Mrs. Halliday will be giving you a spelling test on these words:
Spelling Words:
Admonish
Brigand
Circumspect
Commandeer
Debris
Defuse
Dilemma
Perennial
Relinquish
Spurious
You will be reading ch. six with Mrs. Halliday, either silently or as a class. Your next assignment is a reading comprehension assignment where you have to figure out where in the world Waknuk is by using Uncle Axel's description of the known world. You will be making use of the atlases in class and producing a beautifully coloured and creatively illustrated map of "The World According to Uncle Axel."
No current international boundaries will be on your map. In David's post-nuclear war world, Canada and the United States no longer exist. Start your work by looking on the map of Labrador for Rigolet. That'll be Rigo. Figure out the directions and distances from there and try to locate places on your map as accurately as you can according to the directions given by Uncle Axel.
Today in B block English 9 we worked on Journal ch 5. I am not assigning that to be finished for homework for you. You may finish it in class tomorrow and hand it in to Mrs. Halliday on Friday. Mrs. Halliday will be giving you a spelling test on these words:
Spelling Words:
Admonish
Brigand
Circumspect
Commandeer
Debris
Defuse
Dilemma
Perennial
Relinquish
Spurious
You will be reading ch. six with Mrs. Halliday, either silently or as a class. Your next assignment is a reading comprehension assignment where you have to figure out where in the world Waknuk is by using Uncle Axel's description of the known world. You will be making use of the atlases in class and producing a beautifully coloured and creatively illustrated map of "The World According to Uncle Axel."
No current international boundaries will be on your map. In David's post-nuclear war world, Canada and the United States no longer exist. Start your work by looking on the map of Labrador for Rigolet. That'll be Rigo. Figure out the directions and distances from there and try to locate places on your map as accurately as you can according to the directions given by Uncle Axel.
For HWK: Continue your research especially if I noted on your bibliography that you need a broader research base for your project. If your research is under control, work on organising your thoughts, writing your speech and creating your powerpoint. Remember too that I expect you to use flash cards and to have practiced your speech before giving it to the class.
You have been assigned your new project, so tonight continue the research we began in class today. You should be reading to get an overview of your topic right now.
Good copy of ch. 3 Journal due Monday. Read ch 4, and be prepared to write on chapter four next week.
Bring a FLASH DRIVE to school next week. We are meeting in the library lab for research. See assignment below:
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Nuclear War Research Project
Name:Names of Group Members:
Topic:
Presentation Date:
Choose a group to work with (three person group).Choose to do either topics 1-3 or 4-6.
Divide the topics to research among the group.
Using the internet, and any other appropriate resources, investigate your topic as thoroughly as possible.You will be given some class time to do this, but will also need to invest your own time.
4. (50 marks each) Give a narrated power point presentation of your findings to the class.All members of your group should be equally involved in your presentation.You are encouraged to be creative:consider including film clips, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, maps – anything to make your topic interesting and understandable.You are to stand facing the class to give your speech, using flash cards for your speech notes.A group member may advance your powerpoint for you.You will be graded 50/50 on your visual content and on your academic content.Group Presentations should be about 15 minutes long.Individual work for each group must be collated on one flash drive, in one powerpoint presentation so that class time is not wasted while people log on and off the computer.
Research Topics:
What are nuclear bombs & how do they work?
Nuclear Arms Race (major events and M.A.D.)
The aftermath of an atomic explosion.HINTS:Hiroshima & Nagasaki.What could happen to the planet and humanity after a full scale nuclear war?
Nuclear bomb tests and nuclear accidents.
The Uses of Nuclear Technology:Nuclear Power and Nuclear Medicine
What is the world’s current nuclear arms situation?
Extracurricular reading for the Reading Challenge portion of your grade this term is your homwork for tonight. Happy Reading!
You are required to read 800 pages per term to receive an A on the Reading Challenge.
When you have finished a book, bring it in and rerview it in person with me. This little chat about your book won't take very long. I'll ask you a few questions about the book, ensuring that you have read it, and then I will record it in my markbook.
Complete good copy of chapter one journal. Due Wednesday. You may write at least five sentences on each of two quotes, or a couple of sentences each on four quotes.
Add all the terms we have learned so far to your new LITERARY TERMS page in your binders. Include definitions and examples for each term. Use examples that we used in class when the term was first introduced to you.
Finish the last couple of paragraphs in chapter one. Choose 2-4 quotes that interest you and write them out. You will be writing your first dialectical journal tomorrow in class.
What is the theme of the story?__________________________
III. QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions.
1.What unusual qualities and appliances does the house have?
2.What were the five spots of paint of?
3.What happened to the people?
4.What are some things the house has been protecting itself from?
5. Why is the dog very thin and covered in sores?
6.What happens to the dog’s remains?
7.What can you infer the family usually does at ?
8.What did the children usually do at ?
9.What is the name of the family that lived in the house?
10.What are some things the house does to try to save itself?
11. What was the last voice to die saying?
Allusion:
Quote from Story: "There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil Baal in a dark corner."
Baal is the same as Beelzebub, who is an old pagan god that appears in the Old Testament. Search the Bible to see passages. His name translates into Lord of the Flies. He is also Satan's best friend in Milton's Paradise Lost (Book 1: line 75).
Utopian literature:A type of literature in which an ideal society is depicted.The word utopia is a pun on two Greek words outopia (no place) and eutopia (good place).Sir Thomas More first used the word utopia when he wrote a book (in latin!) of that title.
Dystopian literature:this term refers to an anti-utopia, or a “bad place” which is typically characterized by extreme mechanization or authoritarianism.George Orwell’s novel 1984 and the Chrysalids by John Whyndham are examples of dystopian novels.
