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Final Exam Schedule

Monday, December 15, 2014
Period
First Period Final	8:10 - 9:40	90 min
Break	9:40 - 9:55	15 min
Second	10:00 - 10:42	42 min
Third	10:47 - 11:29	42 min
Fourth	11:34 - 12:16	42 min
Lunch	12:16 - 12:59	43 min
Fifth	1:04 - 1:46	42 min
Sixth	1:51 - 2:33	42 min
Seventh	2:38 - 3:20	42 min
Buses leave at 3:30

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday follow this schedule:

Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Period
Second	8:10 - 9:40	90 min
Break	9:40 - 10:10	30 min
Third	10:15 - 11:45	90 min
Buses leave at 11:55

Tuesday: Periods 2 & 3
Wednesday: Periods 4 & 5
Thursday: Periods 6 & 7
Friday: No School! Merry Christmas!!!!

Monday and Tuesday, December 8&9 ~Presentations are coming!

Good Morning!EQ1: Are your Parts 1, 2 & 3 Questions together in Google Drive?
EQ2: Have you decided or even started on your project yet?

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• West
• Bridgette

Discuss rubric and create your own (see Google Drive). Click here to view an example.

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Block Day, December 4 & 5 ~ And the final is in!

EQ: Which project option will you choose to do about the novel? Click here or look in Google Drive for your options.

*Project presentations will be due next week, starting on Tuesday. Due dates will be assigned on Monday.

100  MOUNTAINS ~ HW

• Finish the book and questions. Wahoo!
• WEST - Please place finished questions into Google Drive by Midnight on Sunday (Dec.7). 
• BRIDGETTE - Please place finished questions in Google D. by Midnight on Monday, (Dec. 8)

Wednesday, December 3 ~ What is Paradox?

ROOTS
*Quick review.

100 Mountains ~ New Lit Term: Paradox
*Please take notes and answer the question below on the last page of your Part 3 Questions.

PARADOX (also called oxymoron): Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level. Common paradoxes seem to reveal a deeper truth through their contradictions. G.K. Chesterton was a master of paradox.  He called it: “truth standing on its head to gain attention.”

•  "without laws, we can have no freedom."
• Shakespeare's Julius Caesar also makes use of a famous paradox: "Cowards die many times before their deaths" (2.2.32).
• “Less is more.”  It means that the most effective writing is clear and focused; everything extraneous is avoided. 
• “The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”
• Another example is Christ’s paradox: “For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it” (Lk. 9:24).
• About Darwinism, Chesterton commented: "It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything."

What details from the novel so far reveal some sort of paradox? How does Grande's use of situational paradox make the novel more interesting?

Reading: Pages 196-224 and Part 3 Questions #14-19.

ROOTS Review

100 MOUNTAINS

Part 3 Questions - Introductory Activities
       Agree/Disagree

1. Hiring a good coyote is the only means to safely cross the border without documents into the U.S. from Mexico.
2. It is easier to forgive others than to forgive yourself.
3. For the most part, people are good Samaritans who chose to help another before helping themselves.
4. Justice can only be served when the perpetrator has been punished.
5. The truth is always the strongest argument.

WHO SAID IT?
Adelina, Diana, Don Ernesto, Doña Matilde, Lupe, Juana

1. What do you know about pain? You don’t know what it’s like to be responsible for a child’s death. You don’t know what it’s like for me when night comes, when my body yearns for rest and my guilty conscience can’t let it sleep.
2. One day he’ll change. He’ll be like he used to be when we first met. I know he loves me. And I know one day he’ll change.
3. My husband is in El Otro Lado. Soon he will come back. He told me so. Soon we will be together.
4. He brought a white rosary made with heart-shaped beads.
5. You know exactly what I mean. I know who you are. You’ve been gone for years, and now you've come back to try to take my son away from me.
6. Love is hard to find. You must not let it go. Don’t waste your youth searching for a ghost.

HOMEWORK

• Read pages 166-195 and do questions 5-13. 

Monday, December 1~ Welcome Back!

ROOTS

• paleo - old
• pan - all
• pater, part - father

REVIEW/PREVIEW

       Review

• Papers returned (West only).
• We've read roughly 155 pages of 250 (need to read 100 pages this week)
• We've learned many prefixes and roots that will be on the final.
• We've learned about making grammatically correct sentences as well as confused words (to/two/too, their/they're/there, and who/whom) which will be on the final.

       Preview:

• We will finish the book this week and work on a project.
• Your final will consist of an average between your project grade and your final test.
• Your final test will have questions of word parts, grammar and comprehension questions about the book.

100 MOUNTAINS

• Work with friends around you to create a Dual Timeline. Make sure your timeline only includes what you know up until Don Elias's death. These two timelines should be included on the last page of your Part 2 Questions. Make sure your final document includes these timelines and is turned into Google Drive tonight.

HOMEWORK

• Part 3 Questions 1-4 (my pages 155-166). Don't worry about the intro activity questions, just do the reading questions.