Animal Farm link

Here is a link to the text for Animal Farm.  If you don’t like this one, just google “Animal Farm text” and there are plenty more.

http://msxnet.org/orwell/print/animal_farm.pdf

Cat Thursday

Happy STAR testing everyone, we’re almost done! Here’s a Cat Thursday post to get you through the week.

Propaganda

A peasant approached me with this most excellent propaganda he wrote and I thought it was worth sharing.

Russian for Goldfish

The King and Queen
are always so clean
but look at us peasants
so filthy and unpleasant
why can’t you see
we are suffering in pain and agony
we are all dying from disease and starvation
we don’t think we can stand another day in this plantation
just give us our rightful rations of food
no questions and no need to be rude
we have stood behind the Royal family for such a long time
now it is time for us peasants to end this crime
the revolution has just begun
but you can tell by the look on our faces
that it is going to be fun

Cat Friday video

Not all the animals in this video are cats, but MOST of them are, and I think that’s somehow significant…

EC Reminder

We are going to start reading Animal Farm on Monday!  Please remember that I will give you 10 extra credit points if you buy a copy of the book and bring it to class.

Wordy Wednesday #26

Hello everyone, it’s Wordy Wednesday and time for more strips from my favorite comic, “Calvin and Hobbes!”  Remember, you need to do two things with the vocabulary words:

1.  Write a definition OR a synonym for the word

2.  Use the word in a sentence.

Post this assignment on your blog or write it out and hand it in.

The word for this strip is DISCOLORED

The words for this strip are FORENSIC, MARVEL, and SHAMBLES

The word for this strip is GAMBIT

Wordy Wednesday #25

Hello everyone, it’s Wordy Wednesday and time for more strips from my favorite comic, “Calvin and Hobbes!”  Remember, you need to do two things with the vocabulary words:

1.  Write a definition OR a synonym for the word

2.  Use the word in a sentence.

Post this assignment on your blog or write it out and hand it in.

The words for this strip are SOLITARY, CRIMSON, DIABOLICAL, TOTALITARIAN, ADVERSARY, and VANQUISHED

Cat Thursday and an announcement about your EdCanvas project

In class today, we worked hard putting our google drive presentations into EdCanvas. You are free to keep working on this over break. I have reserved the computer lab for two days when we get back from spring break so we can finally record our voiceovers.

I realize this project has been somewhat of a bumpy ride; thanks for hanging in there, guys!

Wordy Wednesday #24

Hello everyone, it’s Wordy Wednesday and time for more strips from my favorite comic, “Calvin and Hobbes!”  Remember, you need to do two things with the vocabulary words:

1.  Write a definition OR a synonym for the word

2.  Use the word in a sentence.

Post this assignment on your blog or write it out and hand it in.

The word for this strip is PRODIGY

The words for this strip are CONCEIVABLE, DETONATES, and SMOLDERING

The word for this strip is ABSTRACT