It snowed.

Honors:

We review Tuesday.  Glass Castle test #1 Wed/Thurs this week.  Vocab moves to next week.  Glass Castle test #2 will either be Monday or Tuesday next week.  Final Exam Readings will come out Dec. 7.  Wordwright 2 will be Monday and Tuesday Dec. 10-11 (the reading selection is long and in depth)

ELA 10
Memoir excerpts start Tuesday.  Vocab 6 will still be this week.

Vocabulary List 6

1.  equivocate
2.  fortuitous
3.  impeccable
4.  liaison
5.  predisposed
6.  propensity
7.  reprehensible
8.  sham
9.  solace
10.  solicitous

Test will be last one of semester, and will be the week after Thanksgiving break.

Honors Glass Castle test over first two sections of the book (pg. 126) will most likely be Tuesday of that week.  Remember, there are easy to find audio book and pdf versions of it.

Also, if you lost a clear retainer I found one on the floor in my room earlier this week, Wednesday I believe.

Advisory Link for 11/14

Honors:

Jeannette and Rose Mary Walls interview to give you some context for the people you are meeting in "The Glass Castle."


ELA2: Today those who did not finish their test will have a chance to finish in class.

The Glass Castle introductory guiding questions and things to look for

1. Define “checking out, Rex Walls style” and why it resonates so deeply with Jeanette in illustrating her father’s personality.

2. Identify and explain one anecdote from the first section of reading that illustrates Rose Mary’s pride at being able to remain strong in the face of adversity. Be specific.

3. Contrast the literal quality that either the Joshua tree or the Stars as Christmas Presents represented to Jeannette as a child compared to the metaphorical attributes they come to hold to her as an adult looking back. How did she see it THEN vs. how she sees it NOW?

4. Give a literal description (what it is) as well as a symbolic definition(what it represents) of either the Glass Castle or the Prospector and what they represent to JW and her family.

5. JW makes multiple strong references to fire. Using the images and descriptions of her life so far, what reasonable inferences can we make about her fascination with fire? (Use 1 specific reference)

-the glass castle as a metaphor about the Walls family life
-the personalities of the characters individually and as a group and how they interact
-the END OF EACH CHAPTER typically contains a paragraph or at least a sentence that conveys some type of realization or message about life (their individual lives, their life as a family, and/or life in general)
-comparisons that Jeannette makes between her experiences and those of others

-the prospector, the literal glass castle, the stars "given" as presents, the family's moves, the joshua tree, Rose Mary's art