Ms. Thompson

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Welcome to Mrs. Thompson's Class! You must have To Kill A Mockingbird in class by April 17th   Here is a link to a subject verb agreement game. TRIPLES with EMMA

Answers to the study guide

Download Answers to the Study Guide for the final

Websites that will help you with clauses and verbals:  Grammar Quizes

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Reading schedule and change in the quiz

This week:

Monday 20-22

Tuesday 23-24

Wednesday 25-27

Thursday-Friday 28-31 (no class on Friday)

 Due to Olympics, we are moving the quiz to Thursday, and it will cover 11-20.

May 4-7 and beyond

P>Welcome to the first full week of May.  We will be reading To Kill a Mockingbird this week, as well as constucting poetry for Mr. Snell's retirement, and continuing to work on clauses.  Make sure to check the back of your scavenger hunt for the reading schedule.  I will post it next week when I am back at school but for now make sure you have read through chapter 19.  The link to read online is on the previous post. Next week:  Wednesday TKAM test May 13, 2009 Thursday:  Review for final May 14, 2009 Friday:  Review for final May 15, 2009 Monday:  Final May 18, 2009 (CRCT results should come in) Tuesday-Thursday:  We are watching To Kill a Mockingbird in class. May 20-21, 2009 Friday:  Last Day of School May 22, 2009 Here are some study questions that might help you study for the test next Wednesday: Study Questions Chapters 15 – 17 1. What did Mr. Heck Tate’s mob want? 2. What was the purpose of Walter Cunningham’s mob? 3. Why did Mr. Cunningham’s mob leave? 4. How is dramatic irony demonstrated in this chapter? 5. Describe Mr. Dolphus Raymond. 6. Where do Scout, Jem, and Dill sit during the trial? 7. What was the importance of Mayella’s bruises being primarily on the right-hand side of her face? 8. Why is it important that Mayella was not examined by a doctor? 9. Describe the Ewell’s house and property. 10. Describe Bob Ewell. To Kill a Mockingbird Study Questions Chapters 18 – 21 1. What was Mayella’s account of the incident with Tom Robinson? 2. Why does she get so upset with Atticus? 3. What was Tom’s side of the story? 4. What was Tom’s handicap? Why was it important to his case? 5. Why was Tom’s statement about feeling sorry for Mayella considered a mistake? 6. What do Dill and Scout learn about Mr. Raymond? 7. Summarize Atticus’s closing remarks to the jury. 8. What was the jury’s verdict? To Kill a Mockingbird Study Questions Chapters 22 – 25 1. Why did Jem cry? 2. What was “round the back steps” when Calpurnia came in on Monday morning? 3. What was the significance of Maudie’s two little cakes and one large one? 4. Describe Bob Ewell’s meeting with Atticus at the post office. 5. What is Atticus’s reaction to Ewell’s threats? 6. Alexandra doesn’t want Scout playing with Walter Cunningham. Why not? 7. Jem said, “I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time. . . it’s because he wants to stay inside.” Why does he say that? 8. Mrs. Merriweather of the missionary circle complain about her cooks and field hands. What does that tell us about her? 9. What happened to Tom Robinson? 10. What more do we learn about Alexandra after Atticus and Calpurnia leave? 11. What did Mr. Underwood’s editorial say? To Kill a Mockingbird Study Questions Chapters 26 – 31 1. What was Scout’s fantasy regarding Arthur (Boo) Radley? 2. What did Scout hear Miss Gates say at the courthouse? In class, Miss Gates said, “That’ s the difference between America and Germany. We are a democracy and Germany is a dictatorship. . . We don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.” What does this tell us about Miss Gates? Why is this statement an example of verbal irony? 3. What happened to Judge Taylor? 4. What happened to Helen Robinson? 5. What was Scout’s part in the pageant? 6. Why did Scout and Jem not leave the school until almost everyone else had gone? 7. What happened to Jem and Scout on the way home from the pageant? 8. Who saved Jem and Scout? Who killed Bob Ewell? 9. Why did Heck Tate insist that Bob Ewell fell on his knife? 10. Scout arranged things so that “if Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching from her upstairs window, she would see Arthur Radley escorting (her) down the sidewalk, as any gentleman would do.” Why did she do that? 11. As Scout leave the Radley porch, she looks out at the neighborhood and recounts the events of the last few years from the Radley’s perspective. Why is that important? 12. What does the mockingbird symbolize? Who are the mockingbirds in the story? 13. Describe how the ending is an example of situational irony. 14. Who was your favorite character and To Kill a Mockingbird br> Here is a divider you may want to use TRIPLES with EMMA <

To Kill a Mockingbird online

Here is a site where you can read To Kill a Mockingbird online.

Click here to read To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird April 20-24

As you know this week and the next two weeks we are reading To Kill a Mockingbird.  I am attaching the reading log in case you loose it or were absent.

Monday:  We read chapter one in class

        Scavenger hunt: Due Wednesday

Tuesday:  We read chapter 2-3

    Plot elements:  Due by the end of the book.  This will be a great study guide

    Be able to answer the following questions: 

Chapter Two

9. List three reasons why Miss Caroline reprimands Scout.

10. How does Miss Caroline Fisher feel at the end of her first day? How do you know?

11. What does Scout tell us about the Cunninghams?

Chapter Three

12. How does Scout solve her problem with Walter Cunningham?

13. How does Jem solve Scout’s problem with Walter Cunningham?

14. Why can’t Walter Cunningham pass the first grade?

15. What does Atticus say about the Ewell family?

Wednesday:   chapter 4-5-6

Be able to answer the following questions: 

Chapter Four

16. What is the first gift that appears in the hollow tree? What other gifts do the children

find?

17. What new facts does Dill offer about his father?

18. How has the Boo Radley game changed?

19. When Scout rolls into the Radley yard in the tire, what does she hear?

20. How is Jem changing?

Chapter Five

21. Describe Miss Maudie. Why does Scout admire her?

22. What do we learn about Uncle Jack?

23. Describe Dill and Jem’s new plan to lure Boo outside. Why doesn’t it work?

24. Why does Scout accuse Dill of lying?

25. What direct order does Atticus give the children?

 Chapter Six

26.How do the children plan to spend Dill’s last night in Maycomb?

27. What goes wrong with the children’s escape plan?

28. At whom does Mr. Nathan say he has fired his gun?

29. How do the children claim to have spent the evening?

30. What makes Jem decide to return to the Radley yard that night?

 Thusday:  chapter 7-8

Chapter Seven

31. What does Jem tell Scout about “the night” at Boo Radley’s?

32. What new gifts do they find in the knothole?

33. What ends the knothole gifts?

Chapter Eight

34. Who dies this winter?

35. What “aberration” of nature frightens Scout?

36. What method does Jem devise to make a snowman?

37. Describe the fire.

38. Why doesn’t Atticus help rescue the furniture from the fire?

39. Who will Scout someday want to thank for keeping her warm the night of the fire?

40. Why isn’t Miss Maudie more upset about her home burning? What does this reveal

about her character?

 

Friday: chapter 9-10

Chapter Nine

41. Who is Tom Robinson? Why is Atticus defending him?

42. What gift does Uncle Jack give the children?

43. List two reasons why Scout upsets Alexandra.

44. What does cousin Francis tell Scout about Dill’s home life?

45. How does Francis provoke Scout?

46. What does Scout teach Uncle Jack about children?

47. What is “Maycomb’s usual disease”?

48. What does Atticus tell Jack about the case. Why is this significant?

Great website to help understand To Kill a Mockingbird

Website to help with vocabulary and allusions

April 15, 2009

Wow, just a few more days until CRCT's begin.  What a great week that will  be. 

Some of you have asked if there is any way to raise your grade.  The answer is yes, but first you must promise to read To Kill a Mockingbird and to study for the next grammar test.  Our next grammar test will include clauses (noun, adverb, adjective) types of sentences (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex)

Don't forget:  You need a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird in class on Friday.

On to the week:

Tuesday-Wednesday   We are working in groups.  There are four groups.  We will watch a video about types of sentences, work on poetry vocabulary, work on reading comprehension by answering an SRA, and there is a question and answer session with myself or one of the other teachers.

Thursday:  We are going to finish any  incomplete group work and with types of sentences, clauses and phrases.

Friday:  We will review clauses and have a quiz over them.

Now back to how you can raise your grade:  You may take up to 4 different quizzes on the USA Testprep site to have added to your grade.  THIS is not mandatory.  It is just an opportunity to help sagging grades.  I would like for you to take 2 Information and Literacy- 20 question section quizzes and 2 literary comprehension- 20 question section quizzes.  YOU MUST HAVE THEM COMPLETE BY MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2009.

Website:  www.usatestprep.com

User name:  dodgenmsga

Password:  newton10

Homework for April 2, 2009 AND FRIDAY'S CLASSWORK

HOMEWORK AND FRIDAY'S WORK Third and fourth period:  P. 84-85 Fifth, Sixth and Seventh period:  p. 89-90 FRIDAY IN CLASS WE WILL BE COMPLETING PP. 87-88 AND 91-92   TRIPLES with EMMA

March 31st

Today in class we finished a CRCT practice.  We also started on WAG workbook pp 98-104. 

March 30

Information about the USA Test Prep: www.usatestprep.com User name:  dodgenmsga Password:  newton10 Take the medium test Today we finished our verbal and Diary of Anne Frank test.  We also took a practice CRCT test. TRIPLES with EMMA