October 16 homework

Grade 6 - Study your flashcards. Read Books 9 and 10 in the Illustrated Odyssey. Continue to study the location of the 7 seas surrounding Greece on your map.

Grade 7 - Study your flashcards. Finish the organizational outline (due tomorrow) for your paper. Read Chapter 4 in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Answer the following study questions (always in complete sentences):
1. What is revealed about the levels of Victorian society in the first page of this chapter?
2. How is Hyde described as he kills Sir Danvers Carew? How does this image fit with the other physical descriptions Stevenson has given of Hyde?
3. As Utterson takes the police officer to arrest Hyde, Stevenson gives a vivid description of “the dismal quarter of Soho” where Hyde lives. What is the effect of this description on our mood? What is the effect of this description on our understanding of Hyde?
4. Why do you think that Utterson feels “a terror of the law and the law’s officers”?

5. Is there any significance in the fact that although Hyde’s specific facial features cannot be recognized, everyone remembers the sense of deformity he conveyed?

Grade 8 - Study your flashcards. Finish the organizational outline (due tomorrow) for your paper. Finish Tolstoy's "God Sees the Truth but Waits" along with the notes on your margin sheet. Place both in the Literature section of your notebook. Be ready to write a few paragraphs on the short story tomorrow.
Pin It button on image hover