Finish Persepolis This Weekend!

Hi All!

Just a reminder that Persepolis should be finished this weekend along with your journal prompts. Journal prompts (15 of the 19) are due Monday. They should be turned in with your spirals. I will be looking over your notes and journal writes from the last unit too (Alchemist). I will be providing feedback for both.

Finishing 19 of 19 will be considered *Challenge Criteria for A-seeking students or extra credit for those who need it.

Please remember that I prefer quality over quantity. I would rather your do a stellar job on a the 15 than a shoddy job on all of them.

We will continue working on the research process next week. Papers are due on Tuesday the 28th for 3rd period and Wednesday the 29th for 5th, 6th and 8th.

 As always, thank you for being brilliant, thoughtful, inquisitive and kind.

Remember to scroll down for information you may have missed and Challenge Criteria!

Period 5,6,8

HW: due Friday

Read to 126 and respond to corresponding prompts.

ALL OF YOU:
Prompt responses are due on Monday as you should be finishing the book over the weekend.

Remember to scroll down for challenge criteria!

HW: Period 3

Period 3--due Thursday

Read to page 126 and address corresponding prompts.
Remember, prompts should average half a page in length. All due next Monday.

Don't forget to scroll down for challenge criteria. A students should show at least twice a semester effort that goes over and beyond the required work either in quality (depth of study) or quantity (taking on another book or another piece of writing or theater).

Spiral Check, for the last two units is due at the beginning of next week. It is worth 250 points and includes your responses to the Persepolis prompts!

HW: Tues./Wed. 14-15

• Read to p. 111 and respond to related prompts--up to "The Cigarette"

• Don't forget to scroll down for challenge criteria and information on our author!

Weekend of May 11-12

Read to page 94 and write corresponding Journal Writes (up to "The Key")

Enjoy the sun!

Challenge Criteria Opportunities:

1. Read Reading Lolita in Tehran, a memoir in four parts, by Azar Nafisi and write a review of the book and take sticky note quotes (1 page typed). 70 points for work well done.
2. Read Samarkand, a novel by Amin Maalouf and write a review/response (1 page typed plus notes on book). 70 points for work well done.
3. Watch Argo, a newly released film, with Ben Affleck and write a review, (1 page typed). 40 points for work well done.
4. Free Rice. 20,000 grains. 40 points for work well done.
5. Read Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah a story about an 11th grade girl who decides to begin wearing the veil while going to an Australian High School. Read, take qualitative notes and write a review/create a project based on the book. See below:

Book Description

The slide opened and I heard a gentle, kind voice: What is your confession, my child? I was stuffed. The Priest would declare me a heretic; my parents would call me a traitor... The Priest asked me again: What is your confession, my child? I'm Muslim, I whispered. Welcome to my world. I'm Amal Abdel-Hakim, a seventeen year-old Australian-Palestinian-Muslim still trying to come to grips with my various identity hyphens. It's hard enough being cool as a teenager when being one issue behind the latest Cosmo is enough to disqualify you from the in-group. Try wearing a veil on your head and practising the bum's-up position at lunchtime and you know you're in for a tough time at school. Luckily my friends support me, although they've got a few troubles of their own. Simone, blonde, gorgeous and overweight - she's got serious image issues, and Leila's really intelligent but her parents are more interested in her getting a marriage certificate than her high school certificate! And I thought I had problems.

6. A student gave me a wonderful book on Friday called, October Mourning, A Song for Matthew Shepherd, by Leslea Newman. I read it in two sittings, less than 24 hours apart--it is that important. The book is comprised of narrative poems related to the murder of Matthew Shepherd, a gay, 21-year-old student and activist attending the University of Wyoming. He was brutally beaten for his sexual orientation and died of injuries. It is an incredibly sad event and a harrowing story that should be heard. I want as many of you to read it as possible. I will offer challenge criteria points for it (50) but mostly I want you to read it thoughtfully and courageously. As a response I want you to consider, in a project of importance to you, how to stop hate crimes.
7. Read Persepolis 2--which can be found at the Multnomah County Library. Draw a 3 page graphic novel version of your own story or growing up, or write a written response (1 page well-crafted). 70 points for a job well-done.
8. Choose a newspaper article of a current event and draw your own graphic novel version of events. One page, 40 points for a job well-done.

Marjane Satrapi--Author of Persepolis

Biography

Satrapi was born in Rasht and grew up in Tehran. Her well-to-do parents were highly educated members of a distinctly westernized stratum of Iranian society. Satrapi reports that she is a great-granddaughter of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran from 1848-1896. Her parents were both politically active and supported Marxist causes against the monarchy of the last Shah. When theIranian Revolution finally took place, however, they were dismayed and intimidated by the Muslim fundamentalists who took power.

Her parents grew concerned that the young Marjane, a strong-willed and rambunctious teenager, would run afoul of the strict new public codes for women.^[4] They arranged for her to study abroad and in 1983 she arrived in Vienna, Austria, to attend the Lycée Français de Vienne.^[5] According to her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, she stayed in Vienna through her high school years, staying in friends' homes, but spent two months living on the streets. After an almost deadly bout of pneumonia, she returned to Iran. She studied visual communication, eventually obtaining a master's degree from Islamic Azad University in Tehran.^[6]

During this time, Satrapi went to numerous illegal parties hosted by her friends, where she met a man named Reza, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War. She married him at the age of 21, but divorced him roughly three years later. Satrapi then moved to Strasbourg, France.

Satrapi is married to Mattias Ripa, a Swedish national. They live in Paris.^[4]

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Week of May 6-10

This week read Persepolis and continue responding to prompts as you go. Read to page 62 by Thursday/Friday.