Brave New World Final Assigment

Final Assignment on

Brave New World

In class, due Friday, June 11

For this assignment, you will complete two diary entries from the perspective of one of the characters. You will have class-time to complete this assignment. Projects will not be accepted after Friday, June 11. Below, you will find characters and scenes to use in your writing.

Each diary entry must be 150-200 words. Each entry will be worth 20 points, and will count as a project grade.

Choose 2 events to write about from the perspective of the character:

John (the Savage)

1. 
   
   after his first meeting with Bernard at the Savage Reservation
2. 
   
   after going to the Feelies with Lenina
3. 
   
   after he rejects Lenina's sexual advances
4. 
   
   after his failure to lead the lower-caste rebellion
5. 
   
   after his conversation with Mustapha Mond about freedom and God

Bernard Marx

1. 
   
   after his first date with Lenina
2. 
   
   after the Director threatens to send him to Iceland
3. 
   
   after his visit to the Savage Reservation
4. 
   
   after revealing John and Linda to the Director
5. 
   
   after being sent away to Iceland

Lenina Crowne

1. 
   
   after her first date with Bernard
2. 
   
   after her visit to the Savage Reservation
3. 
   
   after going to the Feelies with John the Savage
4. 
   
   after being rejected by John the Savage

Criteria for Diary Entries	Possible Points	Your Points (entry 1)	Your Points (entry 2)
Ideas: You have used information from the text (audio recording) to develop the perspective of the character. The retelling of events is creative, and demonstrates an understanding of the type of person the character is. The retelling demonstrates that the writer has thought about the character, the events, and the feelings (or lack thereof) that the character experiences, as well as any conclusions the character may have drawn from the experience.	5
Presentation and Organization: The entry is at least 150-200 words in length. The entries are written neatly, on clean paper which is free of smudges, tears, and creases. All spiral edges have been removed. Typing is NOT required.	5
Voice: The diary entry is written from the perspective of the character, and reflects the personality of the character with regards to language use (so your entry should not be written as you would say it, but as the character would say it.)	5
Grammar: All grammar rules discussed in class are followed.	5
Total	20

Brave New World Radio broadcast

Part 1
Part 2

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Think about a loving relationship you have now or have had in the past. What do you think love is about?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

All sections:

How do you use technology? Is more advanced technology always better?

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, Brave New World.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Conveyors (34)
Antique (35)
Tactual (35)
Contemptuous (35)
Kneading (36)
Stiflingly (37)
Vivid (37)
Compulsory (38)
Inscrutable (39)
Monogamy (40)
Bemoaning (42)
Lurks (44)
Insurmountable (45)
Propaganda (51)
Rapture (59)
Stupor (59)

Journal for the Day

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What is self control? How can we achieve this?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What does it mean to be FREE? Is it about doing whatever you want or is there something else?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Why do we have emotions? What might things be like if we didn't?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What might things be like 100 years into the future?

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, Brave New World.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Spasmodic (21)
Gratuitous (23)
Smut (23)
Inculcate (28)
Apparatus (31)
Rudimentary (31)
Exquisite (32)
Prejudice (62)
Caste (62)
Excess (67)
Consummation (85)
Satiety (85)
Infantile (98)
Conform (98)
Leering (102)
Revolting (102)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

All sections:

How would you feel if you were artificially made? Do you think conformity is a good thing?jor

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What is the difference between natural and artificial? Which do you think is better?

Brave New World Reading Assignments #1-3

Reading Assignments

Brave New World

Reading Assignment #1

Read Chapters 1 - 2 of Brave New World (p. 3-29), and answer the questions:

1. 
   
   According to the Director, “the secret of happiness and virtue [is] liking what you have to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social identity” (16). Use the quote below to explain what this means:
   “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh, no. I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides, they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.” (27-28)
2. 
   
   What lesson is the Director trying to “rub in […] with a mild electric shock” (21)? Why are the children being taught this lesson?
3. 
   
   What is hypnopaedia? What is it used for? Use the quote below to help you:

“'Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too—all his life long. The mind that judges, and desires, and decides—made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!' The Director almost shouted in his triumph. 'Suggestions from the State!'” (29)

Reading Assignment #2

Read Chapter 3 of Brave New World (p. 30-56), and answer the questions:

1. 
   
   How is human emotion viewed by this society? What are the drawbacks of feeling strong emotions? Use the quote below to help you:

“Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder these poor pre- moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take thinks easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty—they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?” (41)

2. 
   
   How does this hypnopaedic saying ensure that individuals will spend their lives as consumers?

“Every man, woman and child compelled (forced) to consume so much a year. In the interests of industry. […] Ending is better than mending. The more stitches the less riches.” (49)

3. 
   
   Do you think this society values what we think of as education? Do you think education as you know it is a good value to have? Why or why not?

“You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.” (50)

4. 
   
   What is this society's attitude about drugs? Why might a society allow for recreational drug use?

“Six years later it [soma] was being produced commercially. The perfect drug […] euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant.” (53)

Reading Assignment #3

Read Chapters 4-5 of Brave New World (p. 57-86), and answer the questions:

1. 
   
   How is Lenina an example of a citizen of the society? Use the quotes below to help you:

“'That is,' Lenina gave him her most deliciously significant smile, 'if you still want to have me.'” (58)

“What a hideous color khaki is,' remarked Lenina, voicing the hypnopaedic prejudices of her caste.” (62)

2. 
   
   Why is it significant that Bernard and Helmholz know that they are individuals? (67)
3. 
   
   Why do you think Bernard is left unfulfilled by the Solidarity Service? (78-86)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What will we sacrifice for social stability? (What are we willing to give up to live comfortably?)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, Brave New World.


1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Stability (3)
Predestine (13)
Condition (13)
Viviparous (24)
Rational (26)
State (29)
Suggestion (29)
Triumph (29)
Consumption (30)
Abnormal (32)
Promiscuous (43)
Obscene (38)
Prohibitions (41)
Remorse (41)
Compelled (49)
Euphoric (53)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Imagine a society that considers having fun one of its highest values. What might this society look like?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

All sections:

"Young black men pretending to be men by killing each other." What does it mean to be a man?

Final Essay for Crips & Bloods

Final Essay on

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Due Friday, May 14, 2010

Graphic Organizer: 10 points

1^st Draft with revision: 10 points

Final Draft: 40 points

Total: 60 points

For this assignment, you will write a 5 paragraph essay. (If you write an 8 paragraph essay, you will receive +6 extra credit on this assignment.)

Choose one of the topics below:

1. 
   
   How are the Crips and Bloods “made in America”? Use details from the film to describe how gangs were shaped by historical events. Then discuss how you are “made” by your environment.
2. 
   
   Think about the quote: “Part of the mechanics of oppressing people is to pervert them to the extent they become the instruments of their own oppression.” (Kumasi) In what ways do you experience this in your community or in your personal relationships with others?
3. 
   
   Compare and contrast gang & club and riot & guerrilla. How does language influence the way we think about things? What do you notice about the words you choose to use?

Due on May 14: All of your materials, including the graphic organizer, your first draft, and your typed final draft, are due.

Journal for the Day

All sections:

How can you become more aware of the impact you have on others? (How do you treat other people?)

Journal for the Day

Section 10-3

How do you feel when the good you do is ignored or belittled?

Sections 10-1, 2, and 4

What is the difference between fear and respect?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

10-1 and 10-2

How do you feel when the good you do is ignored or belittled?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What does it feel like to be underestimated (treated as less than you are)?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

How do you influence the people around you?

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

The vocabulary list below was generated from the film  Crips and Bloods: Made in America

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Write a definition in your own words.
3. Finally, write a sentence using the word.

Alienation
Internalize
Disarray
Immune
Cesspool
Riot
Guerilla
Dilapidated
Rubble
Taboo
Salvage
Instigating
Oppression
Incorrigible
Scapegoat
Sporadic

Journal for the Day

All sections:

How have the places you've been shaped who you are?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What is your definition of a friend? What is a good friend? What is a bad friend?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

How have you changed since September? What has caused you to change?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What do you think you will remember about Arthur, Guenever and Lancelot in 5 years?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Do we usually ignore what is right in favor of our desires? Why or why not?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Have you ever been rewarded when you didn't deserve it? What is that like?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What does "if you love it, set it free" mean? Do you think it is true? Why or why not?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

How do you know when you are blinded by love?

Notes on Lancelot and Guenever

Lancelot and Guenever

- Lancelot was "mad on God"
  - at first, Guenever was patient
  - she was just happy to see him
  - Lancelot was afraid she would be upset by his decision
  - meanwhile, Guenever is hoping he'll fail
"She loved these interests--loved the old soldier to follow so faithfully his innocent love of God. She knew it was doomed to failure." (474)
- A year later, Guenever was angry because Lancelot has "selfishly" stuck to his vows
  - Lancelot had no right to break her heart like that
  - She sends him away when he will not yield

- The court is in decline
  - people are petty, gossip rules, and couples are unfaithful
  - Guenever was unpopular and was accused of trying to poison Gawaine
  - Bors finds Lancelot so he can defend her in a trial by combat--he wins

- Lancelot returns to Corbin
  - Elaine is waiting, expecting that he will remain with her
  - he realized he is the main reason for Elaine's sad life
"Elaine had been explained to and it was Elaine who struck the only strong blow of her life. She struck in unintentionally by committing suicide." (493)
  - Guenever admonishes Lancelot, "Why were you not kinder to her?" and she meant it. (494)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.


1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Thronged (457)
Murmuration (457)
Vanish (458)
Delay (455)
Protest (459)
Contemptible (459)
Inhuman (460)
Eternity (461)
Worldly (461)
Astonishment (462)
Deliberate (465)
Prop (463)
Disgraced (465)
Absolved (465)
Boasting (466)
Renounce (466)

IMK Reading assignment Chapters 41-45 (p. 495-514)

Read IMK Chapters 41-45 (p. 495-514)

"Say Something" for page 496

Reading Response Questions:

1. Why does Arthur lose his temper while jousting with Lancelot? (495-96)

2. Why does Meliagrance decide to kidnap the Queen? (498)

3. Why does Meliagrance accuse the Queen of treason? What is his mistake in the accusation? (503-504)

4. Why does Arthur choose to ignore Lancelot and Guenever's affair? (509)

5. Why is Lancelot ashamed of doing another miracle? (512)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Weekend Journals

All sections:

Freewrite! (x2)

Final Essay for The Once and Future King

Final Essay on

The Once and Future King

Due Friday, April 16, 2010

For this assignment, you will write an 8 paragraph essay. Choose one of the topics below:

Might vs. Right

1. 
   
   Write an 8 paragraph essay on Might vs. Right. In your essay, be sure to:

- Define Might and Right
- Describe the reasons Arthur gives for using Might for Right
- Discuss why Arthur eventually abandons his idea of Might for Right
- Evaluate the solution he finds, and it's successes and failures
- Include your own perspective of Arthur's policy and approach

Characterization

2. 
   
   Choose a character (Arthur, Lancelot, Guenever) to discuss in an 8 paragraph essay. Be sure to:

- Describe the character's primary characteristics (jealous, brave, etc.)
- Highlight relationships with other characters
- Use examples from the text to support your character analysis
- Assess what you can learn about yourself by reading about this character

The Quest for the Holy Grail

3. 
   
   In an 8 paragraph essay, discuss the experiences of the various knights who tell their stories about the quest for the Holy Grail. Be sure to include:

- Arthur's reasons for establishing the quest in the first place
- Evaluation of the stories of at least 3 knights (Gawaine, Lionel, Aglovale, Lancelot) and the lessons they learned
- Description of the reasons why Bors, Percival, and Galahad attained the Grail

As last time, you will need to turn in evidence of pre-writing, and 2 drafts. You may use any notes we have worked on in class, Close Reading assignments, and your own readings and impressions from the book to build your essay. Take advantage of the work you have already done!

Due on April 8: A graphic organizer to help you structure your essay, and a first draft, which you will work on in class.

Due on April 16: All of your materials, including the graphic organizer, your first and second drafts, and your typed final draft, are due.

Graphic Organizer: 10 points

1^st Draft with revision: 10 points

2^nd Draft with revision: 10 points

Final Draft: 80 points

Journal for the Day

All sections:

How can you help your peers improve their writing?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Have you ever acted wrongly to protect someone you love?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Is it worth striving for perfection?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What does your "best self" look like?

Might vs. Right and the quest for the Holy Grail (More Notes!)

Aglovale
- Arthur convinces him not to kill Gawaine over the death of his brother
"If I want to stop the feud law do you think it would be any good my appealing to Gawaine and people like him?" (451)

Percivale
- stumbles upon the Grail
"If God is supposed to be merciful, I don't see why people [can't] stumble into heaven just as well as climb there." (454)

Lancelot
-learns about the theater of life:
"Manners are only needed between people to keep their empty affairs in working order." (461)
- is faced with his own pride
   - loses his armor
   - loses a tilt to Galahad
   - loses a tournament because he joins the weaker team out of pride
- Although Lancelot confesses all of his sins, he is still unable to attain the Grail
"The show of an earthly, sinful man, but the best of them, plodding along behind these 3 supernatural virgins; his doomed, courageous, vain toil."

IMK Reading Assignment Chs. 36-40 (p. 477-494)

Read Chapters 36-40 of IMK (p. 477-494)

"Say Something" for page 488

Reading Response Questions:

1. What signs show that Arthur's kingdom is in decline? (477-479)

2. Why must Arthur "be ready to burn his wife"? (482)

3. Why does Lancelot have difficulty in his choice between Guenever and God? (483-484)

4. Why has Lancelot "begun to blame himself exclusively for Elaine's sorrows"? (491)

5. What are the reasons why Guenever is angry at Lancelot? (493)

Journal for the Day

Sections 10-1, 10-3, and 10-4:

What do you need to sacrifice in order to be righteous?

Section 10-2:

Why do we give into our temptations?

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.


1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!
 
Mourning (449)
Glance (449)
Primitive (449)
Formidable (450)
Appeal (451)
Benevolent (452)
Enthusiastic (452)
Vocation (454)
Barge (454)
Reticence (454)
Insufferable (454)
Afflicted (456)
Fiend (456)
Precipice (456)
Remarkable (457)
Intuition (457)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Write a poem about a memory you have

Journals for the Weekend

All sections:

Saturday & Sunday: Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Might vs. Right and the quest for the Holy Grail (Notes)

Might vs. Right and the quest for the Holy Grail

- Arthur learns that you can't use Might for Right
(two wrongs don't make a right)
    - Games-mania
"All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption" (434)

- Gawaine doesn't get it
   - is told many times not to kill during the quest, but he ignores the instructions
   "The errant knight stands in a posture which should make the penance needless" (440)
   - is still keeping score! (slew King Bagdegamus)
   - caught up in Games-mania

- Lionel eventually gets it
   - understands the trials of his brother Bors:
    1. Did not kill Sir Pridam (the Grail is not for slaughter)
    2. saved a maiden over his brother Lionel (the maiden was innocent, so deserved saving more than Lionel did)
    3. Does not sleep with the lady who threatens to kill herself if he refuses (you can only control your own actions)
    4. Does not fight his brother (the Grail is not for slaughter)

Journal for the Day

Sections 10-1, 10-3 & 10-4:

Freewrite!

Section 10-2:

What do you need to sacrifice in order to be righteous?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Have you ever betrayed someone's trust in order to do the right thing?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Does it always pay off to do the right thing?

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Superb (419)
Fond (427)
Agitation (427)
Penitence (430)
Ingratiating (431)
Defiant (431)
Moral (434)
Endeavors (434)
Corruption (434)
Dogma (443)
Quarrel (443)
Orthodox (443)
Confession (444)
Bewilder (445)
Conscience (445)
Obstinate (447)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Write a poem about what you look forward to the most this spring?

OR

What would you wish for if you had 3 wishes? (Choose wisely!)

IMK Reading Assignment Chs. 32-35 (p. 458-477)

Read Chapters 32-35 of IMK (p. 458-477)

"Say Something" for page 464 (1 set)

Reading Response questions:

1. How does Lancelot explain why people don't like Galahad? (460-61)

2. Why does Lancelot call pride his "worst sin of all"? (465)

3. What does Lancelot give as a reason why he was denied the Grail? (468)

4. How does being a woman make Guenever's life different from that of her male counterparts? (472-73)

5. How does Guenever's attitude change one year after Lancelot returns from the Grail quest? (475-76)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Why do we ignore the truth? Why don't we like to face the truth when we know we're wrong?

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What does it feel like to be rejected by someone you love?

Close Reading - Deciphering the Details

Close Reading

Deciphering the Details

When you do a close reading, you are looking deeply into the meaning of a small section of your text.

Directions: On a loose-leaf sheet of paper, write a comment for each numbered sentence(s).

Part I

1. “'We will call it the Joyous Island,” [Elaine] said. “We shall be so happy there. 2. And Lance,'--he flinched when she called him by the pet name--'I want you to have your hobbies. 3. We must have tournaments, and hawking, and plenty of things to do. You must invite people to stay, so that we can have company. 4. I promise I won't be jealous of you, Lance, and I won't try to live in your pocket. 5. Don't you think we might have a happy life if we are careful? Don't you think the Joyous Isle would be a lovely name?'” (411)

Part II

1. “Lancelot stopped at once, as if he were a farm laborer who had been given permission to knock off for dinner. 2. He stuck his sword in the ground as if it were a pitchfork, and stood patiently. 3. He had, indeed, only been working with the quiet patience of a farm hand. He had not been trying to hurt his opponent.” (414)

Part III

1. “Elaine had come down from her gallery and was waiting at the end of the tilt yard. She was now to welcome, as she knew well, the people who were to break her heart. 2. She did not interfere with their greetings, but watched them like a child who had been left out of a game. 3. She stood still, gathering her forces. All her powers, all the frontier guards of her spirit, were being called in and concentrated at the citadel of her heart.” (416)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Write about a time when you felt abandoned. What was it like?

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.
1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Prescience (388)
Ignoble (389)
Treason (389)
Hostile (391)
Repulsive (393)
Conniving (394)
Splendid (397)
Hermitage (398)
Lunatic (398)
Fetters (400)
Emaciated (404)
Vulnerable (406)
Swilled (407)
Incognito (411)
Anecdote (418)
Rendezvous (418)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What is spiritual fulfillment to you? How can it be achieved?

IMK Reading assignment Chapters 28-31 (p. 437-458)

Read Chapters 28-31 of IMK (p. 437-458)

"Say Something" for pages 440-441, 446, and 457-458 (3 sets)

Reading Response Questions:

1. What is Gawaine's opinion of Galahad? (438-39)

2. Why is Gawaine unable to attain the Grail? (441-42)

3. What actions get Sir Bors off to a good start on his quest for the Grail? (444)

4. What were Bors' 4 trials? (444, 445, 446, 447)

5. How does Arthur convince Aglovale not to punish Gawaine? (450-51)

6. Why is Percivale allowed to achieve the Grail? (453-54)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What do you think happens to you after you die? Is there something after death?

Journals for the Week

All sections:

Thursday: Hoave yo9u ever felt jealous? What is it like? What actions did you take because of your jealousy?

Friday: Freewrite!

Saturday: Where do you go when you don't want to go home?

Sunday: Write a poem about a person in your life.

Monday: What amazes you? How does that affect your perspective on your life?

Tuesday: Do yu have goals you think are unreachable? Why do you think you can't achieve them?

Vocabulary Review : Pictionary!

Vocabulary Review : Pictionary!

Directions: Work with a partner on this activity. Make sure both your names are on your sheet, so that both of you can get credit for your work.

Fold a blank sheet of paper into eighths (fold it in half, then again, then one more time). When you open up your sheet, you should have 8 squares.

Use both sides of the paper to play vocabulary Pictionary with your partner. Take turns drawing and guessing. Turn it in at the end of the period.

Your quiz is Wednesday, March 3!

IMK Reading assignment Chapters 26-27 (p. 426-436)

Reading Response & “Say Something”

“Say Something” for pages 429-30 and 434 (2 sets)

Read The Ill-Made Knight, Chapters 26-27 (pages 426-436) and answer the following questions on loose-leaf paper:

1.How does Arthur explain about why Morgause hates him? (427)
2.What does Arthur say is his error about the Round Table? What causes him to realize the problem? (428)
3.How does Arthur explain the problem of Might for Right to Lancelot? What does Arthur say he should have done? (433)
4.Why does Arthur decide to send his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail? (434-435)

IMK Reading assignment Chapters 23-25 (p. 412-425)

Reading Response

Read The Ill-Made Knight, Chapters 23-25 (pages 412-425) and answer the following questions on loose-leaf paper:

1.Who do you think the “silver woman on the sable field” is? (413)
2.How do Ector and Degalis convince Lancelot to return to court? (417)
3.How do the young members of the court perceive Arthur, Lancelot and Guenever? (420-421)
4.Why did the “ambitious knights of Europe” want to join Arthur's court? (425)

Scandal at Camelot!

Scandal at Camelot!

Using your notes and your text, rewrite the story of Elaine's arrival at Camelot, ending with Lancelot's madness, as a Jerry Springer episode. Use chapters 15-18, pages 384-397.

This will count as a classwork grade.

Criteria	Possible Points	Your Points
The student has used the three main characters in the episode (Lancelot, Elaine, and Guenever). The characters remain true to the text. Elaine is an innocent young woman, who tricks Lancelot out of love; Guenever is the jealous lover, who is infuriated by the treachery; and Lancelot is frustrated that he has been tricked again, and that Guenever doesn't believe him	10
The rewrite touches on important plot points, such as Elaine's arrival with the baby, her second treachery, and Lancelot's madness.	10
Total	20

Journal for the Day

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What makes an action good or bad? Can good people become bad and bad people become good?

Journal for the Day

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Choose a quote and respond to it in your journal:

1. "Actions in accord with virtue are pleasant by nature"

2. "No good person could ever become miserable since he will never do hateful or base actions"

3. "Virtues of character are acquired through habit"

4. "We must examine the right ways of acting... the actions control the sorts of states we acquire"

5. "First, the person must know that he is doing virtuous actions; second, he must decide on them; and third, he must also do them from an unchanging state"

-- Aristotle

Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Fetch (372)
Discourteous (374)
Caricature (375)
Constitution (375)
Martyr (375)
Contrive (378)
Habitual (378)
Vital (378)
Pathos (379)
Consolation (380)
Sulk (382)
Remorse (382)
Wicked (383)
Misogynist (384)
Seclusion (386)
Sophistication (386)

Journals for February Break

All sections:

What can you learn about yourself by reflecting on the characters of Lancelot, Arthur and Guenever? (1 journal entry for each)

IMK Reading assignment Chapters 19-22 (p. 397-413)

Read Chapters 19-22 of IMK (pages 397-413)

"Say Something" for pages 407 and 411 (2 sets)

Reading Response Questions:

1. What reason does Sir Bliant give for thinking the "Wild Man" may have been Lancelot? (401)

2. Why does Elaine decide to become a nun? (406)

3. What "humiliating terms" must Elaine accept if she wants Lancelot to live with her? (410)

IMK Reading assignment Chapters 15-18 (p. 384-397)

Read Chapters 15-18 of IMK (pages 384-397)

"Say Something" for pages 387, 388, and 389 (3 sets)

Reading Response Questions:

1. For what reason does Lancelot and Guenever's year of happiness "collapse in ruin"? (384)

2. What has given Guenever and Lancelot's love "its greatest fury"? (386)

3. How does Elaine's arrival at court affect Lancelot, Guenever, and Arthur? (387, 388, and 389)

4. How does Guenever's attitude change after Elaine's arrival? (391)

5. What happens to Lancelot after Elaine tricks him a second time? (396)

Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

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Think about a time when you had a dilemma. What was it? What did you choose? Why?

Close Reading - Deciphering the Details

Close Reading

Deciphering the Details

When you do a close reading, you are looking deeply into the meaning of a small section of your text.

Directions: On a loose-leaf sheet of paper, write a comment for each numbered sentence(s).

Part I

1. “It is difficult to explain about Guenever, unless it is possible to love two people at the same time. Probably it is not possible to love two people in the same way, but there are different kinds of love. Women love their children and their husbands at the same time—and men often feel a lusty thought for one woman while they are feeling a love of the heart for another. 2. In some way such as this, Guenever came to love the Frenchman without losing her affection for Arthur. 3. She and Lancelot were hardly more than children when it began, and the King was about eight years their senior. At twenty-two, the age of thirty seems to be the verge of senility. 4. The marriage between her and Arthur had been what they call a “made” marriage. That is to say, it had been fixed by a treaty with King Leodegrance without consulting her. It had been a successful union, as “made” marriages often are, and before Lancelot came on the scene, the young girl had adored her famous husband, even if he was so old. 5. She had felt respect for him, with gratitude, love, and a sense of protection. She had felt more than this, you might say that she felt everything except the passion of romance.” (362-363)

Part II

1. “One reason for [Lancelot's] dilemma [about Guenever] was that he was a Christian. […] His Church in which he had been brought up—and it is difficult to escape from your upbringing—directly forbade him to seduce his best friend's wife. 2. Another stumbling block to doing as he pleased was the very idea of chivalry or of civilization, which Arthur had first invented and then introduced to his own young mind. Perhaps a bad baron who believed in the Strong Arm might have gone off with Guenever even in the face of the Church's councils, because taking your neighbor's wife was really a form of Fort Mayne. It was a matter of the stronger bull winning. 3. But Lancelot had spent his childhood between knightly exercises and thinking out King Arthur's theory for himself. He believed as firmly as Arthur did, as firmly as the benighted Christian, that there was such a thing as Right.” (367)

Part III

1. “Finally, there was the impediment of [Lancelot's] nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we cannot explain. He could not have explained either, and for us it is all too long ago. He loved Arthur, and he loved Guenever, and he hated himself. 2. The best knight of the world: everybody envied the self-esteem which must surely be his. 3. But Lancelot never believed he was good or nice. Under the grotesque shell with a face like Quasimodo's, there was shame and self-loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny , by something which is now too late to trace. It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.” (368)

Part IV

1. The slow discovery of the seventh sense [knowledge of the world], by which both men and women contrive to ride the waves of a world in which there is war, adultery, compromise, fear, stultification, and hypocrisy—this discovery is not a matter for triumph. 2. The baby, perhaps, cries out triumphantly: I have balance! But the seventh sense is recognized without a cry. 3. We only carry on with our famous knowledge of the world, riding the queer waves in a habitual, petrifying way, because we have reached a stage of deadlock in which we can think of nothing else to do.

4. At this stage we begin to forget that there ever was a time when we lacked the seventh sense. We begin to forget as we go stolidly balancing along, that there could have been a time when we were young bodies flaming with the impetus of life. 5. It is hardly consoling to remember such a feeling, and so it deadens in our minds.” (378)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

In what significant way do you think you have changed in the last 5 years? Was this change for the better? Why or why not?

Journal for the Day

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Describe a clear memory from your childhood. What can you learn about yourself based on this memory? (How do you think this event shaped you?)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Pavilion (347)
Sumptuous (347)
Damsel (349)
Vanquish (351)
Peculiar (352)
Faltered (352)
Wretched (352)
Maimed (353)
Choleric (355)
Degenerate (355)
Atrocity (355)
Unscrupulous (355)
Ideologies (355)
Mercy (360)
Invincible (363)
Impose (364)
Civilization (364)
Scheme (366)
Dilemma (367)
Prosperous (369)
Prophesy (372)

IMK Reading assignment Chapters 11-14 (p. 368-383)

Read Chapters 11-14 of IMK, pages 368-383

"Say Something" for pages 377, 378, and 379-380 (3 sets)

Reading Response Questions:

1. What reason does Lancelot give for fighting his desire for Guenever? (368)

2. What miracle does Lancelot perform at Corbin? (370-371)

3. What treachery does Elaine do against Lancelot? Why does she do it? (375-376)

4. In your own words, what is "knowledge of the world"? (377)

5. What does Lancelot have to give up in order to be with Guenever? (382-383)

Weekend Journals

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Saturday: What is Mercy? Do you usually show mercy when someone has hurt you? Why or why not?

Sunday: Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Journal for the day

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What are your worst sins? Why?

- Lust
- Gluttony (eating just to eat)
- Greed
- Vanity (conceit, pride, cocky)
- Envy (jealousy)
- Wrath (anger)
- Sloth (laziness)

Journal for the Day

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Is it always worth fighting for what you believe? When is it not?

Notes on Might vs. Right

Answer the questions below using your notes on Might vs. Right:

1. Why does Arthur believe in Right over Might?
2. How does Lancelot uphold Arthur's ideal?
3. What problems is Arthur facing in trying to implement his plan for Right?


- Might: using your power to do anything you want
- Right: doing good actions because they are right to do
     "I don't think things ought to be done because you are able to do them. I think they should be done because you ought to do them." (246)
     "Might is only to be used for Right," Arthur decides (248)
- Arthur wants to create an order of knights who use Might for Right--this is the Round Table

- the Orkney faction (Gawaine and his brothers) "don't get hold of the idea as [Arthur] wanted them to do" (332)
     - they are not convinced of Arthur's ideal
     - Arthur blames Morgause, their mother
- Lancelot wants to fight for this ideal (316) and uphold the rules of chivalry
     - fights Sir Carados to save Gawaine
     - always tries for a fair fight and always grants mercy when asked, even when he thinks they don't deserve it (361)
- The "choleric barons" represent the old order of Might
     - thought Arthur's  new idea was absurd and his followers "degenerate"
     - they hated Lancelot because they thought he was a threat to their "ancient powers"
     - "they fought him with as much unscrupulousness and hatred as if he had been an antichrist, and they truly believed themselves to be defending the right." (355)

- The problem of using Might for Right:
     - "people ought not to take advantage of weakness (...) but these knights are turning it into a competitive thing" (365)
     - Arthur's dilemma: "in the effort to impose a world of peace, he found himself up to his elbows in blood." (364)

Journal for the Day

Sections 10-3 and 10-4:

What are your responsibilities? How good are you at fulfilling them?

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Vocabulary list:

Indignation (245)
Summon (246)
Inconsistent (247)
Monopoly (247)
Justice (247)
Distortions (315)
Salute (329)
Desolate (317)
Melancholy (317)
Jousting (318)
Siege (319)
Deceitful (331)
Nuisance (333)
Squire (335)
Infatuation (337)
Feudal (337)
Inclination (339)
Anarchy (340)
Sultry (342)
Halted (343)
Factions (345)

Journals for Regents Week

All sections:

- Choose four (4) topics you have already written about. Hove you changed your mind about your opinion? Is there anything you can add to your previous entry? Each topic = one journal entry.

- 2 Freewrites

(6 journal entries total)

Journal for the Day

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What kind of parent do you think you will be?

The Ill-Made Knight (IMK) Reading assignment Chapters 8-10

Read chapters 8-10 of IMK (p. 355-368)

"Say Something" for pages 355, 364, and 365

Reading Response questions:

1. Why do the "coleric (angry) barons who lived by Forte Mayne (Strong Arm)" hate Lancelot so much? (355)

2. Why does Arthur ask his knights to tell of their adventures? Why is the feast a fiasco (disaster)? (361-362)

3. How does Guenever feel about Arthur? How does she react when all of Lancelot's captives arrive? (363)

4. What problems does Arthur face as he tries to institute his ideal of Right? What is Games-mania and why is it a problem? (364-365)

5. What is one reason for Lancelot's dilemma about Guenever? (367-368)

Weekend Journals

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Saturday: "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?

Sunday: Do you think that "ambition, fear and greed will eventually and always triumph over reason?" Why or why not?

(The quote is asking if our ability to make right decisions will always be overcome by our own fears and our own greed. Do we eventually ignore what is right in favor of our desires?)

Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Close Reading - Deciphering the Details

Close Reading

Deciphering the Details

When you do a close reading, you are looking deeply into the meaning of a small section of your text.

Directions: On a loose-leaf sheet of paper, write a comment for each numbered sentence(s).

Part I

1. “[Lancelot] did not notice anything particular about [Guenever] because his mind was filled with previous pictures which he had made for himself. 2. There was no room for pictures of what she was really like. 3. He thought of her only as the person who had robbed him, and, since robbers are deceitful, designing, and heartless people, he thought of her as one of these.” (p. 331)

Part II

1. “The young man [Lancelot] knew, in this moment, that he had hurt a real person, of his own age. 2. He saw in [Guenever's] eyes that she thought he was hateful, and that he had surprised her badly. She had been giving kindness, and he had returned it with unkindness. 3. But the main thing was that she was a real person. She was not a minx, not deceitful, not designing and heartless. She was pretty Jenny, who could think and feel.” (p. 334)

Turn page over

Part III

1. “[Lancelot] had a contradictory nature which was far from holy. His Word was valuable to him not only because he was good, but also because he was bad. 2. It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them. 3. For one thing, he liked to hurt people. It was for the strange reason that he was cruel, that the poor fellow never killed a man who asked for mercy, or committed a cruel action which he could have prevented. 4. One reason why he fell in love with Guenever was because the first thing he had done was to hurt her. He might never have noticed her as a person if he had not seen the pain in her eyes.” (p. 339)

Part IV

1. “A man who was not afflicted by ambitions of decency in his mind might simply have run away with his hero's wife, and then perhaps the tragedy of Arthur would never have happened. 2. An ordinary fellow, who did not spend half his life torturing himself by trying to discover what was right so as to conquer his inclination towards what was wrong, might have cut the knot which brought their ruin.” (p. 339)

In-class Essay on Lancelot

Essay Prompt:

How does Lancelot feel about himself? How do these feeling affect his relationships to Arthur and Guenever?

Guiding Questions:

1. How and why did Lancelot's feelings for Guenever change?
2. How does Lancelot view Arthur?
3. Why does Lancelot try to be good all the time? What feelings does he have for himself that have caused him to overcompensate?

Journal for the day

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How do you discover yourself? (your identity, likes and dislikes, your attitude, etc.)

Notes on IMK Chapters 4-6 (pp. 328-340)

Lancelots's feelings about Guenever:

- at first, he is jealous of her because she snatched "away [Arthur's] love for no cost at all" (p. 328)
- was unable to see anything good about her because of his jealousy: "his mind was filled with previous pictures he had made for himself." (p. 331)
- Lancelot is only able to see Guenever on her own terms because he hurt her feelings: "She was pretty Jenny who could think and feel." (p. 334)
- Lancelot feels angry that Arthur is taking him to the Roman war
   - he felt that it "implied lack of trust" (p. 337)
- however, Guenever "was able to come between them after all" (p. 339)
   - as soon as Lancelot notices that he really is in love with her, he asks to leave court.

Journal for the Day

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Write about a time when you realized that someone was not who you thought they were.

Journal for the Day

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Write about your weekend as an adventure story.

The Ill-Made Knight (IMK) Reading assignment Chapter 7

Read Chaoter 7 of IMK (p. 340-354)

"Say Something" for p. 352, 353, and 354 (3 sets)

Reading Response Questions:

1. Why does Lancelot fight Sir Carados? (341-342)

2. What does Sir Turquine usually do with his captives? (343)

3. EWhat does Lancelot promise the lady who helps him escape from the Castle Chariot? (346)

4. How does Sir Turquine exemplify the old order of knights who are more interested in Might than Right? (343, 354)

5. How does Gaheris feel towards Lancelot? Why? (354)

Weekend Journals

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Saturday: What are some of your quirks (strange, silly little things that make you you!)?

Sunday: Write a poem about your home.

Monday: Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Chapters 3-6 of The Ill-Made Knight - Assignment

Read Chapters 3-6 of The Ill-Made Knight (IMK), pages 328-340

"Say Something" for pages 333-334, 336, and 339

Reading Response Questions:

1. Why was Lancelot jealous of Guenever and Gawaine? (328)

2. Who is the black knight? What is his reaction when Lancelot knocks him over? (330)

3. What is Lancelot's initial impression of Guenever? (331)

4. How and why do Lancelot's feelings for Guenever change? (334, 337)

5. Why is Arthur able to forget Merlyn's prophecy that Lancelot would fall in love with Guenever? (338)

6. Why does Lancelot leave the court? (339-340)

Journal for the Day

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If we could create a perfect society, what do you think it would be like?

Notes on IMK Chapters 1-3 (pp. 315-328)

Lancelot's feelings about Arthur:

- Thinks Arthur is a hero
   - agrees about Might:
   "You want to put and end to the Strong Arm (Might) by having a band of knights who believe in justice rather than strength" (p. 316)
- Perfected himself for Arthur
   - became very good at games and fighting
   - knew the rules of Chivalry very well
- Wanted to be the best knight in the world so his hero would love him back
- Jealous of Gawaine and Guenever
   - Gawaine was knighted first
   - Guenever did not have to train hard for 3 years to get the king's love

Lancelot's feelings about himself:

- calls himself the "Ill-Made Knight" (the poorly made knight, corrupted, broken knight)
   - has "something at the bottom of his heart of which he was aware and ashamed, but which he did not understand" (p. 315)
- Lancelot is extremely ugly (bottom of p. 317)
- is solemn and serious, hiding that he is "living on dreams and prayers" (p. 320)
- Lancelot's hero-worship is not enough to explain why he trained so hard
   - he must have had some hatred towards himself "to break his body so young" (p. 320)
- Lancelot also wished to perform a minor miracle

The Ill-Made Knight (IMK) Reading assignment Chapters 1-3

Read chapters 1-3 of The Ill-Made Knight (IMK), pages 315-328

"Say Something" for pages 326 and 327 (one for each)

Reading Response questions for Chapters 1-3 of IMK

1. How does Lancelot describe Forte Mayne? Why does Lancelot want to join Arthur? (p. 316)

2. What did it take for Lancelot to become Arthur's best knight? (pp. 322-323)

3. What was Lancelot's other wish aside from being the best knight in the world? (p. 323)

4. What gift does Guenever's father give to Arthur? (p. 326)

5. What does Lancelot decide to do after Merlyn's visit? (p. 327)

Journal for the Day

All sections:

What do you do when someone pushes your buttons? Do you resort to violence or do you try to solve the conflict some other way?

Close Reading - Deciphering the Details

When you do a close reading, you are looking deeply into the meaning of a small section of your text.

Directions: On a loose-leaf sheet of paper, write a comment for each numbered sentence(s).

Teacher Model:

1. “You see, Might is not Right. 2. But, there is a lot of Might knocking about in this world, and something has to be done about it. 3. It is as if people were half horrible and half nice. 4. Perhaps they are even more than half horrible, and when they are left to themselves, they run wild. 5. You get the average baron that we wee nowadays, people like Sir Bruce Sans Pitie, who simply go clod-hopping round the country, and doing exactly what they please, for sport. 6. It is our Norman idea about the upper classes having a monopoly of power, without reference to justice. 7. The the horrible side gets uppermost, and there is thieving, and rape, and plunder, and torture. 8. People become beasts.” (p. 247)

As a Class:

1. “Now, what I have thought,” said Arthur, “is this. Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? 2. I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say that there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. 3. You can't cut it out, but you might be able to direct it if you see what I mean, so that it will be useful instead of bad.” (p. 248)

Independent Practice:

1. “My idea is that if we can win this battle in front of us, and get a firm hold of the country, then I will institute a sort of order of chivalry. 2. I will not punish the bad knights or hang Lot, but I will try to get them into our Order. 3. We shall have to make it a great honor, you see, and make it fashionable and all that. Everybody must want to be in. 4. And then I shall make the oath of the Order that Might is only to be used for Right. Do you follow? 5. The knights in my order will ride all over the world, still dressed in steel and whacking away with their swords—that will give an outlet for wanting to whack, you understand, an outlet for what Merlyn calls the foxhunting spirit—but they will be bound to strike only on behalf of what is good, to defend virgins against Sir Bruce and to restore what has been done wrong in the past and to help the oppressed and so forth. Do you see the idea? 6. It will be by using the Might instead of fighting against it, and turning a bad thing into a good.” (p. 248)

Journal for the Day

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"To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and recreate them." - Paulo Freire

What does this mean? Do you agree with this statement?

Journal for the Day

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When is war necessary? Is there always a better alternative to war?

Notes on OFK pp. 213-219

- King Uther Pendragon invited the Earl and Countess of Cornwall to London
- Then, "the bloody King of England" fell in love with the Countess (Igraine) (p. 214)
- But, Igraine "spurned the advances of King Uther Pendragon" (p. 215)
- So, Igraine and her husband, the Earl of Cornwall, run away from London
- As a result, King Uther gets mad and starts a war over Igraine
- When it seems that Uther will lose the war, Merlyn comes to help him
- Merlyn is able to get Uther into Igraine's castle (by turning Uther into an exact copy of the Lady's husband)
- meanwhile, the Earl of Cornwall is killed in battle
- on this night, Arthur is conceived

Weekend Journals

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Saturday: How do your parents influence you to be who you are at this time in your life?

Sunday: What do you think is your greatest flaw (lazy, anxious, etc.)? Why?

Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Journal for the Day

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Why is language important? What might things be like if we did not have language?

Journal for the Day

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Freewrite!

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list on the previous post, follow the directions below to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Vocabulary

Finally, a new vocabulary unit! Each word is followed by a page reference to help you find the word as it appears in the book The Once and Future King.

Philosophy (188)
Ambling (188)
Rubbish (189)
College (189)
Solemn (189)
Scholarship (189)
Irresistible (190)
Paralyzed (191)
Evolution (191)
Defenseless (192)
Riddle (193)
Parable (193)
Plaids (213)
Chivalry (214)
Chaste (214)
Spurned (215)
Treacherous (216)
Dignity (217)
Tyranny (218)
Stench (218)
Feud (219)

Say Something - (OFK pp. 213-219)

Create a "Say Something" chart for each page of the assigned reading (The Once and Future King pp. 213-219.

Your entries should look similar to the graphic organizers distributed in class. Remember to:

1. make a prediction
2. ask a question
3. clarify something you misunderstood
4. make a comment
5. make a connection

For number 5, don't just write down "text-to-text." Simply stating what kind of connection you are making carries little meaning. It is the connection itself that is important.

For this assignment, you will turn in 7 sets of the "Say Something" exercise for 21 points.

Journal for the Day

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Why do we tell each other stories?

Journal for the Day

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Do you usually know the difference between right and wrong? How does it feel when you want to do the right thing, but you're not sure it's right?