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IMPORTANT!!! Memorize your selection for the open house. Be prepared to recite it again by memory on Tuesday, November 13 for a grade.
2. Vocabulary:
1. Precipitous: Resembling a precipice; very steep: extremely
rapid or abrupt.
2. Quasar:
An extremely distant celestial object whose power output is several
thousand times that of the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
3. Quotidian:
Commonplace or ordinary, as from everyday experience.
4. Recapitulate: To repeat in concise form; to make a summary.
5. Reciprocal:
Existing, done, or experienced on both sides; done, given, felt, or owed
in return.
6. Reparation:
The act or process of making amends for a wrong.
7. Respiration: The act or process of inhaling and exhaling;
breathing.
8. Sanguine:
Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
9. Soliloquy: A
dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or
reveals his thoughts when alone or unaware of the presence of other characters.
10. Subjugate:
To bring under control; conquer.
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).