FINALLY FOURTH MARKING PERIOd


LITERARY TERMS

Crisis- noun. turning point; a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, for better or worse, is determined.


Climax- noun. culmination; the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something.


Resolution- noun. the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.


Metaphor- noun. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.


Simile- noun. a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared.


VOCABULARY TERMS


Indoctrination- verb. to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology; to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.(pg. 172)


Momentum- noun. impetus of a nonphysical process, such as an idea or course of events.(pg. 150)


Symmetrical- adj. characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.(pg. 196)


Delinquency- noun. wrongful, illegal, or antisocial behavior.(pg. 163)

DISCUSSION QUESTION:
Each answer must include three parts: your answer, a quote from the novel, and an explanation as to why the quote supports your answer.

·Mr. Freeman tells Melinda, “Nothing is perfect, flaws are interesting.” He’s literally talking about drawing a tree but what do you think he really means?

·David is a true friend to Melinda, but he tells her something she may not want to hear. He says that people have to speak up for their rights, referring to the suffragists. What should his words mean to her? I think its great to tell someone stright up because if u dont tell them then when the person finds out then it would be more harder

·Melinda’s father explains to her that the arborists are cutting of disease and damage to make it possible for the tree to grow again. How can the pruning of the tree be compared to Melinda’s life?
Journal Topics:
Each journal entry must use an example from the novel and a personal experience.

·Is school a place where you can really say what you think?

·Have you ever felt like there were two “yous” fighting inside of you?

POEM

“Elephant in the Room” (author unknown)

There's an elephant in the room.
It is large and squatting, so it is hard to get around it.
Yet we squeeze by with, "How are you?" and "I'm fine," and a thousand other
forms of trivial chatter. We talk about the weather. We talk about work.
We talk about everything else, except the elephant in the room.

There's an elephant in the room.
We all know it's there. We are thinking about the elephant as we talk together.
It is constantly on our minds. For, you see, it is a very large elephant.
It has hurt us all.

But we don't talk about the elephant.
Oh, please, let's talk about the elephant in the room.
For if I cannot, then you are leaving me....
alone....
in a room....
with an elephant.