For your LIT Test on Friday for “Papa’s Parrot” and “Stolen Day”, you will have the option of choosing TWO out of the following three questions to answer (at least 5 sentences):
- PAPA’S PARROT: In what ways was Harry’s behavior irresponsible? Explain.
- STOLEN DAY: Should the narrator be punished for stealing a day? Why or why not?
- PAPA’S PARROT / STOLEN DAY: How would you state the theme, or main idea, that lies at the center of “Papa’s Parrot” and “Stolen Day?” Please give evidence from the stories.
REMINDER – Your LIT packets from Workbook p.167-168 / p.170-171 are due TOMORROW 9/27!
From LITERATURE – “Papa’s Parrot” and “Stolen Day”
Definitions can be found in Workbook p.167-168
- resumed
- flameproof
- inflammatory
- rheumatism
- solemn
- condemn
- column
- hymn
- autumn
- limn
TEST will be on FRIDAY 9/28 (10 points SPELLING / 10 points LIT)
- Write the word
- Match its definition
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LITERATURE TEST on “Papa’s Parrot” and “Stolen Day” (30 points LIT)
FRIDAY 9/28
- Multiple choice (20)
- Short answer (2 out of 3)
Here are some resources that will help you along as you begin to think about how to start your short story…
PLOT ELEMENTS
CHARACTERIZATION
SETTINGSTORY STARTERS
For a while I could not understand why my dad always insisted on having us pray the Rosary every night. It would be late in the evening after dinner when we were all sleepy – most especially my mom, who was so tired from work that she would often fall asleep in the middle of her “Hail Mary’s”. I knew he was the most religious member of our family because not only did he stay awake during the Rosary, he also prayed in his knees while everyone else lay like sardines on top of my parents’ queen-size bed (that was four of us kids, plus my mom).
It wasn’t until Thanksgiving weekend of 1995 that I realized the value of those daily Rosaries. My dad had fallen off the couch one evening as my mom was cooking dinner. He tried to play it off and say he was okay as I picked him up and walked him to the dinner table, but something about him made me concerned. My mother confirmed this fear when in the morning she told me that I had to drive my dad to the hospital because he had a stroke. He was having a hard time moving one side of his body and was overall very weak.
At seventeen years old, I had never been so scared in my life. The man who I looked up to since I was a little girl – the pillar of our family – started to deteriorate as the days went by. First it was his physical strength, then it was his mental alertness, and after some time he couldn’t wake up and talk to us anymore.
The one thing that got us through those next eight months before his death was the Rosary. The same wife and kids who would struggle through those fifteen minutes of prayer with my dad’s faithful leading now begged God with those same prayers for courage and strength. We stood around his hospital bed and prayed every night for a miracle. Maybe we didn’t get the miracle we had hoped for – for my father had gone to meet our Lord in his time – but each of us was transformed through the experience and realized that God would always be there in times of distress and sadness.
Life is busy and we cannot deny that, but to go through our days pulling together as family in prayer definitely helps us when things happen that we don’t expect. Prayer helps us to keep God first in our lives and to lift up both our joys and our sorrows. Just those few minutes we spend together each week (or every day, if possible) will open us up to the blessings and graces the Lord wants to pour into our hearts if we simply allow Him the chance…
- Mrs. Dyogi
KidsHealth from the health experts of Nemours
http://www.kidshealth.org/
With a Parents site, Kids site, and Teens site, KidsHealth is a user-friendly website anyone can learn from. The Parents site provides practical parenting information and news on the following topics: general health, infections, emotions & behavior, growth & development, nutrition & fitness, pregnancy & newborns, medical problems, positive parenting, first aid & safety, and doctors & hospitals. Important health news and the latest medical findings can be found via the “In the News” link. There are even articles in Spanish available!
The sites for Kids and Teens offer age-appropriate health information – literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources – all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens.
Greetings, Spartans Times Staff of 2007-08!
Welcome back for another awesome year of writing about, publishing, and celebrating the wonderful people and events here at St. Jerome!
Here are a few resources for you as you write and revise your articles for our Newspaper issues.
Remember, WORD CHOICE is key for capturing the attention of our readers. While all articles are to be meaty and full of facts, we also want them to be “colorful” and engaging.
Please visit these sites to get some ideas (cut and paste addresses for site location):
SYNONYMS FOR SAID
http://www.writingfix.com/wordlists/Synonyms_for_said.pdf
200 BREATHTAKING ADJECTIVES
http://writingfix.com/wordlists/List_of_adjectives.pdf
LIST OF PREPOSITIONS
http://writingfix.com/wordlists/List_of_prepositions.pdf
PAINTING WITH COLORFUL TRANSITIONS
http://writingfix.com/wordlists/List_of_transitions.pdf
Tribute in Memory of Sept. 11
http://www.heartlight.org/prayerforthenation/iprayforpeace.html
There is always reason to believe…always reason to hope…always reason to pray. No matter how devastating the events we may witness, God holds each one of us in the palm of His hand, granting us the courage to persevere through life’s losses. For He worked many miracles that day, as He continues to do every day. Some are smaller than others but they are, nonetheless, miracles…
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