1. 2014/2015 Coop with friends
4.13.2015
Grammar/Composition
• Carefully read pp. 286-290 in Write for College. The first 7 steps to write a research paper in
this book are the same as the first 6 steps in your Shurley Grammar book. Compare the wording
of the two books. Notice the extra detail about “note-taking” in WfC. Implement tips from both
books.
• Complete Shurley Grammar independent writing assignment #32, part 2. Due date: Friday,
4/17. After Mrs. Sawyer's approval on part 2, complete part 3 and email to Mrs. Sawyer.
• Complete exercises for Shurley Ch. 20.
• Practice all of the banks of vocabulary words in Quizlet under Mrs. Sawyer's group. Share with
Mrs. Sawyer's Group the banks of words you have created. This practice gets you miles ahead
on your SAT/ACT!! Make it a priority!
Reading
• Read: Emily Dickenson's “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”, “A Hummingbird”, and “It Sifts
from Leaden Sieves.” Using Emily's riddle style of poetry, write a poem on an index card using
the following topics. Write the answer on the reverse side.
◦ Assignments:
▪ Ellie: Joan of Arc, The Hundred Years' War
▪ Izzy: St. Thomas Aquinas, The Black Death
▪ Gracie: Marco Polo
• Read Ink on His Fingers. Using the attached rubric, write an outline only for a book report, due
4/22. Using the attached book report rubric as a guide, should this paper be organized into 3-
paragraphs or 5-paragraphs? What makes the most sense? Make a choice. Email your outline.
• Review: Life in Medieval Times by Marjorie Rowling Read Ch. 10 using the annotation
method we've discussed and summary words at bottom of page. This reading is intentionally
dense to stretch your stamina for comprehension. Break it up over the week—don't try to do it
all in one day. Input unfamiliar words into Quizlet. Write a chapter summary of Ch. 9 in 8-12
sentences and email to Mrs. Cristal. Remember, a chapter summary sums up the most important
facts (these facts should already be written in extreme brief at the bottom of each page—so
summing up the chapter should be easy.)
• Read and know in Famous Men of the Middle Ages: All the men up to, but not including,
“Tamerlane”.
• Review: All the men we've studied so far in Famous Men of the Middle Ages. We're going to
create a Who am I? Game to practice history. Each of you will make 5 cards, 1 historical figure
per card. Using index cards, write a 3-4 sentence description of each of your assigned persons,
using 2-3 facts of the most important information about them and 1 fact of novelty. On the
reverse side of the card write the answer. We'll use these to play Who am I? Following is a
sample index card:
Before I became the greatest king of the Franks in 481, my father Childeric allowed me
to go with him to war with neighboring tribes. I could tame and ride the most fiery
horse. I resolved to drive the Romans out of the country. I became a Christian when
God came to my rescue in the battle against the Alemanni's. My wife Clotilde was SO
glad! Before I became a Christian, I had anger issues over a vase.
Answer: Clovis

2. Ellie: Edward the Black Prince
Izzy: William Tell
Gracie: Arnold von Winkelried
• Read and take notes using Cornell Note-taking: Monks and Mystics, Vol. 2: Chronicles of
the Medieval Church by Mindy and Brandon Withrow, pp.209-229. (finish reading “Other
Medieval Christians”). Continue your 1-sentence summaries for this week's reading. Bring your
spiral or journal, with 1-sentence summaries of each chapter in this book to class. Input
unfamiliar words into Quizlet.
• Read and annotate: The Magna Charta by James Daugherty, pp. 114 to the end. In a spiral or
journal, continue to write a 1-sentence summary of each chapter. Bring your spiral or journal,
with 1-sentence summaries of each chapter in this book to class. Input unfamiliar words into
Quizlet.
Historical events to cover this week:
• Come prepared to discuss: The Great Papal Schism, John Wycliffe, John Huss, The Fall of
Constantinople to Mohammed 2, Gutenberg Prints the Bible. Come also prepared to discuss all
the Famous Men we've studied so far.
Some books needed to finish the semester:
The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O'Dell. (life of William Tyndale)
If All the Swords in England by Barbara Willard (life of Saint Thomas Becket)
A Portable Renaissance Reader by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin
William of Orange: The Silent Prince by W.G. Van de Hulst
Courage and Conviction by Mindy and Brandon Withrow
Books needed to begin next fall:
Dante's The Divine Comedy by C.H. Sisson, published by Oxford World's Classics,
#ISBN 9780199535644
Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Book I of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene by Roy Maynard,
#ISBN 9781885767394