2nd Year Program 2020-2021

Tocqueville questions are HERE

Surfing
by Andy Scott

I wake up and remember what my family had planned. My dad drives my sister and me from our hotel to a large park right on the ocean. Our guide is waiting for us in the parking lot. It is ten in the morning and already eighty degrees. We walk over to a large lawn where three surfboards await. 

Our instructor tells us how to stand up on the board and paddle correctly because it is easier to learn on land, not on water. He tells us we must stand up quickly as we keep our balance on the surfboard. The instructor also tells us we should lie on our chest to paddle, moving our arms like we are swimming.  Where the waves start to crash is about fifty yards out from the shore. My sister goes first. 

 The guide lines up behind me and before I know it, he pushes my board. I start to move and try to stand up. Unfortunately, I lose my balance and fall after about ten yards of riding the wave. After two more tries, I am able to stand without the guide’s help. The first wave starts to come. I know I have to start paddling. The wave goes right under me because I had not paddled fast enough, but I try again and stand up. I ride the wave for about thirty seconds. It is too small and I sink into the water. This is the best I have felt all day. I can surf a few more times before our turn with the instructor is over. 

Virtuous
by Sascha Stoll

Screeching gray wind
rips trees free from soiled, soaked earth.
Stinging gales tear apart homes,
tossing them in the air,
like an angry child throws blocks.
Though great,
nature’s tantrum eventually recedes.
Desecrated landscapes:
bodies strewn like ragdolls,
half-moving half-still.
Full of love,
concerned neighbors search
for faint glimmers of hope
among the motionless.
Weary,
they push on,
eager to save one more life.

                     Hunting
             by Andy Scott

Dogs roam out front: relaxed, waiting for a bird. 
Four shooters stand in line, 
guns held in an awkward way. 
Birds fly as three sets of pellets launch; 
pheasants keep soaring. 
Hunters walk farther as another flies, 
hovering for a second. 
A blast comes out the end of a gun. 
Pellets collide with the bird 
and it falls to the ground.  

See the full list of 2nd Year Vocabulary words HERE, or study on Quizlet:

Assigned so far: humiliate, pernicious, vitiate, resolute, pedantic, eminent, indolent, sympathize, impugn, proficient, succumb, complacent, complaisant, pejorative, punctilious, inexorable, iconoclast, antecedent, fervor, deference, obstreperous, tangible, surreptitious, merriment, mercantilism, legislature, bicameral, inveigh, sovereignty, sectionalism, infraction, concise, prudent, transient, usurp, despot, candid/candor, relinquish, dissolution, demagogue, plebeian, espouse, judicious, increment, genre, kinetic, harbinger, nepotism, querulous, nefarious, facetious, fauna, perfidy, absolve, magnanimous/magnanimity, acquiesce, appropriate, altruism, laud, ameliorate, abdicate, mortify, chagrin, recrimination, turpitude, relegate, sardonic, abridge, construe, hyperbole, infamous, juxtapose, paroxysm, posterity, ordain, redress, prescribed, ascertained, providence, oblique, futile, vindictive, efface, diffident, vociferous, decadent, precedent, blithe, acute, insolent, ardent, extricate, accost, impotent, profane, oblivious/oblivion, proximity, perturb, disdain, address (v), reproach, indignant

Student Resources: 2nd Year

Check every piece for THESE SKILLS before turning anything in for an edit.
Check ALL CITATIONS (quotes) with these formatting rules before turning anything in for an edit.

Click HERE for directions for email editing

Click 2nd ART to see what you will be doing in ART this year.
Click 2nd FILMS to see what movies we will be watching this year.

Access pieces written by 2nd Year classes to see what our readings and assignments are for this year, and to
read sample pieces written by previous 2nd Year students (7th & 8th graders) from 2002-2017.

QUARTER GRADING:

Participation = 30% (purely subjective, based on my perceptions of your initiative, interest, self-motivation, & tenacity)

Assignments = Revisions (20%)
Edits (20%)

Vocab/Multiple Choice tests= 15%
Timed essay grades= 15%

SEMESTER GRADING

Participation = 30% (purely subjective, based on my perceptions of your initiative, interest, self-motivation, & tenacity)
Assignments = Revisions & edits (20%)
Vocab/Multiple Choice tests = 15%
Timed essay grades = 10%
Exam = 25%

“The great skill of a teacher is to get and keep the attention of his scholar... To attain this, he should make the child comprehend...the usefulness of what he teaches him and let him see, by what he has learned, that he can do something which gives him some power and real advantage over others who are ignorant of it.”

— John Locke (1632-1704), on Education

Unfinished Pieces: Semester II
(updated 7/29/21)

Andy
Revisions = 100%
Edits = 100%

FINISHED!

Sascha
Revisions = 86%
Edits = 100%

Tocqueville paragraphs: Evaluative

Charlie
FINISHED!