Al Capone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0PEjyv4LQ8

Classic Lit Prohibition Vid 11/30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRwudPWYDQI

11-23 and 11/24 notes govt

Gatsby Notes 11-23

The Great Gatsby

Notes 11-23-15

Setting: 1920s New York- downtown and islands

Themes: love, poverty, riches, mystery, deception

LOVE VS LUST

Narrator: Nick Carraway

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author writes the story, narrator tells it

Main Characters:

Jay Gatsby- newly wealthy businessman, mysterious

Nick Carraway- Jay’s neighbor and only friend, not rich,  dating Jordan Baker, stock broker

JBaker- professional golfer

Tom Buchanan- Jay’s enemy

Meyer Wolfshiem- Gatsby’s business associate, sketchy

Literary device- IMAGERY- VERY beautiful words used

11/18 Experiential Writing Assignment

**Pretend to be Tim O'Brien and write about your visit in 2015 to Veterans Memorial Park in Manchester, NH

4 PARAGRAPHS DUE 11/19

vocab classic lit

Reserved- ADJ-formal or self restrained in manner and relationship

        -introvert, shy, keep to themselves

FEIGN-VERB- to pretend, or make believe

        She feigned laughter when the man called her fat

Mar-Verb- to damage, ruin, deface

        She marred her face with permanent ink that said “Doritos.”

Elation

Noun- high spirits, great gladness, joy

I was filled with elation when I won the lottery

Savor-verb- to take your time tasting or smelling- I savor donuts after I go running.

Supercilious- adj-cocky, showing arrogant superiority

       Rocky was supercilious when he ran in the ring.

Effeminate-adj-having traits considered feminine

              The man with large breasts and hips was effeminate.

Pungent-adj-sharply hurting your taste or smell senses

       The pungent trash made me throw up.

Ch 4 mice and men questions

Name: ____________________________________                         Date:________

Of Mice and Men Chapter Questions

Chapter 4

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1.  Explain what happened when Lennie went into Crooks’ room.

2.  How did Crooks feel about the plan to buy land and raise rabbits?

3.  What offer did Crooks make to Candy and Lennie?  What did Crooks do later in the chapter about his offer?

4.  Explain what happened when Curley’s wife appeared in Crooks’ room.

5.  How did Curley’s wife feel about her husband.  Give specific examples to support your answer.

6.  If someone is aloof, what are they?

7.  If someone is crestfallen, what are they?

8.  Give one symbol in the play.  What does this symbol represent?

9. Literary Element: Foreshadowing  - What is foreshadowing? What events happen in the chapter that may foreshadow what’s to come at the end of the novel? (Name two)

MODERN LIT DUE ON11/17/15 first draft

After reading up to page 110 of Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong...

Choose one prompt and write 4 paragraphs creatively.


1. What happens next for Mark and Maryanne?

2. Write a modern guy meets girl story as if you were Tim O Brien.

articles to use for GOVT assignment

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/fullpage/isis-trail-terror-isis-threat-us-25053190


http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/iraqi-security-forces-repel-isis-attack-west-ramadi/


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/world/europe/russia-plane-crash-bomb.html?_r=0

Classic Lit assignment 11/16 due 11/17

http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties

THE ROARING TWENTIES

NAME_________________________DATE____

1. What kind of changes took place during the 1920s?

2. Where did Americans live now?

3. How was the economy?

4. Describe the “mass culture”

5. What does a “flapper” look like?

6. What did the 19^th Amendment do?

7. What two technologies eliminated the drudgery of housework?

8. What did the Yale club have? Which Amendment made it illegal to manufacture and sell alcohol?

9. What new technology was in more than 12 million households?

10. List four dances from the jazz age.

11. What did the Volstead Act do?

12. During the cultural civil war, what types of people disagreed? Who vs. who?

13. FIND 10 PICTURES FROM THE 1920s and create a collage or PPT

Govt 11/16/15 assignment DUE 11/17

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

11/16/15

1- Finish your campaign portfolio

2- Complete the following assignment on the Paris attacks Friday:

1. Find 2 articles from different news sources regarding the attacks

2. Write 7 facts about the attacks

3. Write a few sentences about the difference between the articles’ sources. Did they cover the story differently? What did they talk about? How do they differ?

4. Write a one paragraph summary of your opinion of the whole ordeal. What do you think about all of this terrorism? What should America do/ not do? Do you agree with France bombing the ISIS training camp?

5. Find a map of France with the stadium location on it. 

Notes 11/10 intro to lit

Mice notes 11/2

CH 1 notes

First paragraph---- ALL IMAGERY

--SETTING A BEAUTIFUL SCENE

RABBITS

1.    George- small, sharp, strong,

Lennie- large, shapeless, slow, heavy

   -Animal like, a bear, a child

*FOIL CHARACTERS TO EACH OTHER
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2. obligated- hold onto his work card, Lennie copies him, George says “I could get along so easy without you”

3.to pet it in his pocket, George teaches him its bad

4. They got “run off the farm” for something Lennie did

Crucible Notes 11/3

Martha Corey laughs- town fool, comedic relief

Ruth Putnam says old man came upon her

Sees black man whispering- lying- all girls following along then fake passing out

Say you’re a witch- go to jail, Don’t confess- hang

Abigail still wants John, She called out his wife

“She bit my breast”- the cut hasn’t healed ,   Abi then stabs herself

“From the mouths of babes shall come the truth”- the judges believe the kids

Not faithful= don’t go to church enough-dislike Rev. Parris. John can’t recite all 10 commandements- forgets ADULTRY- IRONIC, his wife sure remembers

Rev. Hale thinks they aren’t holy enough

Proctor reveals that Abigail told them- just dancing, not witchery

Says to Rev. Hale, “Well if they don’t condess,they get hanged. Did you ever think of that?”

VOODOO DOLL- Mary gave doll to her. Looks like voodoo. Has a needle. Abigal stabbed herself with a needle. SET UP

ABIGAIL is most guilty

The Crucible

The Crucible

Character Map:

http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/mwebb/crucible_by_arthur_miller.htm

Summary of Act 1:

http://www.shmoop.com/crucible/act-1-summary.html

Notes:

Starts with ritual in woods middle of the  night

Led by tituba

Girls want spells for boys to like them

Abigail kills chicken, goes crazy

Betty Parris (Reverend’s daughter) and Ruth Putnam are nonresponsive, but not sick

People think it’s the devil

Abigail wants John Proctor- his wife is “blackening her name”

Rev. Hale is called in from Beverly

Abigail blames Tituba- all a lie

Rev Hale beats Tituba

Tituba pretends she’s possessed, so it’s not her fault

Rev. Hale tries to exorcise Tituba- get devil out

Tituba calls out white people she dislikes

He said she said, girls go nuts- if they confess and want Jesus, they’ll be innocent

Everyone is acting