Round vs. Flat

What is a round character?

What is a flat character?

Riots

In what way are the riots in Baltimore relating to A Long Way Gone?

QUIZ

Quiz on chapters 10 & 11.

Click on this link:

 

https://b.socrative.com/login/student/#joinRoom 

 

 *THE QUIZ WILL ASK YOU TO TYPE IN A ROOM NUMBER.  DO NOT TYPE IN B225. 

 

 TYPE IN THIS NUMBER:

201032

 

When the quiz is over, you'll get a message that says this: You've completed the current activity.
Waiting for teacher. 

 

CLICK OUT :)

 

 

music

We have established that music is a theme in the novel so far.  What else is a theme?

Video

What is the importance of UNICEF?  Foreshadow why it may be important.

Chapter 6

Chapter six ends with a quote:

"That was the last time I saw my brother, Junior."


Foreshadow what happened to Junior.

ALWG

If you were to meet someone who went through a childhood experience like Ishmael did (child soldier or equal), how would you expect them to be as an adult?  What personality traits may they have? 

Yesterday's article

On the back of yesterday's video notes (about the Sierra Leone war) there is an article about child soldiers.  Please read that article, and reply to this with two facts that you have learned.  

Were not here?  Need another copy?  They are on the special little stool.

Also.....take a look at the pictures below:

 

Mogbwemo, the town where Ishmael grew up before the war.

 

 This is guava, a fruit that Ishmael talks about throughout the novel.


 
This is referred to as a verandah, or a porch

50 proverbs

Look through these....choose your favorite....copy & paste it and explain the meaning.

http://www.phrasemix.com/collections/the-50-most-important-english-proverbs

Child Soldiers

http://www.unicef.org/sowc96/2csoldrs.htm

Read all of this information. Pick up a paper from the stool & fill it out according to what information you've read.  You have until 8:05.

prom

When you think about a school dance, what are you most excited for?

MLA

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/653/02/

Click here & wait :)

ironic

Where do you see dramatic irony in this play so far?  Explain in detail.

Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiumS2UZtvM



 What type of a child is he?  How do his parents treat him?  Analyze this guy.


***If you were not here yesterday, read from line 1130 to line 1330 in Oedipus Rex.  Answer up until comprehension question number 16. 

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Oedipus as your friend

If Oedipus was your friend today, describe what he would be like :)