1.
2. Vocabulary:
1. Suffragist: An advocate of the extension of voting rights,
especially to women.
2. Supercilious: Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
3. Tautology: Needless repetition of the same sense in
different words; redundancy.
4. Taxonomy: The classification of organisms in an ordered
system that indicates natural relationships.
5. Tectonic: Of or relating to the forces involved in
forming the geological features, such as mountains, continents, and oceans, of
the earth’s lithosphere.
6. Tempestuous: Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest;
characterized by violent emotions.
7. Thermodynamics: The branch of physics that deals with the
relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
8. Totalitarian: Of, relating to, or imposing a form of
government in which the political authority exercises complete control over all
aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing
political and cultural expression is suppressed.
9. Unctuous: Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or
insincere earnestness.
10. Usurp: To seize and hold by force and without legal
authority.
3. Writing: Read the passages from the book and locate them in
context. For each one, write a one-page
commentary that begins with an assertive thesis and goes on to analyze and
discuss the thesis. You are not merely
“translating” the meaning of the words, but interpreting an aspect of the book.
For example, in responding to quotation #1,
you might begin by asserting that the narrator is re-telling the story in order
to justify not only his ancestors, the Puritans, but himself, and that to do
this, he identifies the non-religious character strengths that motivated them.
Due
November 15.
4.
Poetry: Select a poem from our anthology (in sections one and two)—copy it,
illuminate it, memorize it to recite to the class, and write a one page
response to the poet (due Thursday, November 29).