Today you will research the day you were born. Look for interesting information from your birthday. Present your information in a slideshow. Title each slide with the following:
Your birthday and year
Your birth month and year
The year you were born
Your birthday and any year
Example of slide titles:
February 11, 1976
February 1976
1976
February 11 (include each year you add facts for)
Look for the following information:
Pop Culture: celebrities, music, movies, books from this time period
World and national events
Inventions: the computer, the internet?
Trends: fashion, brands
Any interesting facts that you might come across.
Have fun! And Happy Birthday!
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Copy and Paste this quiz into word. Record your answers and email it to me as an attachment.
Vocabulary Quiz
Pandora’s Box
Words to Know
Abominably confer grievously malice radiance
Bade disconsolate inevitable perturbed subtle
A. Identify each pair of words as synonyms or antonyms. Write S in the blank if the words are synonyms. Write A if they are antonyms.
1. grievously- terribly ________
2. subtle-crafty ________
3. perturbed-troubled ________
4. confer-receive ________
5. abominably-beautifully _______
6. malice-kindness _________
7. disconsolate-hopeful ________
8. radiance-gloom _________
9. Bade-invited _________
10. inevitable-preventable _________
B. Complete each sentence with one of the words from the word list.
1. The gods wanted to _______________beauty and wisdom on Pandora.
2. Epimetheus was greatly _____________by this gift from an enemy.
3. Since Pandora was very curious, it was _____________that she would open the box.
4. The box was filled all sorts of evil and ______________.
5. Although Hope was small, it shone with a special __________________.
Pandora’s Box and Aunty Misery
Quiz
1. What gifts did the gods give Pandora, and how did her name reflect this?
2. Why did Pandora think there would be no harm in opening the box?
3. Although Hope was small and frail in body, in what ways was it strong?
4. What kind of person was Aunty Misery? How can you tell?
5. What attitudes toward death does Aunty Misery’s story reveal?
You will need a title, characters, and a natural phenomenon to write about. Your story will explain how that natural phenomenon came to be. Your story should contain supernatural and fantastic elements. Think about the stories you read in class. Nothing is impossible in your story. Next week you will write an origin myth on how your constellation was created, so don’t write one about that today.
Examples to choose from:
Why birds fly.
How the rainbow got it’s colors.
Why it rains.
Where thunder comes from.
Where lightning comes from.
The possibilities are endless. Choose something that interests you and write about that. This is a rough draft and is due today. You will need to type this in word and post in the comment section here. When you have completed your story, you may begin working on a presentation of your story. You may use power point, open office, or movie maker. However you decide to present your story you will need to use visual aides, including graphics, illustrations, videos, or any multimedia we have available. There will be another blog with more details coming soon. I just want you to start drafting your ideas!
Attention: New Assignment
Choose an educational article to summarize and one article of your choice.
If you did not finish your two articles yesterday I need you to do so today. Some of you just commented on the articles but did not do the assignment. I get all the comments. None of them will be published without my approval. since this is an assignment, this will only be seen by me. After you have completed the assignments, I will publish any comments that you would like to add to the article.
After you have completed yesterdays assignment, I would like for you to find 2 opinion articles. Write a short summary of the articles in the comment section and then state your opinion of the topic. Don't forget! You are receiving AR points for completed assignments and also a grade. If you follow instructions you will get credit. Next week I will begin grading on spelling and grammar as well as content.
5. Literary Elements
6. Resolution


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