Week 5
Essential Questions:
1.How do figurative language and literary devices influence a narrative text?
2.How do we describe ideas and information communicated to us by authors?
3.How does writing make thinking visible and clarify understanding?
4.How does conflict shape who we are? Whenever you use words to depict or re-create a scene, an object, a person, or a feeling,
Please remember that you are in charge of your grade in Eng. 10. You have 3 days to retake a test or make up an assignment if needed.
“Freebies: Any assignment originally turned in on time that receives a D or F grade may be turned back in within three days of it being returned to you to earn a higher grade. ”
Excerpt From: “English 10” iBooks.
Review the weekly lesson plans, and check your grades in powerschool. Progress reports go home on Friday.
Period 1 Vocabulary 3 Test
Period 2 Vocabulary 3 Test
Period 3 Vocabulary 3 Test
Period 5 Vocabulary 3 Test
Period 7 Vocabulary 3 Test
Vocabulary study is extremely important as we continue to develop our skills as readers and writers. As we move into our first novels of the year it is important to understand that vocabulary knowledge is essential for success in reading. You cannot understand what you read without understanding what most of the words mean. Therefore, for the next few weeks our vocabulary study will focus on the books we are reading. Review the entire vocabulary list for the book you are reading by following the link that follows the first five words under your book title. The first vocabulary test for your reading will be next Monday.
To Kill a Mockingbird
assuage
provide physical relief, as from pain
When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.
seldom
not often
When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.
piety
righteousness by virtue of being pious
All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.
exceed
be or do something to a greater degree
All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.
persecution
causing someone to suffer
In England, Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren, and as Simon called himself a Methodist, he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens.
Find the entire list for chapter 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird
Siddhartha
- ablution
the ritual washing of a priest’s hands or of sacred vessels
The sun browned his slender shoulders on the river bank, while bathing at the holy ablutions, at the holy sacrifices.
- grove
a small growth of trees without underbrush
Shadows passed across his eyes in the mango grove during play.
- radiate
cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays
His brow radiating the glow of pure spirit Already he knew how to recognize Atman within the depth of his being, indestructible, at one with the universe.
- supple
moving and bending with ease
There was pride in his mother’s breast when she saw him walking, sitting down and rising: Siddhartha —strong, handsome, supple-limbed, greeting her with complete grace.
- lofty
of high moral or intellectual value
Love stirred in the hearts of the young Brahmins’ daughters when Siddhartha walked through the streets of the town, with his lofty brow, his king-like eyes and his slim figure.
Find the entire list of vocabulary for part 1 of Siddhartha
Wuthering Heights
- soliloquise
talk to oneself
‘The Lord help us!’ he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.
- misanthropist
someone who dislikes people in general
A perfect misanthropist‘s heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.
- penetralia
the innermost parts
I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium.
- gaudily
in a tastelessly garish manner
Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse-pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily-painted canisters disposed along its ledge.
- phlegm
saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages
Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar steps with vexatious phlegm: I don’t think they moved one second faster than usual, though the hearth was an absolute tempest of worrying and yelping.
Find the entire list for chapter 1 of Wuthering Heights
