11th Grade ELA

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8th Grade Ela Test Prep

A Tuck Everlasting Webquest for 6th Grade ELA- Figurative Language Your task is to create a Kahoot! For your classmates that will test them on their knowledge of figurative language. Your kahoot should have 20 questions.
6th Grade ELA Standards Addressed: Conventions of Standard English 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. Knowledge of Language 3. Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to.
English Language Arts 2014 English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework. Assembly Bill 250 (Chapter 608, Statutes of 2011) calls for the revision of the English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework to align with the California Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical.

This page will be used to share resources as we complete the novel study on Al Capone Does My Shirts.We will be 'chunking' the novel into instructional pieces for purposes of review of skills and comprehension of material.

Fareinheit 451 Vocab

Tatters – (noun) a torn piece hanging loose from the main part, as of a garment or flag. Shreds of something.
Minstrel
Flue
Refracted
Whiffed
Immense
Imperceptibly
Mausoleum
Murmur
Tallow
Pulverized
Stratum
Melancholy
Quivered
Proboscis
Multifaceted
Trajectory
Cacophony
Intuitively
Profusion
Insidious
Juggernaut
Valise
Pyre

Recite a poem in class

I Hear America Singing
by Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand
singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or
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at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of
the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows,
robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.

I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, 'Eat in the kitchen,' Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.

America
by Robert Creeley
America, you ode for reality! Give back the people you took. Let the sun shine again on the four corners of the world you thought of first but do not own, or keep like a convenience. People are your own word, you invented that locus and term. Here, you said and say, is where we are. Give back what we are, these people you made, us, and nowhere but you to be.

On Being Brought from Africa to America
by Phillis Wheatley
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
'Their colour is a diabolic die.'
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

Exquisite Politics
by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
The perfect voter has a smile but no eyes, maybe not even a nose or hair on his or her toes, maybe not even a single sperm cell, ovum, little paramecium. Politics is a slug copulating in a Poughkeepsie garden. Politics is a grain of rice stuck in the mouth of a king. I voted for a clump of cells, anything to believe in, true as rain, sure as red wheat. I carried my ballots around like smokes, pondered big questions, resources and need, stars and planets, prehistoric languages. I sat on Alice's mushroom in Central Park, smoked longingly in the direction of the mayor's mansion. Someday I won't politic anymore, my big heart will stop loving America and I'll leave her as easy as a marriage, splitting our assets, hoping to get the advantage before the other side yells: Wow! America, Vespucci's first name and home of free and brave, Te amo.

12th Grade ELA
Screwtape Letters Discussion Q's

Screwtape Letters Discussion Questions

1. Much of the appeal The Screwtape Letters derives from Lewis's startlingly original reversal: telling a story about Christian faith not from a Christian point-of-view but from the perspective of a devil trying to secure the damnation of one's man's soul. Why is this strategy so effective? What does it allow Lewis to accomplish that would have been impossible in a more straightforward approach?
2. In the first of Screwtape's letters, he instructs Wormwood not to attempt to win the patient's soul through argument, but rather by fixing his attention on 'the stream of immediate sense experiences' (p. 2). Why is immersion in the particulars of 'real life' fertile ground for temptation? Why is argument a risky strategy for devils to employ? Where else do you find this opposition between the particular and the universal-between materialism and spiritual faith-in The Screwtape Letters?
3. While Screwtape allows that war is 'entertaining' and provides 'legitimate and pleasing refreshment for our myriads of toiling workers,' (p. 18) he fears that 'if we are not careful, we shall see thousands turning in this tribulation to the Enemy, while tens of thousands who do not go so far will nevertheless have their attentions diverted from themselves to causes which they believe to be higher than the self' (p. 19). Why would war have this effect? How does war alter human consciousness in a way unfavorable to temptation? How would you relate Lewis's own experience in WWI, which apparently confirmed his youthful atheism, to his position in The Screwtape Letters?
4. In describing the differences in how God and the Devil view men, Screwtape says: 'We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons' (p. 30). What is it about God's relationship to man that Screwtape finds so unfathomable?
5. Why is Screwtape so pleased when the patient becomes friends with a group of people who are 'rich, smart, superficially intellectual, and brightly skeptical about everything in the world'? (p. 37). What influence does Screwtape hope they will have on him? Why should their 'flippancy' build up an 'armor-plating' against God? In what ways does Lewis merge theology and social satire in this and other passages throughout The Screwtape Letters?
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