Extra Credit - Poems About Death - For How They Croaked

If you'd like to earn extra credit with these, earn 1 point per line for memorization. You do NOT have to memorize a whole poem. You could memorize portions -- sets of lines that go together well.     -- Poems found on Bartleby.com John Donne 72. "Death be not proud, though some have called thee" DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee doe goe, Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie. Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well, And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then; One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part Four: Time and Eternity XXII

THE BUSTLE in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,—
The sweeping up the heart,	5
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity. _____________________________________ Invictus   BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the night that covers me,        Black as the pit from pole to pole,  I thank whatever gods may be        For my unconquerable soul.  In the fell clutch of circumstance        I have not winced nor cried aloud.  Under the bludgeonings of chance        My head is bloody, but unbowed.  Beyond this place of wrath and tears        Looms but the Horror of the shade,  And yet the menace of the years        Finds and shall find me unafraid.  It matters not how strait the gate,        How charged with punishments the scroll,  I am the master of my fate,        I am the captain of my soul.  * * * * * * * * * * This is a short poem about King Tut: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28702 * * * * * * * * * * * Speech: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” Related Poem Content Details BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE(from Julius Caesar, spoken by Marc Antony) Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest– For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men– Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. * * * * * * * * * *  If you'd like to earn extra credit with these, earn 1 point per line for memorization.    -- Poems found on Bartleby.com

Alright or all right?

Come and tell me when it is correct to use "alright" as one word.  First response (and perhaps more) earns 5 points extra credit.

Brian P. Cleary

In formal, edited writing (term paper, academic article, essay, etc.), when is it correct to use alright as one word? Here’s a little tip: Never. And don’t give me, “Spell Check didn’t underline it.” Spell Check doesn’t underline it when you type, “I walked along way home,” either.

Have you learned the Gettysburg Address?

Earn Extra Credit by Reciting it to Ms. Dorsey.  Print and bring this copy:  
Gettysburg Address Numbered.doc
-- Up to 15 points of extra credit
Here is the full text:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Nov. 19, 1863

Here is a class from Forbes Elementary reciting it:  http://www.learntheaddress.org/videos/state/?page=14#Qua2YBnyPfs

from http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abraham-lincolns-gettysburg-address-150th-anniversary-full-text/story?id=20928973

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/19/246109496/listen-for-its-150th-a-reading-of-the-gettysburg-address

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/19/246095479/gettysburg-address-turns-150

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gettysburg-address/exhibition-items.html

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/abraham-lincoln-delivered-gettysburg-20347.html

epi- and words

extra credit opportunity

Brian P. Cleary                                          

EPITHET is a descriptive word in place of the name of a person or thing, usually insulting. EPITAPH is the inscription on a tombstone, or else a tribute to the departed. EPIGRAM is a brief, clever statement. EPIGRAPH is a brief quotation set at the beginning of a text to suggest its theme, or the inscription on a statue or building.

Extra credit for each of these questions you can answer: 

1. What does the "epi-" part of each word mean?  

2. What does the word part "thet"  mean here? 

3. What does the word part "taph" mean?

4. What does the word part "gram" mean? 

5. What does the word part "graph" mean? 

epi- a prefix

Extra Credit: Two Word Sentences

Earn extra credit by finding two word sentences in published books.  You must show where you found them.  Bring them in, copy them as directed, and receive 2 points each for up to five sentences.

To hand them in, you should have for each this information:
1. Title of Book or other Source
2. Author
3. Page (or other information about where you found it)
4.  The two word sentence with subject underlined and verb circled.

Make sure you own name is on the paper so your teacher will be able to give you credit.

Extra Credit: Nothing in Heaven Functions As It Ought

Up to 15 points are available for learning this poem.
What does this poem have in common with the novel The Giver?

Nothing in Heaven Functions As It Ought

Nothing in Heaven functions as it ought:
Peter's bifocals, blindly sat on, crack;
His gates lurch wide with the cackle of a cock,
Not turn with a hush of gold as Milton had thought;
Gangs of the slaughtered innocents keep huffing
The nimbus off the Venerable Bede
Like that of an old dandelion gone to seed;
And the beatific choir keep breaking up, coughing.

But Hell, sleek Hell hath no freewheeling part:
None takes his own sweet time,
none quickens pace.
Ask anyone, How come you here, poor heart?--
And he will slot a quarter through his face,
You'll hear an instant click, a tear will start
Imprinted with an abstract of his case.

by X.J. Kennedy


Illustrations: 
Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates
slots for coins
The Venerable Bede -- shown with a nimbus (a halo)
cherubs -- who could be some of the "slaughtered innocents" -- the babies who were killed by Herod in his attempt to get rid of the one who the Wise Men told him would be the new king (Jesus).

Vocabulary:
Peter -- Saint Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ;
traditionally, the keeper of the gates of heaven.

Bifocals – eyeglasses, having two portions, one for near and one for far vision.

His gates – The gates of heaven, the Pearly Gates

Milton -- John, 1608–74, English poet.

Nimbus -- a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.

Venerable Bede -- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Benedictine monk, priest, historian, Doctor of the Church, d. 735.

Venerable: commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity -- The suffix “-able” turns a word into an adjective, and means “capable of.”

Beatific: serene, exalted, angelic, rapturous.

Freewheeling: moving about freely, independently, or irresponsibly.

Abstract: a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.

October 9/10

Big News!!!!!

• The due dates for the Basic 8, Book #2 Assessment have been extended! 
• Have your passages on the blue sheet approved, then your rough draft (white sheet) approved -- all by  October 19.
• (Sooner is better!)   
• Then you MUST have your cube done and ready to present by Monday, October 22 for A-Day and Tuesday, October 23 for B-Day.   
• Don't forget to write the paragraph about your cube and have it ready for the 22nd or 23rd. 
• The term ends on Friday, October 26, and no late work is accepted during that last week so the 22nd and 23rd are firm deadlines.

Reminder:  The final test on the commonly confused words will still  be on  the 16th and 17th. 

We will also do a composition book check on that day.  

Composition Book Check #2 

1.  Learning about transitions -- Create a transition collection. 

2.  Computer lab to type, revise, and edit your comparison or contrast paragraph about two family members.  Add transitions. 
See the handout. 

CompareContrastParagraphPrompt(1).docx

Transitions.docx

PowerPoint: Paragraph3 Compare Contrast.pptx(1).pptx

You may write and revise these at home on MyAccess: https://www.myaccess.com/ 

through October 12 -- this Friday.

 

o   Username:  same as Skyward Username

o   5 letters of last name,

o   3 letters of first name, 000 (or 001, 003, etc.)

o   Password:  Student ID# (lunch number)

Using MY Access to Improve Your Writing

3.  Reading Time  

4.  iWrite: Window/Mirror  October 9/10

Is the character in your novel you’re learning about more of a mirror or more of a window to you? (Is the character a lot like you -- a mirror? How?  Or is reading about this character more like looking at a different type of person through a window?)

 

 





5. iWriteRight:  to/too/two

Our very own two to too posters.pptx

to/too/two  posters

 

 

6.  If we have extra time, we might be able to listen to The Outsiders. 
5.  iLearn,Listen,Read:  The Outsiders 
Listen to/Follow along with The Outsiders

A1 --   Today we read from  page 72 (16:29) to page 75 -- page break -- (We Crouched 22:23)

A3 --   Today we read from  page 74 (19:48) to page (none today)

A4 --   Today we read from page 75 (22:22) to page

B7 --   Today we read from the top of page 65 ("We Crouched" 5:10) to page
B8  --  Today we read from page78, about 2/3 of the way down (28:20) to page




Writing  a Great Comparison or Contrast Paragraph
Remember the Hamburger!   

Hamburger Paragraph

Paragraphs -- Let's Make Sure You Understand

Transition Words for Comparison/Contrast Paragraphs

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Important Reminder:  

Basic 8, Book #2 Assessment -- Character Cube

See also the tab above for Required Reading for more information, including more examples.

If you would like to print a hard copy of this assignment and worksheet, go to

 Book Cube.docx
or
Book Cube compatible.doc

Click on the Download tab and open it. 

Character Cube Description.doc
We are making the cube using cardstock paper.
Cube2.doc

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Extra Credit Poem Memorization:  Nothing Gold Can Stay

or

Extra Credit - A Poem in Honor of the Weather Today

  or

Extra Credit -- The Road Not Taken

 

 

Extra Credit -- The Road Not Taken

James Bourret Fine Art Photography

The Road Not Taken 
                                         by Robert Frost  

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;	5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,	10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.	15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

1 extra credit point per line
Note on extra credit:  Extra Credit Points are not added onto your grade unless you have completed all major assignments and tests. 

September 17: Constitution Day -- Extra Credit Opportunity

You could earn up to 20 points by memorizing the topics of each of the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States.  Some of these links could help you.  The most helpful one is the memorise.org link.  It gives you a mnemonic for learning the Bill of Rights.  The Bill of Rights rap is memorable, too.   This opportunity expires October 19.

FYI:  How did our political leanings come to be known as "left" and "right"?  http://hotword.dictionary.com/leftright/

Memorize the Bill of Rights:  http://memorize.com/bill-of-rights
Bill of Right Rap:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlt6R1KD4E0    3:38

Another way to memorize the Bill of Rights:  http://homeworktips.about.com/od/politicalscience/tp/Memorizing-The-Bill-Of-Rights-Amendments.htm   


http://www.memorise.org/memory-training/memorize-bill-rights-us-constitution-00311.html

Two Word Sentences

Extra credit points are given only for sentences that contain a subject and a verb (predicate).   This time we're not counting the implied subject or verb. You may earn points for up to five sentences. 

From Stand Tall by Joan Bauer:
He shifted.  p. 1 bottom line  from Lauren W.
He nodded.  p. 2   third line down from Lauren W.
He sighed.  p. 2  from Brandon S.
He didn't.  p. 15  Bonnie S.  
He did.   p. 16  from Jaden C.
Tree sniffed.  p. 19  from Bonnie S. 
He laughed. p. 20 from Clayton T.
What's this?  p. 20  from Clayton T.  Think "What is this?"     this   /    is     \__what___
Tree knew.  p. 20  Clayton T. 
Tree nodded.  p. 20 Jaden C.

He tried.  p. 26 Kayli M.
Tree watched.  p. 27  Lauren V. 
Tree tried.  p. 24, 25  Karli N. 
Mona nodded.  p. 27   Wes O.
She smiled.  p. 28  Karli N.
Everyone laughed.  p. 29   Wes O.
Sully nodded.  p. 34  Kayli M.
Tree beamed.  p. 37 Averee C.  
Bradley barked.  p. 37  Karli N. 
Dad served. p. 64  Andrew H.

Curtis sighed.  p. 70  Wes O.
That's him.  p. 75  Zach W.

Grandpa nodded.  p. 87  Zach W. 


Tree aimed.  p. 102.  Andrew H.

Tree beamed.  p. 150 from Andrew H.
They marched.  p. 177 Zach W.
Tree couldn't.  p. 181  Zach W.
 


from The Mother Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick
found by Hannah S.
I snap.  pg. 49
Becca nods.  p. 61
I shrug.  p. 64
I know.  p. 65
I hesitate.  p. 66
I continue.  p. 119
I can't.  p. 128

From Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
I did.  p. 104   Kaden F.

From Touching Spirit Bear  by Ben Mikaelesen
Cole grimaced.  p. 77
Cole nodded.  p. 102
Garvey smiled.  p. 120
Cole shrugged p. 155




 

Extra Credit -- Population

Find (in the Internet) the most and least densely populated countries in the world.  Come and tell me about them.

Extra Credit: Memorize a Summer Poem

These earn about a point a line.  You do not have to learn all stanzas, but lines must be learned in stanza-long chunks, and you must be able to identify title and author. 

Summer Sun

Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Bed in Summer
by Robert Louis Stevenson

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer
          -- Walt Whitman

WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

It's like living in a light bulb, with the leaves
Like filaments and the sky a shell of thin, transparent glass
Enclosing the late heaven of a summer day, a canopy
Of incandescent blue above the dappled sunlight golden
     on the grass...

          From Sally's Hair by John Koethe

Dreaming of Summer

I'm dreaming of warm sandy beaches.
I'm dreaming of days by the pool.
I'm dreaming of fun in the afternoon sun,
and week after week of no school.

I'm thinking of swim suits and sprinklers,
imagining lemonade stands.
I'm lost in a daydream of squirt guns and ice cream
and plenty of time on my hands.

I'm picturing baseball and hot dogs,
Envisioning games at the park,
and how it stays light until late every night,
and seems like it never gets dark.

I long to ride skateboards and scooters.
I want to wear t-shirts and shorts.
I'd go for a hike, or I'd ride on my bike,
or play lots of summertime sports.

My revery turns to a yearning
to draw on the driveway with chalk.
It's really a bummer to daydream of summer
while shoveling snow from the walk.
--Kenn Nesbitt

Part of 
THE ARBOUR
by: Anne Bronte (1820-1849)
'LL rest me in this sheltered bower,
And look upon the clear blue sky
That smiles upon me through the trees,
Which stand so thick clustering by;

And view their green and glossy leaves,
All glistening in the sunshine fair;
And list the rustling of their boughs,
So softly whispering through the air.

BEFORE THE RAIN
by: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1906)

E knew it would rain, for all the morn

A spirit on slender ropes of mist

Was lowering its golden buckets down

Into the vapory amethyst.

Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens--

Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers,

Dipping the jewels out of the sea,

To sprinkle them over the land in showers.

We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed

The white of their leaves, the amber grain

Shrunk in the wind--and the lightning now

Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain! 

 

LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY
by: Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

Y soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring
And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;
For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.

The long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing,
The bare trees are tossing their branches on high;
The dead leaves beneath them are merrily dancing,
The white clouds are scudding across the blue sky

I wish I could see how the ocean is lashing
The foam of its billows to whirlwinds of spray;
I wish I could see how its proud waves are dashing,
And hear the wild roar of their thunder to-day!

"Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day" is reprinted from Poems By Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Bronte. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848.