Read the first half of Chapter 8, "The Queen's Croquet-Ground," and answer the following questions"
1. Why are the gardeners nervous about the Queen's arrival?
2.What is the gardeners' punishment? Is it carried out?
3. Why is the Duchess "under sentence of execution?"
4. What items does one use in a game of croquet? What are they substituted for in Wonderland?
5. How do you think Alice will do at the croquet match? Why?
6. What makes it impossible for the Queen's croquet game to be played fairly?
7. Why does Alice seek to escape the croquet game?
8. Think about the orders the Queen gives and how many of those are carried out. What picture does this paint of the effectiveness of authority in Wonderland?
Monday, November 16, 2009
Journal for the Day
All sections:
What aspects of your life do you find unfair? What changes would help make your reality more fair in your opinion?
What aspects of your life do you find unfair? What changes would help make your reality more fair in your opinion?
Friday, November 13, 2009
Weekend Journals
All sections:
Saturday: What makes some rules fair and some rules unfair? Use some examples from your experience.
Sunday: When is it ok to break the rules?
Saturday: What makes some rules fair and some rules unfair? Use some examples from your experience.
Sunday: When is it ok to break the rules?
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Puns and Homophones
Homophone: Two words which sound exactly alike, and may or may not be spelled alike, but which differ in meaning.
Pun: The use of homophones or words that are similar in other ways in order to produce a humorous effect
Class activity: Choose a pun from the list and make a cartoon showing the double meaning in the joke.
1. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
2. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
3. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
4. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was a nurse said 'No change yet'.
5. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
6. What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing - but it let out a little whine.
7. As the shoe said to the hat, 'You go on ahead, and I'll follow on foot'.
8. Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
9. Did you hear about the guy who got hit in the head with a can of soda? He was lucky it was a soft drink.
10. When William joined the army he disliked the phrase 'fire at will'.
11. Cartoonist found dead in home. Details are sketchy.
12. There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn't control his pupils.
13. A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
15. A prisoner's favorite punctuation mark is the period. It marks the end of his sentence.
16. He didn't tell his mother that he ate some glue. His lips were sealed.
17. A baker stopped making donuts after he got tired of the hole thing.
18. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
19. The magician got so mad he pulled his hare out.
20. In the room the curtains were drawn, but the rest of the furniture was real.
21. I used to be a tap dancer until I fell in the sink.
22. He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
23. Math teachers have lots of problems.
24. If you leave alphabet soup on the stove and go out, it could spell disaster.
25. How do farmers make crop circles? With a protractor.
Pun: The use of homophones or words that are similar in other ways in order to produce a humorous effect
Class activity: Choose a pun from the list and make a cartoon showing the double meaning in the joke.
1. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
2. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
3. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
4. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was a nurse said 'No change yet'.
5. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
6. What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing - but it let out a little whine.
7. As the shoe said to the hat, 'You go on ahead, and I'll follow on foot'.
8. Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
9. Did you hear about the guy who got hit in the head with a can of soda? He was lucky it was a soft drink.
10. When William joined the army he disliked the phrase 'fire at will'.
11. Cartoonist found dead in home. Details are sketchy.
12. There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn't control his pupils.
13. A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
15. A prisoner's favorite punctuation mark is the period. It marks the end of his sentence.
16. He didn't tell his mother that he ate some glue. His lips were sealed.
17. A baker stopped making donuts after he got tired of the hole thing.
18. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
19. The magician got so mad he pulled his hare out.
20. In the room the curtains were drawn, but the rest of the furniture was real.
21. I used to be a tap dancer until I fell in the sink.
22. He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
23. Math teachers have lots of problems.
24. If you leave alphabet soup on the stove and go out, it could spell disaster.
25. How do farmers make crop circles? With a protractor.
Journal for the Day
All sections:
Think about a joke you know or have heard recently. Why did you find it funny?
Think about a joke you know or have heard recently. Why did you find it funny?
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Hole and Whole
Hole and whole sound alike, but they mean different things. We're going to discuss some tricks to use when you're trying to figure out which one you need in your sentence.
Hole is about emptiness, like a hole in the ground, or a hole in my grade book where there is a missing assignment.
You can also have a hole in your heart when someone breaks up with you, which makes you want to hide in a hole in the wall
Practice:
There was a four-foot ________________________ in front of my doorstep this morning.
Did that ________________________ in your ear hurt?
There is a huge ________________________ where the towers stood.
Whole is about completeness, like eating a whole candy bar, or a whole bag of chips.
A hole needs a “w” to make it whole, complete.
Hole
Hole is about emptiness, like a hole in the ground, or a hole in my grade book where there is a missing assignment.
You can also have a hole in your heart when someone breaks up with you, which makes you want to hide in a hole in the wall
Practice:
There was a four-foot ________________________ in front of my doorstep this morning.
Did that ________________________ in your ear hurt?
There is a huge ________________________ where the towers stood.
Whole
Whole is about completeness, like eating a whole candy bar, or a whole bag of chips.
A hole needs a “w” to make it whole, complete.
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