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Distance Learning Week 8

Freak the Mighty

Do Now

Describe a time you met someone that was very different from you- maybe they came from a different country, spoke differently, or had different views than yours.

Why do you think people sometimes people react with fear to people that are different?

Make sure to answer in complete sentences.

Freak the Mighty

Freak the Mighty

Freak the Mighty is told from the perspective of Max who is recounting an event from his past or memoir. At the time Max is writing the story, his friend Kevin has already died.

Make sure to pay attention to the quotations and punctuation marks as you listen along in order to understand the text.

Kevin suffers from

Morquio

syndrome which causes him to wear leg braces in order to walk.

Max has a learning disability and is had difficulty reading and writing.

Learning Disabilities

Max, the main character, has a learning disability that requires him to be in a special day class. Learning disabilities are conditions that make it more difficult for students to learn a new skill or concept.

Learning disabilities can take many forms. Some of the most common learning disabilities are audio or visual. This means that students with theses disabilities cannot properly process audio or visual information which makes it difficult to learn new information.

Some learning disabilities make it difficult for students to understand what they read or hear.

And, some disabilities make it difficult for them interact or get along with others.

While learning disabilities can be challenging, individuals with can have successful lives.

Physical disabilities

In addition to learning disabilities, some people also have physical disabilities similar to Kevin in Freak the Mighty.

Physical disabilities can include hearing and sight impairments.

Physical disabilities can also include muscular dystrophy and spinal injury.

Amputation

Multiple sclerosis and Spina bifida

Although physical disabilities can be challenging, many individuals with these challenges go on to live normal and successful lives

Read and Annotate

1. Highlight at least two sentences or passages that you have questions about. Enter your questions as annotations.

2· Highlight the key characters in the excerpt and use the annotation tool to provide a brief description of what you know about them.

3· Highlight instances that show the narrator's thoughts and feelings. Use the annotation tool to explain how they relate to his appearance and actions.

4· Highlight the key instances in the meeting between Max and Freak and make annotations that explain what each event has changed. For example, "You want this back or what?" Annotation: Max offers to use his size to help Freak.

5· Highlight vocabulary words and explain what you think the words mean based on how they are used in the text.

6· Highlight any additional unfamiliar vocabulary. Use the annotation tool to make predictions about the meaning of these unfamiliar terms.

7· Highlight two examples that show Freak's intelligence. Use the annotation tool to explain what it teaches you about his character.

Exit Ticket

Think back to the Do Now you complete at the beginning of class to the person you met that was different. Now think about some of the similarities and difference between you and the person you met and fill out

the

chart in google classroom. Focus on the person’s actions and characteristics rather than his/her physical appearance.

Focus Questions Romeo and Juliet

Highlight the last two lines in Romeo's second speech and the lines in Tybalt's first speech. How do these lines introduce the reader to the conflict of the plot? Use your annotation tool to explain.

In the last two lines of his second speech, Romeo asks, "Did my heart love till now?" And he answers, "forswear it, sight! / For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." This is evidence that Romeo has fallen instantly in love with the young woman who turns out to be a member of the Capulet family—his family's greatest foe. In the last two lines of his first speech, Tybalt vows that he holds "it not a sin" to strike Romeo dead "for the stock and

honour

of . . . [his] kin." Taken together, these two pieces of dialogue provide evidence of the conflict to come: Romeo has fallen in love with a member of Tybalt's family, and Tybalt may react violently to that. He is a danger to Romeo and to the happiness of Romeo and Juliet.

Focus Question

Question: 

What evidence in Tybalt's last speech supports the idea that Tybalt will have a future run-in with Romeo? How does this idea contribute to your understanding of the plot structure of the play? Use the annotation tool to explain your reasoning.

Sample Answer: 

In his last speech Tybalt says, "Patience perforce with

wilful

choler meeting / Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting." By this he means that his rage overwhelms his forced patience, making him shake. He adds that Romeo's "intrusion shall / Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall." Tybalt is warning his uncle that he will get back at Romeo in the future. This predicts future trouble between Tybalt and Romeo, helping the reader better understand the conflict of the plot.

Focus Question

Question: 

What metaphor does Capulet use when he questions Tybalt after Tybalt's first speech? Highlight the metaphor. Use the annotation tool to explain its meaning.

Sample Answer: 

Capulet uses the metaphor of a storm to refer to Tybalt's angry outburst. Capulet exclaims, "[W]

herefore

storm you so?" This helps the reader understand how angry Tybalt is.

Focus Question

Question: 

In Romeo's second speech, highlight three examples of images that appeal to the sense of sight. (Note that these images may also be part of other figures of speech, such as personification or metaphor.) Use the annotation tool to explain the pictures these images create in the mind of the reader. What do these visual images have in common? What do they reveal about the way Romeo views Juliet?

Sample Answer: 

Romeo's second speech contains these examples of visual imagery: "burn bright," "rich jewel in an

Ethiope's

ear," and "a snowy dove trooping with crows." These are also parts of other figures of speech: personification, simile, and metaphor, respectively. All three images have in common a strong contrast between light and darkness. Taken together these figures of speech help the reader to understand that Romeo views Juliet's beauty as a kind of radiance that makes her stand out from everything and everyone at the feast.

Focus Question

Question:

What challenges will Juliet face by falling in love with Romeo? Highlight the textual evidence in Juliet's next-to-last-speech that helps you understand these challenges. Use the annotation tool to show how this evidence relates to the Essential Question of the unit:

 What are the challenges of human interactions? 

and to the main conflict of the play.

Sample Answer: 

In her next-to-last speech in the scene, Juliet exclaims, "My only love sprung from my only hate!" and "Prodigious birth of love it is to me, / That I must love a loathed enemy." Both statements help us see the play's central conflict. Juliet feels that Romeo, whom she has just met, is her one true love, but he is a Montague, her family's sworn enemy. Therefore, it will be a great challenge for Juliet and Romeo to be in love, since their relationship is sure to bring about great conflict.