Week 3: Three Blogs are Required

If you choose to hand write your entries, turn them in on Friday or earlier if you are leaving for a vacation.

Done!

Frogger Bloggers--
You are done with required blogging.  Instead, spend your time on your culminating essay.  The essay is in place of this week's blogs and an end-of-unit assessment.  Remember that it is one of three writing grades for marking period 3 and will really help if you give a stellar effort.  I have samples, if you need to see one.
Flying out over the pond,
Queen Bee

(5/3) Optional Blog

Chapter(s) #11-14

Response Required: Cover all parts of the question.

• Create an Animoto video (at animoto.com) that reflects the realizations and life changes that Lily encounters in the last few chapters of the book.
• Include pictures, text, and a relevant song.
• This will count as an extra blog if you wish to complete it.  

NOTE: Paste the url address of your Animoto video on the comment page.

When It's All Over

(3/27) Sitting Vigil

Prompt:
After May commits suicide, August announces that they'll be sitting vigil.


Response Requirement:
-Discuss how different cultures and religions observe rituals regarding death and burial. Why are they important?
-What do they do to the beehives? Why do they do this?

Class Thursday "And the Oscar Goes To..."

Watch each of the Animoto videos below.  

• Listen to the music.  
• Read the message.  
• Ask yourself the rhetorical questions.  
• Which one moves you the most?  
• Which is the most inspiring?

Movie #1
Movie #2
Movie #3
Movie #4
Movie #5
Movie #6

You have one blue chip and one white chip to cast your vote.  Follow the directions on your Beehive worksheet.
  

(3/27) Oh, Susanna!

Chapter(s) #10

Prompt:
Stephen Foster wrote the original lyrics in 1847.
I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee
I'm going to Louisiana,
My true love for to see

It rained all night
The day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot,
I froze to death
Susanna, don't you cry

Oh, Susanna,
Oh don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee

I had a dream the other night
When everything was still
I thought I saw Susanna
A-coming down the hill

The buckwheat cake
Was in her mouth
The tear was
In her eye
Says I, I'm coming from the south
Susanna, don't you cry

Oh, Susanna,
Oh don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee

I came from Salem City
with my washpan on my knee
I'm going to California,
the gold dust for to see.
It rained all night the day I left,
the weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death,
Oh, brothers don't you cry.
Oh, Susannah, Oh, don't you cry for me
I'm going to California with my washpan on my knee.
I soon shall be in Frisco
and there I'll look around.
And when I see the gold lumps there,
I'll pick them off the ground.
I'll scrape the mountains clean, my boys,
I'll drain the rivers dry.
A pocketful of rocks bring home,
So, brothers don't you cry.

Response Required: Cover all parts.

• Choose two stanzas  (poetry/musical paragraphs) to rewrite about BEES.  Pick a character.  Pick two.  Whatever you do, stick with the rhythm and flow of the song's original lyrics.  You can also listen to the song online in case you don't know it.   (When you hear it, you'll smack yourself because you do actually know it.)

(3/27) MANDATORY Vocabulary

Compose a short story (1-2 paragraphs) using 14 of your vocabulary words.  You may use first person or third person, whichever suits your story and purpose.

You must choose one story line:

1.     Explain what T. Ray has been doing since Lily left

2.     Explain Zach’s background, childhood, or life goals.

3.     Describe a childhood experience that May, June, August, and April shared.

presumptuous, imbecile, carouse, jagged, smirk, brazen, beseeching, pious, blaspheme, iridescent, consternation, corrugated, flounce, meander, naïve, bona fide, bristle, revelation, righteous, eclectic, hoax, outlandish, deliverance, solace, consolation, incessantly, fidget, scraggly, magnitude, cunning

(3/27) Acrostics

Chapter(s) #8

Prompt:
In Chapter 8, Lily shares an acrostic that she wrote for T.Ray:
D- Despicable
A- Angry
D- Dud of a father
D- Disappointment
Y- Yoke around my neck


Response Required: Cover all parts of the question.

• Create an acrostic for two different characters.  Choose any that inspire you, no matter how large their role in the book is. 

(3/27) My Name is Month!

Prompt:
On page 137, Lily decides if she could have picked a month to be named for, she'd have selected October and gives her reasons.


Response Requirement:

• If you could pick a month to be named after, what would you choose and why? How would you spend your special month?

This must be a strong example of persuasive writing. It does not have to be a five-paragraph essay per say, but it must use the good habits of persuasive writing--hook, transitions, reasons backed up by examples, anecdotes, and topic sentences for each paragraph.

(3/27) Memorable Quotes

Chapter(s) #

Prompt:
I personally love the quote found on page 170: Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get as still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top.  The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long."

Response Required: Cover all parts of the question.

• Find a quote you love.  Type it for us to see.
• Explain why it helps you make text-to-text or text-to-self connections.