Monday, December 7, 2009

Vocab 8 & 9

List #8:
1 - sublime
2 - admonish
3 - kindred
4 - manifold
5 - integrate
6 - superficial
7 - decorum
8 - manifest
9 - aspirant
10 - aversion

List #9:
1 - epoch
2 - exceedingly
3 - sundry
4 - entrench
5 - subject
6 - compensation
7 - predispose
8 - impropriety
9 - expatriate
10 - sylvan

Early December Update

*Public Speaking Begins (Round One: 12/1)

*Huck Finn, through Ch. 31 for 12/9

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Begin Finn

*Huck Finn Ch's 1-8 for Wed, 11/4

*Vocab 7

*Public Speaking begins in December

*Romantic Short Stories (see Study Guide)

Vocab #7

LIST 7:

1 - ignoble
2 - dissemble
3 - ubiquitous
4 - malignity
5 - ire
6 - laceration
7 - dilate
8 - squall
9 - condescension
10 - quail

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Vocab Catch Up...

LIST #6

1 - pilgrim
2 - seraph
3 - covet
4 - kinsman
5 - sepulcher
6 - dissever
7 - wont
8 - yon
9 - agate
10 - niche


LIST #5

1 - perturbation
2 - vagary
3 - iniquity
4 - portend
5 - remonstrance
6 - intimate
7 - antipathy
8 - indecorous
9 - ostentatious
10 - sagacious

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Near The End...

...SL 17-20...and the beginning of the Romantic Era...

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Vocab List #4

1 - itinerant
2 - ingenious
3 - rectitude
4 - copious
5 - improvident
6 - tart
7 - salutation
8 - bondage
9 - almanac
10 - countenance

First Exam...

...this week, as well as Vocab 4 and more Scarlet Letter, Ch. 13-16

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Vocab List #3

1 - dissenter
2 - prudent
3 - bellows
4 - mete
5 - entrails
6 - venom
7 - stratagems
8 - arbitrary
9 - indiscreet
10 - impracticable

Puritan to Revolution

...this week we move from the Puritan Era to the Revolutionary War Era...

...also, The Scarlet Letter, Chapters 9-12 are due on Wednesday

Monday, September 21, 2009

Vocab List #2

1 - pity
2 - bereft
3 - chide
4 - repine
5 - recount
6 - vanity
7 - reprobate
8 - faction
9 - till
10 - frugal

Puritan/SL...

*read Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Bradstreet's poem “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10, 1666” in the textbook (answer questions #1,3, 4-8 on page 40 and #1-4 on page 44 for homework).

*Scarlet Letter, Ch. 5-8 for Wednesday

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Vocab List #1

1 - succor
2 - lee
3 - profane
4 - recompense
5 - discourse
6 - entreat
7 - savory
8 - bier
9 - sabbath
10 - bereaved

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Novel Log [Blank Form]

*Novel Log*

Title:

Author:

Chapter:
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Setting:




Plot:




Literary Elements:




Quote:

Welcome...

...to ENG10R. The first reading assignment is:

*The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 1-4, for Wednesday, 9.16