MS Lit Classwork & HW Nov 3/5

MS Lit Classwork November 7/9
  1. Grammar Starter 
  2. Quiz
  3. Check and discuss HW questions
(QUESTIONS FOR CLASS) What did Corrie and Betsie discover about the way they had split up the duties of the house? --They were backwards--Corrie hated housework and Betsie hated working in the shop.
How did Father usually set his watches/clocks?  --setting the Naval Observatory time in Amsterdam on his astronomical clock What changed about that as the years went on? --he started setting his clocks by the radio time
How did they put off dealing with the problems that would lead to WWII? --they told themselves it was just a German problem
(QUESTIONS FOR CLASS) How does Corrie get ration cards? p83-84
What was the warning system that ten Boom family used? p88
How was the hiding place in Corrie's room built? p89-90
What was kept in the hiding place? water, hard tack, vitamins
"They'll never find this one." p90

Read “For Yom Ha’Shoah.” Yom Ha’Shoah is Hebrew for “Day of Holocaust Remembrance.”
What is the poet trying to say? How does this poem make you feel?

Watch this video:
https://youtu.be/EIZfaE5r9ug

Hand out slips of paper.
We will be doing a Found Poem Activity. We will read different accounts of Jews who experienced internment camps during WWII. After reading the account through once, read it again and circle, black out around, or write down words or phrases to create a poem.

Share poems (if time) with class. 

Week 2

Homework from November 3/5, due November 10/12

  1. 1. Fill in and study the vocabulary using the The Hiding Place Dictionary. Be ready for a quiz on the vocab in class.

  2. 2. Read The Hiding Place chapters 7-9.


    Online Copy of The Hiding Place
  3. 3. Answer questions for Chapters 7-9 using complete sentences.

  4. 4. Grammar this week: Finish working on your Wisdom Essay.

  5. 5. Write your journal entry in your THP Journal Packet



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