Essential Question:
 Are we governed by fate, free will, a
greater power, or do we fall
somewhere in between?
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Learning Targets:
 I can compare and contrast
characters.
 I can write an analysis of a
character.
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WEEK FIVE
English IV
Sept 24, 2012
English
IV
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Starter: Answer the following questions. You may
use your text.
1. What does King Arthur dream of on Trinity
Sunday?
2. What is Sir Lucas’s advice to King Arthur?
3. What happens when King Arthur and Sir
Modred meet?
4. Where does Sir Bedivere take the king?
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Starter: Answer the following questions. You may use
your text.
1. What does King Arthur dream of on Trinity
Sunday?
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2. What is Sir Lucas’s advice to King Arthur?
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He advises him not to attack Modred when he finds him at
the end of the battle.
3. What happens to King Arthur and Sir Modred
meet?
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He dreams of Sir Gawain, who warns him that he will die
if he fights Modred.
They kill each other.
4. Where does Sir Bedivere take the king?
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He takes him to the lake and places him on a barge.
1. Why are the pilgrims going to
Canterbury?
 (A) To meet King Henry III
 (B) To see a medieval mystery play
 (C) To worship the relics of Saint
Thomas Becket
 (D) Because they are tourists
 2. What does the Squire wear?
 (A) A velvet doublet and hose
 (B) Cloth embroidered with flowers
 (C) Green and peacock-blue hunting
gear
 (D) A beaver hat
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TEST AND ESSAY
QUESTION
Please keep in mind the value of
each test question. Your essay is
worth 50 points. It must have
CLEAR evidence from the text. You
must have a complete page. All
repetition will be marked through,
and I will deduct three points off for
each repeating idea.
 You are allowed to use YOUR
interactive notebook to help you
write your essay. You must
write the topic in the top
margin at the top of the page!!!
Turn in your test paper before
using your notebook!
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Return to your groups to complete
your Romantic Hero project.
Exit Slip: Make a list of five
words or titles that describe
people today and write a
description for each.
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A crack-head is a person who has
an addiction to drugs. He or she
may take part of illegal activities
to support their addictions.
GROUP WORK AND EXIT
SLIP
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Essential Question:
Are we governed by fate, free will, a
greater power, or do we fall somewhere
in between?
Learning Targets:
I can compare and contrast characters.
I can write an analysis of a character.
Testing Center Info: If you need to make
up a test for my class, please let me
know so I can send your test to the
testing center. Testing Centers are only
available on TUESDAY.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION AND LEARNING TARGETS
Sept 25th 2012
English IV
Starter:
 Use this model to create a chart for the vocabulary words
on page 118. Fill in the word and definition at this time.
Leave room on either side of the “word” box.
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WORD
DEFINITION
EXAMPLE SENTENCES
ORIGINAL SENTENCE
September 26, 2012
Essential Question:
 Are we governed by fate, free will, a
greater power, or do we fall
somewhere in between?
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Learning Targets:
 I can compare and contrast
characters.
 I can write an analysis of a
character.
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ENGLISH IV
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Write down the essential question and learning targets – they are the
same as yesterday.
Starter:
9/26/2012
Vocabulary Practice to use with vocabulary chart: Add these
sentences to your charts, some terms will not have a sentence.
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1. It was difficult to _________ the disagreement because Anna and
Joe were both so __________.
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2. Lily’s grandmother is an _______ judge on the Supreme Court.
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3. A good basketball player must possess speed, endurance, and
_______.
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4. Because Pat is ________, she has been able to _______ savings over
time.
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5. Under ______the executives admitted that they had made their
profits through ______ and deception.
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6. The king was a fair and ______ ruler.
Exit Slip:
 Add an additional box to
your vocabulary words.
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Add a box to the left for
synonyms OR a box to the
right for Antonyms
You must add either a
synonym or an antonym
Synonyms
Antonyms
VOCABULARY MAP NOTES
Synonyms
Antonyms
(eminent) famous
 (duress)
 Threat
 (guile)
 Foul-play
 (arbitrate)
 judge
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(agility) clumsiness
 (accrue)
 Decrease
 (frugal)
 Wasteful
 (benign)
 Malignant
 (obstinate)
 flexible
Starter:
Sept 27, 2012
A. Match each word on the left to its definition on
the right.
____ 1. arbitrate
a. ability to move quickly and
easily
____ 2. agility
b. careful in not wasting
things
____ 3. frugal
c. settle or decide by
listening to both sides of an
argument
____ 4. obstinate
d. stubborn
Pilgrim
The
Knight
The
Squire
The
Yeoman
The Nun
The
Monk
The
Friar
The
Merchant
Character
Trait
Service/
job/trade
Appearance
Irony
Miscellaneous Info
Traveling
Mate
Pilgrim
The
Oxford
Cleric
The
Lawyer
The
Franklin
The
Guildsmen
The
Cook
Character
Trait
Service/
job/trade
Appearance
Irony
Miscellaneous Info
Traveling
Mate
Starter: 9/28/2012
The West changed (1) when barbed wire emerged on
the scene. Before then, ranchers had relied on the open range,
allowing their cattle to graze freely for forage and water. The
open range posed problems for farmers because post-and-rail
fences couldn’t keep cattle out of their fields. In some places,
farmers tried natural fencing such as Osage orange hedges.
Osage orange is a bushy tree with long, wicked thorns. When
planted in a thick hedge, even a (2) range cow would
think twice about trying to (3) it. However, because
osage orange wasn’t always viable, the open range seemed a(n)
(4) part of the West.
Then, in 1874, Joseph F. Glidden invented barbed wire
and transformed the West forever. Farmers finally had a (5)
solution to the problem of protecting their land. However,
ranchers viewed the invention with (6) because barbed
wire brought an end to the open range and sense of
neverending spaces.
1 A elaborately
2 A choleric
3 A breach
4 A homogeneous
5 A pragmatic
6 A consternation
B radically
B loquacious
B bolster
B immutable
B germane
B ennui
Essential
Question:
Why are
stereotypes
unreliable in
identifying a
person’s true
character?
Learning
Targets:
I can write an
analysis of a
character.
I can
define/identify a
person’s character
trait.
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Exit Slip
9/27/2012
Match each character from the prologue to his or her description. Write the
letter of the description next to the character.
_____1. the Knight
a. red beard; heavy;
dishonest grain seller
_____2. the Nun
b. chivalrous and honest
warrior
_____3. the Monk
c. spoke French;
sentimental; always said
“By St. Loy!”
_____4. the Wife of Bath
d. fat; loved hunting; did not
like being cloistered
_____5. the Miller
e. wore nice clothes; married
many times
True or False.
_____1. The Cook had an ulcer on his knee.
_____ 2. The Oxford Cleric cared more about food and wine than
philosophy.
_____3. The Franklin shared his food and drinks with other people.
_____4. The Wife of Bath had been to Jerusalem, Rome, and Cologne.
_____5. The Reeve was a young, fat man.
English I
Essential Question:
 Are there turning points in each of
our lives that change us forever?
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Learning Targets:
 I can edit sentences correctly.
 I can identify character traits in a
text.
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION AND LEARNING TARGEST
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Sept 24,
2012
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Starter: 9/24/2012
English I
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who’s story did you enjoy most
 b. i liked that fairee tail about the
princess who choose the expensive
present
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Whose story did you enjoy most?
 b. I liked that fairy tale about the
princess who chose the expensive
 present.
USE THE DICTIONARY AND DEFINE THE
FOLLOWING WORDS:
9/24/2012
unkempt
 garb
 sparse
 potion
 untidy
 meager
 attire
 elixir
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1 The uncut lawn and untidy appearance
of the house suggest it is abandoned.
2 The northern landscape was empty
except for snow and a few meager trees
and bushes.
3 Wearing the attire
of a wealthy French aristocrat, Renee
made her entrance onto the stage.
4 The hero regains his strength after
swallowing the elixir prepared by the wise
old woman.
A unkempt
B garb
C sparse D potion
VOCABULARY ACTIVITY #1
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English I Sept 25, 2012
Essential Question:
 Are there turning points in each of
our lives that change us forever?
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Learning Targets:
 I can edit sentences correctly.
 I can identify character traits in a
text.
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September 25, 2012
a. jo thinks that spending her summer reading
and listening to the radio will be fun
 b. i would rather seek advinture something
unusual like cathy and sharon did
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a. Jo thinks that spending her summer reading
and listening to the radio will be fun.
 b. I would rather seek adventure and do
something unusual, as Cathy and Sharon did.
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Our clothes were in rags, our appearance _______ and
forbidding.
Again, spite proves a divine______ healing all wounds.
Relatively ______roads and train lines have made the coastal
cities in these prefectures less attractive to companies.
The bride and groom kept changing their _____ during the
ceremony.
And guests at the ball are served oranges laced with an
amnesia-causing______.
And he is doing so with _______ funding and only a small band
of supporters.
Your students must be writing only short,______, simple
equations.
More than two dozen riders in authentic cowboy ______carry
the mail, relaying the bags along the route.
Unkempt, garb, sparse, potion, untidy, meager, attire,
elixir
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Our clothes were in rags, our appearance unkempt and
forbidding.
Again, spite proves a divine potion healing all wounds.
Relatively untidy roads and train lines have made the cities
less attractive to companies.
The bride and groom kept changing their attire during the
ceremony.
And guests at the ball are served oranges laced with an
amnesia-causing elixir.
And he is doing so with meager funding and only a small
band of supporters.
Your students must be writing only short, sparse, simple
equations.
More than two dozen riders in authentic cowboy garb carry
the mail, relaying the bags along the route.
Unkempt, garb, sparse, potion, untidy, meager, attire,
elixir
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English I
9/26/2012
Essential Question:
 Are there turning points in each of
our lives that change us forever?
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Learning Targets:
 I can edit sentences correctly.
 I can identify character traits in a
text.
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September 26, 2012
a. doodles brother loves him but hes way to hard on
Doodle
 b. perhaps he wants Doodle to be more like him
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a. Doodle’s brother loves him, but he’s far too hard
on Doodle.
 b. Perhaps he wants Doodle to be more like he is
himself.
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English I
Essential Question:
 Are there turning points in each of
our lives that change us forever?
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Learning Targets:
 I can edit sentences correctly.
 I can identify character traits in a
text.
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September 27, 2012
a. sometimes i was irritated that my grandmother
made us conformed to rigid rules
 b. now im aware of how lucky ive been to have
family members who shows their concern
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a. Sometimes I was irritated that my grandmother
made us conform to rigid rules.
 b. Now I’m aware of how lucky I’ve been to have
family members who show their concern.
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Synonyms
1. Ulrich von Gradwitz’s land lay on the edge of the
Carpathians, a mountain range with precipitous
rock walls.
 a. attractive b. sheer c. heavy
 2. The Znaeym family had never acquiesced in the
courts’ decision about the land.
 a. concurred b. participated c. bothered
 3. Ulrich von Gradwitz was willing to shoot any
marauders hunting game in his forest.
 a. denizens b. raiders c. murderers
 4. Suffering under the weight of the tree, von
Gradwitz felt a growing languor come over his
limbs.
 a. inhibition b. hatred c. listlessness
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5. The two men waited for their parties to arrive and give them
succor.
a. aid b. refreshment c. applause
6. Ulrich felt exasperation at being pinned beneath the tree.
a. relief b. annoyance c. fear
7. Thankful for being alive, Ulrich uttered pious offerings.
a. insincere b. painful c. religious
8. To Georg’s laughter, Ulrich retorted, “I’m caught in my own
forest land.”
a. snapped b. purred c. giggled
9. The two men reached a reconciliation after years of being
enemies.
a. promise b. settlement c. oath
10. Neither man was able to give condolences to the other’s
family.
a. orders b. inheritance c. sympathy
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Comprehension
1.Why does Ulrich want to kill
Georg?
2.Why does Georg want to kill
Ulrich?
3.What natural event happens
soon after they meet in the forest?
4.Why do the two enemies end up
being friends?
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English I
Essential Question:
 Are there turning points in each of
our lives that change us forever?
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Learning Targets:
 I can edit sentences correctly.
 I can identify character traits in a
text.
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September 28, 2012
 a. you have to admire emily dickinsons
observations about a snake
 b. id be so scared of the snake that id have run
away
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a. You have to admire Emily Dickinson’s
observations about a snake.
 b. I’d have been so scared of the snake that I’d
have run away.
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Sept 28, 2012
Vocabulary Review
1. Ulrich was hunting for a(n)
____________________ he
hated more than any wild animal.
2. The Ulrich family had gone to court
and ____________________ the land
from the Znaeym family.
3. The Znaeym family kept poaching
because they had
never ____________________ to the
courts.
4. The pain and ____________________
Ulrich felt while trapped under the tree
cooled his hatred.
5. Wolves might have been the final
____________________ on Ulrich’s land.
Word Bank
acquiesced
languor
interlopers
wrested
quarry