Please check your grades in parent connect!
The following assignments are missing and have zeros in the grade book. FIX THIS!
Commonly Misused Words (11/17) Vocab Duchess (11/15) Vocab Room of One's Own (11/21)
3 Juan, Elizabeth, Jordan, Taylen Taylen,Caeline, Alex, Graham
6 Mosisha, Abrianna, Aquan Mosisha Alexis, Mosisha, Miracle, Keyerra
9 Kiara Kiara Kiara, Carla
Missing lots of graphic organizers for "A Room of One's Own"!
Coming up: vocabulary quiz "Mariner" on Wednesday, December 6; class handout / copy below
In class: review of commonly misused words and semicolon usage; introduction to Romanticism: quick write in notebook
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Learning Target: I can explain the difference between the Enlightenment and the transition to Romanticism.
Corrections or Commonly Misused Words
Grading: each of the 35 was worth 2.5 points. No one received a perfect score; the errors ranged from 2-9, or 75-94.
Most folks had difficulty with the affect and effect. Remember that affect is a VERB and effect is a Noun.
Review: 1. I will not try to let his words (affect, effect) me.
2. Your experiences as a child (affect, effect) your adult behavior greatly.
3. The horror movie did not (affect, effect) him at all.
4. Crossing the wires produced an explosive (affect, effect).
5. Unfortunately, the only (affect, effect) of the protest was a tightening of security.
6. Your kindness will leave a lasting (affect, effect) on me.
Punctuate the following sentences.
1. There is a lot of financial aid available you just have to know where to look for it.
2. We will play tennis tomorrow then we will go out for dinner.
3. It is raining outside I will bring my umbrella with me.
4. They both went swimming while they were on vacation in Mexico.
5. All of the garden tools are kept in the garage they are cleaned every spring.
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On the handed-out,lined paper write copy the following philosophical sayings, and explain for each write 2-3 sentences, explaining what you think they mean.
Begin with a correct MLA heading.
Age of Reason
1. Descartes: “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I exist)
Age of Romanticism
2. Rousseau: “Exister, pour nous, c’est sentir” (For us, to exist is to feel.)
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Turn your lined paper over, and take a look at this painting by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya.
Write three sentences about what you see and what is the meaning or symbolism behind the image?
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So whose philosophical camp does this painting belong in?
Vocabulary quiz, Wednesday, December 6
1.kin (noun)- one's
family and relations.
2. kirk (noun)-
church (most often used in Scotland)
3. tyrannous
(adjective)- unjustly severe (think of a
tyrant)
4. prow (noun)- the
portion of a ship's bow above water.
5.shroud (noun)- a
length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped for burial; a thing that
envelops
6. to aver (verb)-
state or assert to be the case.
7 7. furrow (noun)-
long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow or a rut or groove; note that you may have a furrow (noun) on your brow and you may furrow (verb) your brow
8 8. agape (adjective)
- agog, wide open, especially with
surprise or wonder; gobsmacked
9. gossamers (noun)-
a fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs; used to refer to something very
light, delicate. (think fairy wings)
1 10. spectre-bark
(noun) - ghost ship
11. vespers (noun)- the sixth of the canonical
hours (times one was required to pray)
12. skiff
(noun)- a flat bottomed boat.
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