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Lesson 28: Loquor Latin ELA: 6th grade Lightning Thief: Culminating Project Assignment Name is: LTCP Save As: (homeroom-assignment name-last,first) !For example: L2-LTCP-O’Meara, Katie Due Date: 4/1/15 Friday @ 3:00pm ! ! Lesson 28: Loquor Latin. Loquor or locutus means "speak." ! 1. loquacious 2. eloquent 3. colloquial 4. circumlocution 5. soliloquy !6. ventriloquism *not available to practice on vocabulary.com, though it is in their database. ! Monday: Testing Practice and Review! ! Testing Strategy Notes: You will get classwork points for this so take notes on all the !strategies presented!! 1. ! ! !_____________________________________________________________________! Tues/Wed/Thurs: SBAC ELA Testing! ! !With our remaining time- ! Culminating Activity: The Lightning Thief! ! The same story can be told in different styles and formats. For instance, compare this painting of the encounter between Perseus and Medusa with this cartoon. Individually, write a paragraph response that compares and contrasts the media you viewed. ! Student Compare/ContrastParagraph Response: ! Then consider how you would retell the story of Perseus Jackson. Pick a chapter or dramatic event from The Lightning Thief and rewrite it as a story (2 ppl), graphic novel (2-4 ppl), comic strip (2 ppl), or play (3-6 ppl). ! 1. Decide which elements of the story to focus on, 2. where and when the myth will be set, 3. whose perspective you’ll write from (maybe even the perspective of the antagonist), and 4. how your characters speak and think. ! The length of this assignment will vary depending on which format you choose. Therefore, consider the fact that if you select a potentially less time intensive activity, I will expect the quality to be that much better! We will present these projects to the group in class. ! Student Group Project: ______________________________________________________________ ! Friday ! 1. Group Presentation: Feedback: ! 2. Group Presentation: Feedback: ! ______________________________________________________________ ! Homework: Due with document to dropbox on 5/1 @ 3:00pm ! Writing Prompt: Pick a moment in The Lightning Thief when Perseus must overcome his own misgivings, poor judgment, or ignorance. Then, in an essay of 300-400 words, compare Perseus’s inner battles to the inner battles presented in one or more of the supplemental texts we read on StudySync.What mental preparation is needed to achieve a goal or win a fight? How can a character’s thoughts work against him or !her? ** I have provided a few of the texts for you below as options, but you can find them all of our old assignments on StudySync if there is another text you prefer. If you have difficulty accessing anything please let me know before Thursday night, so I can assist you. I am assigning light homework this week so you are not burned out for testing. However, since this is the only assignment you have, it is worth 20 points. Do not wait till the last minute, or do subpar work on this! ______________________________________________________________ ! ! The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by !David Grann From the Preface I pulled the map from my back pocket. It was wet and crumpled, the lines I had tr aced to highlight my route now faded. I stared at my markings, hoping that they might lead me out of the Amazon, rather than deeper into it. The letter Z was still visible in the center of the map. Yet it seemed less like a sig npost than like a taunt, another testament to my folly. I had always considered myself a disinterestedreporter who did not get involved personally in his stories. While others often seemed to succumbto their dreams and obsessions, I tried to be the invisible witness. And I had convinced myself th at that was why I had traveled more than ten thousand miles, from New York to L ondon to the Xingu River, one of the longest tributariesof the Amazon, why I had spent months poring over hundreds of pages of Victorian diaries and letters, and why I had left behind my wife and one-year- old son and taken out an extra insurance policy on my life. I told myself that I had come simply to record how generations of scientists and a dventurers became fatally obsessed with solving what has often been described as “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century”— the whereabouts of the lost City of Z. The ancient city, with its network of roads a nd bridges and temples, was believed to be hidden in the Amazon, the largest jun gle in the world. In an age of airplanes and satellites, the area remains one of the last blank spaces on the map. For hundreds of years, it has haunted geographe rs,archeologists, empire builders, treasure hunters, and philosophers. When Eur opeans first arrived in South America, around the turn of the sixteenth century, th ey were convinced that the jungle contained the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands died looking for it. In more recent times, many scientists have conclu ded that no complex civilization could have emerged in so hostile an environment , where the soil is agriculturally poor, mosquitoes carry lethaldiseases, and preda tors lurk in the forest canopy. The region has generally been regarded as a primevalwilderness, a place in whi ch there are, as Thomas Hobbes described the state of nature, “no Arts; no Lette rs; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent de ath.” The Amazon’s merciless conditions have fueled one of the most enduring th eories of human development: environmental determinism. According to this theo ry, even if some early humans eked out an existence in the harshest conditions o n the planet, they rarely advanced beyond a few primitive tribes. Society, in other words, is a captive of geography. And so if Z was found in such a seemingly unin habitable environment it would be more than a repository of golden treasure, mor e than an intellectual curiosity; it would, as one newspaper declared in 1925, “writ e a new chapter of human history.” For nearly a century, explorers have sacrificed everything, even their lives to find the City of Z. The search for the civilization, and for the countless men who vanis hed while looking for it, has eclipsed the Victorian quest novels of Arthur Conan Doyle and H. Rider Haggard— both of whom, as it happens, were drawn into the real- life hunt for Z. At times, I had to remind myself that everything in this story is true: a movie star really was abducted by Indians; there were cannibals, ruins, secret maps, and spies; explorers died from starvation, disease, attacks from wild anim als, and poisonous arrows; and at stake amid the adventure and death was the v ery understanding of the Americas before Christopher Columbus came ashore in the New World. Now, as I examined my creased map, none of that mattered. I looked up at the ta ngle of trees and creepers around me and at the biting flies and mosquitoes that l eft streaks of blood on my skin. I had lost my guide. I was out of food and water. Putting the map back in my pocket, I pressed forward, trying to find my way out, a s b r a n c h e s s n a p p e d i n m y f a c e . Then I saw something moving in the trees. “Who’s there?” I called. There was no reply. A figure flitted among the branches, and then another. They were coming c loser, and for the first time I asked myself, What the hell am I doing here? ! Bibliographic Citation: Grann, David. “Preface.” In The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. New York: Vintage, 2010, 3-5. !________________________________________________________________ Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat, by Winston Churchill ! On Friday evening last I received from His Majesty the mission to form a new ad ministration.It was the evident will of Parliament and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties. I have already completed the most important part of this task. A war cabinet has been formed of five members, representing, with the Labour, O pposition, and Liberals, the unity of the nation. It was necessary that this should b e done in one single day on account of the extreme urgency and rigor of events. Other key positions were filled yesterday. I am submitting a further list to the king tonight. I hope to complete the appointment of principal ministers during tomorro w. The appointment of other ministers usually takes a little longer. I trust when Parlia ment meets again this part of my task will be completed and that the administrati on will be complete in all respects. I considered it in the public interest to suggest to the Speaker that the House should be summoned today. At the end of today's proceedings, the adjournmentof the House will be proposed until May 21 with pr ovisionfor earlier meeting if need be. Business for that will be notified to MPs at t he earliest opportunity. I now invite the House by a resolution to record its approval of the steps taken an d declare its confidence in the new government. The resolution: "That this House welcomes the formation of a government representing the unite d and inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a vict orious conclusion." To form an administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself. But we are in the preliminary phase of one of the greatest battles in history.
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