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Research - Careers
This Week's Agendas -
Find necessary materials under "Current Materials" below.
Monday 12/16 - Thursday 12/119 - Career Identification
- Use link to Google Slide Presentation or PDF of Google Slide Presentation below to follow our work.
- Go to Xello by clicking on the Careers tile on the West Symbaloo.
- Download materials below.
- 5 Lists of Your Favorite Ten "Excellent" Choices from Xello - No Filter, Minimum Salary $50,000, Minimum Salary, 2 year or technical training, 4 year college, High or Increasing Demand
- Notes on your personality type
- List of best careers for your personality type
- List of best careers for your Holland code
Current Materials
Materials for Past Units
Past Weeks' Agendas
Monday 12/2 - Friday 12/6
Test on Plot Analysis Tuesday 11/26
Monday 11/18
First Page, First Column, Paragraph 2 – “There was a town down there, . . . .” – The narrating kidnapper believes he
is smarter than the people in the town.
First Page, First Column, Paragraph 4 – “We selected for our victim . . . .” –The narrating kidnapper says they think
they can get a $2,000 ransom for a red-headed kid whose father, he says, is a “mortgage fancier,” but he
immediately says, “But wait till I tell you.” So the reader knows that is not what will happen.
First Page, Second Column Column, Paragraph 1 – “One evening after sundown, . . . .” – The kid they plan to kidnap
was throwing rocks at a kitten.
Homework - Test on Plot Analysis, Tuesday 11/26 - Completed Plot Analysis notes can be found posted under "Current Materials" below.
- We are developing a definition of suspense by observing examples of the use of suspense.
- We are watching scenes of suspense from classic films: Jaws, The Birds, Jurassic Park, Wait Until Dark, Rear Window.
- We are building a list of techniques used to build suspense in these scenes, corroborating techniques by making sure they are in more than one scene.
- We will write a definition of suspense using this list of techniques.
- We will then use the definition we have developed to examine how suspense is built in the classic short story by W. W. Jacobs, "The Monkey's Paw."
- On Thursday and Friday, students will be given a graphic organizer to plan their writing.
- Below students can find the list of techniques we have identified so far and the clips we have watched. Student can review the clips to test their ability to identify the techniques. There is also a chart that lists the examples of each technique we have seen in the clips so far.
- Students should read "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs and identify at least two techniques of suspense strongly used in the story.
- Students should use the graphic organizer provided ( and available below to download) to plan their paragraph on the use of the technique of suspense in "The Monkey's Paw."
- Tomorrow they will write a paragraph expressing their understanding of the use of techniques in the story.
- Goal - Paragraph ready to be turned in on Monday 12/9.
Test on Plot Analysis Tuesday 11/26
- Format - short answer
- Will be given a short story to read Monday night
- Will need to state definitions of plot elements, conflict, and theme and then apply those definition to the story
Monday 11/18
- Discussion of plans and events between now and Thanksgiving break
- 3rd graded discussion analyzing genre of passage
- Passage done - Passage B - Legend
- Analysis of exposition of "The Ransom of Red Chief"
- Hint of main characters - "Bill Driscoll and myself"
- Hint of conflict - "It looked like a good thing; but wait till I tell you." The "it" seems to be a "kidnapping."
- Setting - "We were down South, in Alabama . . . ."
- Format - short answer
- Will be given a short story to read Monday night
- Will need to state definitions of plot elements, conflict, and theme and then apply those definition to the story
- 4th graded discussion analyzing genre of passage
- Passage done - Passage A - Myth
- Analysis of rising action of "The Ransom of Red Chief" –
- Each paragraph should contain one step of rising action. A step of rising action should increase the readers’ understanding of the conflict.
First Page, First Column, Paragraph 2 – “There was a town down there, . . . .” – The narrating kidnapper believes he
is smarter than the people in the town.
First Page, First Column, Paragraph 4 – “We selected for our victim . . . .” –The narrating kidnapper says they think
they can get a $2,000 ransom for a red-headed kid whose father, he says, is a “mortgage fancier,” but he
immediately says, “But wait till I tell you.” So the reader knows that is not what will happen.
First Page, Second Column Column, Paragraph 1 – “One evening after sundown, . . . .” – The kid they plan to kidnap
was throwing rocks at a kitten.
Homework - Test on Plot Analysis, Tuesday 11/26 - Completed Plot Analysis notes can be found posted under "Current Materials" below.
- Format - short answer
- Will be given a short story to read Monday night
- Will need to state definitions of plot elements, conflict, and theme and then apply those definition to the story