HS Lit Homework from January 30

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Syllabus

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1. Fill in chapters 9-11 of your Vocabulary Cloze Worksheet for CoB using your CoB Dictionary.

2. Read City of Beasts, chapters 9-11.

3. Answer the Questions for CoB chapters 9-11.

Chapter 9

  1. What was Alex’s first lesson about climbing mountains?
  2. What happened to the caboclos that disappeared during the night?
  3. What happened to Leblanc after they discovered the body of the caboclos?
  4. Who did Alex and Nadia see at the end of chapter 9?
Chapter 10
  1. Why did the area’s natives never accumulate any goods?
  2. What did Alex’s grandfather mean when he said “music is the universal language” ?
  3. What did Alex do that made friends with the natives?
  4. What did Nadia see while Alex and the natives were sleeping?
  5. How did the People of the Mist achieve invisibility?
Chapter 11
  1. Describe the waterfall.
  2. Why did Alex descend the cliff again on the rope? What did Alex do?
  3. What do the People of the Mist call their land?
  4. Describe Tapirawa-teri.
  5. What was the one punishment among the People of the Mist and why were other rewards or punishment not needed?
  6. What did the bachelors have in their hut?
  7. Explain the unokaimu.

4. Grammar: Work on essay, due Feb. 13 (Use the outline given in class. I will check your outline in class on Feb. 6.)

5. Journal entry: Title this entry "ACCUMULATING GOODS" and write the date on the top of your page. The natives that the explorers meet don't have many possessions. Alex himself lost almost everything he had at the beginning of the book (both from destroying his room and getting robbed). If you had to live more simply, what things would you get rid of? What can you not live without? Write at least five sentences. End your journal entry with a Bible verse that is about this subject. Write one sentence after the Bible verse to tell me why you chose this verse.


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