Below is a link to the video we watched in class on the Beat Generation.
http://www.gvsmedia.com/vidfeeder_view.php?id=32e1BKjtung&keyword=Beat-Generation
Beat Generation Video
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
4th Quarter Extra Credit
4th Quarter Extra Credit – Mr. Guay
Following the news
As an extra credit option for the 4th quarter, complete the criteria below:
1. Cut out a front-page article in the newspaper and paste it into a notebook. Highlight the most important information in the article. Underneath the article or on the next page, write a response to the article that both summarizes the article and has your thoughts and reactions to it.
2. Now, follow this article that was first pasted. It probably won’t be on the front page anymore, so you may have to search online or throughout a newspaper. Find 4 articles that relate to the original article. These should be from dates after the original article, but may be from earlier. Cut and paste the article into the notebook. Highlight the most important information, then summarize the article and write your thoughts and reactions to it.
Total: 5 articles, cut and pasted into notebook with summarizing and thoughts written below or next to it.
DUE: June 4th, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The Greatest Everest Simili Contest
Due: Friday 24th, 2009
Create a simile for the height of Mt. Everest (29,035ft).
Mt. Everest is as tall as _________________ ( fill in the blank).
Requirements:
Simili that can be cleary read from across the room.
Visual accompanies the simili that is either drawn or printed out (can be easily seen from across the room.
I suggest displaying your simili and visual on a posterboard or a larger sheet of paper.
I.E. Mt. Everest is as tall as 27.5 Empire State Buildings.
Create a simile for the height of Mt. Everest (29,035ft).
Mt. Everest is as tall as _________________ ( fill in the blank).
Requirements:
Simili that can be cleary read from across the room.
Visual accompanies the simili that is either drawn or printed out (can be easily seen from across the room.
I suggest displaying your simili and visual on a posterboard or a larger sheet of paper.
I.E. Mt. Everest is as tall as 27.5 Empire State Buildings.
04-21-09
Ambrosial (pg 61) - exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell
Euphoria (pg 61)- A feeling of great happiness or well-being.
Barren (pg 65) - destitute; bereft; lacking (of)
Why was Hall concerned about Tenzing, the Sherpa who fell in the crevasse 3,000 ft above base camp?
Tell the story of Kami, the young Sherpa who climbed the Lhotse Face.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Monday - April 20th, 2009
Vocabulary:
Abhorren:–adjective
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| causing re  pugnance; detestable; loathsome: an abhorrent deed.
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Moraine-noun
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| a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay |
Questions mentioned in class and written in notes:
1. What is significant about the seven summits discussed in this chapter?
2. Why would Krakauer be concerned over who the other clients in Rob Hall's group are? In other words, why would a climber be concerned over who he is climbing with? Be specific.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
04-17-2009 Friday Questions
In a section of your notes which will be submitted for a grade, put the heading Into Thin Air in the center and make sure to date all of your entries above the entry on the left. There will be questions on the blog which are to be answered either in class or out of class, based on how much reading is accomplished in class. Pay attention to these blog posts as they will be your update.
Chapter Two
After Sikhdar's discovery in 1852, how many lives were lost? How many expeditions were there? In what year was Everest first summited?
What two countries border Mt. Everest?
Who is Mallory? (pg 17)
What happened to Mallory and Irvine?
Who was the first person to summit Mt. Everest?
Why was Queen Elizabeth happy? Explain the significance.
Vocabulary:
1. accretion:
an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
2. plausible:
seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable
3. escarpments:
a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust.
Chapter Two
After Sikhdar's discovery in 1852, how many lives were lost? How many expeditions were there? In what year was Everest first summited?
What two countries border Mt. Everest?
Who is Mallory? (pg 17)
What happened to Mallory and Irvine?
Who was the first person to summit Mt. Everest?
Why was Queen Elizabeth happy? Explain the significance.
Vocabulary:
1. accretion:
an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
2. plausible:
seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable
3. escarpments:
a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust.
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