Enjoy your break. You all deserve it. Just don't forget to qrite your rough drafts. Those are due upon your return. Tackle a little every night or two and it won't seem so bad. Don't save the whole thing for the night before we get back!
Look at that dog on the right.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
one page essay for 12. 4. 09
Ibo culture compared to the American dream.
Ikemefuna's singnificance and the changes he can bring in Okonkwo's personality.
Nwoye feeling the same way Okonkwo felt about his father due to characterstic differences.
What were the reasons behind Unoka's failure?
-SB
Ikemefuna's singnificance and the changes he can bring in Okonkwo's personality.
Nwoye feeling the same way Okonkwo felt about his father due to characterstic differences.
What were the reasons behind Unoka's failure?
-SB
One Page Essays for 12/4/09
1. Compare and contrast Okonkwo to his father and you to your father.
2. How does fear affect your personality, and what you do?
3. How is the Ibo culture similar and different to our culture?
-KH
2. How does fear affect your personality, and what you do?
3. How is the Ibo culture similar and different to our culture?
-KH
One page essay for friday dec. 4th, 2009
1.) Do you think its fair that Unoku lives life of pleasure, while others work hard and then loan Unoku money?
-S. B.
-S. B.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
One Page Essays for 12/4/09
Is the significance of life found through simple everyday pleasures or through making great accomplishments?
Does this significance change depending on whether one has the lives of others to support as well as their own?
-FC
Monday, November 30, 2009
Vocab (TFA1)
Harmattan
Improvident
Prowess
Gnashed
Ultimatum
Imperious
Interim
Capricious
Malevolent
Prosperity
Improvident
Prowess
Gnashed
Ultimatum
Imperious
Interim
Capricious
Malevolent
Prosperity
Friday, November 13, 2009
Vocab (TRAIN2)
Rheum
Despondently
Turbid
Gesticulations
Rapt
Intermittently
Intrinsically
Implicit
Tumultuous
Pursed
Despondently
Turbid
Gesticulations
Rapt
Intermittently
Intrinsically
Implicit
Tumultuous
Pursed
Thursday, November 12, 2009
one page essays for the next closest date.
1. Name an obsession you have, and how does that effect who you are and your personalty?
-MikeyT
-MikeyT
One Page Essays for 11/12/09
1. How has Hukum Chand's actions towards women changed since we first are introduced to him? Do you think these actions were ever justified, if so how?
2.Choose a scene in the book and explain the message given in that particular scene. Use evidence and examples to prove your reasoning.
3.Compare and contrast Iqbal and Juggah's actions. Explain how these actions relate to their personalities.
4.Relate something from the book (and incident or message) to that of something outside the book. Use details to express this relation.
5. If you were in Juggah's situation, how would you react? would you act in the same way Juggah did? why or why not?
**DR**
2.Choose a scene in the book and explain the message given in that particular scene. Use evidence and examples to prove your reasoning.
3.Compare and contrast Iqbal and Juggah's actions. Explain how these actions relate to their personalities.
4.Relate something from the book (and incident or message) to that of something outside the book. Use details to express this relation.
5. If you were in Juggah's situation, how would you react? would you act in the same way Juggah did? why or why not?
**DR**
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Today's Journal Prompt
For your scene:
1. What happens?
2. What else is going on in Mano Majra at the time?
3. What does the interaction reveal about each character's personality?
4. What could the interaction symbolize about the relationship between the government of India and its people?
1. What happens?
2. What else is going on in Mano Majra at the time?
3. What does the interaction reveal about each character's personality?
4. What could the interaction symbolize about the relationship between the government of India and its people?
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Works Cited Info
Your Source Cards are due next class. If you want to be sure that you have done everything in proper MLA format (which you need for the points), check out the guidelines on the FHS Library site:
http://www.falmouth.k12.ma.us/index.php/our-schools/Falmouth-High-School/fhacademics/fhlibrary/fhs-workscited
They don't include movie citations right there, so here is the guideline for that (again, be sure to tab in after the first line!):
An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore, Billy West. Paramount, 2006. DVD.
Vocab (TRAIN1)
Kismet
Falsetto
Communal
Buttress
Adjutant
Antimony
Censorious
Charpoy
Precipitated
Extricated
Falsetto
Communal
Buttress
Adjutant
Antimony
Censorious
Charpoy
Precipitated
Extricated
Monday, October 05, 2009
TOMORROW
Monday, September 21, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
First One-Page Position Paper Topic
For those who were having trouble reading it via the calendar.
The Mahabarata, a religious text of the Hindu faith states:
"Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue — these are the means of success, not caste or family."
Are these the components of success? Are there more than are on this list? Less? Are caste (social standing and upbringing) and family true measures of success or is it more what the individual does, and, if so, what does the individual need to have success?
In an essay of one page, pick a POSITION in this argument and SUPPORT it using relevant and specific information. Feel free to use your studies in literature and history, but also feel free for this essay to use personal experience. Just be sure that your personal experience is as specific as evidence from literature and that it truly supports your ideas.
As you conclude your essay, please COME TO A CONCLUSION about your own senior year and how you plan to make it a success. Of the components and reasons you have chosen, which will you utilize and how?
The Mahabarata, a religious text of the Hindu faith states:
"Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue — these are the means of success, not caste or family."
Are these the components of success? Are there more than are on this list? Less? Are caste (social standing and upbringing) and family true measures of success or is it more what the individual does, and, if so, what does the individual need to have success?
In an essay of one page, pick a POSITION in this argument and SUPPORT it using relevant and specific information. Feel free to use your studies in literature and history, but also feel free for this essay to use personal experience. Just be sure that your personal experience is as specific as evidence from literature and that it truly supports your ideas.
As you conclude your essay, please COME TO A CONCLUSION about your own senior year and how you plan to make it a success. Of the components and reasons you have chosen, which will you utilize and how?
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Vocab (SAR1)
Semaphore, Livery, Aperitif, Platonic, concierge, chic, ostentatious, sommelier, compatriot, expatriate
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Metamorphosis Essay
At the core of Franz Kafka's surreal story, The Metamorphos, is the transformation of a young man, Gregor Samsa, into a large insect. This change forces the reader to suspend disbelief and accept that the events occur, even if only for the brief period the story is read. But, there is a reason Kafka has decided to tell this story beyond the idea of a guy turning into a bug.
In a fully-developed one-page position paper, explain what the transformation of Gregor Samsa, from man into insect, symbolizes OUTSIDE of the short story. In other words, what is the significance of the transformation on an ALLEGORICAL LEVEL.
Remember, an allegory is a story on more than one, or the literal, level. It is a form of extended metaphor in which people, images and events can represent symbols of the larger, underlying meaning. Often, this true meaning has social, political, religious, or moral significance. To answer this question completely, you must explain what the allegorical meaning of the story is, and then how and why different events, images, characters, etc. are symbolic of that larger meaning.
DUE MONDAY
In a fully-developed one-page position paper, explain what the transformation of Gregor Samsa, from man into insect, symbolizes OUTSIDE of the short story. In other words, what is the significance of the transformation on an ALLEGORICAL LEVEL.
Remember, an allegory is a story on more than one, or the literal, level. It is a form of extended metaphor in which people, images and events can represent symbols of the larger, underlying meaning. Often, this true meaning has social, political, religious, or moral significance. To answer this question completely, you must explain what the allegorical meaning of the story is, and then how and why different events, images, characters, etc. are symbolic of that larger meaning.
DUE MONDAY
Friday, March 20, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Vocab (SOW1)
Indoctrination
Omnipresent
Somnambulantly
Attributes
Rife
Wanton
Petulantly
Audacity
Monotony
Elated
Omnipresent
Somnambulantly
Attributes
Rife
Wanton
Petulantly
Audacity
Monotony
Elated
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