit Myrtle Wilson with the car?

4. Why does Gatsby want to wait at Daisy’s house at the end of chapter VII?

Article to read for Wednesday, April 22nd

Hi Class,

Follow the link to the article, Take Book Out of Schools in Seminole:

http://www.ncac.org/education/20040126~FL-Seminole_County~Roll_of_Thunder_Challenged_in_Seminole_County.cfm


You can copy and paste the link into your browser.
Please read the article and answer the questions below. Please answer the questions in complete sentences. Be sure to bring a copy of the article to class on Wednesday!!


1. Why did Debra Drake feel that the book, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry should be taken out of county schools? Explain your answer completely using your own words.

2. In your own words, what were at least 2 arguments that were made against banning the book? Explain your answer completely using your own words.

3. Should we censor certain books, movies, tv shows, videogames and other media to protect today’s youth? Support your answer by using examples. Write at least two paragraphs.

Poetry Assignment

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Answer the questions about the poem, "The Road Not Taken" in complete sentences. Please type your answers out. See below for a copy of the poem.

1. Choose one stanza (paragraph) of the poem and explain what it’s about in your own words. Use quotes directly from the stanza to support your answe

2. What is this poem about? Explain your answer completely. Use quotes directly from the poem to support your answer.

3. Did this poem use symbolism? Please explain specific examples where symbolism was used.




Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken (1915)
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Poetry Assignment

The Great Gatsby Questions

Questions – The Great Gatsby (97-top of page 125)

Directions: Please answer these questions in complete sentences. Explain the answers clearly and fully. Type your answers out!

1. When Tom and two others stop by Gatsby’s house in the beginning of the reading, he discovers that Gatsby knows Daisy. How does Tom feel about Daisy and Gatsby knowing each other?

2. What were Gatsby’s concerns that he expressed to Nick after his party that Daisy and Tom had attended? Explain in your own words and completely.

3. Why does Gatsby fire his servants?

4. Who does Myrtle Wilson mistake Jordan for at the end of the reading?

Great Gatsby - change in reading and questions to answer

Hi Class,

I've changed the pages to read for The Great Gatsby. Please read pages 47-80 and answer the questions below. Be sure to type out your answers and answer them in complete sentences. Have a great break!

Chapter 3
Why did Jordan leave Nick for an hour during the party at Gatsby’s?

Chapter 4
1. What is the date at this point in the novel?
2. Whom does Nick encounter at Gatsby’s party?
3. What is the suggestion about Henry L. Palmetto’s death?
4. What phrase does Gatsby repeatedly use to address Nick and others?
5. In what country did Gatsby receive a medal “For Valour Extraordinary”?
6. Who fixed the World Series in 1919?
7. Explain why Daisy was crying on the night before she was to be married. (explain your answer completely)