1. Looking forward: two more weeks JB, then real wolves
Mon. 2/20 English 8
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Looking forward: two more weeks JB,
then real wolves
This week: The JB, mechanics, spelling
Today:
The JB: We learn about Morality and Ethics
We read more of The Jungle Book, part two
Add to your Jungle Book vocabulary

2. Set this up in your notebook: The JB: Morals and ethics. Morals
KNOW
WANT TO KNOW
LEARN
What do you know about the word “morals”?
What do you want to know?
What did you learn?

3. Morals and ethics.
Morals: (plural, noun) what a person believes is right; for example, that truth is always better than lies.
Ethics: (plural, noun) how a person acts on their moral beliefs, for example, never lying.
(How are these different? How are these similar?)
Add these words and their definitions to your vocabulary list.

4. As we read in the story, we’ll pay close attention to morals and ethics.
Where did Mowgli learn his morals and ethics?
How are these morals and ethics different from the villagers?
How does the author want us to compare these? Give examples from the story.

5. 2/20 SAVE for further writing
Actors / actions
What moral beliefs? Any?
What ethical actions? Any?
What is the author’s judgement on these actors / actions? Does he think they are moral? Ethical?
Village priest
Suggests to Messua that Mowgli might be her long-lost son
Messua
Gives Mowgli a home and food
Village children
Tease Mowgli
Mowgil
Does not hurt the children
Helps the potter
The villagers disapprove of Mowgli helping the potter
Mowgli disrespects Buldeo’s storytellilng

6. Start The Jungle Book, part two
“Conflict: (literary); when characters in a story meet challenge or opportunity.”
Make notes in the margin for conflict
Looking for examples of conflict and challenge for Mowgli when he moves into the village
Look for new words we can add to our Jungle Book vocabulary

7. Jungle Book vocabulary
Adoption: to bring into a family a child without parents
Anthropomorphize: talk about a thing or animal as if it were human
Wolf: (singular); wolves, (plural)
Plot: (literary), what happens in a story, in order
Values: (morality), how to live right; good behavior v. bad behavior
Suspense: (literary); using doubt, tension, anxiety to hook readers’ interest
Conflict: (literary); when characters in a story meet challenge or opportunity
Choice: (lit.); characters’ responses to conflict
Protagonist: (lit.); the hero of the story
Antagonist: (lit.); the villain of the story

8. Jungle Book vocabulary
11. Compare: (verb) to find what is similar;
12. Contrast: (verb) to find what is different;
13. Solitary: (adjective) alone (see “solo”);
14. Band: small group;
15. Law: code of behavior, including consequences, usually written down;

9. Put your character on!
Find your speaking part, follow with your finger, track, keep up!
BE YOUR PART! SPEAK UP! IF NECESSARY, ROAR!

10. Compare means “similar. ” Contrast means “different”
Compare means “similar.” Contrast means “different”. How are people and animals similar and different?
People and Animals
Similar
people
animals

11. In the JB, the author imagines animals as people
In the JB, the author imagines animals as people. The characters in the story act like humans.
Have you ever seen people act like animals? Was that good or bad? It’s not too hard to see school as similar in ways to… a jungle?!?
If you were an animal in a jungle, would you be a plant eater?
A meat eater? Would you live with a herd, or a band, or a big extended family? Or would you be solitary? Would you be perhaps a bird? Reptile? A fish? Where would your safe place be? In a cave? The tops of a tree? In deep water?
How is school like a jungle? Where are the safe places? Where are the dangerous places?
Is there a Law of the School/Jungle? What is it? Or, what are those laws? What’s the most important law?

12. 2/8 writing assignment
NAME ________
PER _______
DATE _______
The Law of the Jungle/The Law of the School (Start with the questions, speak from your own experience. One to two full pages; hand in at the end of the period.)

13. Get out your copy of the Jungle Book
Get out your copy of the Jungle Book. Let’s compare and contrast the beginning of the book with the beginning of the movie. We’ll look for things that are similar and things that are different.
The Jungle Book to 5:12
Open, up to the recitation of “The Law”

14. Compare means “similar. ” Contrast means “different”
Compare means “similar.” Contrast means “different”. Compare and contrast the book with the movie. Let’s start with the jungle setting in the very beginning of the story. What do you notice about the jungle in the book? In the movie? First let’s make lists of how they are different. In the middle we’ll make a list how they are similar.
The Jungle Book
The jungle setting similar for both book and movie
The jungle setting in the book
The jungle setting in the movie

15. Compare means “similar. ” Contrast means “different”
Compare means “similar.” Contrast means “different”. Compare and contrast the book with the movie. Let’s look at plot, which is what happens in the story in order. For example, in the book we meet Mowgli one way, and in the movie we meet him another way. How is this meeting different in the book than in the movie?
The Jungle Book
Similar for both book and movie
The book
The movie

16. Compare means “similar. ” Contrast means “different”
Compare means “similar.” Contrast means “different”. Compare and contrast the language in the book with the language in the movie. For example, in the book the animals and Mowgli talk one way, and in the movie they talk other ways. What are different words in the book from words in the movie? What are similar ones?
The Jungle Book
Similar for both book and movie
The book
The movie

17. Compare means “similar. ” Contrast means “different”
Compare means “similar.” Contrast means “different”. In both the book and the movie, the Law of the Jungle is part of the story. Compare and contrast how the Law of the Jungle is treated in the book with the movie.
The Jungle Book
Similar for both book and movie
The book
The movie

18. Name _____
Per _____
Date ____
Title: Book or movie?
Q: How are the book and the movie the same story? How are they different? Do you think one is better?
(Answer these questions. Write at least good sentences. Turn in when complete. If you finish early, read ahead in the Jungle Book.)

19. Mon. 2/6 Turn to The Jungle Book.
Activity: as you read circle key words and phrases showing animals acting or talking like people.
For example: how likely does it seem that a pack of wolves would have a bear teach their young?
Last: Save time to write sentences:
Head it properly and turn in at end of period.
What is the Law of the Jungle in the story? Give an example.

20. Name ______
Per ______
Date ____
New book report: Title and Author today
(hand forward now)
NEXT: Get out apostrophes! Let’s finish them off!

21. Name ______
Per ______
Date ____
Spelling 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
(review together, pass forward.)
Get out apostrophe’s.

22. We finish “Apostrophes”; arts and crafts w/ Mr. Lamson
NEXT:
Turn to The Jungle Book, read P

23. Our values. What if…?
You pick up a $50 dollar bill off of the ground in the parking lot outside Chester’s Thriftway. What are your choices and what do you do?
It’s 10 degrees above zero, 4:00 in the afternoon (getting dark), and you’re driving a pickup south through Picture Gorge, alone, headed home to John Day. At the intersection of Highway 26 and 19 is an elderly hitchhiker headed the same direction. What are your choices and what do you do?
Just trying to get your attention, a “friend” tells another “friend” that you kissed somebody really popular - but you didn’t. What are your choices and what do you do?
Choose one of these scenarios and write a paragraph about it. (3-5 sentences, due today.)

24. Stock up with fresh supplies:
new notebook, if necessary; new paper portfolio;
Pen or pencil everyday
Buy flashcards, high-lighters.
Expect binder checks.
Save all mechanics worksheets; save quizzes and tests.

25. Who knows any beast fables?
The Hare and the Tortoise…?
The Ant and the Grasshopper...?
The Lion and the Mouse...?
So… what human values are these stories really about?
Today we start a very famous beast fable about a boy adopted by wolves in India.

26. 1/31/17 Anthropomorphize (say it: an-thro-po-mor-phize)
When you talk about a thing or animal as if it were human, you are anthropomorphizing it.
In fact, we’d better start a new vocabulary page:
Open your notebooks to new page, head it:
Jungle Book vocabulary
Adoption: to bring into a family a child without parents
Anthropomorphize: talk about a thing or animal as if it were human
Wolf: (singular); wolves, (plural)
Plot: (literary), what happens in a story, in order
Values: (morality), how to live right; good behavior v. bad behavior
Today we start a very famous beast fable about a boy adopted by wolves in India.

27. Google asia, display map, zoom into India

28. Satpura National Park - central India

29. Indian Grey Wolf