Week of 11 – 15 May Subject Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Grade 8 +-15 min +-15 min +-15 min +-15 min +-15 min English +-1hr 15 Watch this video or read Look at the logo of the Read the explanation of Look at the “spelling Look at the writing min the poem entitled “The well-known restaurant. what a verb is. bee” game. prompt and write about Opposites Game” an act of heroism – big What is the name of Write a list of eight Come up with as or small – that you have Where is the poem the company verbs for what you many words as you witnessed. set? represented by this have been doing can, using the letters Explain what an logo? since school closed. 19 pts = nice Extension (optional): antonym is and give Considering recent Write the past, 30 pts = great read the article that goes an example of your events in the world, present and future 37 pts = amazing with the image own. why do you think tense of each of the 52 pts = genius Write down a simile they temporarily eight verbs from the Remember to read from the third stanza changed their logo? above question. Extension (optional): something you enjoy of the poem. think of a seven-letter today!! What do you think Extension (optional): Extension (optional): word with no more than the message of the by changing the design of write a paragraph two vowels and use it to poem is? another well-known describing the first thing create your own spelling company’s logo, draw a you would do if bee – see if your Extension (optional): logo to reflect the recent everything were to family/friends can guess watch another spoken events in the world suddenly return to the pangram word poem “Accents” normal here (video) Remember to read Remember to read something you enjoy Remember to read something you enjoy Remember to read today!! something you enjoy today!! something you enjoy today!! today!! Monday The Opposites Game for Patricia Maisch This day my students and I play the Opposites Game with a line from Emily Dickinson. My life had stood a loaded gun, it goes and I write it on the board, pausing so they can call out the antonyms –
My Your Life Death Had stood ? Will sit A Many Loaded Empty Gun ?
Gun. For a moment, very much like the one between lightning and its sound, the children just stare at me, and then it comes, a flurry, a hail storm of answers –
Flower, says one. No, Book, says another. That's stupid, cries a third, the opposite of a gun is a pillow. Or maybe a hug, but not a book, no way is it a book. With this, the others gather their thoughts and suddenly it’s a shouting match. No one can agree, for every student there’s a final answer. It's a song, a prayer, I mean a promise, like a wedding ring, and later a baby. Or what’s that person who delivers babies?
A midwife? Yes, a midwife. No, that’s wrong. You're so wrong you’ll never be right again. It's a whisper, a star, it's saying I love you into your hand and then touching someone's ear. Are you crazy? Are you the president of Stupid-land? You should be, When's the election? It’s a teddy bear, a sword, a perfect, perfect peach. Go back to the first one, it's a flower, a white rose. When the bell rings, I reach for an eraser but a girl snatches it from my hand. Nothing's decided, she says, We’re not done here. I leave all the answers on the board. The next day some of them have stopped talking to each other, they’ve taken sides.
There's a Flower club. And a Kitten club. And two boys calling themselves The Snowballs. The rest have stuck with the original game, which was to try to write something like poetry.
It's a diamond, it's a dance, the opposite of a gun is a museum in France. It's the moon, it's a mirror, it's the sound of a bell and the hearer.
The arguing starts again, more shouting, and finally a new club. For the first time I dare to push them. Maybe all of you are right, I say.
Well, maybe. Maybe it's everything we said. Maybe it’s everything we didn't say. It's words and the spaces for words. They're looking at each other now. It's everything in this room and outside this room and down the street and in the sky.
It's everyone on campus and at the mall, and all the people waiting at the hospital. And at the post office. And, yeah, it's a flower, too. All the flowers. The whole garden. The opposite of a gun is wherever you point it.
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Week of 25 - 29 May Subject Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Grade 8 English +-15 min +-15 min +-15 min +-15 min +-15 min +-1hr15min Read the article “New Look at the Nandos Read the poem “Bird in Read the poem “Bird in Look at the writing species of snake named advertisement. the classroom” as well the classroom” as well prompt. If you were after Salazar Slytherin of as the definition of as the explanation of the creating an illustrated Potter series.” Which other fast alliteration word “contrast”. map, what place would food franchise is you choose to draw? What five reptiles the ad Find three examples Contrast the way Your neighbourhood? A have been discovered addressing? of alliteration in the the students favourite vacation spot? in the past year? Explain the first stanza. perceive the teacher A fantasy island? How can scientists tell humour in the ad Why do you think a and the way they Salazar’s pit viper by discussing the sound device (like perceive the bird. Write a paragraph about apart from other pit slogan “finger alliteration) would Examine the way the the reason you would vipers? licking good”. work well in a poem poem looks (the choose the place and Is the Salazar pit viper about a bird in the length of lines and what it tells about who the only animal name Extension classroom? stanzas). Why do you are. inspired by the Harry (optional): design a Write down the you think there is a Potter books? Quote poster to put up at metaphor in stanza difference between from the article as school with safety tips 2. the way the stanzas Extension (optional): part of your answer. for students for when about the teacher read the article that goes Extension (optional): we return Extension (optional): look and the way with the image and try using a character from your write a story based on the stanzas about actually sketching your favourite series, novel or Remember to read the poem, but from the the bird look? own map. movie, name an imaginary something you enjoy teacher’s perspective creature and describe its today!! Extension (optional): Remember to read characteristics Remember to read Write a list of things something you enjoy something you enjoy they don’t teach in today!! Remember to read something today!! school (but should) you enjoy today!! Remember to read something you enjoy today!! Monday New species of snake named after Salazar Slytherin of Potter series
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was likely inspired by snakes when naming the character of Salazar Slytherin. In the book, Slytherin helped create the Hogwarts school, which is divided into four houses. One of those houses is named after Slytherin. Now, scientists in India have named a new snake species after him. A species is a group of closely related organisms. The scientists named the new species Trimeresurus salazar, or Salazar's pit viper. Pit vipers are a type of venomous snake. The snake is the newest member of a group of snakes that includes at least 48 species of pit viper that live in Asia. Scientists found the snake in India's northern state of Arunachal Pradesh. A paper published in the April 2020 issue of Zoosystematics and Evolution talked about the new snake. In the past year, the scientists have discovered five new reptiles. These include Salazar's pit viper, three other snakes and a tortoise. Researchers say that pit vipers can be tough to tell apart because they look so much alike. However, Salazar's pit viper seems to be set apart from the rest by an orange-reddish stripe found on the sides of the heads of males. In the Harry Potter books, the character Salazar Slytherin was an infamous Parselmouth, or a wizard who can speak the language of snakes. The symbol of the Slytherin house is a snake. According to legend, Slytherin liked students who were cunning, ambitious and resourceful. Salazar's pit viper now joins a small club of animals that are named after characters or places in the Harry Potter books. For example, scientists have named several spider species after Aragog, a gargantuan spider that made an appearance in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." Scientists also named a dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia, which literally translates to "dragon king of Hogwarts." Adapted from: https://newsela.com/read/salazar-snake/id/2001008610/?search_id=d9e32f22-f257- 44fa-a6f7-9f682d91dc62 (accessed 10 May 2020)
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And then, on a sudden, a bird’s cool voice Punched out song. Crisp and spare On the startled air, Beak-beamed Or idly tossed 15 Each note gleamed Like a bead of frost.
A bird’s cool voice from a neighbour tree With five clear calls – mere grains of sound Rare and neat 20 Repeated twice … But they sprang the heat Like drops of ice.
Ears cocked, before the comment ran Fading and chuckling where a wattle stirred, 25 The students wondered how they could have heard Such dreary monotones from man, Such wisdom from a bird.
Wednesday Alliteration is a sound device used in poetry where a consonant sound is repeated at the beginning of a number of words e.g. She sold sea shells at the sea shore.
Thursday When you are asked to contrast two things, you need to point out the differences between the two things. For example, if you contrast Antarctica with the Arctic, you could say the Arctic is at the North Pole, while Antarctica is at the South Pole.
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