English Extra Credit Magic Trick

Here's a way to earn some extra credit in English.

Since our book, Hugo Cabret, features magic, let's have some magic tricks.  Prepare a magic trick to present to the class next Thursday.  Your trick should take less than three minutes to perform.

Prefect your trick, present it to the class on October 22 and earn extra credit in English.



For a Scorpion Card stamp be the first one to tell me the appositive used in the above sentence.

Common Core Writing Task #1. Why did the Black Plague kill so many people?

Question: Why did the Black Plague kill so many people?

Read and analyze the following resources before you begin the writing task.

Video

Horrible Histories: Plague Song and Pied Piper Parody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CVDIHrIQjo

Text

Histroy Alive! Section 5.3, The Bubonic Plague

Images

The Spread of the Black Death

 http://plaza.ufl.edu/wlclapp/The%20Spread%20of%20Black%20Death_files/image001.jpg

Note:  The heavy red lines with arrows show the spread of the Black Death. the faint lines show trade routes.

Article

“Study Shows Black Death Did Not Kill Indiscriminately”

http://in.reuters.com/article/2008/01/28/idINIndia-31640820080128

Task: After reading the articles and text and examining the map above, write a long paragraph that addresses the question and analyzes the reasons why the Black Plague killed so many people providing examples to clarify your analysis. What conclusions or implications can you draw?  BE sure to support your position with evidence from the resources.  Make sure you cite the above resources to support your answer. L2 In your discussion, address the credibility and origin of sources in view of your topic.

Hugo Cabret Videos

Here are some of the movies mentioned in Hugo Cabret so far.

First, The final scene from Safety Last (1923) starring Harrold Lloyd.




Here's the musical clock shop cartoon Hugo saw with his father. From 1931, The Clock Store from Walt Disney.

Chapter 4: Daily Calendar Page

First finish your notes for chapter 4. Staple your packet into your history journal.

Complete a daily calendar page to describe what a typical day might have involved for someone living in a town in medieval Europe. You calendar page should have an hour-by-hour account of the day and include relevant details from the various aspects of life you learned about.  Begin your calendar page with the three entries shown below.

5:30 A.M. Rise from bed. Wash face with cold water. Pluck eyebrows. Tie hair in net and put on skirt and hat.

6:30 A.M.  Eat breakfast (bread, cheese, weak cider).  Throw scraps in street for hogs.  Begin walking to market.

7:30 A.M.  Pick up shoes from cobblers' guild. Ask master if his hand is healing properly.

Complete your schedule through to 8:30 P.M. when you go to bed. Write your schedule in your history journal.

Your notes for chapter 4 should be stapled into your history journal once you have finished them.

Maillardet's Automaton One-Pager

You can use these links to complete the one-pager assignment about Maillardet's automaton.

CBS Sunday Morning video The Lost Art of Automata Lives Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7oSFNKIlaM

The Maillardet automaton in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfeNC28vpYo

Read Andrew Baron’s essay

http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/andrew_hugo_auto.htm

If you have time, check out the videos on this website of a company that restores old automata.

http://automatomania.co.uk/


If you finish this assignment before class is over, this is an excellent opportunity to work on the William the Conqueror extra credit.

Annotated Castle Drawings

Directions:

Your project:

• Castle drawing
• Motte & Bailey or a later type of castle.
• Can be and view of the castle
• Use the book "Castle" by David Macauly or another image or imagine your own.
• Must be realistic/historically accurate

Projects must be annotated.

• 10 annotations total.  (An annotation is a label with a sentence or two that adds information or a definition.)
• Six of the annotations must be features of the castle.
• Four of the annotations must be about people in the castle: peasants, lords/noblemen, knights/vassals, and the monarch.

Projects are due on Tuesday.

William the Conqueror Mini-Book Extra Credit

To help you with this project here's a video about the Bayeux Tapestry.




If you find a good website for this project, please list it in a comment so that other students can take a look.  If you list a good site, then see me for stamps on your Scorpion card.

Get the mini-book directions for this extra credit project from Mr. Chester.

This counts as one assignment in the 30% category for history.  Please complete it by next Friday, October 2.