The Bully Vocabulary List Chapters 9-12

The Bully Vocabulary List Chapters 5-8

The Bully Vocabulary List Chapters 3-4

The Bully Vocabulary List Chapters 1-2

The 7th grade class of 2014-2015

Here you will find a variety of things you may need from time to time to remind you of specific details of particular assignments.


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"Three Skeleton Key" Vocabulary List

 foreshadowing     allusion     sickle     innumerable     phalanx     diminution     incessantly     fetid

besiegers     impaled     writhing     vengeful     foretell     derelict     candlepower     gallery

monotonous     phosphorescent     hordes     receding     fathom     edible     derisive     barge     fumigate

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"The Bully" Vocabulary List 1-4a

wavering     

abandoned     graffiti     dreaded     shards     glumly     mockery     retaliate     radiant    monologue     menacing     sulked     lush     bellowed     awe     furnished     burly

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Weekly Social Studies

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First Writing: I am, I am not

The Outsiders Chapters, Questions and Projects

Some of you may need to catch up or just want to review text from time to time at home on your phone of other web-enabled device.  Below are the links to the chapters of The Outsiders. Enjoy!
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Discussion Guide pages 11-14, Questions #1-6
1. Cherry and Marcia let Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit take them home. What does this fact show
    about their attitude toward "Greasers?"
    Why does it cause trouble?
2. Why did Ponyboy come to believe that the Greasers and Socs are really very much the same?
      How does Cherry's view differ from Ponyboy's?
3. How does Ponyboy feel when Cherry tells him that she could never let herself be seen with him?
4. What similarities do you see between Ponyboy and Johnny in this section?
5. Why do you think Darry hit Ponyboy?
     How did Ponyboy react?  Why?
6. Why did Johnny say that he likes it better when his father hits him?
     Do you think Johnny's statement makes sense?  Explain.
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WHOA!! I didn't see that one coming.

Chapter Four
Discussion Guide
Page 16 - Foreshadowing

Questions from pages 16-18 (Each response should be at least three sentences long.)
1. What conflict arises in Chapter 4 for Johnny and Ponyboy? Why is it important to them not to show
    how afraid they are when the Socs show up at the park?
2. Why do you think Johnny actually Killed Bob? How was the fight at the park foreshadowed?
3. Why is it so hard for Ponyboy to believe that Dally could love anyone or anything?
4. Why do think Ponyboy told Dally not to tell his brothers where he was going?  Do you think this
    was a good decision? Why or why not?
5. What did Ponyboy mean when he said there are worse things than being a greaser?

Predictions
1. How will Ponyboy and Johnny hide? What might they learn about themselves while they are hiding?
2. Do you think the boys will get caught?  What will happen to them if they do?

Lit-related Writing -- Pick three of five to finish.

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Extra credit for those who type and email acrostics that meet specifications. Due by 11/26/13

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Chapters 3-5 Vocabulary
3. gallantly, sophisticated, aloofness, impersonally, ornery, elite, dumbfounded, bitterly, winced, passionately, cunning, resignedly, slouched

4. bluff, reeling, smoldering, desperately, unceasingly, quavered, bootlegging, lanky, apprehensive,

savage, defiance, contemptuously, self-preservation,ruefully, bewildering, sheepish, premonition

5. groggy, reluctantly, trademark, imploringly, sourly, drowsily, subsides, eluded, fiend, vital, 

darted, wistfully

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Full Text of Chapter Five


Discussion Guide

Questions
1. What did Ponyboy think about when he woke up in the church alone?
2. Why did Johnny buy Ponyboy a copy of Gone with the Wind? 
    What did this action show about Johnny?  
3. Describe Ponyboy's reaction to Johnny's plan to cut and bleach his hair? 
    Why do you think he felt so strongly about it?
4. Why did Johnny compare Dally to the Southern gentlemen the boys read about in Gone 
    with the Wind? 
    How did Ponyboy feel about Dally?
5. What happened to Johnny and Ponyboy's friendship during the time they spent in hiding?
    What common qualities did they find they shared?
6. What news did Dally bring the boys?
    How do you think the letter from Soda made Ponyboy feel? 

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Full text of Chapter Six

Discussion Guide

Questions
1. Why did Cherry want to help the Greasers, even though she was a Soc?
2. Why do you think Johnny decided to go back to the city so he and Ponyboy could turn 
     themselves in?
3. Why did Johnny insist on knowing whether his parents had asked about him? According
     to Ponyboy, how are Dally and Johnny different?
4. Why did Dally beg Johnny not to turn himself in?  What did Ponyboy realize from Dally's 
     words?
5. Why did Ponyboy and Johnny run into the burning church to rescue the children inside?
6. What did Ponyboy realize about Darry when he saw him at the hospital?


Predictions and Lit-related Writing
Predictions - Answer all three thoroughly.
Writing - Choose one of these three to amaze your audience.

Class of 2014

Class of 2014,

So, the first term is now over. You have reaped what you have sown.

What should you do the same way?

What do you need to change yesterday?

What really matters?

What are you here on Earth to do?

Think about these questions and act on the answers you get.

As usual, I will be staying after most days this week.  Don't miss out on a quiet and warm place to get done what you know needs doing. With high schools making their choices over the next couple of months, you absolutely want to show them you are pushing yourself. So many of you have made so much improvement in the past two months. Keep at it. 
You still have plenty of time to grow, but only if you push yourself will you become a positive force for change. Get it!

G

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Below are some of the materials and resources you can refer to and use if you need.


This mean and ugly old guy wants to see you be your best.
Taking responsibility for YOU is the most important thing you will do.
Be true to yourself and remember what your personal goals are.
Don't let other people get in your way of a meaningful life.
Live every day in a way that you won't have to ever look back with regrets at opportunities you missed.

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What's in the News weekly assignment

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Your weekly diary (journal) assignment specifics are below.

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Citing sources in research

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Here is the link to the Elements of Literature textbook http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/Holt-EOL2/default.htm

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Literary Terms to know by the end of 7th grade.

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Independent Nightly Reading Log 



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"I Am From ... " Possible Topics

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"I am ___ " Template

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Possible Topics for “Persuasive A”

1. Students should be able to eat outside.

2. Walking in lines is for kids.

3. We should raise funds to get all students laptops.

4. We should go on more trips.

5. A different cell phone policy should be in place.

6. Students should have some say in their schedules.

7. Graduation should __________.

8. Is there some other thing you want to see changed here?

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Voices of Teens --  Assignment #3

1. I used to be _____ , but now I’m _____ .

2. Doing the right thing instead of giving in to negative peer pressure

3. Doing the wrong thing after giving in to negative peer pressure

4. What is the value of writing about your life like we are doing?

5. Teenagers smoking this and that and drinking alcohol – big deal or no big deal?

6. My name-brand clothes – I can’t live without them, or can I?

7. Free Choice – What’s on your mind that I didn’t include on this list? Get it down.

Voices of Teens --  Assignment #4

1. Being afraid of something in your life

2. Are you part of the solution or part of the problem?

3. A time when something great happened that was unexpected

4. Do you ever have the feeling you are not accepted or understood by your by friends,

family or peers?

5. Do you have any negative thoughts you can’t seem to shake?

6. Have you ever had to keep an important secret?

Voices of Teens --  Assignment #5

1. I wear a mask to cover up how I really feel.

2. Tell the life’s story of somebody you love.

3. Peer pressure – how it affects you or the people around you

4. Not feeling like you look perfect

5. Having trouble with schoolwork … or … being really good at school

6. Free Choice – What is on your mind?

Voices of Teens --  Assignment #6

1. A relationship that did not turn out the way you wanted it

2. What advice would you give to a younger sibling about how to deal with being a teen?

3. “Silence will get you nowhere in life.” Agree or disagree?

4. The best advice you ever got from somebody

5. Who has inspired you? Why?

6. Adults should listen to teenagers more, because we really know what is going on.

7. Free choice: non-fiction

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Intergenerational Interview

Here is the assignment sheet.  Let's see if Longfellow was right?

Please have your interview subject call me at 215.456.0422 or email me at mgalbraith@philasd.org if he or she has any questions or concerns about this project.

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Our Interview Questions

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Here are a few ideas to help you shape your introduction of your interview subject and your concluding thoughts.