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We have three weeks of school left. All work must be submitted by Friday, May 15, 2020. I will be available today from 12:00-2:00 for emailed questions. Literature Assignment: Read Chapter 22 of Farewell to Manzanar. (This is the last chapter of the book.) Answer the following questions in a Google document labeled with your last name (and first initial) and "Manzanar 22). Use your best writing skills. Please provide quoted and cited evidence to support your ideas. Explain your ideas in detail. This is due Tuesday, April 28, by 7:00 PM. 1. In several places throughout Chapter 22, Wakatsuki mentions "voices" and "stones." Whose voices? Which stones? What do these represent? What does she mean? How does this use of imagery and symbolism impact the tone of the closing chapter? 2. What is ironic about Wakatsuki's statement on p. 176: "No place for kids"? 3. On p. 177, Wakatsuki uses the expression, "like a needle." What is she comparing to a needle? Why? What does she mean? 4. Wakatsuki ends the chapter--and the entire book--with a flashback. Summarize the flashback and explain what you think her purpose is for ending her memoir this way. 5. Summarize Wakatsuki's emotional reaction to her "farewell" visit to Manzanar, a visit made thirty years after she had moved there as a child. What do you think her final message is to the reader? Support your response. Writing Assignment: Link to the Google document below with notes about Infinitive Phrases. Complete the sentence-composing exercises #1-3. Open a Google doc of your own, label it with your last name (and first initial) and the words "Infinitive Phrases." Complete Practice 5 Expanding and the Creative Writing Paragraph; these are due by Tuesday, April 28, 7:00 PM. Comments are closed.
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Holy Spirit, Giver of all good gifts, enter into my mind and heart. Give me the gift of knowledge and the grace to use it wisely. Help me in all my endeavors. Give me perseverance and fortitude. Help my memory, that I may remember what I learn and recall it when necessary. Guide me in the classroom.
O Jesus, You who are the Way, the Truth, and the Life, let me not be deceived by false teaching. Our Lady of Good Studies, pray for me. Amen. Mary, Undoer of Knots,
Pray for Us! A Prayer to Christ, the Divine Teacher
O source of all Wisdom, Christ the Teacher,
You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Teach us to embrace the truths You have revealed to Your Church. Fill our souls with Your Grace that we may love God above all and our neighbors as ourselves. Christ Jesus, friend and Teacher most patient, bless us and teach us. O Light of the world, teach us always to follow You that we should not walk in darkness, but have forever the Light of Life! Amen. Archives
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