Category: Grade 9

The Sea Devil Questions and Vocabulary

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Questions:

1. Why does the man fish by night? How does this lead to the conflict with the ray? What is significant about the fact that he does not fish for a living?

The man enjoyed fishing at night, because he liked it’s isolation and labor. If it were day he would have been more likely to see the Ray and would not have made the error. He doesn’t fish for a living because he doesn’t need it too, but it puts him in a different, better reality but he may not do it properly because he’s not a professional.

2. Identify 3 examples of foreshadowing.

There was foregone shadowing because at night he went fishing alone “as black as a witches cat” and had a noose tightly wrapped around his wrist holding the net. He saw the slimy reflection of black oily and that sardines had grown. He also went out wearing only swimming trunks and a pair of old “nothing else” tennis shoes.

3. Identify the following parts of the story’s plot: the complicating incident, a single crisis, the climax, the resolution and the ending (what kind?).

A man decides to go fishing at night, which was no surprise that it was a regular occurrence that he didn’t just have to like the fact that it was a typical trip until a creature got into his net. The incident occurs when he sees the swirls in the water and decides to throw his net into the swirls, it turns out to be a sea devil eating and dragging back into the deep water. The knot was too deep for him to escape. He touches the barnacles that cut his hand and leaves it in his hands with no more energy. The sea devil found a mullet and pursued it back into the shallow water that gave the man a chance to flee. The ending is a happy ending, as he managed to escape. The man decided never to go fishing by himself at night.

4. One of the conflicts is between the civilized and primitive world (define these two words first). What is the purpose of the references made to the plane, the causeway, and the man’s wife at home?

Civilized; well-mannered, primitive, creates art and does things for wanting not to be needed; not developed, and only does things for survival. The man needs to fish for food or protection but instead for fun because he likes all about it, the truth of the stress on his hand, the taste of the net saltwater. The references gave the man a purposes to keep fighting and keep going when he thought he had no more strength the plane showed him how far mankind had come and his wife showed him that human kind now can sit safely at home in the warmth not having to fight back on nature.

5. What does the man learn at the end of the story? Why does he release the mullet?

The man learns never to go fishing alone or at night, if something were to happen there would be no one to help, rescue or come and see him. He releases the mullet because he has seen what trapping and helplessness is like.

6. Find 3 examples of descriptive language- this will lead into a discussion of figurative language.

“good rough honest wood” (pg.41) 

“The skiff, flat-bottomed, was moored off the sea wall. ” (pg. 33)

“It veered wildly and turned back toward shallow water.” (pg. 39)

“He lifted his other hand and felt the hot blood start instantly, but he didn’t care.” (pg. 40-41)

 

Vocabulary:

Sullen-something that is depressed or gloomy
Weltering-to move In a turbulent fashion
Elemental-to embody the powers of nature
Sinewy-a person or animal that is muscular
Hoisted-raise something with a rope
Phosphorescence- light emitted by radiation
Cordage-cords or ropes
Exhilaration-feeling of excitement
Atavistic-relating or characterized
Centrifugal-moving away from center
Gauntly-thin and bony
Impending-about to happen
Tenaciously-
Respite-a short period of rest or relief
Equilibrium-a state where two things are balanced
Imminent -about to happen

A Mountain Journey- Questions & Vocabulary

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Questions: 

1. What was Dave Conroy doing out in the wilderness? 

He went somewhere where people lived, like a village or another culture to sell his fur.

2. At what point does the reader know the protagonist is in serious trouble and not likely to make it to MacMoran’s cabin?

We know that once he’s already sunk into the water, he’s not going to make it and he’s trying to dry off and light a match, but he can’t because he’s frozen fingers.

3. What three critical mistakes did Conroy make? What are some of the things he could have done to prevent himself from freezing?

He wasn’t supposed to have gone further than his gut told him (he wouldn’t have fallen into the water), after he fell into the water he was supposed to have started setting up his camp for the night so that he could dry up and warm up, but instead he kept going, drying more, instead of just shaking it off like nothing. He was also very overconfident and thought he could make it to the cabin.

4. Determine the elements of plot in this story: exposition, complicating incident, 3 crises, climax, and the denouement.

The show is the introduction, where we can find out who Dave is, what he is doing, when the story is going on etc. The complicated accident is when we find out that he is going down the hill for the first time (we find out later that he should have stayed and set up camp) because that is close to where the first incident happens, and the action begins. The 3 emergencies are: Dave falls into the cold, Dave refuses to believe he’s freezing so he continues with his quest and Dave attempts to light up a match but fails because his hands are frozen. The payoff is that Dave knows that he’s beginning to freeze but not doing anything about it, only holding going. The denouement is Dave relaxing and slowly freezing completely.

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.

The environment is on a new, snowy, treed mountain. The atmosphere changes the story entirely because if it wasn’t snowy Dave wouldn’t freeze and there wouldn’t be any ending and Dave would be good. The idea is that you shouldn’t force yourself to a point, beyond where your own boundaries are because they can have serious consequences.

6. Find one example of symbolic setting (concrete place that represents something abstract) and explain its meaning.

The snow in which Dave relaxes reflects calm, because that’s how he feels and it’s calming him even if it shouldn’t be.

7. Quote four images from the story that make effective comparisons (figurative language: simile, metaphor, and personification)

Metaphor: “The cold was an old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes” (p.91)

Personification: “The loud wind howling” (p.93)

Simile: “Curved and smooth and thin, like of a pen upon the snow” (p.93)

Imagery: “His breath rose white and yellow before him” (p.92)

 

Vocabulary:

  1. Eternal: Lasting or existing forever
  2. Immobility: the state of not moving; motionlessness.
  3. Opaque: not able to be seen through; not transparent.
  4. Reverberation: prolongation of a sound; resonance.
  5. Momentum: the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity.
  6. Cadaverous: resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.
  7. Congregated: gather into a crowd or mass.
  8. Inundation: an overwhelming abundance of people or things.
  9. Beggared: reduce (someone) to poverty.
  10. Filched: pilfer or steal (something, especially a thing of small value) in a casual way.

A Fresh Look at the Periodic Table

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DEFINE/DISCOVER:Try recreating the periodic table in a creative manner that makes sense. How is the periodic table being reorganized in our own way? How do we display any item information (charge, mass, etc.)? What are the current patterns on the periodic table? What groups can we put the elements in?

DREAM: Our visual representation of our Periodic Table simple and imaginative version. It will make the elements more appealing but still have all the detail. The recreation will be organised, colorful and neat.

DESIGN/DELIVER: My plan is to recreate the periodic table by having it from least to greatest in densities, and to have it as a one big connected square. We will also be coloring the solids, liquids and gases different colors.

DEBRIEF: In the end, everyone was happy with the finished product, because it was colorful, neat and contained detail and all of the criteria. For me it was very good, but we could have chose more things to change about it. Such as we could have added more depth and just done it by name too.

 

Gender Equality English 9

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My article about gender equality is https://globalnews.ca/news/6409280/earnings-gap-canada-men-women/

The article is about women earning less than men in Canada right after graduation. The article involves working men and women in Canada.

I chose this article because I feel that men and women should be treated equally in the working world.

This news article relates to the story we are reading – The Friday Everything Changed? – because the girls in the story were not allowed to get water from the railway as they were considered not physically strong or fit enough. This relates to real life because it is less common for women to be firefighters, construction workers and professional athletes. These careers require a lot of strength or endurance, which generally men believe women either do not have or are not as skilled at.  For example, as an athlete, women play sports that are less physical and difficult and there are less spectators.  Due to this, women get paid less if there are less spectators. If there are less spectators, the league and teams don’t make as much money, which means the players get paid less. For example, in men’s NBA basketball, Lebron James is getting paid $30 million in one year, whereas in the women’s NBA, Kayla McBride is getting paid $163,000 in one year.

The Friday Everything Changed questions

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Here are my answers for the Friday Everything Changed questions.

Comprehension

  1. There will be less of a chance for them to carry it and it represents power and freedom.
  2. They don’t let them participate in playing baseball. Alma’s cousin try’s talking to her and say that it’s not that fun and its cold.

Elements of Fiction

3. Seat mate Alma’s tells the She agrees with Alma and sticks with the other girls toward her. The other girls and she admire Ms. Ralston for all the beautiful clothes she has on. She thinks his cool how a long way the teacher hit the ball. It’s told from the perspective of the first person

4. The story takes place somewhere in Canada, in a one room school after the Person vs. person, the boys and the girls fight over who gets to carry the bucket of water. Person vs. Society, the girls try to show that girls can do whatever boys can do.

5. The protagonist is a girl in the school named Alma. We know because she is the one who first started it all by asking why the girls can’t carry the water bucket.

6. Now the girls get to carry the bucket of water and its equivalent Ms. Ralston showed the girls can do the same thing that boys can do. The author says you must stand up and fix it when something is wrong. It’s all about gender equality.

Communication Connections

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I interviewed Grant Shepard, he is a UBC Basketball player. Grant Shepard is 20 years old. He is 6’10 in height. His role on the team is he is a forward. I chose to interview him because I really like basketball, and I wanted to learn what it would like to play college basketball. Grant Shepard has faced a lot of obstacles on getting where he is now. I learned a lot from the interview, I learned that if i wanted to get to this level of basketball, I would need to work a lot harder than I am working. Like you need to be consistent with training and the lifestyle being a student athlete, you also really need to stick with it. If you are really interested and passionate about Basketball, then you need to put your best effort into it.

https://gothunderbirds.ca/sports/mens-basketball/roster/grant-shephard/7976

Digital Footprint

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  1. How might your digital footprint affect your future opportunities?

My digital footprint could affect getting a job later in life because if I apply to a job they could see the dirt that I may have said on twitter or Instagram. Also, it the people that are interviewing you could just simply search your name up on google and click on a twitter post and obviously what i said before they could see offensive or inappropriate that i posted. I would not want my digital footprint to be a negative thing because if it was a positive thing it will not affect my decision of whether i get to pursue my career.

 

 

 

2. Describe at least three strategies that you can use to keep your digital footprint appropriate and safe?

1: know what’s out there, you can’t effectively manage your digital footprint if you don’t know what it looks like. You should take the time and google yourself up and see what comes up, because you know that your future employers definitely will be. If you see most of the stuff positive great, but if you see stuff negative try and remove it. 2: Make sure that your private posts are private, make sure that any posts or comments that you wouldn’t want a future employer/ boss to see are locked down, always double check the settings. 3: Even if you delete something from the internet, you need to realize that its still stored in databases and achieves and its likely to be there forever. In many cases, even if you have deleted it, it can still be accessed. Think twice before you submit!

3. What information did you learn that you would pass on to other students?

That you need to be careful on what you comment on things and what you post on social media. Also no matter what you do online it’s important that you know what kind of trail your leaving, and what the possible effects can be. Also use privacy settings, don’t overshare use a password keeper, monitor linking accounts and understand that searches are social.

 

 

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