Mr.Kochis–7thGradeReading

12/12/16-Day3

ATB:WordoftheDayCopythedefinitionofthewordbelowandanswerthemultiplechoicequestion.

skimp \ˈskimp\ verb 1. work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially 2. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities Didn’t I slave and scratch and skimp all my life! In this sentence, skimp means to: A. sob B. save C. suffer D. slip http://nyti.ms/2hF9q1dActivities:ReadChapters3-5inSlake’sLimboObj.1.ExplaintheconflictinthenovelSlake’sLimbo.2.DescribethecharactersinthenovelSlake’sLimbo.

Mr.Kochis–7thGradeReading12/13/16-Day4ATB:Readchapter3-5questionsandpreviewvocabularyterms(periscopic-adept)forSlake’sLimbo.Activities:1.ReadChapters3-5inSlake’sLimbo2.CompleteChapters3-5QuestionsObj.1.ExplaintheconflictinthenovelSlake’sLimbo.2.DescribethecharactersinthenovelSlake’sLimbo.

Slakes Limbo Questions

Chapters 1-2 Questions:

1. Why did Aramis Slake keep a subway token in his pocket? � 2. Why was Slake useless to any gang? � 3. Why did Slake often awake gagging? � 4. Who was Joseph? What happened to him? � 5. How did Slake’s teachers, classmates, and others regard him? � 6. What drove Slake back down to the subway that first afternoon? � 7. Where did Slake find a new home? How long did he stay there? � 8. Who were Mr. Coggins and Mr. Murone? � 9. Why do you think Slake wanted the autumn leaves to stay on the trees? � 10. Do you think it was a good idea for Slake to run away? �

Chapters 3-5 Questions:

1. Describe Slake’s new “room.” � 2. What kind of business did Slake undertake? How did he get the idea for his new

business? � 3. In “On Another Track,” what did Willis Joe remember telling his grandmother? How

did she react to his news? � 4. What were Slake’s two main sources of supply for his newspaper business? � 5. How did Slake become an expert subway traveler? � 6. Slake earned some money to buy food by reselling secondhand newspapers. Do you

think that Slake was basically honest or dishonest? � 7. Do you think Slake is a “worthless lump”? �

Chapters 6-8 Questions:

1. Who were Slake’s two regular customers? � 2. Why did Slake at first feel uneasy about the man with a turban? What happened to

change Slake’s mind about him? � 3. In “On Another Track,” why had Australia become “farther away than it used to be” to

Willis Joe? � 4. What use did Slake make of his collection of junk to improve his vision? � 5. What business proposition did the manager of the coffee shop offer Slake? � 6. Why did Slake no longer need to spend his money on food? What did he spent it on

instead? � 7. What hobby did Slake pursue? � 8. Why do you think the author did not give names to the three important people in

Slake’s life—the cleaning lady, the man with a turban, or the waitress? � 9. Why do you think that Slake collected so many objects? � 10. Do you think that Slake and Willis Joe will ever “cross tracks”? If so, what do

you think might bring them together? �

Chapters 9-11 Questions: 1. Why did Slake’s eyes tear when he threw a crumb to the rat? � 2. In “On Another Track,” what did the people in the subway begin to resemble to Willis

Joe? Why? � 3. Why didn’t Slake fear the subway blackout? � 4. When did Slake realize that he lacked a cause? � 5. What did the green sky that Slake spray-painted on his walls signify? � 6. In “On Another Track,” why was Willis Joe “on the edge”? � 7. Why do you think Slake spray-painted the message “Save Aramis Slake” on his walls? �

8. Consider what was happening separately to Slake’s track and to Willis Joe’s track. Which of these two persons was more in touch with reality? �

Chapters 12- 15 Questions:

1. Why was Slake cut off from his home in the tunnel? � 2. How did the news of the train accident affect Slake’s work routine? � 3. What does the statement, “Slake read his death sentence,” mean? � 4. How did the news of the renovation of the subway tunnel affect Slake’s health? � 5. When did Willis Joe know that he was the “lead sheep” and not the “sheepherder”? � 6. How did Willis Joe and Slake finally meet? � 7. What was the special significance of the bouquet Slake received in the hospital? � 8. How was Willis Joe affected by his rescue of Slake? � 9. What is the meaning of the title of the book? Do you think the title is appropriate? � 10. Do you think Slake’s sign that read “STOP” meant that he wanted to stop a train,

that he was protesting the tunnel renovation, or did it have additional meanings? � 11. Consider what Slake would have done if there hadn’t been a train accident in the

tunnel. Do you think he might have continued to live and work underground? If so, for how long? �

12. What do you think will happen to Slake? Where and how do you think Slake will be spending his days and nights? �

Vocabulary

pariah,asphyxiating,tenuously,fortuitous,schist,periscopic,singed,tenement,gullet,contingent,unobtrusively,fetid,mosaic,excursions,adept,buoyancy,adhesive,cadged,palpable,festooned,roiling,emaciated,mélange,negligence,hindrances,slough,ashen,trundle,provisions,liberated, https://quizlet.com/105009366/slakes-limbo-vocabulary-flash-cards/

Mr.Kochis–7thGradeReading 12/14/16-Day5ATB:What’sGoingOninThisPicture?After looking closely at the image above, answer the three questions below: 1. What is going on in this picture? 2. What do you see that makes you say that?

3. What more can you find?

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Activities:1.CompleteChapters3-5QuestionsforSlake’sLimbo2.Slake’sLimboVocabularyCards–UsethetemplatebelowtocompletevocabularycardsforthewordsontheSlake’sLimboQuestionsheet(periscopictoadept)from12/5.Objectives:1.SummarizethebeginningofthenovelSlake’sLimbo.2.Illustratethemeaningofvocabularyterms.

Mr.Kochis–7thGradeReading

12/15/16-Day1

ATB:PicturePrompt

This is an illustration that went with a recent article from the Your Money section of The Times. Type1:Inoneparagraphanswerthequestionbelow. What do you think the article was about if this image illustrated it? Read the related article (http://nyti.ms/2aFkrx0) to see if you were right. http://nyti.ms/2hEKcnw Activities:Read“NewYorkCitySubwaySystemOpens”and“OurSubway,Ourselves:ImagesThroughtheAges”fromtheNewYorkTimesandanswerthe5WQuestionsObj.1.WriteaparagraphtosummarizethehistoryoftheNewYorkCitySubway.2.DrawapicturetoillustratethesubwaysysteminNewYorkCity.

The New York Times

Oct. 27, 1904 | New York City Subway System Opens By The Learning Network October 27, 2011 4:05 am On Oct. 27, 1904, the first rapid transit subway, the Interborough Rapid Transit (I.R.T.), opened in New York City. The line ran approximately nine miles from City Hall north to Grand Central Station, then west to Times Square and up the West Side to 145th Street. The New York Times described the excitement among city dwellers for the subway’s opening: “For the first time in his life Father Knickerbocker went underground yesterday; went underground, he and his children, to the number of 150,000, amid the tooting of whistles and the firing of salutes, for a first ride in a subway which for years had been scoffed at as an impossibility.” The first underground railway system, the Metropolitan Railway, opened in London in 1863. The trains ran on steam, which caused problems in the tunnels, but the system proved popular. A competing London metro system introduced electric trains in 1890, which made underground transit more practical. Though the first subway in the United States opened in 1897 in Boston, New York eventually became the American city most associated with underground transportation. After receiving city contracts in 1913, the I.R.T. and rival Brooklyn Rapid Transit (B.R.T.) increased the number of subway lines. These make up most of the modern subway lines the city has today. In 1932, New York City formed the Independent Subway System (IND), taking over the I.R.T. and its remaining private competitor, Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, in 1940. New York subway riders can still see remnants of the old subway system. Connect to Today: Today, the New York City Subway system has 22 interconnected routes and three shuttles running more than 200 miles among 468 stations, nearly as many stations as there are in the rest of the United States combined. In recent years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway and other transportation in New York, used a series of fare hikes, layoffs and other cost- cutting measures to cope with budget woes.

OurSubway,Ourselves:ImagesThroughtheAgesByDAVIDW.DUNLAP OCT.21,2010YOU can smell these photos, can’t you? You can hear them. You can feel them. If you’re a New Yorker of a certain age, you can even taste them. (God help us, there were fast-food counters in the Times Square station until a generation ago. ) To mark the subway’s 106th birthday this week, Metropolitan and the Lens blog offer the first extensive gallery of subway pictures by staff photographers of The New York Times. In showing us the subway, they show us ourselves sharing a great underground and elevated common, a leveler of prince and pauper, Bloomberg and Jazzbo, where everyone is entitled — or condemned — to the same experience. There are no business-class subway cars; no wood-paneled IRT Club waiting rooms; no five-star concierge booths for the exclusive use of platinum MetroCard holders. Nor is it saying anything new to note the democracy of the subway. But these images underscore how much of the city can be read in its mass-transit system. As the 20th century opened, New York was an industrial crucible, muscular and brutal, but flirting with progressivism and confident of its role at the cutting edge of the new electric technology. By midcentury, the subway was a nickel-a-ride fact of life for generations that had grown up knowing no other way to get around town. In the 1960s and ’70s, the subway became a barometer — safe passage was no longer guaranteed. The troubles and spoliation boiling down below would not be confined there very long. Then, within sight of the 21st century, the subway bounded back in the flash of stainless steel and the gleam of fresh-scrubbed ceramic. Chang W. Lee’s picture of two young girls playing aboard an N train, taken this month, calls to mind nothing so much as Allyn Baum’s photo of an impromptu family card game aboard a Rockaway shuttle, taken 52 years ago. You may come away from this photo essay convinced that — for all our differences — we really are all waiting for the same train. http://nyti.ms/20bTxye HOW old is the New York City subway system? WHERE in the subway were there once fast-food counters? WHEN did a ride cost a nickle? WHY, according to this short essay, has the subway been “a leveler of prince and pauper”? WHAT is the name of the authority that runs the subway in New York City? WHO took his children on the subway the day it opened?

Mr.Kochis–7thGradeReading12/16/16-Day2ATB:TestReviewCalculatethestudent’sprogressreportgradeusingtheassignmentgradesbelow.Whatisthehighestgradethisstudentcanreceiveforthequarter?Whatpercentofthegradeisincludedintheprogressreport?Vocab1 8.5/10Ntbk1 4/5Daily1 3/5Kahoot1 4/5Project 8/10Activities:1.SecondQuarterArticlesummaryduebeforetheholidaybreak.

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YOUR MONEY | SKETCH GUY

More Money, More Success, MoreStuff? Don’t Count on MoreHappinessBy CARL RICHARDS JULY 25, 2016

What is the one thing that, if you could just get your hands on it, would make youmuch happier?

Go ahead. Get out a piece of paper and write down the first thing that popsinto your head.

Got it?

O.K., now fess up. Who wrote something about a new car? How about apromotion? A bigger house? A raise? A yacht? But if you wrote down almostanything at all (except a wish for deeper and more long-lasting relationships),you’re probably wrong.

It turns out that happiness doesn’t come from more money, more stuff or evenbig life events like getting a raise or landing that dream job.

A study from the 1970s by Philip Brickman, Dan Coates and Ronnie Janoff-Bulman for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology even found thatlottery winners took less satisfaction than nonlottery winners in everyday events,and in general, they were not any happier than those who didn’t win the lottery.

If winning the lottery doesn’t bring happiness, how likely is it that a new boatwill?

Not long after my wife and I married, we were walking around in a Salt LakeCity park, superexcited to be newlyweds and with big dreams about the future. Westarted talking about money. While I can’t recall the exact number, I do remembersaying something like, “If I can just make X dollars, we’ll be so much happier.”

It seems so shallow to think that some thing or number will make me happier.But then I realize how often I have heard others say it, too. Even more common ishow often I see that underlying assumption play out in our behavior.

We pass up life-changing experiences because we’re on track to becomepartner. We skip meaningful time with our families so we can respond to one moreemail. I assume this is all in pursuit of something out there that we think will makeus happier.

Unfortunately, this pursuit is futile. In fact, academics have a name for thiscycle, which involves fixating on what we don’t have, actually getting that thing, notending up any happier and then fixating on something else. They call it the hedonictreadmill. Despite all our efforts, we never get anywhere. We experience small upsand downs, but by and large, our happiness stays the same.

Starting to feel exhausted? I know I am. I’ve been on the hedonic treadmill forover 20 years. I’m sick of putting happiness on some unattainable pedestal justaround the corner, forever out of reach.

This treadmill is so exhausting that just writing about it is making me tired. SoI’m trying something different now. Instead of hopping on that thing eachmorning, hoping that day is the day it will make me measurably happier — and forme, that has meant skis, houses and plenty of other stuff — I’m moving. I’m leavingthe country for a year and heading to New Zealand.

I’ll still be writing and working, but I’ll also be leading my family on anincredible adventure, while trying to spend more meaningful time doing thingsthat actually bring me (and them) happiness. Because you can’t really find it on atreadmill, and hopping off seems like our quickest route to being as happy as wepossibly can be.

Check back here to hear more about how it all goes.