Tuesday, 5/31

Ricochet River Study Guide

Read Ricochet River to page 219 for next time. To finish on time, each week you will need to read 10 pages Monday, 30 Tue and Tue-Thur, 50 Thur-Monday every week. A little more than 10 pages per day average. At that rate you will finish by June 6th, which is important because then you will understand the book when we discuss it.
FINAL EXAM OVER RICOCHET RIVER JUNE 14

The Summer Day, by Mary Oliver
Copy Dream Deferred, by Langston Hughes.
Link to the poem: Dream Deferred
Draw a  picture for each of the images in the poem and paraphrase each image

The New York publisher of this book surprised the author by saying what he liked best about Ricochet River was “the Oregonness” of it.What could a New Yorker have meant by that?

Jesse has big money coming. The government compensates native people for lost lands and fishing sites. Ricochet River is fiction, but that part is true. Do readers see any problem with money for place?

What’s this about “the Link factor?” Assume “Link” is not an accidental name.What is Link a link to? Might it be something you could discuss with regard to the W-T scale?





Wade decides that Jesse’s stories in English class don’t really apply. Why don't the apply? How is Jesse like Coyote? (pages 119, 120; 19)









"Correct is wrong, I saw, as the focus drained from Jesse's eyes"(67). What would be the right explanation for Jesse?

Jesse and the First Fish. Discuss the respect for fish as fellow creatures.
*Discuss Lorna’s theory about school forcing people into boxes.Is that true in schools today? If so, what are your boxes called? How hard is it to bust free of your box in high school?

Do people in your life play Trying-To-Say?

Ricochet River Teacher's Guide

Thursday 5/26

Read Ricochet River to page 142 for next time. To finish on time, each week you will need to read 10 pages Monday, 30 Tue and Tue-Thur, 50 Thur-Monday every week. A little more than 10 pages per day average. At that rate you will finish by June 6th, which is important because then you will understand the book when we discuss it.
FINAL EXAM OVER RICOCHET RIVER JUNE 14

VOCABULARY
Ricochet River vocabulary  Quizlet deck 
Know all of the words for your vocab quiz on Thursday.
William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow and This is Just to SayRicochet River Study Guide (created by Robin Cody, the author) The story opens in the summer of 1960. Some of the racial references toward an Indian here might not be tolerated today. Or would they just be more subtle? Explain, citing an example of current racism.
Racism in Disney movies

The New York publisher of this book surprised the author by saying what he liked best about Ricochet River was “the Oregonness” of it.What could a New Yorker have meant by that?

Jesse has big money coming. The government compensates native people for lost lands and fishing sites. Ricochet River is fiction, but that part is true. Do readers see any problem with money for place?

What’s this about “the Link factor?” Assume “Link” is not an accidental name.What is Link a link to? Might it be something you could discuss with regard to the W-T scale?

 "Correct is wrong, I saw, as the focus drained from Jesse's eyes"(67). What would be the right explanation for Jesse?

Jesse and the First Fish. Discuss the respect for fish as fellow creatures.

Wade decides that Jesse’s stories in English class don’t really apply. But if they don’t apply in class, how do they apply? How is Jesse like Coyote?

*Discuss Lorna’s theory about school forcing people into boxes.Is that true in schools today? If so, what are your boxes called? How hard is it to bust free of your box in high school?

Do people in your life play Trying-To-Say?

Read Ricochet River to page 113 for next time. To finish on time, each week you will need to read 10 pages Monday, 30 Tue and Tue-Thur, 50 Thur-Monday every week. A little more than 10 pages per day average. At that rate you will finish by June 6th, which is important because then you will understand the book when we discuss it.
FINAL EXAM OVER RICOCHET RIVER JUNE 14

VOCABULARY
Ricochet River vocabulary  Quizlet deck 1
Know all of the words for your vocab quiz on Thursday.

Ricochet River Study Guide (created by Robin Cody, the author) The story opens in the summer of 1960. Some of the racial references toward an Indian here might not be tolerated today. Or would they just be more subtle? Explain, citing an example of current racism.

The New York publisher of this book surprised the author by saying what he liked best about Ricochet River was “the Oregonness” of it.What could a New Yorker have meant by that?

Jesse has big money coming. The government compensates native people for lost lands and fishing sites. Ricochet River is fiction, but that part is true. Do readers see any problem with money for place?

What’s this about “the Link factor?” Assume “Link” is not an accidental name.What is Link a link to? Might it be something you could discuss with regard to the W-T scale?

 "Correct is wrong, I saw, as the focus drained from Jesse's eyes"(67). What would be the right explanation for Jesse?

Jesse and the First Fish. Discuss the respect for fish as fellow creatures.

Wade decides that Jesse’s stories in English class don’t really apply. But if they don’t apply in class, how do they apply? How is Jesse like Coyote?

*Discuss Lorna’s theory about school forcing people into boxes.Is that true in schools today? If so, what are your boxes called? How hard is it to bust free of your box in high school?

Do people in your life play Trying-To-Say?

Read Ricochet River to page 92 for next time. To finish on time, each week you will need to read 10 pages Monday, 30 Tue and Tue-Thur, 50 Thur-Monday every week. A little more than 10 pages per day average. At that rate you will finish by June 6th, which is important because then you will understand the book when we discuss it.
FINAL EXAM OVER RICOCHET RIVER JUNE 14

VOCABULARY
Ricochet River vocabulary  Quizlet deck 1
Know all of the words for your vocab quiz on Thursday.

Tuesday, May 17

Today:
1. Vocabulary study
2. Finish Bean Trees study guides and turn in today. Bring them next time if you are not finished
3. Watch video on Celilo Falls
4. Read Ricochet River to page 82 for next time.

VOCABULARY
547 SAT words
Words for Thursday's vocab quiz:
covetous, pensive, tether, ulterior, wanton, superfluous, accrue, lacerate, prodigal, virile
These words start about 40 words down on the list. "Why didn't we start with word #1, Mr. Isom?" Because they are too hard and not as important to know as these ones :)
1. WRITE SENTENCES FOR EACH OF THE TEN WORDS.
Divide into groups of 2-3. Be sure that your group has at least one smart phone. Find example sentences for each of the words and copy them on your paper. Each person has to write even though there are three of you in the group. Turn it in.
2. Watch this video on Celilo Falls
The Last Salmon Feast
3.Quiet time for the rest of the period to finish study guides and read Ricochet River.
Hand in Bean Trees study guides for chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 15, 16, 17   at the end of the period  30 pts
4. Read Ricochet River to page 82 for next time.

Take Bean Trees test.
Prior to test, have two students name every character they can think of in the novel.
TEST (on table in folder)

Ricochet River
Reading time for the remainder of the period. When students finish the test, they should bring it up to the table and then start reading Ricochet River.

Tue

In Just by e.e.cummings
I thank you God for this amazing by e.e. cummings
A Passing Glimpse by Robert Frost

The Ghost House by Robert Frost
Bereft by Robert Frost
Similarities?

Journal: What do you think each of these poems is saying? Write 1/3 page
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
A Passing Glimpse by Robert Frost
In Just by e.e.cummings
HOMEWORK:
Learn all 20 of the following literary terms for your test on Thursday
Literary terms (you're already supposed to know most of them)

Thursday, May 5

The Pasture      Choral rendition
   Why is this poem listed at the first of the Robert Frost Complete Poems anthology?
   What is revealed about Frost's writing in the poem?
Read 922 in The American Experience (AKA "Big Red Book" in this classroom)
The Road Not Taken
Stopping By Woods on a Winter's Eve
Nothing Gold Can Stay
 http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/I_sit_beside_the_fire_and_think
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XInL2u0DP88 (Robert Frost presidential reading)

Quote of the day:
"Beauty is ephemeral--because if it was there all the time, it wouldn't be beautiful"
       --Taylor Leveck

End of the year countdown.
You only have to see my face: 16   more times!

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.^[3]

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.