2015 PERIOD 7 COLOMBER GROUP BOARD

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 means from time to time, and the sentence is “when the boy has gone eastern, he stopped, his curiosity aroused, to observe something that intermittently rose to the surface at a distance from of two to three hundred meters, in line of the ship’s wake.
Scrutinized means looked at carefully and the sentence is “…he scrutinized the surface of the sea…”
Obstinately means stubbornly and the sentence is “…slowly moving back and forth, obstinately waiting for him…”
Expedient means resource and the sentence is “…with every expedient the boy was dissuaded…”
Inexorable means unchangeable and the sentence is “…with the inexorable or 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 sees the Columber. The reason we chose this is because there wouldn’t be a story if he didn’t see the columber. “…what you see rising out of the water and followers us is not an object. That is a columber.”


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 realized that the cloumber didn’t want to devour him, he wanted to give him the pearl that would bring him power and love.

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 what you learn from an experience.

ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
Stefano was curious because he wanted to see if the colomber was still following him. I know this because the colomber is all Stefano thought about, he always wanted to know more about it.


iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
Eventually curiosity get the best of him and he went out to sea to meet it. When he meet it he relized that it did not want to devour him, it wanted to give him something.


iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
The outcome of the character curiosity was that when he went out to see the colomber he found out that it didn’t want to kill him, it wanted to give him a pearl that would bring him love and power

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 we can learn from this story is not judge someone by the way they look. Stefano’s dad judged the colomber by the way it looked and by the way people talked about it. Stefano then found out that the colomber only wanted to give him a pearl that would bring power and love.

a. 5 Integral vocabulary words used in the text. Each word should include a definition include the sentence where the word was used from the text (10 points). Intermittently: from time to time pg.36 paragraph3/Scrutinized: looked at carefully pg.36 paragraph9/Obstinately: stubbornly, persistently pg.37 paragraph2/Expedient: resource device used in an emergency pg.37 paragraph3/Inexorable: unyielding, immovable, unchangeable pg.37 paragraph5

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). It was when he was explained to what the Colomber actually was it helped to give some incite into what was going to happen to him and how his obsession will grow.

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).
“Here I am with you, finally,” Stefano said. “Now it’s just the two of us.” And gathered his remaining strength, he raised the harpoon to strike. “Uh,” The colomber groaned, imploringly “what a long journey its taken to find you. I too am wasted with fatigue. How much you made me swim. And you kept fleeing. You never understood at all.”
I believe this is the climax because it is finally when stefano finally confronted the colomber and went to kill him but found out the whole time he was running from a friend.

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 an amount of teachine ventured back to the shore again andg given at a time. It is giving knowledge in any lesson whether it be a colomber or AP Calculus.

ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
His father gave him a lesson of the colomber. Curiosity overcame him and he ventured back to the shore again and again for his love of sailing, which seemed to overpower the fear the colomber emitted
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
He was lured back to the ocean day after day, with his relentless habit of sailing the seas. He loved it so much that he became “…old and bitterly unhappy…” and decided to face his curiosity.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
When he faced that curiosity, he was astonished by the true purpose of the colomber’s endless pursuit of him. The colomber actually wanted to gift him a pearl of wealth
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 should face your fears, for they might actually turn out well. Stephen faces his fear of the sea and begins sailing again and loves it. He faces his fear of the colomber and was gifted a pearl of wealth.

A.
Abyss: Is a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.

Sentence: Great are the satisfactions of an industrious, well-to-do, and quiet life, but greater still is the attraction of the abyss.

Devour: to use up or destroy as if by eating

Sentence: it pursues him for years and years, for his entire life, until it has succeeded in devouring him.

Tremendous: very large or great

Sentence: It is a tremendous mysterious shark, more clever than man.

Siege: the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.

Sentence: After so many years, even supposing that all the stories his father told him were true, the colomber had certainly given up its siege.

Intensely: existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree:

Sentence: And though the boy did not make out what it was, there was some indefinable air about it, which attracted him intensely.

B. The inciting incident of the short story was when his father told him about the monster that lived in the ocean which was called the colomber.

c. The climax or turning point of the story is when he was face-to-face with the colomber, but then found out that the colomber was a talking monster

I. A lesson is something you learn from experience. Something you learn from a teacher or a professor or maybe even a friend or family.

II. The main character was curious because his father told him about a monster. Which made his want to go out and find the colomber.

IV.The lesson of the story was not judge a book by its cover. The reason I picked it was because Stefano thought it was this big bad shark. It turned out that it just ended being a talking shark that wasn’t scary at all.

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 aroused, to overserve something that intermittently rose to the surface ”…”
Indomitable- unconquerable; not easily discouraged or defeated- An indomitable impulse dragged him without rest, from one ocean to another.
Journey- an act of traveling to from one place to another- Just as soon as he set foot on land in some port after a long journey.
Tremendous- very great in amount, or intensity- It is a tremendous, mysterious shark “…”.
Expedient- means; resource; device used in in an emergency- From then on, with every expedient the boy was dissuaded “…”.

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’s father told him about the monster. The reason it is the inciting incident is when his father told him about the monster and it caused Stefano to fear the ocean or near the bay. “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).
The climax is when the main character meets face to face with the colomber. The reason this part of the text is the turning point is because it’s the big turning point in the story. “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.


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 learn from something.

ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
He didn’t know much about the colomber and the only thing he knows about it is the story that his father told him about.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?
The character developed fear and throughout the years he became more curious about the shark and wanted to stop wasting his time being scared of it, so he decided to meet the colomber face to face.
iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?
He met face to face with the colomber and the shark talked to him.
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 not to have your fear ruin your life or self-esteem. The way the character in the story found out was by going out to sea and concurring his fear and by the end the shark turned out to give him a pear. The lesson for him and in life is to concur your fear no matter how terrifying it is to come face to face with.

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.

The Colomber Group Tasks Names: Owen Noll, Elijah Hadeed, and Konrad Koziol
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).
Hostile – opposed in feeling, action, or character; antagonist/ So the idea of that hostile creature waiting for him day and night became a secret obsession for Stefano.
Astonished to fill with sudden or overpowering surprise or wonder; amaze/ But Stefano stood there, astonished, his heart pounding.
Insistent – earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious/ Stefano’s life was well underway… as the days past, rather than disappear, it seemed to become insistent.
Prosperous – having or characterized by financial success or good fortune/ But the temptation of the abyss had always been greater for him than the joys of a prosperous and quiet life.
Hostile – of relating to, or characteristics of an enemy/ So the idea of that hostile creature waiting for him day and night…
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 kept going back to the sea because he kept wanting to see 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 was given the stone.
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? Lesson is something that you have done in the past but you’re not supposed to do in the future. It can also be something that the character learns.


ii. What caused curiosity for the main character? How do you know this?
The fact of him not noticing that he’s not the same as his father.
iii. How did this curiosity lend to the character developing in the story?

iv. What was the outcome of the main character’s curiosity?

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.

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.