Monday, December 2

• No classes!
  • Teachers grading Fall Term!

Tuesday, December 3

• Check your schedule for most recent changes!
• Syllabus!
  • change of late work penalty!
  • now 20% after end of unit!
• Vocab warm-up: Bless Me, Ultima vocab
  • 1. intone, v. - to recite in a singing voice; to speak in a monotone
  • 2. endow, v. - to provide with property, income, or a source of income
  • 3. labyrinth, n. - maze; intricate, intertwined confusing pathways
  • 4. teem, v. - to be full of, abound or swarm with.
    • Ex.: A drop of pond water teems with life.
• Bring ID tomorrow
  • We'll check out Bless Me, Ultima
• Poetry Blitz
• "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
  • read to discuss tomorrow

Wednesday, December 4

• vocab warm-up:
  • Add words to your list first
  • Then write sentences on a little sheet!
  • 5. succulent, adj. - full of juice or sap; juicy.
    • highly interesting or enjoyable; delectable (like gossip, or a tasty food)
    • (Botany: having thick water-storing leaves or stems, like a cactus)
  • 6. gnarled, adj. - knotty or misshapen;
    • rugged from old age or work
  • 7. drone - v. - to make a continuous, low humming sound
    • n. - a continuous, low humming sound
    • OR a male worker bee who produces no honey, does no work; its only purpose is to mate with the queen
    • OR a device that flies based on decisions made elsewhere (not self-flying!)
  • 8. wrought - past tense and past participle of work.
    • Put together or created. Ex.: a carefully wrought plan
    • Shaped by hammering with tools, metalwork
      • made delicately or elaborately
  • The person who does this is a wright,
    • like a wheelwright, a cartwright, or a playwright
    • A wright makes something that is beautifully wrought.
• 2:50 check out Bless Me, Ultima
  • start reading tomorrow
• Reading schedule!
• What about "The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"?
  • What did you think?
  • What was like other stories? Fairy tales?
  • What was unexpected?
  • What about the other characters?
  • Does this comment on people/society?
• Big Sheet of Lit Terms and Timeline
  • meter and rhyme
• Poetry handout
  • "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
  • "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats
  • take notes
• Magical Realism handout
  • and questions!
  • time to work in class tomorrow
  • Due Monday, December 9

Thursday, December 5

• vocab warm-up:
  • 9. plaintive, adj. - sounding sad and mournful
  • 10. nestle, v. - to settle comfortably against something,
    • possibly half-hidden
  • 11. trek, n. - a long difficult journey, esp. on foot
  • 12. melee, n. - a violent, confusing, free-for-all battle
• "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats
  • map of Europe
  • notes
• Bless Me, Ultima slide show and notes
  • map
• Bless Me reading schedule at the bottom of this page!
• Magical Realism handout
  • and questions!
  • time to work in class tomorrow
  • Due Monday, December 9
• Reading homework tonight!

Friday, December 6

• vocab warm-up:
  • 13. epiphany, n. - a sudden awareness of knowledge
  • 14. exorcism, n. - freeing someone from an evil spirit
  • 15. heretic, n. - someone who rejects the accepted beliefs of a religion
  • 16. totem, n. - an object (often an animal) that is an emblem or symbol of a person, family, or clan
• Magical Realism handout
  • and questions!
  • Due Tuesday, December 10
• Tuesday, December 10
  • let's have a reading quiz! - Ch. 1 - 5