1. Reading: We are sailing with Melville—and reading chapters
65-89. Summarize each chapter in two or
three sentences. Make a list of at least
ten similes and/or metaphors. Be sure to
include page numbers (due Tuesday, December 11).
2. Vocabulary:
1. Acronychal -Occurring at sunset
2. Abderian - given to incessant or idiotic laughter
3. Abecedarian -A person who is learning the alphabet
4. Abligurition -Excessive
spending on food and drink
5. Ablutophobia -A fear of bathing
6. Acrocephalic -Having
a pointy head
7. Accipitrine -having a nose like a hawk's beak
8. Accubation
-The practice of
eating or drinking while lying down
9. Acerophobia -The fear of sourness
10. Achluophobia
-A fear of darkness
or of the night
3. Write: Write one or two pages of
beautiful, clever, frightening, deep, exciting, or provocative story. You may make this a story intact—exposition,
rising action, climax, falling action—or you may regard this as one discrete
piece of a larger story to be told someday.
(Due January 9).