Week
Five Assignment
10/2-4/2007
1. Read and Respond:
Tuesday: Read Oliver Twist, chapters 1-3. Answer the following questions in complete,
thoughtful sentences (due October 4).
Chapter 1: Tell what we know of the baby’s birth. What dark hint does the narrator give us of
the child’s future?
Chapter 2: What impression do we have of the
workhouse? Of Mr.
Bumble? What does Oliver suffer
punishment for?
Chapter 3: Describe Mr. Gamfield. How is Oliver saved from going with him?
Thursday:
Read chapters 4-9. Summarize each
chapter in two or three sentences (due October 16).
2. Vocabulary:
Learn
the definitions and spelling of the following words. Use three of them somewhere in your writing
this week (italicize or underline them).
Quiz Tuesday, 10/9.
1. Inculcate: To impress something upon the
mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill. "In the jungle, might is right, nor
does it take long to inculcate this axiom in the mind of a jungle dweller,
regardless of what his past training may have been" (Edgar Rice
Burroughs, The Son of Tarzan).
2. Infrastructure: The basic
facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a
community or a society, such as transportation, water and power lines, and
public institutions, such as schools, post offices and prisons.
3. Interpolate: To insert or introduce
between other elements or parts; to insert material into a text. To change or falsify a text
with new or incorrect material.
4. Irony:
The use of words to express
something different to and opposite of their literal meaning; incongruity
between what one might expect and what actually occurs.
5. Jejune:
Not interesting, dull; lacking
maturity, childish.
6. Kinetic: Of, relating to, or produced by
motion.
7. Kowtow:
To kneel and touch the
forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, oe submission, as formerly done in
8. Laissez faire: An
economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in
commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free enterprise system to operate.
9. Lexicon: A dictionary; a stock of terms
used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary. The lexicon of anatomy includes terms such
as "aorta" and "duodenum."
10. Loquacious: Very talkative; garrulous.
3. Write:
Think about the chain of events that brings Silas from
despair to hope, and from isolation to community. Write an essay in which you discuss the
events, people, or ideas that influence Marner’s
transformation. Consider how the light
(gold) imagery provides a ribbon that links it all together. Begin by articulating the central issue of his development as you see it: How is he different at the end of the
story? Then, in a simple declarative
sentence, state the means of his change.
The sections of your paper should each consider and discuss one
influence and how it worked on him. Link
them together with the symbols of light and gold (750 words; due Thursday,
October 18).
In the text of your paper include the following
elements: two colons; two appositives;
two nominative absolutes.
4. Finger Exercise:
Bring
your Kaplan SAT book to class on October 16.