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Post by Admin on Aug 25, 2015 17:43:33 GMT
As a reply to this thread, post your answers from the GROUP TASKS worksheet. Consider the following:
a. Include names of ALL GROUP MEMBERS
b. Answer in complete sentences
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Valerie V., Gabriel G., Lia B.
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Post by Valerie V., Gabriel G., Lia B. on Oct 22, 2015 12:05:05 GMT
a. 5 Integral vocabulary words used in the text. Each word should include a definition and include the sentence where the word was used from the text (10 points).
- Colomber- A mythical sea creature in Italy that haunts its victim forever until it devours them. (That is a Colomber.)
- Perla del Mare- It’s a magical pearl that the Colomber gave to Stefano.
(And he recognized as the famous Perla del Mare.)
- Sailor- A person who is a member of a crew of a commercial or naval ship or boat.
(He asked the sailors about this and that, and they gladly explained everything to him.)
- Sea- The expanse of salt water that covers most of the Earth.
(And I want to go to sea to you.)
- Astern- Behind or towards the rear of the ship or aircraft.
(When the boy had gone astern, he stopped, his curiosity arose, to observe something intermittently rose to the surface at the distance.)
b. What was the inciting incident from the text? Explain why you chose this as the inciting incident. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
When he told the Colomber that they were going to end. (‘’Here I am with you, finally,’’ Stefano said. ‘’Now it’s just the two of us.’’ And gathering his remaining strength, he raised the harpoon to strike.
c. What was the climax from the text? Explain why you chose this as the climax. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
When he decided confronted the Colomber. (One evening, while his magnificent ship was anchored offshore the port where he was born, he felt close to death.
d. There is a lesson to be learned from this story. Answer each below with a minimum of two complete sentences (22 points):
i. What is a lesson?
An amount of teaching at one time; a period of learning or teaching.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
He would constantly see the Colomber waiting for him and he wanted to see if it would follow him forever. It was mention in the story.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
He wanted to sail around the sea, instead of staying in the island in fear.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
He got to sail around the sea, but in constant fear.
v. After reviewing all content from the story, what lesson can we learn from this story? Write a one sentence statement of the lesson that can be learned and back it up with an example of how that lesson was learned in the story. This should be a minimum of three sentences.
To conquer your fear. This story shows you that in the end, when Stefano finally faced the Colomber, that everything went well, but he didn’t face him when he was younger, giving him a bad life. It tells us to conquered our fears, because if we don’t, we wouldn’t in peace, but in fear.
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Will S., Taylor Z., Eric V.
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Post by Will S., Taylor Z., Eric V. on Oct 22, 2015 12:10:29 GMT
3. In your group, you will be responsible for completing the prompts found below. All answers must be completed USING COMPLETE SENTENCES (except vocab).
a. 5 Integral vocabulary words used in the text. Each word should include a definition and include the sentence where the word was used from the text (10 points).
Phosphorescent- Glowing –“And the shark stuck out its tongue, offering the old captain a small phosphorescent sphere.”
Indomitable – Impossible to subdue –“An indomitable impulse dragged him without rest, from one ocean to another.”
Stefano- Main Protagonist of The Colomber-“When Stefano Roi was twelve years old, he asked his father, a sea captain and the owner of a fine sailing ship, to take him on board as his birthday gift.”
Colomber- The main antagonist of The Colomber-“That is a colomber. It’s the fish that sailors fear above all others, in every sea in the world. It is a tremendous mysterious shark, more clever than man.”
Inexorable- Impossible to prevent or stop- “He might have moved even to the most remote continent, and still the Colomber would have appeared in the mirror of the nearest sea, with the inexorable obstinacy of a fatal instrument.”
b. What was the inciting incident from the text? Explain why you chose this as the inciting incident. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
When Stefano first saw the Colomber and was told by his father what it is. “’There’s a dark thing that rises in the wake every so often,’ Stefano said” “‘Now I’m worried about you. What you see rising from the water and following us is not some object. That is a Colomber’”
c. What was the climax from the text? Explain why you chose this as the climax. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
When he finally meets the Colomber face-to-face and realizes he wasted his whole life. This was the most exciting part of the story and the realization. “’Uh,’ the Colomber groaned, imploringly,’ what a long journey it’s take to find you. I too am wasted with fatigue.”
d. There is a lesson to be learned from this story. Answer each below with a minimum of two complete sentences (22 points):
i. What is a lesson?
Something that is taught or information that is given for future use.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
The Colomber created curiosity for Stefano when it started following him on the ocean. Stefano took interest in the Colomber following him. He shows this by taking up his family trade, on a boat, to constantly view the Colomber.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
It made him grow old and bitter very quickly.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
He dies of old age and wasted his entire life.
v. After reviewing all content from the story, what lesson can we learn from this story? Write a one sentence statement of the lesson that can be learned and back it up with an example of how that lesson was learned in the story. This should be a minimum of three sentences.
In life, you must follow yourself, not your addictions or curiosities.
In the Colomber Stefano never used his own judgement of the Colomber, only the tales of other sailors. Instead of finding or learning for himself, Stefano became curious of the Colomber stalking him over the tides. Only until he had become at the end of his life did he brave up to meeting the Colomber.
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Jordyn B., and Jessica G.
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Post by Jordyn B., and Jessica G. on Oct 22, 2015 12:12:44 GMT
3. In your group, you will be responsible for completing the prompts found below. All answers must be completed USING COMPLETE SENTENCES (except vocab).
a. 5 Integral vocabulary words used in the text. Each word should include a definition and include the sentence where the word was used from the text (10 points).
1. Maneuvers – a movement or series of moves requiring skill and care.
Sentence – Stefano, Who had never been on a ship, happily wandered around on deck, admiring the complicated maneuvers of the sails.
2. Indefinable – not able to be defined or described exactly.
Sentence – And though the boy did not make out what it was, there was some indefinable about it which attracted him intensely.
3. Intermittently – at irregular intervals; not continuously or steady.
Sentence – But looking carefully, Stefano could perceive a small black point which intermittently surfaced on the water.
4. Dissuaded – persuade (someone) not to take a particular course of action.
Sentence – from then on, with every expedient the boy was dissuaded from his desire to go to sea.
5. Obstinacy – the quality or condition of being obstinate; stubbornness
Sentence — He might have moved even to the most remote continent, and still the colomber would have appeared in the mirror of the nearest sea, with the inexorable obstinacy of a fatal instrument.
b. What was the inciting incident from the text? Explain why you chose this as the inciting incident. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
Stefano sees the colomber for the first time. “The boy insisted, the father went to get the telescope, and he scrutinized the surface of the sea, in line with the wake. Stefano saw him turn white.”
c. What was the climax from the text? Explain why you chose this as the climax. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
The climax was when he went back to the sea to follow his father’s footsteps.
d. There is a lesson to be learned from this story. Answer each below with a minimum of two complete sentences (22 points):
i. What is a lesson?
An amount of teaching given at one time; a period of learning or teaching.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
He wanted to see what would happen. He went back out to see.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
He kept sailing till he was dead till he decided to meet the colomber right before he died.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
He got the pearl of the sea from the colomber by the queen of the ocean.
v. After reviewing all content from the story, what lesson can we learn from this story? Write a one sentence statement of the lesson that can be learned and back it up with an example of how that lesson was learned in the story. This should be a minimum of three sentences. The lesson of the story is to never judge a book by its cover. Stefano’s dad told him that the colomber was mean and wanted to kill him. He said that because he heard that it was dangerous and that it looked mean.
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Collin S. Dylan P. Hannah D.
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Post by Collin S. Dylan P. Hannah D. on Oct 22, 2015 12:14:43 GMT
a. 5 Integral vocabulary words used in the text. Each word should include a definition and include the sentence where the word was used from the text (10 points).
~ placid- unconquerable; not easily discouraged or defeated—Officers and sailors saw him disappear down below, on the placid sea, shrouded in the nocturnal shadows.
~ reentered- the port, and on the pretext of a sudden illness—Having said this, he immediately reserved his course, reentered the port, and on the pretext of a sudden illness, he put his son ashore.
~ inexorable- unyielding; immovable—He might have moved even to the most remote continent, and still the Colomber would have appeared in the mirror of the nearest sea, with the inexorable obstinacy of a fatal instrument.
~ obstinately- stubbornly; persistently—But looking carefully, Stefano could perceive a small black point which intermittently surfaced on the water: It was “his” colomber, slowly moving back and forth, obstinately waiting for him.
~ sever- separate; break or cut off—He knew that this was his curse and his penalty, and precisely for this reason, perhaps, he did not find the strength to sever himself from it.
b. What was the inciting incident from the text? Explain why you chose this as the inciting incident. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points). Stefano thinks he sees the Colomber. Now I am worried about you. What you see rising from the water and following us is not some object. That is a colomber. It’s the fish that sailors fear above all others, in every sea in the world.
c. What was the climax from the text? Explain why you chose this as the climax. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
Stefano meets the Colomber. That’s when he discovered it and realized himself that he could be killed. It happens on the boat.
d. There is a lesson to be learned from this story. Answer each below with a minimum of two complete sentences (22 points):
i. What is a lesson?
To not let curiosity get the best of you
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
The colomber caused his curiosity in Stefano. I know this because he went there every day.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
When he got older and wanted to know more about his father history.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
He kills the Colomber.
v. After reviewing all content from the story, what lesson can we learn from this story? Write a one sentence statement of the lesson that can be learned and back it up with an example of how that lesson was learned in the story. This should be a minimum of three sentences. You can’t wait for something to happen you have to go for it. If something good happens you’re okay, but bad you might learn something good. Waiting for it to happen takes forever, you go and see what’s up and hope for the best.
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Chloe A, Marley M, Alexis K
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Post by Chloe A, Marley M, Alexis K on Oct 22, 2015 12:15:54 GMT
3. In your group, you will be responsible for completing the prompts found below. All answers must be completed USING COMPLETE SENTENCES (except vocab).
a. 5 Integral vocabulary words used in the text. Each word should include a definition and include the sentence where the word was used from the text (10 points).
Colomber- A creature in the sea that followed Stefano around almost his whole life. “ and still the colomber would have appeared in the mirror of the nearest sea,”
Seafaring- Traveling by sea. “Seafaring is not for you, my son.”
Courage- The ability to do something that frightens one. “his courage and times of strife and danger.”
Stefano- A boy who wanted to prove his dad wrong. “Stefano who had never been on a ship, happily wandered around on the deck,”
Verification- the process of establishing the truth, accuracy, or validity of something. “the first thing he did as soon as he had free time, was to hurry to the end of the pier for a kind of verification.”
b. What was the inciting incident from the text? Explain why you chose this as the inciting incident. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
The inciting incident is that Stefano sees the colomber. We chose this because it’s what stirred up the story. “Papa, come here and see.” “There’s a dark thing that rises in the wake every so often.”
c. What was the climax from the text? Explain why you chose this as the climax. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
The climax is when Stefano quits his job and goes back on the water. We chose this part as the climax because it was an important part of the story. ”Stefano was hardly twenty-two years old when, having said goodbye to his inland friends and resigned from his job, he returned to his native city and told his mother of his firm intentions to follow his father’s trade.”
d. There is a lesson to be learned from this story. Answer each below with a minimum of two complete sentences (22 points):
i. What is a lesson?
A lesson is a thing you learn and you take in the information and use it later in life when needed.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
Stefano had curiosity when he first saw the colomber. We know this because he kept asking his dad what that thing in the ocean was.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
He found out the colomber was bad, so his father told him he couldn’t sail anymore. So, it developed the curiosity in the story.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
Stefano had then later learned in his life that the curiosity of the colomber wasn’t what he thought it was.
v. After reviewing all content from the story, what lesson can we learn from this story? Write a one sentence statement of the lesson that can be learned and back it up with an example of how that lesson was learned in the story. This should be a minimum of three sentences.
A lesson learned from this story is too don’t let curiosity stop you from doing what you want to find out/ do in your life. This relates to the story because Stefano had to give up sailing since the colomber had stopped him from what he loved doing.
After you have contributed to your group and completed this information, post your answers to the GROUP DISCUSSION PAGE. All group members should be listed in the name category of the post.
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Tyler Barth, Hunter Dietrich
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Post by Tyler Barth, Hunter Dietrich on Oct 22, 2015 12:17:30 GMT
The Colomber Group Tasks Names: Tyler Barth, Hunter Dietrich
PART B – GROUP (42 Total Points)– Recommendation: Complete each section individually, then reconvene as a group and choose the most appropriate answer to use when submitting via the discussion post. This will take time, require individual input, and require discussion.
3. In your group, you will be responsible for completing the prompts found below. All answers must be completed USING COMPLETE SENTENCES (except vocab).
a. 5 Integral vocabulary words used in the text. Each word should include a definition and include the sentence where the word was used from the text (10 points).
• Wake – a trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft. – “There’s a dark thing that rises in the wake behind, every so often,” Stefano said, “and it follows behind us.”
• Mysterious – difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify. – “It is a tremendous, mysterious shark, more clever than man.”
• Ominous – giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen – “Stefano, there is no doubt the Colomber has ominously chose you, and as long as you go to sea, it will give you no peace.”
• Desire – to strongly wish or want something – “From then on, with every expedient the boy was dissuaded from his desire to go to sea.”
• Fear – be afraid of (someone or something) as likely as to be dangerous, painful, or threatening – “That is the Colomber. It is a fish that sailors fear above all others, in every sea in the world.”
b. What was the inciting incident from the text? Explain why you chose this as the inciting incident. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points). The inciting incident is when Stefano first spotted the Colomber on his father’s ship. “ When the boy had gone astern, he stopped, his curiosity aroused, to observe something that intermittently rose to the surface at a distance of two to three hundred meters, in line with the ship’s wake.”
c. What was the climax from the text? Explain why you chose this as the climax. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points). The time Stefano rowed out onto the water to meet the Colomber was the climax. It was the point in the story with the most tension. “’Here I am with you, finally,’ Stefano said. ‘Now it’s just the two of us.’”
d. There is a lesson to be learned from this story. Answer each below with a minimum of two complete sentences (22 points):
i. What is a lesson?
• A lesson is something you learn in life, usually through personal experience. It’s something you learn that you’ll use throughout your life.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
• The thing that aroused his curiosity was why the Colomber had chosen him in the first place.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
• It persuaded him to go to sea and to tire out the Colomber.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
• It came to him living his life on the seas, and eventually confronting the Colomber.
v. After reviewing all content from the story, what lesson can we learn from this story? Write a one sentence statement of the lesson that can be learned and back it up with an example of how that lesson was learned in the story. This should be a minimum of three sentences. We can learn that rumors shouldn’t always be taken seriously, and don’t always believe everything everyone says. “Because the Colomber is an animal that spares no one. And if it has begun to follow this ship, it means one of us is doomed.”
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Post by Armando Torres lukis H. on Oct 22, 2015 12:19:14 GMT
3. In your group, you will be responsible for completing the prompts found below. All answers must be completed USING COMPLETE SENTENCES (except vocab).
a. 5 Integral vocabulary words used in the text. Each word should include a definition and include the sentence where the word was used from the text (10 points).
1.obstinately: stubbornly persistancetley
2.expediant: means resource device used in emergency.
3. inexorable: unyielding immovable unchangeable
4.abyss:bottomless depth, here something beyond understanding
5: Intrepib : fearless brave
n1 It was his colomber slowly moving back and forth, obstinately waiting for him.
2 From then on, with every expedient the boy was dissuaded from his desire to go to sea.
3. mirror of the nearest sea, with the inexorable obstinacy of the fatal instrument
4. Great are the satisfactions of an industrious, well to do, and quiet life, but greater still is the attraction of the abyss.
5. Stefano began to sail ,giving proof of his sea worthiness , his resistance to fatigue, and his intrepid spirit.
b. What was the inciting incident from the text? Explain why you chose this as the inciting incident. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points). The inciting incident is when he was a kid his dad and the sailors told stories about the colomber.
c. What was the climax from the text? Explain why you chose this as the climax. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points). I think the climax of the text is while Stefano was trying to kill the colomber. Excerpt : Here I am finally, Stefano said. Now it’s just the two of us. And gathering his remaining strength, he raised the harpoon to strike.
d. There is a lesson to be learned from this story. Answer each below with a minimum of two complete sentences (22 points):
i. What is a lesson? A period of time where learning is being taught by a instructor. A passage from the bible read aloud during church service
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this? The cause of the curiosity for the main character is when Stefano’s dad and the sailors told Stefano about the stories about the colomber. When Stefano went to the sea the colomber was waiting and following Stefano.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
Stefano’s curiosity led him to facing the colomber at the end of the story. It also led him to getting the pearl.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
The outcome of Stefano’s curiosity was when he decide to try to kill the colomber. When Stefano was getting the pearl.
v. After reviewing all content from the story, what lesson can we learn from this story? Write a one sentence statement of the lesson that can be learned and back it up with an example of how that lesson was learned in the story. This should be a minimum of three sentences. You shouldn’t live In fear. We picked this lesson because the colomber was always following Stefano around because he was never brave. The colomber represents fear that Stefano has. That’s what happened to Stefano and that’s why the colomber was following him.
After you have contributed to your group and completed this information, post your answers to the GROUP DISCUSSION PAGE. All group members should be listed in the name category of the post.
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Post by Evelyn Reed, Sadie Shuman on Oct 22, 2015 12:20:23 GMT
a. 5 Integral vocabulary words used in the text. Each word should include a definition and include the sentence where the word was used from the text (10 points).
Stefano- the main character of the story, has a curse on him
” When Stefano Roi was twelve years old, he asked his father, a sea captain and the owner of a fine sailing ship, to take him on board as his birthday gift.”
Colomber- the creature or shark following him
”That is a colomber. It’s the fish that sailors fear above all others, in every sea in the world. It is a tremendous mysterious shark, more clever than man.”
Ship- the vessel Sefano sails on throughout his life
“ He sailed and sailed, and in the wake of his ship, day and night, in good weather and in storms…”
Doomed- likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated.
”…it means that one of us is doomed.”
Seafaring- traveling by sea
“Seafaring is not for you, my son.”
b. What was the inciting incident from the text? Explain why you chose this as the inciting incident. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
The crew telling Stefano the Myth. “… It is a tremendous, mysterious, shark, more clever than man. For reasons that perhaps no one will ever know,” This starts Stefano’s life worrying about the creature.
c. What was the climax from the text? Explain why you chose this as the climax. Include the excerpt from the text that shows when this happened (5 points).
When Stefano meets the Colomber, the shark gives him a pearl. He does not die from the Colomber. “And the Shark stuck out its tongue, offering the old caption a small phosphorescent sphere.” I chose this because it has the most tension in the short. You want to find out what happens in the story.
d. There is a lesson to be learned from this story. Answer each below with a minimum of two complete sentences (22 points):
i. What is a lesson?
Don’t let your fears stop you from accomplishing what you want to do in life.
Don’t let what other people tell you dictate your actions.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
What caused curiosity for Stefano is not knowing what the Colomber wanted.
The myth of the creature is what drove him to buy a boat.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
It lead to Stefano sailing. He sailed all of his life.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
Stefano became bitter. He was unhappy because he kept traveling all of his and not making friends.
v. After reviewing all content from the story, what lesson can we learn from this story? Write a one sentence statement of the lesson that can be learned and back it up with an example of how that lesson was learned in the story. This should be a minimum of three sentences.
The lesson that I took from the story is believing what people tell you can lead to unfortunate actions. “…it pursues him for years and years, for his entire life, until it has succeeded in devouring him.” From this information, Stefano let this dictate his actions for years to come. In all reality, the Colomber was nothing.
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Post by Hannah k. Melissa D. Trey B. on Oct 22, 2015 12:25:01 GMT
a)Ominously- giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen
Freighter- a ship or aircraft designed to carry goods in bulk
Mirage- An optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or sea.
b)When Stefano sees the Colomber out in the ocean. It shows what the whole story has to do with the Colomber and how it follows Stefano for his whole life. “There’s a dark thing that rises in the wake every so often and it follows behind us.”
c)The climax is when Stefano decides to quit his job and go back out on the ocean to confront the Colomber. This is when Stefano realizes that the Colomber won’t leave him alone and then decides to go and face the Colomber. Stefano began to sail, giving proof of his seaworthiness, his resistance to fatigue, and his intrepid spirit.
1)A lesson is to instruct or teach someone the wrongs of a situation. The character learns lessons throughout the story.
2) He wanted to see if the Colomber would really follow him everywhere he went. He decided to go back out on the seas and travel the ocean.
3)The curiosity caused Stefano to go back out on the ocean like his father and travel the world like he always wanted to as a little kid.
4)Stefano finally overcame his curiosity and faced the Colomber after getting sick of living in fear.
5)An important lesson we can learn from this story is to face your problems early and not wait. Stefano most of his life to finally go and face the Colomber. Once he faced it he realized it wasn’t bad at all and he didn’t have to worry.
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