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8th Lit Homework 3/3

Today we took our Robinson Crusoe end-of-book test. If you were not here for the test, please review your study guide to prepare to take the test when you return.

Study guide:

1. What two types of men does Crusoe’s father say go off exploring?
2. What is the main reason Crusoe decides to not return home?
3. Who is the first person Crusoe meets with in London?
4. What ends up happening to his ship on his second voyage, and what happens to him as a result?
5. What does Crusoe do to Moely?
6. What offer does Crusoe make Xury?
7. Why does the captain of the Portuguese ship say he rescued Crusoe?
8. What does the captain request to buy from Crusoe that he doesn’t want to give up?
9. What two reasons finally convince Crusoe to sell it?
10. What does Crusoe decide to settle down and do in the Brasils?
11. What do his friends in the Brasils propose he join them on?
12. How does Crusoe survive the storm?
13. What sad thing does Crusoe realize about the way they all tried to escape the main ship?
14. What animals does Crusoe discover on the island that he decides to domesticate?
15. How is Crusoe planning to have food once his bullets are used up?
16. What does Crusoe accidentally start to grow?
17. What are the three tobacco remedies Crusoe tries?
18. What has Crusoe resigned himself to?
19. What two types of traps does Crusoe set to try to catch more goats?
20. How many goats does Crusoe catch, and what does he do with them?
21. What does Crusoe see on the beach that surprises him?
22. What does he find on the beach that horrifies him?
23. What does he hope to eventually do to the cannibals?
24. What thoughts does Crusoe have that scare him?
25. What does Crusoe name the captive he rescues, and why?
26. How does Crusoe intend to train Friday out of his cannibalism?
27. What does Crusoe realize he has to change about his land, and why?
28. Who do we discover the second captive of the cannibals is?
29. How does Crusoe title himself, and why?
30. What does Crusoe do to the ship’s rowboat to prevent the mutinous crew’s escape?
31. Why does Crusoe decide to wait until nightfall to attack the mutinous crew?
32. How does Crusoe react to finally being able to leave the island?
33. What do Crusoe and the captain decide to do with the mutinous prisoners?
34. How long has Crusoe been on the island when he finally leaves?
35. What does Crusoe find has happened to his family when he returns to London?

8th Lit Homework 02/28

Today we took our chs. 13-15 quiz. If you were absent, please study your notes and prepare to take the quiz when you return. Additionally, on Monday we have our Robinson Crusoe end-of-book test. Please review the study guide I handed out in preparation for this test.

8th Lit Homework 02/26

Epilogue (chapter 15)

Bell work:

What do you think is the most significant change in Crusoe?

Vocabulary:

1. Trustee
   1. (noun) person given control
2. Cognizance
   1. (noun) knowledge, awareness
3. Dissuade
   1. (verb) persuade against
4. Successor
   1. (noun) someone who comes after another

Reading questions:

1. What is the state of Crusoe’s family when he returns?
2. What does Crusoe hope to gain from returning to his plantation in the Brasils?
3. What does Crusoe find out has happened to his plantation?
4. What does Crusoe decide to do with what remains of his plantation?
5. After raising a family, where does Crusoe decide to go?
6. Why do you think Crusoe decides to return there?

Homework:

Study chapter 13-15 notes for Friday’s quiz.

8th grade Literature 02/25

Chapter 14 (pt. 2)

Bell work:

What do you think is the first thing Crusoe will do once he returns home?

Lesson

Vocabulary:

1. Furnish
   1. (verb) provide with supplies
2. Breach
   1. (noun) a hole
3. Dram
   1. (noun) a small drink of alcohol
4. Prevail upon
   1. (phrase) to ask, to persuade

Reading questions:

1. What is the final thing the captain does to secure command of the main ship?
2. How does Crusoe react to finally being able to leave the island?
3. What are some of the gifts the captain gives Crusoe?
4. What do Crusoe and the captain decide to do with the mutinous prisoner?
5. What do you think of Crusoe’s teaching the mutinous crew about how he lived on the island?
6. How long has Crusoe been on the island when he finally leaves?

Homework:

Read the epilogue

8th Lit homework 02/24

chapter 14 (pt. 1)

Bell work:

Do you think Crusoe will go back to being his old self after acquiring all this new power?

Vocabulary:

1. Dejected
   1. (adj) very sad, depressed
2. Expostulated
   1. (verb) express disapproval or disagreement
3. Imprecation
   1. (noun) a spoken curse
4. Fidelity
   1. (noun) faithfulness

Reading questions:

1. Why does Crusoe want to wait to attack the mutinous crew?
   1. Because he doesn’t want to risk his own men dying
2. How does Crusoe and his ‘army’ surprise the mutinous crew?
   1. They wait until nightfall and surprise attack them
3. What do you think Crusoe means when he says he kept himself out of sight ‘for reasons of state’?
   1. Opinion question
4. Why do you think the captain makes up a story about Crusoe being the governor?
   1. Opinion question
5. What deal does the captain make with the captured crew?
   1. That if they would help everyone escape, they would not be hanged
6. When he finally reveals himself to some captives, who does Crusoe say he is?
   1. The man sent from the governor to be in charge of them

Homework:

Finish ch. 14

8th Lit Homework 02/21

Chapter 13 (pt. 2)

Bell work:

Do you think Crusoe will finally manage to escape the island?

Vocabulary:

1. Stave
   1. (verb) to break by piercing it
2. Sentinel
   1. (noun) a watchman
3. Pinioned
   1. (adj) to be tied up
4. Stratagem
   1. (noun) a plan

Reading questions:

1. What do the captain and Crusoe reflect on concerning Crusoe’s survival?
2. What do they do to prevent the mutinous crew from returning to the ship?
3. How does Crusoe threaten the prisoners he has taken?
4. What did the next boat of people think had happened to the first boat full?
5. Summarize the captain’s plan to surprise the sailors.
6. How does Crusoe surprise the sailor in the boat?

Homework:

Read the first half of chapter 14 (249-256), and copy out the poem “Ozymandias” 3 times.