Coming up: vocabulary quiz on Wednesday, December 13...(class handout / copy below)
In class: PERIOD 3: working with a partner- or by yourself, if you prefer- read through section 3, stanza 51- and paraphrase next to the stanza.
PERIOD 5: continuing as a class
PERIOD 9: continuing as a class
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Vocabulary quiz, Wednesday, December 13
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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