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The Sea Devil – Questions and Vocabulary
Questions and Vocabulary
Question one: He likes to fish at night because its peaceful, he couldn’t see anything and didn’t know that the thing he was catching was not a small fish. He thinks fishing is good like what it used to be, not to commercialized.
Question two: When they sad his net was wrapped around the net you knew something bad would or was going to happen. When he was fishing at night you knew something bad was going to happen.
Question three: Human world and nature, it shows that when he thought of his life and the plan, is just another day but the primitive ray and moment he had been through wasn’t noticed.
Question Four: He learnt about what fish feel and why catching them is wrong, he let them go.
Question Five:
1.“With a sound of a pistol shot”
2. “he heard a strange noise, it was himself, sobbing”.
3. “His brain responded
Vocabulary
1. Bad tempered
2. Soaked in blood
3. Relating to an element
4. Lean and muscular
5. Taken or pulled up by something
6. Glowing
7. A ship rigging of ropes
8. Exited
9. Something not literal – figurative
10. Moving away from a center
11. Lean and haggard because of suffering
12. Delay or prevent
13. With a firm grip of something
14. A short period of rest or relief
15. Something equal or balanced
16. About to happen
A Mountain Journey – Questions and Vocabulary
A Mountain Journey
Questions:
1. What was Dave Conroy doing out in the wilderness? ↓
Conroy was trying to get to the MacMoran’s cabin because he need to sleep somewhere indoors so he wouldn’t freeze.
2. At what point does the reader know the protagonist is in serious trouble and not likely to
make it to MacMoran’s cabin? ↓
When he falls, he is freezing and his feet and hands are wet. His skis got frozen and it was impossible for him to put them back on.
3 What three critical mistakes did Conroy make? What are some of the things he could
have done to prevent himself from freezing? ↓
Putting his pack down witch meant he didn’t have any resources. When his skis froze, preventing him from being able to continue skiing. Not stopping under the tree and trying to get to the cabin.
4. Determine the elements of plot in this story: exposition, complicating incident, 3 crises,
climax, and the denouement. ↓
When he was hiking, When he dropped his skis and when he was waiting for MacMoran’s cabin, when he died.
5. Describe the setting – how does the setting affect the plot and the theme of the story?
What is the theme – write a theme statement for this story. ↓
February,Winter, Canada. Dave Conroy is in the forest and its hard on the body and the brain when you are cold.
6. Find one example of symbolic setting and explain its meaning. ↓
I think his skis represent people who support him and when they froze the people in his life stopped supporting him.
7. Quote four images from the story that make effective comparisons. ↓
- “Stiff, branch-less trees, like a parade of skeletons climbing up the mountainside.”
- “He felt no sensations in them at all and his feet might have been pieces of wood strapped within his ski boots.”
- “His skis had sunk a foot in the new snow, white and soft as flour”
- “his shadow became a burden, like something he pulled behind him in the snow.
Vocabulary:
- Eternal – lasting or existing forever; without end or beginning.
- Immobility – The state of not moving; motionlessness.
- Opaque – Not able to be seen through; not transparent.
- Reverberation – A continuing effect; a repercussion.
- Momentum – The quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity.
- Cadaverous – Resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.
- Congregates – Gather into a crowd or mass.
- Inundation – An overwhelming abundance of people or things.
- Beggared – Reduce (someone) to poverty.
- Filched – Pilfer or steal in a casual way, (something, especially a thing of small value)
Gender Equality
Gender Equality
Link to the web site ⇓
For the last six months, Cuso International volunteer Tania Guilbert has been running a volunteer program for the Manuela Ramos Movement, a feminist organization promoting gender equality and working to advance women’s rights in Peru. Her mandate is to create and manage a volunteer program designed to encourage young women to step forward, reach into their creativity and make sure they are heard.
Born to a Canadian father and Peruvian mother, Tania grew up in the province of Quebec, Canada. Driven by a desire to learn more about her roots, she completed a six-month work placement in Peru as part of her Social Work studies. That is where she not only rediscovered aspects of her heritage but, also, met her future husband. After five years in Montreal, they decided to return and live in Peru with their son.
These years spent in Peru fuelled both her aspiration to become involved in a feminist organization and her passion for this particular struggle. When Cuso International offered her this assignment at the very heart of the Manuela Ramos Movement, she knew it was made for her.
Although there have been several advances made in the areas of women’s and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights, Tania is well aware of the danger of those gains becoming eroded. A law protecting LGBT communities against violence has been suppressed; a campaign against comprehensive sexual education in schools has been launched… all in all, the pressures applied by certain groups are now showing a negative impact.
“It’s a somewhat dangerous time for us: a time of fear for us as women, as individuals and as an organization because such a loss of ground can happen very easily – hence the importance of getting young people on board and informed about these issues.”
For several weeks, Tania has organized weekly workshops on different topics for young Peruvian women aged 20 to 30. These workshops function as opportunities for both sharing and discussion. According to Tania, it is this environment of communication and exchange that the girls most appreciate. Discussion groups, such as these, are rare in Lima.
And which aspect of her volunteer placement is her favourite? Her learning curve. Each week she designs workshops and activities, and researches different topics and concepts. It is a side of her work that not only enriches her professionally but, also, takes her into a deeper understanding of what it is to be a feminist.
“It hasn’t been that long since I began defining myself as a feminist, or that feminism has been this present in my life. However, I really do feel it and I also feel I have something to bring to the table. It brings value to me as a person and makes me feel I have accomplished something.”
Tania hopes to continue contributing to societal change: “I want people to be freer in their choices and in the way they express those choices; and I want women to feel safe on the streets.” For her, being a feminist includes fighting to change attitudes and raising the awareness.
This article is about gender equality and women’s rights in Peru. It talks about an international volunteer Tania Guilbert run’s a gender equality volunteer group to help women in Peru. I chose this article because it really shows how much people care and how much time there willing to commit to help other women. This article shows that if you really care about something and you are patient you can change things that you don’t like. We read; “The Friday Everything Changed”, in the story they talked about the girls not being able to do things the boys do and this article talks about how someone fights for women’s rights in Peru. In the story the teacher lets the girls do thing that only boy could do before and that’s is what this article and these people are doing, trying to help women be able to have rights and power as well.
COL – Science – Fresh Look At The Periodic Table
Fresh Look At The Periodic Table
In your group, DEFINE and DISCOVER:
Restate the problem you are trying to solve in your own words.
Develop some questions to research before you start to brainstorm.
Restate/Define: Create a new periodic table of elements, Represent the table in a different way that will be more efficient.
- What will changing the periodic table do to history and scientists?
- Was the periodic table designed in a specific way for a reason?
- Did Dimitri Mendeleev chose this shape for a specific reason?
2. In your group, DREAM:
How could you arrange it differently based on its chemical and physical properties?
Our question; What can we do to make the periodic table more efficient?
Our idea is a spiral We think getting rid of empty spaces in the table will result in essayer access. Efficiency is very important to us and what we want the periodic table to do and look like for example, we are changing the shape. The shape in general is not very efficient, we would like to change the colors so they are easier to remember. Colors – Red for the metals, Blue for the non metals, and Purple/Magenta for the metalloids.
3. With your partner, DESIGN:
What is your plan? We what to make the element into a spiral , witch will grow by atomic number.
Make it happen, Create your new Periodic Table; The spiral will expand by the atomic number making it easier to find the element you’re looking for. We will colour the element according to their type; Red for the metals – ‘W’ is a metal, Blue for the non metals – ‘P’ is a non metal, and Purple/Magenta for the metalloids – ‘B’ is a metalloid.
4. Individually, DELIVER:
Write an explanation of your Periodic Table:
Our table is a spiral that grows by the elements atomic number, it’s colour coated so the elements are easier to find. We chose a spiral because there is no empty spaces and all the elements are in the same spot, in our experience it’s easier to memorize the table this way.
5. Individually, DEBRIEF:
How could you have improved your plan? Add this debrief under the explanation of your
new Periodic Table; Our group was not super prepared we had to restart and our plan was not super strong. Personally i didn’t like the design of the project but i think it turned out well and its more efficient in general.