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Monday, November 17, 2014

Week of November 21, more quote sandwiches, and responding to quotes

Hi everyone,


This week we do TWO things. If you don't complete the work during class time, you will have to finish for HW.


  1. Make a new quote sandwich.
  2. Respond to quotes

First make a new quote sandwich for Eliezer, from the latest section of the book. Do this on the back of the blog worksheet. Here are the instructions again, in case you forgot how to do it! 

Write one full paragraph, following this structure:
Top slice of bread = your thoughts, beliefs and ideas about the character. "Eliezer is ________________ because __________." This should be about 2-3 sentences long.
•In the middle is the meat = the quote from the story that teaches us about this character. "We can see this in the quote on page ___, "...."".
•Bottom slice of bread = “this quotes shows us that…” Concluding sentences, again proving what you believe about this character. Again about 2-3 sentences long.

Next, read the quotes below about fear, and do the following for 3 quotes. Do this on the chart on the blog worksheet:

1. Paraphrase the quote: what does it mean in your own words.

2. Agree or disagree and say why.
3. Connect this quote to Night and "The Key Game"
  • Fear is faith that it won't work out.  ~Sister Mary Tricky
  • Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.  ~Arnold Glasow
  • Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.  ~Shirley Maclaine
  • Those who fear life are already three parts dead.  ~Bertrand Russell
  • Fear makes us feel our humanity.  ~Benjamin Disraeli
  • Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.  ~Samuel Butler
After, in the comments section below, please answer these questions:
  1. What was the purpose of this activity?
  2. What about it was challenging for you?

28 comments:

  1. 1. This activity helped us to find quotes and paraphrase them. It is important for critical lens essay in the regents. So, this activity is important for the regents.

    2. The quote sandwich was a bit challenging because I had to find a suitable quote that was profound enough. However, time was too short for me to write something deep. Also, I had to explain it further to make it intense and didactic.

    -Tasnim

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  2. what was the purpose of this activity?
    I think the purpose of this activity was to practice for the critical lens essay.
    What about it was challenging for you?
    Finding quotes from the book and the short story that matches the given quotes.

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  3. 1) What was the purpose of this activity?
    Its is a very important activity which would help us with our regent preparation. And it also help us to improve our writing skills.

    2) What about it was challenging for you?
    The true meaning of the quotes.

    Fariha Hossain

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  4. 1.What was the purpose of this activity?
    The purpose of this activity was to know our topic better and to write what we know about our topics.It was a test to know our paraphrasing skills of the given information.

    2.What about it was challenging for you?
    The part where we had to paraphrase the quote was the most challenging to me because some vocabulary words were not familiar to me.

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  5. 1.purpose
    -regents practice.
    -better understanding of book and the quotes.
    - have better paragraph writing skills.
    - making connections
    2. challenging
    - finding a quote from the book that matches with blog quotes.
    -writing the quote sandwich.
    making connection with the book and quotes.

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  6. Kyaw Han

    1) Practice for regent exam and To remember a stories that we have learned.
    2) Quote burger was challenging because i have to find a quotes real quick.

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  7. I think that activity will helps us to prapare about English Regents maninly the Critical lens essay.
    I think the quote sandwich because i have't read the new lessons
    -Jumman

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  8. 1.This activity is let we to see other people those quote choose, and paraphrase.
    2.we need choose quote from the book and to example.

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  9. 1. The purpose of this activity was to review our readings and know how well we understood the readings. It also helped us to connect the quotes with the readings which is important for regents.

    2. The challenging part was to find quotes from the readings related to the given quotes.

    - Iqbalpreet Singh

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  10. 1: what is the pupose of this activity?
    Ans: The purpose of this activity is to review and find the quote to help us with our regent peparation.
    2:what about it was challenging for u ?
    Ans: Find the same quote as urs with other and write the paraphase.

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  11. 1) The purpose of this activity is to get ready for the regents. To brianstorm and think critically on what those each quote meant. Also to conect withthe literray works.
    2) yes, it was challenging becuase we had to put effort to get the best result and think deeply on what those quotes meant.

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  12. 1. The purpose of this activity is to practice for the regents.
    2. The challenging part was to find the quote from the book and connect it with the quote that you gave us.

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    1. 1.- We did this activity in order to practice and get prepared for the regents. Also, to practice our critical thinking, so that we could understand the quotes we choose.

      2.- The only part that was a little challenging was to pick a good quote from the book, but besides that it was interesting and fun to write this quote sandwich.

      -Noemi Castillo

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  13. 1. We did the activity to get prepared for the upcoming English regent well. It was also very essential for us to think critically for new quotes.


    2. The difficult part was to choose the suitable quote from the text and connect with the quotes.

    -Syed Jamal

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  14. 1.The purpose of this activity Is to know the meaning of the work and show how well we can paraphrase the information that has been provided.
    2.For me, the challenging part about it was to make connection between the book and the quote.
    -Navaraj Thapa

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  15. 1: what's the purpose of this activity?
    -is to prepare for our incoming English Regent.
    2: what about it was challenging for you ?
    -umm finding a good enough quote from the stories for those quote to connect.

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    1. It's important to find good quotes that relate!

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  16. 1.The purpose for doing this activity is preparation and practice for English regents.
    2. The most challenging for me connect the quote to the stories.

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