Freshmen Spelling list 1-10-11

Whether/Weather
Going to
Until
Separate
Receive
Because
Grateful
Have been
Have seen
Achievement

"Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections - to exercise our imaginations. It follows, then, that the basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination."
- Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989

"Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of existing elite and transmitting them to new members."
-Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life, 1989

Assignment-
Should a college education focus on cultivating and encouraging the imagination of students or on teaching basic facts and standards so that we all share a certain amount of common knowledge? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on these issues. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Vocab

untimely
not timely; not occurring at a suitable time or season; ill-timed

dissemble
to give a false or misleading appearance to OR to conceal one's true motives

commend
to speak well or praise OR recommend

consort
to accompany or wait upon OR to combine to make music

tempest
a violent windstorm, usually accompanied by rain OR a violent disturbance

dexterity
a skill n using one's hands or body OR skill in using the mind; cleverness

beguile
to influence through deception or mislead or to take away by cheating or deceiving

unseemly
inappropriate for time or place

procure
to obtain by care, effort, or the use of special means

villain
a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime

SAT Essay-

"It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark- and the torturous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax."
-Patricia Moyes, Down Among the Dead Men

Assignment: Do small events lead to catastrophes or are great events initiated by other causes? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

Fahrenheit 451 project!

1. Powerpoint presentation-

(1-2 per group) Find images, objects or people in Fahrenheit 451, and then identify a parallel to them in our lives today. For example, you may say the green seashell is like a bluetooth, or the average American voter is like Mildred. Explain how these work as parallels. Create a powerpoint presentation displaying this. This presentation must have at least ten parallels.

(1 person) Make a Powerpoint presentation with six pie charts of selected characters in Fahrenheit 451, and divide them up by the emotions they feel throughout the novel. Include at least 425 words (1 ½ pages) explaining why they are divided in that way.

2. Rewrite Fahrenheit 451 with you as the protagonist living in modern times, not the future. You may present this to the class as-

(1-4 per group) A Film. Film must be at least four minutes in length and must include a script.

(1-4 per group) A play. Film must be at least four minutes in length and must include a script.

(1 person) A written short story. Must be at least 750 words (three pages). Be prepared to read it to the class.

3. Find or write a song:

(1 person if finding a song, 1-3 people if writing a song) Find or write a song that depicts the mood of Fahrenheit 451. Include an explanation of at least 250 words to tell why you thought this song worked. You must have a means to present this song to the class. Discuss with me if you want help.

Come up with a project or essay question of your own and get it approved by Mr. Morali

SAT Vocab Test Words

SAT Vocab Test Words
Debonair

Apartheid

Diminutive

Perversion

Saturate

Garbled

Inexorable

Opalescent

Impalpable

Appraising

Clamor

Wizened

Sated

Vicissitude

Transitory

Furrow

Contingency

Duvet

Inscrutable

Miserly

Nettle

Doggedly

Gait

Guttural

Obsolete
Perversion

F451 Test

Fahrenheit 451 Test
-Complete the five paragraph essay
- Choose two of the following three paragraph essays to write.
- You should have a total of eleven paragraphs written.

Five Paragraph Essay:

Compare/contrast truth and society in Fahrenheit 451, The Island, and “The Cave”. Your concluding paragraph should discuss our society and how these concepts relate to our world.

Three Paragraph Essay Options:
1. Discuss the use of irony in Fahrenheit 451. You may find examples of irony in “The Cave” and/or The Island to compare.


2. Discuss fire in Fahrenheit 451. How does Montag have a dichotomous relationship with fire. Why is fire a motif in the novel? What is it a symbol of?


3. Which character in Fahrenheit 451 is most like the element fire? How?


4. Why did Bradbury choose to include the poem “Dover Beach” in Fahrenheit 451? Analyze the poem, then discuss its significance to the novel.


5. Discuss Beatty’s relationship with books.