Some of you might want to do your rewrite over the weekend, even though it's not due until Thur/Fri the 14/15
Vocab Quiz
Oral Commentary Presentations
Hemingway/Fitzgerald Rewrite due Tuesday/Wednesday, April 12/13
Grammar exercises 64:1,2,3
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When you write your Hemingway/Fitzgerald, you will need to think of exactly what the author is doing to create the message(s) of the story. The reason that we've been doing Oral Commentary is to help you understand how to write the way these authors do and, especially, how to write the paper explaining the ways that your rewrite is similar to the author's writing.
Vocabulary for Final Exam. First ten words from Norman Shur's book
The 1000 Most Important words.
Yeah, we will study these words for the next five weeks, then study other words for the rest of the semester, and then come back to these words. So don't forget them!
- Feckless: having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy
- Fecund: producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, etc. ; prolific
- Fulsome: offensive to good taste, esp. as being excessive; overdone or gross
- Germane: closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent.
- Hackneyed: made commonplace or trite; stale; banal.
- Harbinger: anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign
- Hegemony: leadership; predominance
- Incipient: beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage
- Inculcate: to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently
It seems simple, almost jejune; so thin and weak that one wonders how it can have formed the foundation for a system so mighty in its historical results.
The murderer tactfully removed every possible thing germane to the case, but he missed out one tiny detail.
ts objects are to promote a high morality among Jews, regardless of differences as to dogma and ceremonial customs, and especially to inculcate the supreme virtues of charity and brotherly love.
The judge called him feckless for not having a job to pay child support.
But the Bulgarians had skilfully exploited their primacy during the first war to induce the European press and public to regard Serbians and Greeks as mere satellites,' and, as is not unusually the case with successful propaganda, they had come to believe in it themselves, fortified in the belief by fulsome compliments addressing them as the "Prussians of the Balkans" and the "Japanese of the West."
Read more at http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/fulsome#GBXCyY9BrXhOemfR.99
Reading comprehension test over Gatsby next Monday. You will be working in groups for the rest of the week on group presentations of a ten minute oral commentary. Yes, it will be graded (20 points)
I know we're already sort of past discussing The Old Man and The Sea, but I just recently found this video about it. The animation is really good and I feel like it shows the use of imagery Hemingway uses really well.
Just wondering if it's worth showing in class. It's only 20 minutes long too.
~ Minna Zhou, 1st period class.
