Good morning everyone.
It's frosty outside so stay inside and enjoy working from home.  Please be advised that the school's office has new hours during the school suspension; should you need to pick up or drop off material/supplies, please come during this time but call ahead to ensure staff will be here.

As discussed in class, I will not be collecting Journals during the school suspension.  However, you are responsible for maintaining your Reading Goal.

Please remember to put your name on your work.  

Please put your name on your work.

8ELA
-Reading-Please make sure you complete your 40 minutes to an hour of reading.  Today, be sure to send me an email summarizing titles/pages read.
-We're correcting "The Sniper" today.  Review your work and compare it to mine.

“The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty

This story takes place during the Irish Civil War.  It describes an encounter that could have happened any time between June 1922 and May 1923.  However, guerrilla warfare continued for many decades after that.  The civil war centred on the concept that Free Staters wanted Ireland to be an independent nation, separate from Great Britain and the Republicans wanted Ireland to continue to be part of Great Britain.

1.  The short story titled “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty is historical fiction.  I know this because it is about two snipers fighting each other in the city of Dublin during a time of war and this isn’t happening anymore.  (I would also accept realistic fiction because two people shooting at each other could happen in our modern times.)

2.  In the short story titled “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, there are two main characters.  They are both males and their names aren’t revealed but they are both on rooftops; one is a Free Stater and the other is a Republican.

3.  The short story titled “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty takes place in Dublin, Ireland on the rooftops near O’Connell Bridge.  It takes place at nighttime during the civil war.

4.  The short story titled “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty contains several conflicts.  One conflict is

- char v char – the Republican and Free Stater snipers are trying to shoot each other

OR

- char v self – the Republican, after shooting the Free State sniper, feels bad and throws his gun to the ground, gibbering, and cursing the war/himself/everybody.

5. (answers will vary-some possible answers follow)  The short story titled “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty has

- personification.  This can be seen in the line “the heavy guns roared”.  Roaring is a verb that living things do, like lions or angry people.  It’s useful to the story by making the guns roar, they seem ferocious and scary.

OR

- foreshadowing.  This can be seen in the lines “The flash might be seen in the darkness, and there were enemies watching.  He decided to take the risk.”  This makes me think that the Republican knew it was dangerous and that he shouldn’t smoke but he wanted to anyway.  It’s useful to the story because it makes me think that the enemies ARE watching and something bad is going to happen. 

OR

- personification.  This can be seen in the line “the dull panting of the motor”.  Panting is a verb that living things do like dogs or animals that have been running.  It’s useful to the story because this armored car is panting, like a beast, and that makes it scarier.

OR

-metaphor.  This can be seen in the line “the gray monster”.  The author is comparing the armored car to a monster, that is a dull gray.  It’s useful to the story because monsters are scary and the reader gets how the Republican is facing more danger.

6.  (answers will vary)  The short story titled “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty has

- a spooky mood to it.   Another way this mood is achieved is with the description of the setting; the author uses words like “twilight faded into flight”, “enveloped in darkness”, and “dim light of the moon”.  These visuals make me feel afraid.

OR

- a nervous, anxious mood to it.  This is achieved with constant danger being put in front of the main character; he is faced with a sniper, an armored car with gun turret, and he gets shot.  These events leave me worried for the Republican sniper.

7.  (answers will vary)  The short story titled “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty has the theme of

- war destroys families/relationships.  I think this way because the main character kills his brother, and he is very happy and proud of himself when he does it.  Without the war, he probably loved his brother and would never hurt him.

- war takes away our individuality.  I think this way because the soldiers are simply following orders, doing what “their side” wants without any consideration to who they are as individuals/people; instead, everyone is turned into a soldier.

-We're working on a new story today.  See my lesson below.

“Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez

http://mrquarrie.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/1/0/10102453/just_lather_thats_all.pdf

Today’s story is an interior monologue.  This is a story told entirely by one character and contains his or her innermost thoughts and emotions.  Our focus today is on how a character is developed and how suspense is created.  As you read, notice how the author uses the interior monologue to build suspense as the main character considers the possible consequences of his actions.

Be an active reader.  As you move through the paragraphs, Question (why does a character behave in that way), Visualize (create a picture in your head of what the author has described), and Predict (what do you think will happen next?). Stop every now and then, and use these strategies.

Words to understand before reading:  stropping (the act of sharpening a blade toa fine edge on a thick band of leather called a strop), regime (a word to describe a government, usually negative), nape (the back of the neck), stanched (prevented from flowing-usually refers to stopping the flow of blood from a wound)

-Read the story; questions will be assigned on Monday and answers from selected students will be collected on Tuesday.

8SS
- Roman Military questions are due today.  The following students need to send in their work today:  8M-Dara, JE, Iris, Maenign, Kristine, Gabrielle, Sesinna and 8B-Theodore, Alyssa, Eric, Aidan, Munachi, Sherah-Mae, Nevaeh

7SS
-We're correcting the UDHR today.  Review your work and compare it to mine.
1.  Human rights are the rights and freedoms we have simply because we are human.
2.  (answers will vary)
Cyrus the Great was part of creating human rights because he declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion.
OR
Mahatma Ghandi was part of creating human rights because even when faced with violence, he insisted and protested for human rights for all people, not just Europeans.
3.  World War II prompted the creation of the UDHR.  This is because the world had never before had such violence and such extreme denying of basic human rights that world leaders wanted to ensure it never happened again.
4.  a)  The UDHR is a list of 30 basic rights and freedoms.
b)  It was officially signed on December 10, 1948.
c)  Eleanor Roosevelt (wife of the American president) started the work of creating the UDHR.
d)  John Peters Humphrey (a Canadian law professor) wrote the first draft.
5.  The UDHR is founded on three principles:  that the rights are inalienable (no one can take them away from you--because you're human!), they are interdependent (they work together), and they are indivisible (you can't have some and not others--because they are interdependent).
6.  Since the UDHR is not a law, countries aren't FORCED to use them but countries use them as guidelines to create their own laws and guidelines for running their own countries.
7.  (answers will vary)
For this question, you should have told me the number and title of a right that you think is important.  Then you would have gone on to explain why you think that way.

For instance, I think # 26-The Right to Education is important because learning and understanding how things work will help me get a job and manage my world.  I learned how education affects the poverty cycle, so by having an education, I will eliminate poverty and I'll have money to pay my bills.