Agenda 9/14/12

0Movie Vocabulary Activity0Set-up your turnitin account0Group Pre-British History research0Report Findings to the Class

0Reminder: Your “This I Believe” essay is due to turnitin.com on Sunday, Sept. 16th by 11:59pm. No printed copy is needed.

Here is an excerpt from a movie. See if you can guess the movie, describe the scene, and define

the boldface vocabulary words.

W: …Does your depravity know no bounds?H: No…It’s the most apt prediction Flora’s made in years and precisely the reason you can’t find a suitable ring.W: Do you have my money?H: You are terrified of a life without the thrill of the macabre.

Note: Because these characters names would give away the title of the movie, the first initial of their last names has been used.

Answer: Sherlock Holmes, Warner Bros. 2009

0Depravity: immorality. Synonyms: corruption, indecency, obscenity

0Apt: appropriate, likely or able

0Macabre: deathly and horrifying

Agenda 9/18/12

0Movie Vocabulary #20 Journal0Anglo-Saxon Guided Notes

Here is an excerpt from a movie. See if you can guess the movie, describe the scene, and define

the boldface vocabulary words.

0 Jim: I should be able to talk to girls. I’m articulate. You know I got a 720 on my SAT verbal (Jim demonstrates his vocabulary.) Copious. Verisimilitude. Xenophobic.

0 (The audience hears the sound of a girl screaming upstairs. The screamer comes running through the kitchen with a vomit stain on her shirt. She bolts out the door and into the night. A moment passes.)

0 Jim: Regurgitation.

Movie: American Pie, Universal Studios, 1999

0Articulate- means well spoken-able to express ideas clearly.

0Copious- means plentiful. Antonym: sparse.0Verisimilutude- means the appearance of being real.

Veri- comes from the Latin word veritas and means truth, and similitude means similarity.

0Xenophobic-means afraid of foreigners. In fact, xeno-means foreigners, and phobic means afraid of.

0Regurgitation-means vomiting.

Journal-British

0As we are going to look at the birth of British culture today, let’s examine what you think of when something is said to be “British.”

0 In your journal, write what someone who is British look s like, sounds like, and acts like? If we were going to London, what kinds of things would you see or hear, what kinds of food would you eat, or what kinds of things would you expect to do?

Agenda 9/20/12

0 Movie Vocabulary #3 (Quiz on Monday 9/24)0 Journal-Heroes0 Background Information on Beowulf0 Read Beowulf from the textbooks p. 410 After reading up to “The Battle with Grendel,” in groups

identify and record 3 example of each of the following:0 Alliteration0 Assonance0 Kennings0 Anglo-Saxon Values

Here is an excerpt from a movie. See if you can guess the movie, describe the scene, and define

the boldface vocabulary words.

0Fashion Industry Syndicate: We need an empty vessel…a shallow, dumb, vacuous moron…

0Mugatu: But who? I mean where in all of God’s green goodness am I going to find someone that beef-headed?

0Hint: “I’m not an ambi-turner…I can’t turn left.”

Movie: Zoolander, Paramount Pictures, 2001

0Vessel-means container, as in blood vessel

0Vacuous-means mindless or empty, like a vacuum.

Journal-Heroes

0As we begin reading Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon epic with an epic hero, we will examine the qualities that defined the word hero to the Anglo-Saxons.

0 In your journal, write about a specific person whom you would consider to be a hero. Explain what qualities/actions this person has done or does to fit your personal definition of a hero.

Agenda 9/26/12

0Vocabulary Quiz 10Read Beowulf “Battle with Grendel and Battle with

Grendel’s Mother” pg. 48-550Answer comprehension/analysis questions in groups0Book Talk-Mrs. Fredericks

Agenda 9/28/12

0Vocabulary Set 40 Journal0Finish Questions on Beowulf/Turn in0SSR 30 minutes

Here is an excerpt from a movie. See if you can guess the movie, describe the scene, and define

the boldface vocabulary words.B: People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy,

and…as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.A: What symbol?B: Something elemental, something terrifying.A: I assume that as you’re taking on the underworld, this symbol

is a persona to protect those you care about from reprisals.B: You are thinking about Rachel?A: Actually, sir, I was thinking of myself.B: Have you told anyone I’m coming back?A: I just couldn’t figure the legal ramifications of bringing you

back from the dead.

Movie: Batman Begins, Warner Bros., 2005Scene: Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) and Alfred (Michael Caine) are traveling back to Gotham while Bruce plots how best to fight injustice.

0Apathy means lack of interest. A-means without and path-refers to feeling, so apathy means without feeling-lack of interest.

0 Incorruptible means indestructible. Synonyms: enduring, everlasting, imperishable, indissoluble.

0Elemental means representing the power of nature. It can also mean essential or basic, as in the elemental components of water.

0Reprisals means acts of revenge or payback.0Ramifications means consequences, usually negative.

Journal

0As you might have noticed, Beowulf likes to boast about himself. This was accepted behavior for the Anglo-Saxon warrior. In your journal answer :

0How is boasting or bragging perceived in our modern society? Is it a good thing or bad thing or both? Why? Give examples.