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color: #0000ff; "><strong> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; "> <ul style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>etext: <a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html">http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</a></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>iTunes - free download - search iTunes: Lit2Go - <em>Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>Lit2Go - free download: <a href="http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/contents/2700/2726/2726.html">http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/contents/2700/2726/2726.html</a></strong></span></li> </ul> </div> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> </span></span> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://www.smartedu.net/mcf/default.htm"></a></div> </span></font></div> </span></div> </span><strong style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; ">MLA Citation: Irving, Washington. <em>Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales. </em>AnnArbor, Michigan:<em> </em>Borders Group, Inc.. 2004. Print.</strong></div> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/Controls/DHtmlEditor/Images/emangel.gif" alt="" /></strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>Note: </strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>There are many FREE apps for your ipod touch, ipad, and phones. 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Washington Irving and Tarrytown, New York</strong></span></div> <div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><br /> </span></div> <div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>a. Washington Irving's Will </strong></span></div> <strong style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; "><a href="http://www.westchesterarchives.com/HT/muni/wca/irving.html">http://www.westchesterarchives.com/HT/muni/wca/irving.html</a></strong></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; "><strong>b. Letter Written by Washington Irving about his house in Tarrytown, New York.</strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; "><a href="http://www.westchesterarchives.com/HT/muni/tarrytn/irving.htm">http://www.westchesterarchives.com/HT/muni/tarrytn/irving.htm</a></span></strong></span></font></div> <dt style="font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>c. 1895: Could you pass the 8th grade graduation exam? </strong></span></font></dt><dt style="font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong><a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~p1013447/dictionary/8thgradeexam.htm" title="1895 Salina, Kansas - 8th Grade Graduation Exam">1895 Salina, Kansas - 8th Grade Graduation Exam</a> or <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~p1013447/dictionary/8thgradeexam.htm">http://www.indiana.edu/~p1013447/dictionary/8thgradeexam.htm</a></strong><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></dt></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><dt style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>d. Raising Children in the Early 17th Century: Education</strong></span></dt><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><dt><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><a href="http://www.plimoth.org/media/pdf/edmaterials_education.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>http://www.plimoth.org/media/pdf/edmaterials_education.pdf</strong></span></a><br /> </span></font></dt><dt><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt><dt><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 11px; "><strong>e. <a href="http://www.ulster.net/~hrmm/diglib/hrsrinc/preface.html" title="Hudson River Sloops - History and Journals/Logs">Hudson River Sloops - History and Journals/Logs</a></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>f. <a href="http://hudsonriver.westchesterarchives.com/ossining/ossining-gallery/haight-ledger" title="Haight Ledger of Freight on a Hudson River Sloop, 1827">Haight Ledger of Freight on a Hudson River Sloop, 1827</a></strong> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><a href="http://hudsonriver.westchesterarchives.com/ossining/ossining-gallery/haight-ledger"><strong>http://hudsonriver.westchesterarchives.com/ossining/ossining-gallery/haight-ledger</strong></a><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>g <a href="http://westchesterarchives.com/ht/muni/ossTown/haightFull.htm" title="Journal Entry: Haight Ledger Freight Sloop">Journal Entry: Haight Ledger Freight Sloop</a></strong></span></font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><a href="http://westchesterarchives.com/ht/muni/ossTown/haightFull.htm"><strong>http://westchesterarchives.com/ht/muni/ossTown/haightFull.htm</strong></a><br /> </span></font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><br /> </font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><br /> </font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>h</strong>. <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2604748/Travel-Journal-of-a-voyage-up-the-Hudson-River-Valley-to-Albany" title="Travel Log/Journal of a SLoop Running the Hudson RIver"><strong>Travel Log/Journal of a Sloop Running the Hudson RIver</strong></a></span></font></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sh-sloop-TravelontheHudson.pdf">http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sh-sloop-TravelontheHudson.pdf</a><br /> </strong></span></font></dt> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>Note: This is a large file. 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Salem Witch Trials</strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>University of Virginia Primary sources</strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "> <ul style="font-size: 13px; "> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/"><strong>http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/</strong></a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><a href="http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/maps.html"><strong>http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/maps.html</strong></a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/archive2.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/archive2.html</strong></span></a></span></li> </ul> </div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>University of Kansas-Missouri Law School</strong></span></div> <dt style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: black; "> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>1692 Salem Witch Trials: </strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM">http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM</a></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>Chronology - Salem Witch Trials: </strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASAL_CH.HTM">http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASAL_CH.HTM</a></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>Examinations of some accused witches: <a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASA_REC.HTM">http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASA_REC.HTM</a></strong></span></li> </ul> </dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>National Geographic Interactive Witch Hunt and Trial: Are you a witch?</strong> </span></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><span style="font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/"><strong>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/</strong></a><br /> </span></dt><dt style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></dt></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Salem Witch Trials: Discovery School Education</strong></span></font></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>The Story - video <a href="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/story/">http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/story/</a><br /> </strong></span></font></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; "> <ul style="font-size: 12pt; "> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>Life in Salem 1692 <a href="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/life/">http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/life/</a></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>People Behind the Trials <a href="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/people/">http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/people/</a></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>Cotton Mather: <a href="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/people/mather.html">http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/people/mather.html</a></strong></span></li> </ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></div> </dt></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><dt style="font-family: Arial; color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><hr /><br /></span></dt> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong><img src="1-pumpkins.jpg" alt="1-pumpkins.jpg" border="0" /> </strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong>Study Guides</strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>a. Washington Irving: </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong><a href="http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/early_nineteenth/irving_wa.html" title="Heath Anthology of American Literature, 5th edition: Paul Lauter (General Editor)">Heath Anthology of American Literature, 5th edition: Paul Lauter (General Editor)</a><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>b. Dialectical Journal: Legend Proof </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/golegendcompcontrchart.pdf"><strong>http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/golegendcompcontrchart.pdf</strong></a><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>Note: There are many possible answers for this legend proof, the following is just one approach.</strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sh-compcontr-ans.pdf"><strong>http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sh-compcontr-ans.pdf</strong></a><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>c. Vocabulary within the context of <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em></strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sleepy-hollow-vocabulary.pdf"><strong>http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sleepy-hollow-vocabulary.pdf</strong></a><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>d. Background: Washington Irving and <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em></strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sleepyhollowinfo.pdf"><strong>http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sleepyhollowinfo.pdf</strong></a><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>e. Artists Perceptions of the characters, setting, and mood of this legend</strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sleepyhollowillustrations.pdf">http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sleepyhollowillustrations.pdf</a><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><br /> </span></font></div> <dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>f. Salem Witch Trials: Discovery School Education</strong></span></font></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>The Story - video <a href="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/story/">http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/story/</a><br /> </strong></span></font></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; "> <ul style="font-size: 12pt; "> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>Life in Salem 1692 <a href="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/life/">http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/life/</a></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>People Behind the Trials <a href="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/people/">http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/people/</a></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>Cotton Mather: <a href="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/people/mather.html">http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/people/mather.html</a></strong></span></li> </ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></div> </dt> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><hr /> </span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br /></span></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><img src="1-pumpkins.jpg" alt="1-pumpkins.jpg" border="0" /> </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong>Skills and Strategies </strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><br /> </span></font></div> </span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "> <div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">7.0 Knowledge of Reading Strategies; Encoding/Decoding</span></p> </strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">8.23 Use knowledge of genre characteristics: analyze text.</span></p> </strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">8.24 Interpret mood and tone, and give supporting evidence in a text.</span></p> </strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">8.25 Interpret a character’s traits, emotions, or motivation and give supporting evidence from a text.</span></p> </strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">9.5 Relate a literary work to artifacts, artistic creations, or historical sites of the period of its settings</span></p> </strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">12.4 Locate and analyze elements of plot and characterization and then use an understanding of these elements to determine how qualities of the central characters influence the resolution of the conflict.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">15.5 Identify and analyze imagery/figurative lang.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">15.6 Identify and analyze how an author’s use of words creates tone and mood.</span></p> </strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><strong> <p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">20.4 Select and use appropriate rhetorical techniques for a variety of purposes, such as to entertain the reader.</span></p> </strong></span></div> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong> <p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> </span></p> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "></span></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; ">Common Core Standards</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">8.FI.1 Identify the language styles of different characters in literary works and determine their significance for understanding the characters.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">8.F.1 Identify qualities, beliefs, and assumptions of central characters in a story or novel and analyze how these influence relationships among characters and the resolution of the conflict. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">8.F.2 Analyze how a story unfolds when it is told by alternating narrators or multiple narrators with different points of view.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">8.F.3 Distinguish theme from topic or topic sentence. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">8.F.4 Analyze how an author’s choice of words helps create tone and mood.</span></p> </strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><br /> </span></font></div><div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><br /></span></font></div><div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><div style="display: inline-block; " id="pastingspan1"></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></div></span><div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong style="font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; background-color: yellow; ">Massachusetts Common Core</strong></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 8pt; "><br /></strong></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "><strong><div class="owner" style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/wr8scotforesman.pdf"><span style="font-size: 8pt; 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">Massachusetts Common Core Writing Creative Stories, Poems, Journal Entries</span></a></div></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "><div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><br /></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></div> <div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><hr /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></div></span></font></div></span></div></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><img src="1-pumpkins.jpg" alt="1-pumpkins.jpg" border="0" /> </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong>Quickview: Friday, October 28th through Thursday November 3rd</strong></span></font></div> </span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> <dt style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></dt><dt style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 11px;"><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/Controls/DHtmlEditor/Images/emvamp.gif" alt="" /><strong> Friday, October 28</strong></span></dt> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "> <ul style="font-size: 13px; color: #0000ff; "> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>Background: Washington Irving</strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>Background: Late 1700's - early 1800's United States History</strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>Background: <em>Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>Background: Elements of a Legend and Vocabulary</strong></span></li> </ul> </div> </span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><strong><img src="1-halloween.jpg" alt="1-halloween.jpg" border="0" /> </strong></span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; background-color: #ff6600; font-size: 10pt; "><strong>Safety First - Happy Halloween</strong></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><br /> </span></div> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><img src="shtabloid2.jpg" alt="shtabloid2.jpg" border="0" /></span></div> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><br /> </span></div> </span><dt style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/Controls/DHtmlEditor/Images/emvamp.gif" alt="" /> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong>Monday, October 31: </strong></span></span></dt></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></span></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; "><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><strong style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; ">Orange and White Teams meet in the cafeteria to preview <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em></strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><em><br /> </em></strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Students were asked to preview the video slide show and note the sequential order of events. The slide show was stopped periodically and students were asked to use the audio soundtrack and the visual images as context clues to understand the legend.</strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "> <div style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">Why read period literature?</span></p> </strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span></div> </span><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">First Preview:</span></dt><dt><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">Students have the opportunity to relate a literary work to artifacts, artistic creations, or historical sites of the period of its settings.</span></dt><dt><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></dt></strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">Students identify and analyze the imagery and figurative language with the help of the sound effects, the visual images, and the audio track of the story. However, students extend the learning by using the sound effects. visual images, and audio track to i</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">dentify and analyze how an author’s use of words creates tone and mood.</span></dt></strong></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "> <div style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong><dt><br /> </dt><dt><br style="font-size: 8pt; " /> </dt></strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span></div> </span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> <div style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Homework Friday, October 28th through Sunday, November 13th: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Cumulative Review Questions: Due November 14th</strong></span></div> </span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11px; "><dt><strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">L. Frank Baum's <em>Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em>: Cumulative Review Questions: </strong></dt><dt><strong><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf</span></a></strong></dt></span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "> <div><span style="font-weight: 800; "><br /> </span></div> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "> <div style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong><dt><br /> </dt><dt><br /> </dt><dt><br /> </dt></strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span></div> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/Controls/DHtmlEditor/Images/emvamp.gif" alt="" /> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong>Tuesday, November 1st </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Continue work with <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: White Team </em>in rooms 207 with Mr. Correia and Orange Team in 212 with Ms. Turner.</strong></span></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><em><br /> </em></strong></span></font></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Directions: Identify the salient points of <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow </em>that you noted during the slideshow on Monday, October 31st.</strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Class:</strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Students copied the notes they took yesterday onto a piece of paper that I collected. While I quickly reviewed their notes, students were asked to define "fear," describe "fear," and identify an example of "fear." </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>During the class discussion, students listened to me read a sample of answers from the notes they took during the slide show. No names were given, so each student could remain anonymous. This exercise not only gave us time to review the sequence of events of the legend, but also gave us the opportunity to continue the discussion about student's learning styles and educator's teaching styles. The note-taking strategies were as varied as the number of students in the classroom. However, each paper provided evidence that students were engaged in <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em> slide show and understood the basics of the legend. </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Only one class completed the second part, which was to identify a specific image or sound effect and the part of the legend they understood because of that image or sound effect. Many students identified the sound effects and spoke generally about mood or tone. During the class discussion we were able to identify a specific image, like the headless horseman and a specific phrase, like "an apparition on horseback without a head." This clarification made students aware that in this class slides shows, films, and video clips are not "free classes." Slides shows, film, video clips are strategies used to move past explicit reading comprehension and dig deeper into implicit reading comprehension skills. </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>All in all I couldn't be more impressed. Students are engaged. Students are beginning to become more aware of the fact that they are responsible for identifying and managing their own learning styles, Figuring out how to keep a journal that works for them, and becoming independent, self-directed learners.</strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Tomorrow we will practice these skills. This is a very short week and part of the differentiated instruction this week is all about asking students to participate in the management of the class. I gave them choices and asked them to take ownership as a class of one option. Most classes voted to watch the slideshow again, to see and hear what they missed, and to practice their note-taking skills. One class was equally divided between watching the slide show and reading the legend. I offered them a tie-breaker and differentiated the instruction a bit more for the students in that class. There is no doubt in my mind that students can make positive choices and take ownership of or responsibility for their education. </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><strong style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; ">Irving, Washington. <em>Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales. </em>AnnArbor, Michigan:<em> </em>Borders Group, Inc.. 2004. Print.</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "> <div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> <div style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Homework Friday, October 28th through Sunday, November 13th: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Cumulative Review Questions: Due November 14th</strong></span></div> </span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11px; "><dt><strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">L. Frank Baum's <em>Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em>: Cumulative Review Questions: </strong></dt><dt><strong><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf</span></a></strong></dt></span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 800;"> <div><br /> </div> </span></span></div> <div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> </span> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/Controls/DHtmlEditor/Images/emvamp.gif" alt="" /> Tuesday, November 1st and Wednesday, November 2nd</strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><span style="color: #000000; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><strong><em><br /> </em></strong></span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><strong><em>THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW</em>, by Washington Irving</strong></span></span></span></div> <div><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#000000"></font></strong></a></div> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "><strong></strong> <div><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><strong>http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></a></div> </span></span></span></span> </div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "></div> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 8pt; "> <div> </div> <div><span style="color: #000000; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><em><br /> </em></span></strong></span></span></div> <div><span style="color: #000000; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><em><br /> </em></span></strong></span></span></div> <div><span style="color: #000000; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><em>Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em>, by Washington Irving</span></strong></span></span></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "> <div style="font-size: 8pt; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 13px; "><strong><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #000000; "><span style="color: #000000; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> <p class="MsoNormal">a. <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em> was written in the late 1790's, but not published until 1819. <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; "><strong><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #000000; "><span style="color: #000000; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></p> <strong> <p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; ">Knowing what you know about United States history and world history, why do you think it took almost 29 years to publish this legend? </p> </strong></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></font></div> <div><strong><br /> </strong></div> <div><strong><br /> </strong></div> <div><strong><br /> </strong><font size="3" style="font-size: 8pt; "><strong><strong> <div><font size="3"><strong><strong></strong></strong></font></div> <span style="font-size: 8pt; ">b. Ichabod Crane is the protagonist in <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em>. </span></strong></strong></font></div> <div><font size="3" style="font-size: 8pt; "><strong><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></strong></font></div> <div><font size="3" style="font-size: 8pt; "><strong><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">Trivia: However, The real Ichabod Crane was an acquaintance of Washington Irving. The real Ichabod Crane was not a school teacher. Washington Irving just like the sound of Ichabod's name and thought it would make a good name for the protagonist in <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em>.</span></strong></strong></font></div> <div style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-weight: 800; "><br /> </span></div> <div style="font-size: 8pt; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> <div style="font-weight: bold; "><br /> </div> </span></font></div> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; "><span style="color: #000000; "> <div><br /> </div> <div><strong>c. Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown</strong></div> <div><br /> </div> <div><strong>National Geographic prepared this video.</strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "> <font color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; "><object width="480" height="385"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/jt1GWHS7zZE?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/jt1GWHS7zZE?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></font> <div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; "><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt1GWHS7zZE"><strong>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt1GWHS7zZE</strong></a><br /> </font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><strong><br /> </strong></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><strong><br /> </strong></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><strong><br /> </strong></div> </span> <div style="font-size: 12pt; color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; text-align: left; "><font color="#000000"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; "><span style="color: #000000; "><span style="color: #000000; "> <div style="font-size: 8pt; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; ">Re</span><strong>ading Comprehension -</strong></span><strong> </strong> <p style="font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; "><strong>Students use the visual data on a map to construct meaning: merchant ship route from Providence to Sleepy Hollow. </strong></span></p> </font></div> </span></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> <div><img src="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/shH38longislandhudsonriver.jpg" alt="shH38longislandhudsonriver.jpg" border="0" /></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><br /> </div> </span> <div style="font-size: medium; "></div> <span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; "> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>Tappensee River Bridge near Tarrytown, New York </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong> </strong> <div><strong>Tarrytown is the trading port near Sleepy Hollow where people went to sell their goods and "tarry awhile."</strong></div> <div><strong><br /> </strong></div> </span></font></div> </span> <div style="font-size: medium; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"> <div></div> <img src="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/shtappenzeeriver.jpg" alt="shtappenzeeriver.jpg" border="0" /></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: medium; "></div> </span></font></div> <span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; "> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; "><font color="#000000"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>http://www.city-data.com/city/Tarrytown-New-York.html</strong></span></div> </span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000" size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong> </span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><strong> </strong></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "> <div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/Controls/DHtmlEditor/Images/emvamp.gif" alt="" /> </strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong>Wednesday, November 2nd:</strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt style="display: inline !important; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong></strong></span></div> </span></dt><dt style="display: inline !important; "><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> <div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong></strong></span></div> </span></strong></dt><dt style="display: inline !important; "><strong><strong><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">...continuing the discussion: Why read period literature?</span></strong></strong></strong></dt></strong></span></div> <strong style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong> <div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt style="display: inline !important; "><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt></strong></span></div> <div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt style="display: inline !important; "><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">Period literature gives a student the opportunity to develop an awareness beyond the world in which they live, to peer through the windows of history and understand the lives of people who lived at that time, and to explore empathy, understanding and respect for people, cultures, and the world in which we live.</span></strong></dt></strong></span></div> <div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt style="display: inline !important; "><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt></strong></span></div> <div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt style="display: inline !important; "><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">Period literature also offers students the opportunity to explore writing styles, vocabulary, strategies for developing a story and to use authors from the past as "writing" mentors.</span></strong></dt></strong></span></div> <div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt style="display: inline !important; "><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt></strong></span></div> </strong></strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Students are challenged to take notes with a specific purpose in mind. Students were asked to note the following:</strong></strong><strong style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt style="display: inline !important; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">Students continued using the sound effects, visual images, and audio track to interpret the mood and tone of the legend.</span></dt></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt style="display: inline !important; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">Students were asked to "notice" and interpret Ichabod’s traits, emotions, or motivation.</span></dt></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt style="display: inline !important; "><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 8pt; ">Students were asked to "notice" and identify qualities, beliefs, and assumptions of some of the central characters in this legend.</span></dt></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><strong><dt style="display: inline !important; "><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 8pt; ">Finally, Students were asked to distinguish the theme of this legend from the topic of this legend. </span></dt></strong></span></li> </ul> </strong> <div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; "> <div style="font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><dt style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong><em><br /> </em></strong></span></font></dt></div> </span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span></div> </span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> <div style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Homework Friday, October 28th through Sunday, November 13th: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Cumulative Review Questions: Due November 14th</strong></span></div> </span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11px; "><dt><strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">L. Frank Baum's <em>Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em>: Cumulative Review Questions: </strong></dt><dt><strong><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf</span></a></strong></dt></span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "> <div><span style="font-weight: 800; "><br /> </span></div> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: 800; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "></span></span></div> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "> <div style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "></span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: #000000; "> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><em><br /> </em></strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><em><br /> </em></strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><em><br /> </em></strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/Controls/DHtmlEditor/Images/emvamp.gif" alt="" /> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong>Thursday, November 3rd:</strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Orange and White Teams meet in the cafeteria.</strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Today we discussed:</strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: yellow; "><strong>1. Pen Name (pseudonym) </strong></span></font></div> <div> <ul style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><strong>Diedrich Knickerbocker is Washington Irving's pseudonym</strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><strong>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was written in first person. "I recollect..."</strong></span></li> </ul> <dt><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></dt><dt><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; background-color: yellow; "><strong>2. Why were the superstitions so much a part of the lives of the people in Sleepy Hollow, when the Salem Witch Trials happened in 1692 almost 100 years before the setting of this legend?</strong></span></font></dt><dt><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></dt><dt><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>The setting was 1790's the people of Sleepy Hollow lived in a "sequestered glen" and "</strong></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><strong>that population, manners, and customs remain fixed; while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved." </strong></span></dt></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: #000000; "> <div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong> "I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud; for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that population, manners, and customs remain fixed; while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. They are like those little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current." (page 10)</strong></span></div> <div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: #000000; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><strong style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; ">Irving, Washington. <em>Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales. </em>AnnArbor, Michigan:<em> </em>Borders Group, Inc.. 2004. Print.</strong></div> <div style="font-family: Arial; color: black; "><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div style="font-family: Arial; color: black; "><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div style="font-family: Arial; color: black; "><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: #000000; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; background-color: yellow; "><strong>3. The use of hyperbole is one of the main elements of a legend.</strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong> Hyperbole is great exaggeration. Hyperbole can be expressed through the use of metaphor, through the use of description, or through the use of personification to name a few.</strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <dt style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong>Examples of hyperbole:</strong></span></font></dt></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><dt style="font-size: 12pt; "> <ul> <li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">"...hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels..." (p 12)</span></strong></li> <li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">"...one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or a scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." (p 12)</span></strong></li> <li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">"...the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust;..." (p 21)</span></strong> </li> </ul> </dt></div> <div> <div> <div><font> <div><font face="Arial"><strong><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 11px; ">Irving, Washington. Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales. AnnArbor, Michigan: Borders Group, Inc.. 2004. Print.</span></strong></font></div> <div><font face="Arial"><strong><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 11px; "><br /> </span></strong></font></div> <div><font face="Arial"><strong><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 11px; "><br /> </span></strong></font></div> <div><font face="Arial"><strong><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 11px; "><br /> </span></strong></font></div> <div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <dt style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: yellow; "><strong>4. What happened at the end of this legend?</strong></span></font></dt><dt style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: normal; "><strong>according to the old Dutch wives</strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: normal; "><strong>according to the farmers</strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: normal; "><strong>according to Katrina VanTassel and Brom Bones</strong></span></li> </ul> </strong></span></font></dt></font></div> </div> <dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "> "It is true an old farmer, who had been down to New York on a visit several years after, and from whom this account of the ghostly adventure was received, brought home the intelligence that Ichabod Crane was still alive; that he had left the neighborhood, partly through fear of the goblin and Hans Van Ripper, and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country, had kept school and studied law at the same time, had been admitted to the bar, turned politician electioneered, written for the newspapers, and finally had been made a justice of the Ten Pound Court. Brom Bones too, who shortly after his rival's disappearance conducted the blooming Katrina in triumph to the altar, was observed to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related, and always burst into a hearty laugh at the mention of the pumpkin, which led some to suspect that he knew more about the matter than he chose to tell.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "> "The old country wives, however, who are the best judges of these matters, maintain to this day that Ichabod was spirited away by supernatural means; and it is a favorite story often told about the neighborhood around the winter evening fire. The bridge became more than ever an object of superstitious awe, and that may be the reason why the road has been altered of late years, so as to approach the church by the border of the millpond. The schoolhouse, being deserted, soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue; and the plowboy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance, chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow." (page 50)</span></strong></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; ">Irving, Washington. <em>Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales. </em>AnnArbor, Michigan:<em> </em>Borders Group, Inc.. 2004. Print.</strong></dt> <div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><br /> </div> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: #000000; "> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: yellow; "><strong>5. What makes a legend "scary?"</strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">Students have discussed "fear" during class on Tuesday and Wednesday. As an 8th grade, we will view a Discovery Education video about the Salem Witch Trials and make connections to <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</em>.</strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>pages 8, 9, and 10 </strong></span></font></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><strong>etext: <a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html">http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</a></strong></span><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "> "From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country. A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Some say that the place was</span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">bewitched by a high German doctor during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson. Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie. They are given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air. The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.<br /> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "> "The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk, hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind. His haunts are not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance. Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this specter, allege that the body of the trooper, having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being</span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak."</span></strong></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; ">Irving, Washington. <em>Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales. </em>AnnArbor, Michigan:<em> </em>Borders Group, Inc.. 2004. Print.</strong></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; "><br /> </strong></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; "><br /> </strong></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "> </span></strong></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">page 10</span></strong></dt><dt style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><strong>etext: <a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html">http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</a></strong></span></dt><dt><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong> " I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud; for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that population, manners, and customs remain fixed; while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. They are like those little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom."</strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "> </span></strong></dt><dt><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><strong style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; ">Irving, Washington. <em>Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales. </em>AnnArbor, Michigan:<em> </em>Borders Group, Inc.. 2004. Print.</strong></span></dt><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "> </span></strong><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Homework Friday, October 28th through Sunday, November 13th: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Cumulative Review Questions: Due November 14th</strong></span><span style="font-weight: 800; "><br /> </span></dt><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong></strong></span></font> <div><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong></strong></span></font></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: black; font-size: 11px; "><dt><strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">L. Frank Baum's <em>Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em>: Cumulative Review Questions: </strong></dt><dt><strong><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf</span></a></strong></dt></span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/Controls/DHtmlEditor/Images/emvamp.gif" alt="" /> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong>Friday, November 4th:</strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Tri-county Technical Vocational High School visit </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> <div style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Homework Friday, October 28th through Sunday, November 13th: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Cumulative Review Questions: Due November 14th</strong></span></div> </span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11px; "><dt><strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">L. Frank Baum's <em>Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em>: Cumulative Review Questions: </strong></dt><dt><strong><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf</span></a></strong></dt></span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "> <div><span style="font-weight: 800; "><br /> </span></div> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "></span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; color: #000000; "> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; "><strong><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/Controls/DHtmlEditor/Images/emvamp.gif" alt="" /> </strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong>Monday, November 7th</strong></span></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></font></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong><img src="1-pumpkins.jpg" alt="1-pumpkins.jpg" border="0" /> </strong></span><span style="font-size: 11px; background-color: #00ff00; "><strong>Elements of a Legend</strong></span></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "> <div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Dialectical Journal: </strong></span><span style="font-size: 16px; "><strong><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: yellow; ">Understanding the L</span><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: yellow; ">egend</span></strong></span></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; "><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">1. Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow of Sleepy Hollow <br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">2. Author: Washington Irving <br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">3. Written: late 1790's (Published 1819) <br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">4. Genre: Fictional Legend <br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">5. Definition: A legend is a story or tale about truths that have been greatly exaggerated. <br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">6. Literary term: Hyperbole is great exaggeration. <br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </span></strong></dt><dt><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">7. Truths in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:<br /> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">The Hudson River </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">Tarrytown, New York </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">Sleepy Hollow, New York </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">The Revolutionary War </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">Major Andre </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">Pedagogues or teachers and their job description in the late </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">1790's </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">One-room school houses </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">The customs of the Dutch immigrants who live in this area </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">The sloops that picked up and delivered cargo from port to port </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">An author: Cotton Mather (He collected oral traditions about the superstitions described in the area.) </span></strong></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">Ichabod Crane: While his is the protagonist of this tale, Washington Irving was friendly with a man in the Revolutionary War named Ichabod Crane. He used his friend's name as the protagonist of this legend.</span></strong></span></li> </ul> </span></strong></dt> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><strong><o:p></o:p></strong></font></p> </div> <div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; "><font size="4"><strong><br /> </strong></font></div> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: black; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0000ff; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "> <div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><strong> </strong></span></font></div> </span></span></div> </span></span></font></div> </span></div> </span> <div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "> <div><font> <div> <div><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; "> <strong><span style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; background-color: yellow; ">Elements of a Legend</span></strong></font></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Arial" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; "><strong><span style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"> </span></strong></font></div> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/golegendcompcontrchart.pdf"><strong>http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/golegendcompcontrchart.pdf</strong></a><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><br /> </span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000; "><strong>Note: There are many possible answers for this legend proof, the following is just one approach.</strong></span></font></div> <div style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sh-compcontr-ans.pdf"><strong>http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/sh-compcontr-ans.pdf</strong></a><br /> </span></font></div> </span> <div style="font-size: 12pt; "> <div><font> <div> <div><dt></dt></div> </div> </font></div> </div> <div style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong> </strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <div style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong><br /> </strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <div style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong><span style="background-color: #ffff00; ">Definition and supporting evidence:</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <div style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong> </strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <div style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; background-color: yellow; "> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <span style="background-color: yellow; "> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <span style="background-color: yellow; "> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; "> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; "> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; "> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <span style="color: #0000ff; "> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> <span style="color: #0000ff; "> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong>Legends are exaggerated stories told to remember the actions of a person, who mad a difference in history and/or an authentic time in history.</strong></span> </span></span></span></span></font></div> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong>Hyperbole is the literary tool the author uses to draft his/her legend. Celebration, nostalgia, and humor are common modes of the legend.</strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> </span> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> </span> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> </span> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> </span> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> </span> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> </span></span> <div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> </span> <div style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="color: #0000ff; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre; "><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></div> </div> <div style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> <div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">"This neighborhood, at the time of which I am speaking, was one of those highly favored places which abound with chronicle and great men. The British and American line had run near it during the war; it had, therefore, been the scene of marauding, and infested with refugees, cowboys, and all kinds of border chivalry. Just sufficient time had elapsed to enable each storyteller to dress up his tale with a little becoming fiction, and, in the indistinctness of his recollection, to make himself the hero of every exploit." </span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #0000ff; "><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"><strong>http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</strong></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">"But all these were nothing to the tales of ghosts and apparitions that succeeded. The neighborhood is rich in legendary treasures of the kind. Local tales and superstitions thrive best in these sheltered long-settled retreats, but are trampled under foot by the shifting throng that forms the population of most of our country places. Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves before their surviving friends have traveled away from the</span> </span></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; "><strong>neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds they have no acquaintance left to call upon. This is perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear of ghosts except in our long-established Dutch communities." </strong></span></span></span><span style="color: #0000ff; "><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"><strong>http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</strong></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><br /> </strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><br /> </strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="background-color: #ffff00; ">Setting - Ports along the Hudson River - and supporting evidence: </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>"In the heart of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the reviver denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators, the Tappensee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored protection of St Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly know by the name Tarry Town." <o:p></o:p></strong><span style="color: #0000ff; "><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"><strong>http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</strong></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong> <o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><br /> </strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="background-color: #ffff00; ">Setting - Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown (Tarry Town) - and supporting evidence: </span><o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>"A small brook glides through it with just a murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks the uniform tranquility." </strong><span style="color: #0000ff; "><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"><strong>http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</strong></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>"From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, the sequestered glen has long been know by the name of Sleepy Hollow, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow boys throughout all the neighboring country." </strong><span style="color: #0000ff; "><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"><strong>http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</strong></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0000ff; "><strong><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"></a></strong></span><strong> <o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><br /> </strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="background-color: #ffff00; ">Characters - Legendary Apparition and Superstition and supporting evidence: </span><o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>"The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war; and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind. His haunts are not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance. Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper, having been buried in the church-yard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the church-yard before daybreak.<o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>"Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known, at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow." </strong><span style="color: #0000ff; "><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"><strong>http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</strong></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong> <o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><br /> </strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="background-color: #ffff00; ">Protagonist - Ichabod Crane and supporting evidence:</span><o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>"In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, “tarried,” in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. He was a native of Connecticut; a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." <o:p></o:p></strong><span style="color: #0000ff; "><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"><strong>http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</strong></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><br /> </strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong> <o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="background-color: #ffff00; ">Setting - The One-room School House - and supporting evidence:</span><o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>"His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copy-books. It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours, by a withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shutters; so that, though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out; an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houton, from the mystery of an eel-pot. The school-house stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils’ voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer’s day, like the hum of a bee-hive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command; or, peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.”—Ichabod Crane’s scholars certainly were not spoiled."<o:p></o:p></strong></p> <span style="color: #0000ff; "> <p><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html" title="" target="_blank"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/IrvLege.html</strong></font></a></p> </span><!--EndFragment--></div> <p><br /> </p> <div> </div> </span></span><strong> </strong></div> <p style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </p> <p style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </p> </font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "> <div><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> <div style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Homework Friday, October 28th through Sunday, November 13th: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; background-color: #ffff00; "><strong>Cumulative Review Questions: Due November 14th</strong></span></div> </span></font></div> </span></div> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11px; "><dt><strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">L. Frank Baum's <em>Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em>: Cumulative Review Questions: </strong></dt><dt><strong><a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; ">http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/oz-cumulative-review-mc.pdf</span></a></strong></dt></span><span style="color: black; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 800;"> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <div><span style="background-color: #00ff00; "><img border="0" align="absmiddle" src="/Controls/DHtmlEditor/Images/emfilm.gif" alt="" /> Looking Ahead:</span></div> </span></span></div> </span></span><font> <p style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Tuesday, November 8th: Professional Development - no school</strong></p> <p style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Wednesday, November 9th and Thursday, November 10th: film/novel comparative analysis </strong></p> <p style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Return to the Oz page: <a href="http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/apt5.aspx">http://teacherweb.com/MA/DrKevinMHurleyMiddleSchool/dsturner/apt5.aspx</a></strong></p> <p style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Friday, November 11th: Veteran's Day - no school</strong></p> <p style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><strong><br /></strong></p> <p style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><br /> </p> </font></div> </div> </div> <div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; border-collapse: collapse; "> <div><span style="border-collapse: separate; "> <div style="color: black; "><font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 8pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "> <div><strong> <!--EndFragment--> </strong></div> </span></span></span></span></font> </div> </span></div> </span> </div> Automatically clean input to optimize for the web. 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Informational Texts Short Stories/Novellas Washington Irving and SLEEPY HOLLOW Vocab&Text Complexity

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