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June 9, 2011: Create a gmail account. 13smithj@gmail.com). Please use
this email to contact
me if you have any questions (pstevens@fairview.iu5.org), or
call me at home at
814.756.4880.
June 9, 2011: Join our blog: http://pstevensfhs.blogspot.com/
July 8, 2011: Complete your reading and analysis of Speak
July 10, 2011: Submit to the blog at least three (3) discussion answers to
Speak questions. After all students have posted their answers, I
will approve them and you will be able to read your peers’
answers.
July 31, 2011: Post replies to two (2) other students’ original Speak
answers.
August 10, 2011: Complete reading the selections from Readings in World
Literature
August 10 or 18: Attend either of two book talks on Wednesday, August
10, 2011, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. or on Thursday, August
18, 2011, at 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Fairview High School
library. If you cannot attend, post six (6) answers and
four (4) replies for Speak.
Friday, September 9, 2011: Before 9/9/11, turn in the discussion and
replies file through Edline’s Homework Hand-in in Mrs.
Stevens’ (and your) Honors Communications 10 Edline
page. See me or call me if you need any directions for
this assignment.
1. The Myth Makers (Select one short story from the following)
“The Quest of the Golden Fleece”
“Baldur”
2. The Making of Heroes (Select one short story from the following)
Homer: “The Death of Hector, Book 22 of the Iliad”
Virgil: “The Fall of Troy” from Book 2 of the Aeneid
3. The World of Irony (Select one short story from the following)
“The Piece of String”
“The Train from Rhodesia”
“A Sunrise on the Veld”
“An Astrologer’s Day”
2. Why do we sometimes not like people who are really good at things, like sports, music,
art, or school? Is this fair? Are adults like this?
3. Are we sometimes different people on the outside than we are on the inside? How?
Why is this true, do you think? Relate this topic to the characters in Speak.
4. Who is a "real" American? What do you think of Mr. Neck's opinion? Going by his
definition, are some of you not really Americans? How does that seem to you?
5. Why is it that people sometimes "like us" more when they can get something out of us?
Are the Marthas good friends to Heather? Why or why not?
6. What should we value in other people? What qualities are important in a person? What
do you usually notice first about someone? Does that matter or not?
7. Mr. Freeman tells his class, "You must walk alone to find your soul." What does this
mean? Is it true?
8. Mr. Freeman also says that "art is about making mistakes and learning from them."
What else is like this? Explain.
9. Mr. Freeman, again! He tells Melinda that "nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting." He's
literally talking about a drawing of tree, but what do you think he really means?
10. Melinda's father explains to her that the arborists are cutting off disease and damage to
make it possible for the tree to grow again. How can the pruning of the tree be compared
to Melinda's life?
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