Hobbit Movie Review

Below are 2 Links to Movie Reviews of "The Hobbit"

Option 1:
- Read them both
- Pick out at least 3 opinions (in total) given in the two reviews and respond to them.  Either agree or disagree with the opinions and given reasons why you agree or disagree...try to bring in examples from the book

http://www.buzzsugar.com/Hobbit-Movie-Review-26274718

http://www.examiner.com/review/movie-review-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-brings-back-triumph-and-wonder

Option 2:

- Read both reviews
- Try to figure out the structure of a review
- Write your own review

BOTH OPTIONS SHOULD BE 250-300 WORDS

DUE FRIDAY (as requested by students)

Hobbit Complete!

After completing the novel today, as a class we look forward to watching the movie on thursday.  Prior to the show students will have an test on this novel.  This test will include: 
- Vocabulary
- Spelling
- Character Analysis
- Comprehension
- Order of Events

Also, students will be given an assignment following the movie which is due, along with their duotang, the following day.

Chapter 11-13 Vocabulary

Chapter 11:
Desolation
Threshold
Implored

Chapter 12:
Treacherous
Absurd
Calamity

Chapter 13:
Persuade
Prosperity
Wary

Quiz next tuesday

Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit"

This film comes out Friday the 14th.  I am pleased to announce that our class will be going to watch this on Thursday the 20th.  See details in th email sent home.

See the Trailer Below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEOM13UyZ0A

Chapter 8-10 Vocabulary

Chapter 8:
Taut
Lamenting
Infuriate

Chapter 9:
Lurking
Potent
Clamour

Chapter 10:
Ominous
Receded
Alluding

Quiz next Tuesday

Chapter 6 and 7 Vocabulary

Chapter 6:

Helter-Skelter
Keen
Reputation
Commotion

Chapter 7:

Queer
Plight
Appalling
Vengeance

Quiz Next Tuesday

Major Assignment: Bilbo's Journey Project

Students will be creating a some form of map or journal that tracks the journey that Bilbo has been on. 

Examples can be a scroll or book that graphically shows main events in the journey thus far.  Graphics should also contain short desriptions (perhaps in the format of a quick journal entry) describing what has happened.

This assignment will be graded on a rubric that has been handed out, but can be downloaded on the following link:
https://sites.google.com/site/mrbocksclass/the-hobbit 

Be creative, detailed and have fun with this project!

Due Dec 7, 2012

Students will display their work for other classes on Dec 10

Rememberance Day Class Contest Winners

The class did a great job in their writings, and I was very pleased.  Below are three that will go on into the Legions Contest.  Good Luck to Garyn, Bryce and Reilly!

Storming the Beaches

By Garyn Topola

It was June 6, 1944. I was sitting in the first boat ready to storm the beaches of Normandy. The 30 other men with me were just as scared as I was, as we sat there getting briefed about the Mission. Sargent Will Gotte was yelling out commands like, “Leave the wounded behind!’’ and “Keep on advancing!”

             Just before we landed, with the cool, salty water spraying our faces, I thought about my mother and father - a single Nazi bullet was the only wall standing between me and coming home. I looked over and saw fear in everyone’s eyes; the same fear that filled the stare of my closest friend here, Private John Williams. He looked at me as if to say, “I am so scared Robert, tell my parents I love them.”

The bag pipes began to rumble as the doors of death opened up in front of us; stopping my heart with fear.  Bullets were flying over and around us.  One eventually found John and he dropped to the sand.  I stopped momentarily and sat down by his side.  I looked at his lifeless body, knowing that just a couple of months ago he was someone’s son, and now was gone because of a single bullet.  I moved on and kept fighting.  It had become personal.  The bullets never seizing, were like hungry wolves prowling around searching for their next prey to take away and devour.  The few weary soldiers that made it past the beaches would fight for another eleven months.  2500 more allied soldiers would soon fall for their country.

This Remembrance Day I will remember not only our fallen soldiers, but the wives, children, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers that all suffered the pain of loss.  And not only our allied families and soldiers, but also the innocent lives lost on the other side of the battle.  I have been called a hero, but I am just a survivor.  The real heroes are those who paid the ultimate sacrifice; their life.

       A Journey to the Past

                                              By Bryce

Many, many years ago,

There was a war often mistold,

With soldiers laying low,

Amidst the hazy smoke of old,

                                             

All around was the sound of explosions,

In the trenches the brave were frightened,

For some, many moments seemed slow-motion,

While new recruits, their straps they tightened,

It was during this time true sides were shown,

Of those whose actions were mildly cruel,

Of those whose passions were left alone,

Of those who treated everyone as a fool,

Not only in the terror,

But at safe homes,

Where laughter seemed rarer,

Where widows wept and mourned alone,

Through many courageous charges and fights,

The good had finally prevailed,

Though many went to see the light,

The wickedness of evil had been unveiled,

What we do now in honour of these remarkable actions,

Is humbly take time to remember those who died for their nations.

A Soldiers Letter Home

By Reilly

There is a corner hidden away

Where a soldier man lay,

He writes of war and writes of sorrow,

He writes of happiness and hope for tomorrow.

He writes of the fears

And writes of the tears,

He writes of blood

And the agonizing things he hears.

He writes of the cold nights

And the fierce fights.

He writes of places and faces he’s seen;

He writes about where he has been;

He writes of death

And the last breath - that many take

Then he writes about poppies

And the people that died for their countries sake.

He writes of men that love their families

And he writes of hope and a world of peace.

All in a letter home

Vocabulary - Chapter 5

Chapter 5:

 

Vocabulary:

Persisted

Aroused

Splayed

Unbeknown

Venture

Chapter 5

Students must complete chapter 5 of The Hobbit.  Inspired by Bilbo and Gollum's riddles, students must come up with a riddle for the class - Due Monday Nov 19.

Remembrance Day Prose and Poetry

Reminder Remembrance Day Prose and Poetry is due tomorrow, Friday Nov 9.

For details on the Legion's contest, please click the following link:
Legion Contest Brochure

Vocabulary - Chapters 3 and 4

Chapter 3:

Forded
Venerable
Kin
Provisions
Vexed
Homely
Folly

Chapter 4:

Uncanny
Prosperous
Infested
Deceptions
Gnashed
Alliances
Rummaged

Quiz and Assignment

We have a spelling test on Chapter 3 Hobbit vocabulary.  Also students have been writing their own chapter 5.  Final drafts should be typed up and complete, include 6 dress ups and 6 openers.  This assignment is due Monday November 5th.

Chapter 2 - The Hobbit

On Wednesday we will have a quiz on Chapter 1 Vocabulary/Spelling



Also, here are the tasks for Chapter 2:

1) Students will keep a running tab of new vocabulary from the book. They will have a duotang for this novel study and the first pages will be vocabulary.

- Define
- Write a new sentence with this word

Chapter 2:

Representatives
Defrayed
Esteemed
Inquisitive
Repose
Mutton

 2) Add new characters – 3 Trolls

 3) Take on the perspective of one of the characters so far and write a diary about part of the events that unfolded in chapter 2.  (Should be at least 3/4 of a page in length)

è  Focus on detail, perspective and emotion

STUDENTS will be handing in everything we have done on the Hobbit in a duotang on Wednesday OCT 17.

The Hobbit Novel Study

We have just begun our Hobbit Novel Study.  We have read through chapter 1, and I have asked students not to read ahead as we will be doing assignments throughout and will read the book many times together as a group.

Assignments:

1) Students will keep a running tab of new voacbulary from the book.  They will have a duotang for this novel study and the first pages will be vocabulary.
- Define
- Write a new sentence with this word

Chapter 1:
Flummoxed
Wretched
Audacious
Conspirator
Inclined
Discreetly

2) On another piece of paper make a list of all the characters introduced thus far.  Write the little bit that you know about them.

3) In the Introduction there is a picture of the map that Gandalf gives to Thorin. First copy down the dwarf runes, and second decode them using the decoding sheet.  (It is available on my website).

JRR Tolkien Biographies

We have been working on biographies this week.  Below is a link to an informative PowerPoint on the topic.  Students have spent time in the computer room researching JRR Tolkien, the author of our upcoming novel study "The Hobbit".  The biography should be:

- 15-20 sentences in length
- include all 6 dress-ups and all 6 openers 
- The finished product should be written neatly or typed and include a title page (as detailed on the website under "LA 8").
- Students may also want to include a photo of Tolkien.

The biography is due Monday Oct 1/2012.


http://mybrary.wikispaces.com/file/view/Ten_Elements_of_Biography.ppt

Beaver Paragraphs

Due TUESDAY with Cover letter - see website

Spelling - Week #4

WEEK 4

possessive

accompany

immediately

occasionally

accessory

On a separate sheet of paper:
 

PART A

A.     Define each of the above words.

B.     Use the word in a sentence (your own words).

PART B

A.     List the words in alphabetical order.

Dress-ups and Openers

Openers:

1. Subject (noun) or a sentence starting with “The”

2. Preposition

3. “ly” word

4. “ing”/”ed” word

5. “www.asia”  (when, while, where, as, since, if, although) 

6. VSS (very short sentence – 5 words or less)

Assignment:

- Use the paragraph and key notes below to re-write the paragraph with all 6 openers and all 6 dress-ups.  Also try to squeeze in there a dual adjective (eg. "The silky smooth skin of a baby...")

DUE: MON 24th

 

Beavers are Canada’s national symbol.  They can be found on the Canadian nickel.  Many national monuments bear the picture of the beaver.  Beavers symbolize strength and perseverance, the motto of our forefathers.  The builder beaver has been Canada’s main symbol for two centuries. 

 

Sample key notes:

I.  Canada’s, national, symbol

            1. found, on, nickel

            2. monuments, beaver, picture

            3. symbolize, strength, perseverance

            4.  motto, forefathers

            5. main, symbol, centuries

Earthquake Paragraph

With the paragraph below you will do the following:

1) Write out an outline of key notes (as you were taught in class)
2) Add in dress-ups (try to get all 6 dress-ups in, and a dual adjective)

 Dress-ups

1.    strong verb (action)

2.    "ly" word (describes an action)

3.    quality adjective (describes a thing)

4.    who/which (more information about a noun)

5.    because (cause and effect)

6.    adverbial clause (www.asia)   When, While, Where, As, Since, If, Although

Earthquakes

One of the worst things that can happen on our earth is an earthquake. When earthquakes happen near large cities, many people may be killed and many buildings knocked down. Fires may start and do more damage than the quake itself. Earthquakes come from a shaking of the rocks under the surface of the earth. Forces within the earth push against the rocks until they break. Sometimes, the earth above the break will split open.

Spelling Words - Week 3

WEEK 3

mediocre

perception

irrelevant

perspective

neutral

PART A

   A.    Define each of the above words.

   B.    Use the word in a sentence (your own words).

PART B

   A.    List the words in alphabetical order.

   DUE MON SEPT 24

8 Parts of Speech

Take the sentence below and identify:

1) Nouns, Verbs, Conjunctions, Pronouns, Prepositions and Interjections
2) Also, add in your own Adjectives and Adverbs.


Timothy was busy and so we did not talk much.  He was making a hut out of palm leaves.  Ow! I called out, as I cut myself with the machete that I was using to cut down palm leaves.

Spelling Words #2 - Due Sept 17

WEEK 2

thoroughly

through

retrieve

glimpse

weird

PART A

A. Define each of the above words.

B. Use the word in a sentence (your own words).

PART B

A. List the words in alphabetical order.

Week 1 Spelling words, due Sept 10

WEEK 1

tremendous

naïve

collapse

because

believe

PART A

A.     Define each of the above words.

B.     Use the word in a sentence (your own words).

PART B

A.     List the words in alphabetical order.

"Me" web

Task:

In the middle you have your name “Johnny”

 

Have at least 8 sections (could be a web, Squares, pie) that identify who you are.  Draw a picture to represent this – do this well by taking your time, paying attention to detail, and by making it coloured. 

 EXAMPLES:

(Try to think of enlightening things, that others wouldn’t know about you)

Must do:

- Meaning of their name

- Favorite bible verse/character
- Family

- Career aspiration

 

Other Options:

Hobbies

Favorite book/movie (draw scene from the book)
Character Quality?
Ethnicity
Favorite Place to visit

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