L. NABULSI
● The entire WMS community will
provide a positive school climate
through which all students can
mature academically, socially,
emotionally, and physically while
developing a lifelong love of
learning.
● The entire WMS community
strives to provide a positive school
climate through which all students
can mature socially, academically,
and physically, while developing a
lifelong love of learning.
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● #1 All students will increase reading
comprehension scores in analyzing text and
reading/writing strategies.
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#2 All students will increase scores in math
computation, word problems, and problem solving.
● Reading comprehension
○ Marking the text
○ Charting the text
● Math
○ USA
○ Math journaling
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6E1c.1: Identify different types (genres) of fiction
and describe the major characteristics of each
form.
6E2a.2: Choose the form of writing that best suits
the intended purpose.
● Every day – read
● Due dates for Reading Logs due 5/14, 5/28
● Due 6/7 – vocabulary notebook
“I has heard many stories about Isabella Stewart
Gardner,” said Adamma my Friend.
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● GRAMMAR:Commas
● IDIOM: The Labors of Hercules
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• What’s the relationship?
• POEM : STANZA :: play : acts
• BOOK : ______: Pie: ____
• It’s still Part and Whole, but this time the whole comes
first. We could call it Whole and Part.
• In-class –Finish epic and put into book form to
write a student epic
Language
Arts
Math
Social Studies
Science
1.OED
1.expression
1.martyr
1.descriptive
research
2. guide word 2.face (related to
math)
2.mercenary
2.diaphragm
3.hyperbole
3.inflaction
3.diffraction
3.equivalent
fractions
● Take roll
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Correct the sentence:
“I has heard many stories about Isabella
Stewart Gardner,” said Adamma my Friend.
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● Vocabulary: Vocabulary 32
● Edit-It – #57
● In class: Go through the How to Write the Epic and
use the epic template to write your book.
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Finish the epic book.
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Long narrative poem
Fate of the nation depends on the hero
Long descriptions of battles and armor
Journey to the underworld
Patronymics
Epithets
Epic similes
Opens in the middle of things
Appeal to the muses
Setting covers the universe (many nations)
Divine intervention
Long speeches
Rules for Commas
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MODIFY NOUN, TELLING WHICH ONE, WHAT KIND,
HOW MANY, WHOSE
● An epic hero is a larger than life figure from a history or legend,
usually favored by or even partially descended from deities, but
aligned more closely with mortal figures in popular portrayals.
The hero participates in a cyclical journey or quest, faces
adversaries that try to defeat him in his journey, gathers allies
along his journey, and returns home significantly transformed by
his journey. The epic hero illustrates traits, performs deeds, and
exemplifies certain morals that are valued by the society from
which the epic originates. They usually embody cultural and
religious beliefs of the people. Many epic heroes are recurring
characters in the legends of their native culture. Epic heroes are
superhuman in that they are smarter, stronger, and braver than
average humans. An epic hero can also be a warrior of some sort
who performs extraordinary tasks that most find difficult. This
hero is strong, smart, and brave.
● Take roll
● Edit It 58
● GRAMMAR : Comma Worksheet
● IDIOM: THE LABORS OF HERCULES
• ANALOGY: POEM : STANZA :: play : acts
• BOOK : ______: Pie: ____
• It’s still Part and Whole, but this time the whole comes
first. We could call it Whole and ParA gift can cause
joy; tears are an effect of sadness.
• In-class: Create your own epic; Go to Hero
Quest PP
● The entire WMS community will
provide a positive school climate
through which all students can
mature academically, socially,
emotionally, and physically while
developing a lifelong love of
learning.
● The entire WMS community
strives to provide a positive school
climate through which all students
can mature socially, academically,
and physically, while developing a
lifelong love of learning.
●
● #1 All students will increase reading
comprehension scores in analyzing text and
reading/writing strategies.
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●
#2 All students will increase scores in math
computation, word problems, and problem solving.
● Reading comprehension
○ Marking the text
○ Charting the text
● Math
○ USA
○ Math journaling
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
6E1c.1: Identify different types (genres) of fiction
and describe the major characteristics of each
form.
6E2a.2: Choose the form of writing that best suits
the intended purpose.
● Every day – read
● Due dates for Reading Logs due 5/14, 5/28
● Due 6/7 – vocabulary notebook
● #57-9
● Correct this sentence
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“I has heard many stories about Isabella Stewart
Gardner,” said Adamma my Friend.
+3
“I have heard many stories about Isabella Stewart
Gardner,” said Adamma, my friend.
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. Anyone facing an array of
insurmountable obstacles can
identify with this one, although we
wouldn’t want the kind of divine
obstruction that Hercules faced.
Luckily for him, at least one deity
was on his side. The myth sources
are variable but the great hero
Hercules (Herakles in Greek) was
hated by Juno (Hera in Greek) partly
because he was not her son but
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instead the offspring of her philandering husband Zeus (Roman Jove). In a rage of madness brought by
Hera (Juno), Herakles either killed his wife and/or children. His punishment was a set of twelve (although
sometimes limited to ten) daunting ordeals or labors mandated by Hera. Hera’s intent is indeed either to
destroy the hero or bring even more hubris upon him. Any of these ordeals would likely be impossible
tasks, especially without the help of Athena, patron goddess of heroes. Yet, the hero Hercules not only
accomplished the tasks but in doing so rids the world of more than a few monsters and tyrants or
accomplishes labors that would have destroyed anyone else.
In usual order, the Labors or Ordeals of Hercules were generally accepted as killing the Nemean Lion,
killing the Lernean Hydra, capturing and obtaining the golden horns of the Keryneian Hind, destroying the
Erymanthian Boar, ridding Greece of the Stymphalian Birds, cleaning the Augean Stables in a day,
capturing the Cretan Bull, stealing the Mares of Diomedes (and killing the tyrant himself), getting the
girdle of the Amazon Queen Hippolyta, stealing the cattle of monstrous Geryon, bringing Hera the Apples
of the Hesperides and capturing Kerberos the guardian dog of Hell. In Hesiod’s Theogony c. 310 ff, one of
the oldest Greek sources, Kerberos was said to be fifty-headed and have a voice like ringing bronze but
most depictions show him three-headed. The first tasks took place mostly in the Peloponnesus of
southern Greece, the next few broadened out to outer Greece, Thessaly and beyond, while the last ones
extended to the limits of the world. Although many of these ordeals required immense strength and
courage, the last two actually required more brains than brawn, and Athena’s help was especially vital in
these final labors. The Classical tradition finally distilled all of these Herculean labors together in one
source, the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus in mid-first century BCE.
monster in the Italian cliffs who had a girl’s upper body and dogs and snakes below, feared for plucking
men out of passing ships and devouring them. Charybdis was the giant whirlpool on the opposite Sicilian
coast that would catch and sink whole ships. In Odyssey XII.234-59, following the instructions of Circe,
Odysseus chose to lose six men to Scylla as a lesser risk rather than losing the whole ship and crew to
Charybdis. In Latin, the aphorism Incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim, “He runs on Scylla wishing to
avoid Charybdis” is often credited to Virgil but his Aeneid 3.320 ff about this event does not include this
line, nor do Ovid’s works. I’ve sailed this passage in a boat coming with a stiff wind from the west around
Sicily’s Cape Peloro – the Italian town of Scilla is even named directly across from the cape – turning south
and southwest toward Messina and seen firsthand the danger of the “Scyllan” rocks where the wind could
drive a boat as well as many swirls of water turbulence where two seas, Tyrrhenian and Ionian, mix in this
narrow strait, making oceanographic wind and current vectors the real monsters. [1]
● IDIOM: The Labors of Hercules
• What’s the relationship?
• POEM : STANZA :: play : acts
• BOOK : ______: Pie: ____
• It’s still Part and Whole, but this time the whole comes
first. We could call it Whole and Part.
● Reading Log 14 – Due May 13
● Vocabulary Notebook due June 10
● Number each paragraph
● Have a purpose in reading for specific kinds of details and
use post-its for notes or mark notes in the margin
● Reading comprehension
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Who, what, when, where, how, why, vocabulary
● Reading for author’s purpose
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Pay attention to verbs. The basic purposes are to teach, entertain,
influence our opinion.
● Reading for historical information
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Look for names, places, dates, cause and effect, chronology,
comparison/contrast
● Reading for literary analysis
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Look for characters, setting, point of view, theme, important quotes,
conflicts, dramatic structure, symbols; characteristics of a particular
genre.
● Do and prepare as if marking the text.
● Re-read each paragraph now and underline the claim ( we call it the
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controlling purpose) of the author.
Circle any numbers or math terms.
Decide what the purpose of the numerical details are: support,
clarification, comparison/contrast, cause and effect
Look for connecting(transitional) words; do these words introduce
additional information, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, definitions
Chart the information: If it helps, use a graphic organizer or mind map
to decipher the information
Take Cornell notes: Take Cornell notes using the post-its to set up
questions and answers
Outline – Write thesis and use the information to either write summary
or use as a source for research paper
Write a paper
Open a blank WORD document
Go to INSERT
Click on SMART ART
A new window appears: click on PROCESS
New window: go to last item in the second line- basic
timeline. Click
● The template appears on your document. Begin to fill it
in with information.
● Try to place information with the date close to line, not
on outside.
● Save in your H-drive, ESL folder with page
numberslastblock#
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● Download the MLA template OR go to the student’s H-drive/ESL
folder/MLA template
● Open the template
● Immediately save as to the H-drive, ESL folder naming the file
with the name of the assignment and last and period. DO THIS.
FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. For example,
TLOTMC#_#MCDOWELL3.
● On the document, change the date and the title.
● Begin on the line under the title, but make sure that this line is
aligned left, not centered, and indented.
● Center the Chapter #
● Write the summary telling who, what, when, where, how, and
why.
Save in the ADB in gaggle in the folder that says TLOTM final
chapter summaries . If you do not name the file correctly and
place it in the correct folder, you do not receive credit. Do things
correctly.