SSR Contract

Summary Blog
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByORQRNqGS0sSFdsZExPSTlTUUU/edit?usp=sharing

Study Guide

Study.
1. Poetry, devices, form.
2. Journals, arguments.
3. Vocabulary

1. Poetry

Forms:

    Haiku

                Limerick

                Free Verse

                Ballad

                Concrete

                Lyric – sonnet, elegy, ode, villanelle

                Couplet

                Narrative

Devices:

Rhymes: slant; masculine; feminine; end; Simile; Metaphor; Personification; Symbolism; Imagery; Onomatopoeia; Alliteration; Assonance; Consonance; Allusion; Metonymy; Synecdoche; Hyperbole; Oxymoron; Allegory; Paradox; Understatement; Litotes; Irony; Caesura, Pun, Denotation, Connotation. 

2. Journals
Know the arguments and understand how LOVE can relate to/be used in each of these situations.

Sterling "...has it all", Del Villar II "Black People are Cowards", Adrienne "Christina Falling".

3. Vocabulary

Unit 14

beatific, behemoth, blandishment, cacophonous, chicanery, consign, coup, euphemism, febrile, gainsay.

imminent, innate, loath, manifest, minutiae, moratorium, nostrum, pariah, visionary, wizened.

Unit 13

abstruse, affront, canard, captious, cognizant, contrite, cynosure, decorous, deign, desiccated

efficacy, engender, ethereal, facade, ghoulish, incongruous, machination, mesmerize, opprobrium, putative

Unit 12

aesthetic, defunct, discomfit, espouse, fetish, gregarious, hapless, impeccable, importune, interpolate.

irreparable, laconic, languish, mendacious, nadir, omnipresent, perfunctory, plaintive, requite, tantamount.

Unit 11

abrogate, ambient, asperity, burnish, cabal, delectable, deprecate, detritus, ebullient, eclectic.

flaccid, impecunious, inexorable, moribund, necromancer, onerous, rife, rudiments, sequester, winnow.

Unit 10

Askance, attenuate, benign, cavil, charlatan, decimate, foible, forgo, fraught, inure.

luminous, obsequious, obtuse, oscillate, penitent, peremptory, rebuff, reconnoiter, shambles, sporadic.

Unit 9

Acclamation, bucolic, calumniate, chary, collusion, dilettante, imperturbable, increment, mandate, paltry

paroxysm, pedantry, peregrination, redolent, refulgent, shibboleth, tyro, unremitting, vacillate, vituperative

Independent Reading Blog! Remember all of your SSR is due Tuesday, June 3.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QkvtmE-CQUb2vdGNRYG_fJK2rRPfPzFT-p86-sfoCiE/edit?usp=sharing

Unit 14 Vocabulary: #1-10 due Tuesday, May 27; #11-20 due Thursday, May 29. Vocabulary Quiz Tuesday, June 3.

#1-10

beatific, behemoth, blandishment, cacophonous, chicanery, consign, coup, euphemism, febrile, gainsay.

#11-20

imminent, innate, loath, manifest, minutiae, moratorium, nostrum, pariah, visionary, wizened.

Dear Christina Fallin NATIVE APPROPRIATIONS

Question: How do the governer's daughter's actions demonstrate racism?

Give two quotes and use three vocabulary words from Unit 14.

http://nativeappropriations.com/2014/03/dear-christina-fallin.html

SENIORS!!! Do not forget to turn in your blog #1 pt 2 tomorrow.

Mr. Loffler needs to meet with you guys 2nd period on FRIDAY to work on yearbook stuff. He says, "your yearbook page is due May 28th." THUS, tomorrow we will have REGULAR M, W, F ENGLISH CLASS DURING 3rd period. And English class (as usual) 8th period.

Journal due Monday, May 19.

Journal: Does Del Villar II provide a reasonable critique of the situation?  How should the basketball players have responded?  How does what happened in the story relate to the following Biblical passage?

Matthew 7:1-5

New International Version (NIV)

Judging Others

7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.  

Minimum of 1 page and  4 vocabulary words.