Homework: 12/04

Hello. For this evening, you should complete the vocabulary homework assignment and be prepared for a quiz tomorrow. Words are included in this email.

A few things to consider:

We will begin Conrad's Heart of Darkness  this weekend and do some preliminary work with the book starting tomorrow. We will also spend some time working to perfect the paragraphs for Roethke's poem. The next five reading cards are due on Wednesday, December 17th. As per request, the next independent reading list is found at the end of this email. Same assignment, but we will go over that in class. Next week we will have a multiple choice diagnostic. 

Words for vocabulary:

Ostentatious, Iridescent, Attenuate, Recrudescent, Cajole, Venerable, Punctilious, Temerity, Obstreperous, Fractious.

Independent Reading Assignment List:

1. Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman

2. Ken Kesey- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

3. Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried 

4. Richard Wright - Native Son 

5. Henry James - Portrait of a Lady

6. Leslie Marmon Silko - Ceremony

7. Khaled Hosseinii - The Kite Runner

8. Louise Erdich - Love Medicine

9. Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'urbervilles

10. Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote