ESL III 2019-20 Assignments

This test covers chapter 1-9 in Night.

Please do not look at the book while taking this quiz

This week you will be reading chapters 7-9, the final three chapters of Night. While you read, please answer the following questions:
Chapter 7:
1. What do the prisoners do with the dead bodies?
2. What do the German workmen do?
3. How many people survived the transport?
Chapter 8:
1. Which disease does Elie's father have?
2. What do the prisoners do to Elie's father?
3. What happens to Elie's father?
Chapter 9:
1. Why were the prisoners being evacuated on April 5th?
2. What is the first thing the prisoners do once they are liberated?
3. What does Elie see in the mirror?

Please take this quiz without looking at the story or your questions that you answered this week.

This week we are reading Chapters 4-6 of Night. It is pages 47-97 (72-122 if you're going by the PDF numbers).
On a Google Doc, answer the following questions:
Chapter Four
1. Why does the dentist want to see Elie?
2. Who are Yossi and Tibi?
3. What did the soup taste like?
Chapter Five
1. To which unit is Elie transferred?
2. Why does Elie not fast?
3. What happened to Elie's foot?
Chapter Six
1. What are the prisoners doing in the beginning of the chapter?
2. Why does Elie's father wake him?
3. What do the prisoners eat to quench their thirst?

Over the next few weeks we will be reading Night, a memoir about the Holocaust. For this week, please read chapters 1-3 (pages 3-46) from the text I posted on our class' stream. On a Google Doc, answer these questions:
1. What does Elie want to study?
2. How do people treat Moishe the Beadle when he returns?
3. What happens to Elie and his family at the end of chapter one?
4. How many people are aboard each train car?
5. What does Madame Schacter keep yelling?
6. What do the Jews see and smell upon their arrival?
7. Why do Elie and his father lie about their ages?
8. What do the SS do to dehumanize the prisoners?
9. What happens at the end of chapter 3?

Watch the embedded video to understand what a resolution is. Then, write the resolution for your short story.

For this week of short story writing, you will write the falling action for your story. Please watch the attached youtube video to get an idea of what falling action is, then write one to two paragraphs for the falling action for your story. If you have questions, please either log into zoom Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, or schedule time to conference with me over the phone.

This week you will write the rising action of your short story. Start by watching the attached youtube clip that gives information on what rising action is, then write one for your short story. It should be 2 paragraphs long.

Over the next four weeks you will be writing a short story about a hero. The story should be fictional. This week you will write your story's exposition. Watch the attached youtube clip to understand what the exposition is, then submit yours. It should be about one or two paragraphs. This is due Wednesday.

For this week's assignment, we are focusing on heroism in the civil rights movement. Please watch the documentary from YouTube, then read the article about Rosa Parks. As you read the article on Rosa Parks, please create and complete an inference chart on a Google doc with at least five inferences from the article. If you need help setting up your inference chart, I will go over this on Zoom today and tomorrow. If you cannot log into Zoom, please respond to my daily email and I will do my best to help you through email.

Review your interview and the videos you watched last week. Then, write a 2-3 paragraph reaction essay about the events that took place on 9/11 and what you learned about it from the interview you did.

Watch the videos about 9/11 survivors and write a one paragraph reaction about their experience. Then, interview someone who was alive during 9/11 and post a recording of the interview to this assignment. If you have questions about how to record and post the interview, I will make myself available thru zoom and Google hangouts throughout the week.

You can interview a family member, neighbor, teacher, or anyone else you can speak to and record while practicing social distancing.

For this week, you need to do the following assignments:
1. Watch the interviews attached to this lesson and complete the survey on this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZPXB586
2. Research and write a 10 slide presentation on an everyday hero of your choice. Your presentation must include media (Pictures/videos) and adjectives describing the character traits of the hero. You must do this on Google Slides.

Begin your rough draft for your response. To literature and submit it here. It must be five paragraphs and include:
A summary of the story
3 ways you related to it

Due Friday 03/13

Why do so many cultures tell legends about heroes like King Arthur? Complete this assignment in two parts.
Part One:
Plan your writing. Create a table and list at least two examples from The Sword in the Stone and Was There a Real King Arthur that might answer this question.
Part Two:
What is your opinion? Write an opinion statement (5-10 sentences) that answers the question. Use examples from both texts to support your opinion.

Submit your answers here

Answer the following questions while reading The Sword in the Stone:
2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Answer the inference questions in an inference chart in Google Docs.

Complete the assignment on a google doc or print it and hand it in

your homework for tonight is attached to this document. Either answer it on a google doc or print and write on it.

On a Google Doc, answer the following questions:
1. Which performer do you relate to the most? Why?
2. Who do you think gave the best performance? Why?
3. If you wrote a slam poem, what would it be about?
4. What do you think matters more in slam poetry - the poem itself or how it is presented?
5. What do you think influences teens to try slam poetry?
6. If you could ask a question to the teens who performed in Louder than a Bomb, what would it be?

Write a 3 paragraph reflective essay about what we watched so far in louder than a bomb. Can you relate to any of these teens? Why or why not? Who specifically? If you were to write slam poetry, what would you write about?

Respond to this writing prompt with a four paragraph essay: What is creativity? Why is it important in our everyday lives? Write a short essay that gives our ideas about creativity. Include three examples of how people express themselves in creative ways.

Complete the attached assignment

Answer the questions using Creativity at Work as a guide.

Since I am absent this Monday for an appointment, I am posting this class assignment. You can complete it on Monday or when you are out of school. It is due by 11/11/19 at 11:59pm.

For your assignment, write a three paragraph research report about a teen arts program of your choice. It can be local or from somewhere else in the world. Please write about what kind of art it focuses on (music, painting, writing, drawing, etc), how teens work in the program, how it helps the community, and what benefits the participants get from it.

This is a 30 point project grade.

Write your opinion statement here. Be sure to include the text evidence you wrote in your paragraph.

For up to 10 points extra credit, write and submit a biography of author Langston Hughes. Include information on his early life (where/when he was born, his family, his upbringing), books/poems published, and his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. The points will be added to your most recent test score.

Write your responses to the book questions here.