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Post by Admin on Aug 25, 2015 17:44:58 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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Post by Darrin on Oct 20, 2015 15:54:00 GMT
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Post by logan mark and haylee carr on Oct 20, 2015 16:00:38 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. The Colomber- a mythical creature much like a shark known to choose a victim and forever stalk them. “Stephano there’s no doubt, the Colomber has ominously chosen you, and as long as you go to sea, it will give you no peace.”
2. Journey- an act of traveling from one place to another “What a long journey it’s taken to find you.”
3. Hostile- unfriendly, antagonist “So the idea of that hostile creature waiting for him day and night became a secret obsession for Stefano.”
4. Sinister- Giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen. “At a distance of two to three hundred meters from the pier, in the open sea, the sinister fish was moving back and forth, slowly, rising its muzzle from the water every now and then and turning toward land, as if it anxiously watched for whether Stefano was coming at last.”
5. Harpoon- a barbed spearlike missile attached to a long rope and thrown by hand or fired from a gun, used for catching whales and other large sea creatures. “Having said this, he took his leave of the crew, ordered a small boat to be lowered into the sea, and boarded it, after he made him give them a harpoon.”
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 starts in the beginning of the book when Stefano sees the Colomber, and his dad tells him he is not meant for seafaring. This information can be found on page 36 in paragraph eleven.
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 of the story is when Stefano and the Colmber finally meet. At this time, the Colomber talks and there is a great plot twist. This information can be found on page 39 in paragraph seven through eighteen.
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 period of learning or teaching. Some synonyms for the word, lesson, are session, lecture and class.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
His curiosity started when he Stefano saw the Colomber. He grew even more curious after his father told him how the creature was evil. We know this because after he was told about his curse, he continued to return to the sea.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
His curiosity eventually turned into a fear which took over his actions. As he became more curious, the thought of the Colomber swallowed his brain.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
After a long period of time, Stefano eventually faced his curiosity and fear and confronted the sea monster. If he had done this earlier, he probably would have been granted with the pearl of riches and lived a completely happy 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.
One of the lessons told in the story was don’t assume things you hear from others without finding out if it’s true for yourself. An example from the story is how Stephano listened to everything people said about the Colomber, but in the end he found out it wasn’t true.
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 Maddie R, Kirsten F, Elyse E on Oct 21, 2015 15:37:00 GMT
a. 10 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).
Intermittently; adjective; stopping or ceasing for a time
When the boy had gone astern, he stopped, his curiosity aroused, to observe something the intermittently rose to the surface at a distance of two or three hundred kilometers.
Wake; noun; the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water
There’s a dark thing that rises in the wake every so often.
Scrutinize; verb; to examine in detail with careful or critical attention
After the boy insisted, the father went to get a telescope, and he scrutinized the surface of the sea in line with the wake.
Mast; noun; a tall upright post on a ship, usually carrying a sail or sails
Deeply troubled, the boy remained on the shore until the last tip of the masts sank behind the horizon.
Expedient; noun; means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but considered improper or immoral
From then on, with every expedient the boy was dissuaded from his desire to go to sea.
Inexorable; adjective; impossible to prevent
He might have moved even to the most remote continent and the colomber would have appeared in the mirror at the nearest sea with the inexorable obstinacy of a fatal instrument.
Diversion; noun; an instance of turning something aside from its course
Work, friends, diversions, first love affairs – Stefano’s life was now well underway but the thought of the colomber nonetheless torment him like mirage the was fatal fascinating at the same time, as the day passed rather than disappear it seemed to become more insistent.
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 the dad tells the boy about the colomber. The dad tells the boy that the colomber follows its victim, that’s when he starts thinking about it too much and everything goes downhill.
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 meets the colomber, because that’s when Stefano realizes that was his father told him was incorrect.
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?
The colomber represents fear. You can never run away from fear. Fear needs to be dealt with.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
The colomber is the source of his worry, stress, and curiosity.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
His curiosity led to him constantly thinking about the colomber, which led to him getting a boat and dying after meeting with the colomber.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
He faced his fears and then dies because the colomber was nothing like he thought.
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 cannot run away from fear and death. Don’t overthink everything, live in the moment and enjoy life.
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Post by Nathan Wessner Garret kreisher on Oct 21, 2015 15:38:23 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).
Abyss-bottomless, depth; here, something beyond understanding or too deep for measurement. Great are the satifactions of and industrious, well-to-do, and quiet life, but greater still is the attraction of the abyss.
Placid- undisturbed, calm, tranquil. Officers and sailors saw him disappear down below, on the placid sea, shrouded in the nocturnal shadows.
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 this
Scrutinized- looked at carefully. After the boy insisted, the father went to get a telescope, and he scrutinized the surface of the sea, in line with the wake.
Intermittently- from time to time. 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 or three hundred meters, in line with the ship’s wake.
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).
He sees the colomber on the boat.
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).
He meets the colomber face to face.
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 you learn.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
Why the colomber wanted to eat him so badly that it followed him his whole life.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
He was scared of it and he avoided it for his whole life.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
He finally met it and he found out that the colomber wasn’t that deadly.
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 sentence.
The lesson learned is not to run from your fear. You should face up to your fear and not run. In the story he doesn’t go to see the colomber until he is old and it ruined his life because of how distracted he was about throughout his life.
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Post by Trevor Glifert & Reece Fensty on Oct 21, 2015 15:47:06 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. colomber- a shark/Stefano’s fear
That is a colomber.
2. prosperous- financially successful
But the temptation of the abyss had always been greater for him than the joys of a prosperous life
3. harpoon- a barbed missile
He raised the harpoon to strike.
4. proprietor- a holder of a property
He became the sole proprietor of it.
5. devour- eat hungrily or quickly
It pursues him for his entire life until it has succeeded in devouring him.
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 in the text is when Stefano sees the colomber for the first time. The text says, in the first spotting of the colomber, “his curiosity aroused, to observe something that intermittently rose to the surface”. I chose this inciting incident because it starts the rising action.
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 of the text was when he found out the colomber was not trying to kill him. The text said, “I have not pursued you around the world to devour you, as you thought.” This is the climax because this is the turning point in the text.
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 are taught.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
The colomber caused curiosity for the main character. I know this because even after many years Stefano still came back for him.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
He grew old and miserable.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
He came back to the colomber to defeat it.
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 in this story is to not let your fear get the best of you. Stefano learned this lesson when he let his fear of the colomber ruin his life.
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Post by Sydney and Brady on Oct 21, 2015 15:53:17 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).
-seafaring; traveling by sea. Seafaring is not for you , my son.
-The Colomber; a talking shark. Stefano, there’s no doubt, the colomber has ominously chosen you, end as long as you go to the sea it will give you no peace.
-perceived; to become aware or cautions. And no one on board, except him, perceived the monster.
-fatigue; extreme tiredness. Stefano began to sail, giving proof of his seaworthiness, his resistance to fatigue, and his intrepid spirit.
-obstinacy; stubbornness. He might have moved even to the most remote continent, and stillthe 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). The inciting incident is when Stefano first saw the Colomber. I chose this because it is a big part of the rising action. “What you see rising from the water and following us is not some object. That is a colomber.” (page 36)
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 in the story is when he calls the colomber and the colomber gives Stefano the pearl. “Here I am with you, finally,” Stefano said. “Now it’s just the two of us.” (page 39)
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? The lesson from the story is that you shouldn’t let fear control your life. Stefano lets his fear take over and doesn’t live his life to the fullest because he is afraid of the colomber.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this? When he first saw the colomber and it started following him. We know this because Stefano kept going back to the sea to see if it was still there.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story? He became obsessed with the colomber. Stefano made the colomber his whole life and went back to the sea everyday looking for the colomber.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity? The outcome was Stefano became old and bitter. He didn’t live his life out because he was constantly in 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. The lesson is that you shouldn’t let fear control your life. Stefano let his fear of the colomber ruin the rest of his life and he became bitter and old. You shouldn’t be like Stefano and you should live your life not in fear, but in joy.
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Post by Darrin Mescavage on Oct 21, 2015 15:53:43 GMT
The Colomber Group Tasks Names:
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).
Intermittently, from time to time. When the boy had gone astern, he stopped, his curiosity arouse, and to observe something that intermittently rose from the water.
Scrutinized, looked at carefully. After the boy, the father went to go get the telescope and he scrutinized the surface of the sea, in line with the wake, Stefano saw him turn pale.
Obstinately, stubbornly; persistently. It was his Colomber, slowly moving back and forth, obstinately, waiting for him.
Sever, broken; brake or cut off .He did not find the strength to sever the Colomber.
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 first time the Colomber comes. Because Stefano would not have gone out at sea if there was no Colomber. Now I’m worried about you .what you see rising from the water and following us, it’s not an object, that is 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).when he gets to meet the colomber and gives him the weird shaped pearl. There would be no ending to 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? A lesson is a structured period of time where learning is intended to occur. [citation needed] It involves one or more students (also called pupils or learners in some circumstances) being taught by a teacher or instructor
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
Whether the Colomber was actually trying to kill him. So he goes out to sea and looks for the Colomber.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
Always wondering if he is actually wanted to kill him or if he was just hungry and had no food.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
He actually found out about the Colomber he wasn’t trying to kill him at all.
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 should not just assume that a person does something because someone could just confess up to doing it at any given moment and then you have to apologize.
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Post by Mitchell K, James B on Oct 21, 2015 15:54:19 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).
Intrepid- fearless; brave. Stefano began to sail, giving proof of his resistance to fatigue and in the intrepid spirit. Sever- separate; break or cut off. He did not find the strength to sever himself from it. Placid- undisturbed; calm; tranquil. Inexplorable- unyielding; immoveable; unchangeable. Indomitable- unconquerable; not easily discouraged or defeated. An indomitable impulse dragged him without rest, from one ocean to another. Scrutinized- looked at carefully. He scrutinized the surface of the sea, in line with the wake.
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 was when Stefano and his father were talking about the Colomber for the first time. It is a tremendous, mysterious shark, more clever than man. For some reasons perhaps no one will ever know, it choses its victim, and when it has chosen, it pursues you for years and years, for your entire life, until it has succeeded in devouring him.
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 rides out in the ocean on his boat with his harpoon gun so he can meet with the Colomber face-to-face and shoot it with his harpoon gun. “ Now I am going to meet it,” he announced. “ it isn’t right to disappoint it. But I shall struggle, with all my might. “
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 period of learning.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
He wanted to find out why the colomber was following him. He was stressing about the colomber, during the whole story.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
Since he was always thinking about the colomber, it made him want to meet the colomber
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
He met the colomber face-to-face at the end of the story.
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.
Everything you here, might not always be true. They said it would hunt him for his entire life until it kills him. It wasn’t true because it just wanted to give him a pearl.
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Post by collin emerich, dameon rattie on Oct 21, 2015 16:03:54 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).
Perceiving- “The captain asked his son, finally perceiving him on the stern as he stared at the waves.” Become aware or conscious of something
Obstinacy-“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” the quality or condition of being obstinate
Dissuaded- “from then on, with every expedient the boy was dissuaded from his desire to go to sea” persuade someone not to take a particular course of action
Reentered-“having said this, he immediately reversed his course, reentered the port, and on the pretext of a sudden illness, he put his son ashore.” enter something again
Nonetheless-“in spite of that; nevertheless “ Work, friends, diversions, first love affairs- Stefano’s life was not well under way, but the thought of the colomber nonetheless tormented him like a mirage that was fatal and fascinating at the same time; and as the days passed, rather than disappear, it seemed to become more insistent.”
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 see’s the colomber. This is when Stefano sees the colomber for the first time. “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).
When Stefano sees the colomber for the second time. It is when Stefano first finds out the colomber can talk. “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.” “Uh,” the colomber groaned, imploringly, “what a long journey it’s taken to find you. I too am wasted with fatigue. How much you made me swim. And you kept on fleeing. You never understood at all.”
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 learned in the story. For example don’t judge a book by its cover.
ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
When Stefano sees the colomber out of the corner of his eye for the first time. His father told him little about it so he was curious about what it was.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
He was curious about it and he was studying it. He was studying it from the land then went to sea to study it closer.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
Him meeting the colomber face to face. Him getting a pearl from 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.
Don’t judge something by what it looks like. The colomber was nice even though everyone thought it was mean. And the shark stuck out its tongue, offering the old captain a small phosphorescent sphere. Stefano picked it up and examined it. It was a pearl of unusual size. And he recognized it as the famous Perla del Mare, which brought luck, power, love, and peace of mind to whoever possessed it. But now it was too late.
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