Coming up: Tuesday, vocabulary review (another copy below)
Wednesday, Vocabulary quiz
Handing back Cultural Iceberg essays
Color idioms: please turn these in now, if you have not already done so. If you were absent, I will give you an alternative assignment. Review of idioms.
Collecting Hamlet from the library. Don't forget your ID.
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1. Cultural essay grading see notes on your paper
please use only blue or black ink; put your name on the paper
check plus = 95 (very few)
check / check plus =90
check = 85
check minus / check = 80
check minus = 75
somewhat of a problem= 70 (see me with concerns)
here, but did not write = 50
Notes: consider using one, rather than you
If you eat a lot of candy, your teeth will rot.
If one eats lots of candy, teeth will rot.
If one eats copious amounts of delectable chocolate, it is inevitable that your once pearly whites will be marred with cavities.
avoid contractions in formal writing
their / there / they're (there are)
affect is a verb (action word). She was deeply affected by his actions.
effect is a noun (thing) The paucity of the voter turn out meant that the effect of the election was decidedly depressing.
IMPORTANT: you must have a closing statement that answers why or how your thesis statement is significant. That is you analysis.
Correct responses to the idiomatic color expressions
the spectrum
black blue rose green lime silver brown pink white
gold purple yellow gray red
- ___black___________ mail
- a bolt from the ___blue
- a ______green horn
- a ________yellow-bellied coward
- ________blue grass music
- good as _____gold
- true ______blue
- once in a ____blue moon
- the _________red-carpet treatment
- singing the _______blue s
- caught ________red-handed.
- Every cloud has a _____silver lining.
- _________________red tape
- He looks at the world through _______rose-tinted colored glasses.
- The star loves always being in the __________lime light.
- beaten ____black and ______blue
- People who hallucinate are said to see ________pink
elephants.
- The committee gave her proposal the _____green light.
- _______golden oldies
- the ____black sheep of the family
- a _____red letter day.
- _______blue blood.
- _________green thumb.
- ________redneck
- a ___________blackguard
- paint the town ____red
- talking a ________bluestreak
- Silence is _____________golden.
- to _____________whitewash the truth
- to ______________brown- bag it.
- Off-color jokes are called ____black jokes. Confuscious Say...
- "Man who run in front of car get tired.""Man who run behind car get exhausted.""Passionate kiss like spider web - soon lead to undoing of fly."
- _______________brownie points.
- ____________yellow journalism.
- When a business makes a profit it is said to be in the _____black.
- Mary is a genius; she clearly has lots of _______gray matter.
- A woman with intellectual or literary interests is said to be a _________blue stocking.
- a __________red cent.
- ____________green as grass
- Evil is ________black magic.
- The boss is so angry she is seeing _red.
- ____________blue laws.
- ______________blue- chip stocks.
- _____________gray area
- I hope you are tickled _________pink by how well you answered these.
English III vocabulary ...quiz on Wednesday, September 13
1. to entreat-(verb)- to ask (someone) in a serious and emotional way
2. to harrow-(verb)- to pillage or plunder
3. to emulate-(verb)- to strive to equal or excel, to imitate
4. to vanquish-(verb)- to defeat (someone) completely in a war, battle, etc.
5. malicious-(adjective)- having or showing a desire to cause harm to another person : having or showing malice
6. suspiration-(noun)- a long deep breath (to suspire- to breathe)
7. dejected-(adjective)- cast down in spirits
8. to mock-(verb)- to laugh at or make fun of (someone or something)
9. peevish- (adjective)- feeling or showing irritation
10. incestuous- (adjective)- involving sexual intercourse between closely related people
11. apparition (noun)- ghost, supernatural figure
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