Discussion Question # 15

Love is in the air people! Happy Valentines Day to all of you.

Here is the assignment this week: Shakespeare wrote many plays, but he is also famous for his sonnet's ( kind of poem). You will have two weeks to complete this assignment. You are going to memorize one of his most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18. It is a romantic poem that also gets you credit for a GRAND MASTER CHALLENGE question worth 10 points on the challenge board!! You willl recite the sonnet in class or on video if you don't want to do it in class. I can't wait to hear your wonderful and poetic voices! Here is the sonnet.

Progress...but in this case...perfection!

SONNET 18


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Discussion Question # 14

This week we began talking about how to compare and contrast. We used "The Witches and "The Twits" and talked about how they are similar, and how they are different. Just like last weeks assignment when you took an example from your book that showed cause and effect, now you are going to do the same with compare and contrast. I want you to compare and contrast two characters in your book and tell me three things that are similar about them and three things that are different.

Progress not perfection,

Mr. D

Discussion Question # 13

We have been working on cause and effect in class. Your assignment for this week is to come up with three examples of cause and effect that you found in the book you are currently reading. I want you to find the cause and effect, then combine them to make one sentence using a signal word.

example: I am currently reading The Witches by Roald Dahl. Here is a cause and effect from the book...Cause: Luke trained his mice outside of the hotel room. Effect: Luke is trapped behind the screen in the grand ballroom.. combined sentence. Luke trained his mice outside of the hotel room, CONSEQUENTLY he was trapped behind the screen in the grand ballroom.

progress not perfection,

Mr. Dickson

Discussion Question 12

Welcome back! We have been reading Roald Dahl's "The Witches" in class, and the story is really heating up! Your assignment this week is to tell me what you would do differently from the boy if a witch lived in your neighborhood. How would you spot her? What actions would you take to make sure that no witch ever captured you or anyone else in your neighborhood? I am curious to see how you plan to tackle this question, because I know many of you believe that you could handle a witch by yourself no problem. Consider everything you know about witches and try to come up with a clever plan of how to defeat them.

Progress not perfection,

Mr. D