Thursday, November 5, 2009

Thursday, 11/05/09.

Academic Skills
1. Binder Redemption! Fix up your binder for the next binder check tomorrow.

Composition
1. Study for the VPP lesson 5 vocab test.
2. Draw a picture of what happens in the last half of "Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. Use one of the CDs from the story as a caption to your picture.

World Literature
1. Study for the VPP lesson 5 vocab test.
2. Finish reading "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl. Finish answering the questions, and finish the foreshadowing boxes sheet.
In case you missed the questions, here they are:
1. Where is Billy coming from, and what is he trying to find in the town of Bath?
2. What are three things Billy sees that attracts him to the Bed and Breakfast place?
3. What is the first strange thing Billy notices about the landlady?
4. What is another strange thing that the landlady says or does (CD)?
5. Billy thinks he recognizes the names of the two young men in the guest book (Mulholland and Temple). Where does he think he remembers them from?
6. How does the landlady say the two young men were alike?
7. Where does the landlady say the two young men still are? What happened to the landlady’s pets?
8. What does the tea taste like?
9. What do you think will happen to Billy Weaver?
10. Copy two CDs of foreshadowing from the story into the boxes from last night’s homework so that the sheet is complete.

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