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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1 & 3 – Day 33

TO BE COLLECTED: With your literary terms handout, a phone, and/or a dictionary, write down the definitions and a test question (and answer) for the following 12 terms:

impunity
absconded
premeditated*
motley
surmounted
vowed
revenge
coat of “arms”
foreshadowing*
point of view*
imagery*
irony*

Complete the exercises on the backside of your vocabulary handout

Choose your favorite 6 or 7 titles and make a poster that looks like a stack of books.

You must include the AUTHOR’S NAME on each book.

    • Staple your poster to last night’s homework (list of 20 titles).
    • Write your name, date, hour on the back of your poster

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1 & 3:

Complete the exercises on the backside of your vocabulary handout (due tomorrow)

To study for Friday’s “The Cask of Amontillado” test (20 questions)

Study the use of the following terms/ideas in the story:

    • impunity, absconded, premeditated, motley, surmounted, vowed revenge, coat of arms, foreshadowing, point of view, imagery, irony

Choose your favorite 6 or 7 titles and create a poster that looks like a stack of books.

    • You must include the AUTHOR’S NAME on each book.
      • Staple your poster to last night’s homework (list of 20 titles).
      • Write your name, date, hour on the back of your poster

 Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 4: elude, fallow, blight…)

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ENGLISH – HOURS 4 & 5 – Day 33 

Number a paper 1 – 15. Read the following 15 quotes; without using your books, write down WHO SAID IT.

1.      Draw if you be men, Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

2.      I do but keep the peace.

3.      From those bloody hands, throw your mistempered weapons to the ground.

4.      My noble uncle, do you know the cause?

5.      In sadness cousin, I do love a woman.

6.      Go, sirrah, trudge about through fair Verona; find those persons out whose names are written there

7.      And if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush a cup of wine.

8.      Nurse, give leave awhile.

9.      And then my husband (God be with his soul!)

10.  Her wagoner, a gray-coated gnat

11.  She that makes dainty, she I’ll swear hath corns.

12.  For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night

13.  To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.

14.  You are a saucy boy.

15.  Go ask his name

 

ANSWER KEY: 1. Sampson 2. Benvolio 3. Prince 4. Benvolio 5. Romeo 6. Lord Capulet 7. Servant (no first name) 8. Lady Capulet 9. Nurse 10. Mercutio 11. Lord Capulet 12. Romeo 13. Tybalt 14. Lord Capulet 15. Juliet

ANNOUNCE that today’s open-book, take-home test packet will be graded AS A TEST GRADE and…

  • is worth nearly 5 homework assignments.
  • will require that you use your textbook glossary that begins on page 1240
  • is due FRIDAY (not tomorrow)

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 4 & 5: 

Study for Friday’s “Who Said It” test – use the below samples as a place to start:

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Open- book, take-home test-packet on Act 1 due Friday

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