HS Lit Homework from January 16

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HAPPY SNOW DAY!

(Jan. 16, 2024)

After you have played in the snow,  please flip through this SLIDE SHOW and fill in this NOTE PAGE. This is the classwork we are missing.

In class on January 23, I will check that chapters 1-5, your grammar sentences, and this note page are completed. 

Syllabus

Full text of book online

For Homework

1. Fill in chapters 4-5 of your Vocabulary Cloze Worksheet for CoB using your CoB Dictionary.

2. Read City of Beasts, chapters 4-5.

3. Answer the Questions for CoB chapters 4-5.

Chapter 4

  1. Who are the other members of the IG team?
  2. Describe Manaus.
  3. Who is Dr. Omayra Torres?
  4. Why is the trip up the Rio Negro “a true exercise in patience”?
  5. Why does Allende begin to call Alex “the American”?
  6. How did people in this area send and receive personal messages?
  7. What is the fauna along the river?
  8. What was Alex’s most serious problem on the boat? Why?
  9. What animal brushed up against Alex on his swim?
  10. What were the visible and secret activities of SMdiL?
  11. Why are none of the houses of SMdiL more than 15 years old?
Chapter 5
  1. What does the author mean when she says that “the indigenous peoples were very spiritual”?
  2. Describe Wlimai, the shaman.
  3. What is Rahakanariwa?
  4. What does the shaman predict?
  5. What is El dorado?

4. No grammar this week.

5. Journal entry: Title this entry "Description of Myself" and write the date on the top of your page. Write a description of yourself that is as thorough as the one of Kate on pages 39-40 of our book. Write at least five sentences. End your journal entry with a Bible verse that is special to you in some way. Write one sentence after the Bible verse to tell me why you chose this verse.

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