Welcome back to class. I'll be available today between 12:00 and 2:00 to answer email. We are still working on getting approval for YouTube video access on your Chromebooks. Please be patient. Thank you! Update 8:07 AM: Good news! The YouTube video clips should now work on your Chromebooks. Spread the word. Please email me if either button link below does not work or if you are still not able to access the YouTube clips. Thanks. Literature I have begun to scan chapters of our book Farewell to Manzanar and to post them as a pdf in Google Drive. Here is today's assignment. This is due Friday, March 20, by 7:00 PM.
Study Guide Questions: 1. Chapter 12 begins Part 2 of Wakatsuki's memoir. She describes this time period as "the turning of our life in camp, from the outrageous to the tolerable." What does she mean?Identify and explain at least two details from the chapter which support her statement. 2. Wakatsuki writes that "the soil around Manzanar is alluvial" (p. 89). Look up and record the definition of "alluvial." Identify at least two context clues in that paragraph which point to the definition. 3. How do the last five paragraphs or so of Chapter 12 reveal the meaning of the chapter title? Identify at least two details in that last section to support your ideas. 4. In Chapter 13, Jeanne writes about ballet lessons. Why didn't she stick with them? Provide and explain specific quoted evidence to support your answer. 5. What does Jeanne mean at the end of Chapter 13 when she writes, "I would throw him into the air and watch him twirl, and catch him and throw him high, again and again and again"? Who is the "him" she references? Why? 6. What are Jeanne's "outings" and "explorations" in Chapter 13? Why do you think she calls them that? Writing
Take the practice quiz at the Google Forms button link below to see if you can identify the seven sentence-composing tools we have learned. This is due for a grade today by 7:00 PM. Comments are closed.
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A Classroom Prayer
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
August 2023
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