Mini Vocab!

ambiguity
juxtapose
serendipity
epiphanous
tantamount
sanguine

Oryx and Crake post

Go to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake site:

http://www.oryxandcrake.co.uk/readingguide.asp

Choose ONE question, and post your answer. Due Wednesday 3pm.

Words 'o the week:

obsequious
erudite
ersatz
ennui
jingoism/jingoist
scathing
diatribe
lassitude
farcical
impetus
poignant
temerity
earnest
disparage

More TED!

Please view the following TED lecture by Dave Eggers (author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school.html

and post your response to the following:

What is your overall response to the lecture, and what do you think drives some people to harness their innovative, creative natures for philanthropic purposes? Is this something we as a society can nurture, or not?

Due Wednesday by 3pm.

Never enough poetry!

Revisit the Favorite Poem Project site:

http://www.favoritepoem.org/

View a few more videos, then post the title of the poem (and poet) you found most interesting/appealing/exciting/intriguing/depressing/scintillating....
and most importantly tell why the poem and or the presenter "spoke" to you.

Post due Wednesday by 3pm

Words, words, words...

For test Friday, October 15th:

Delineate,

chastise,

docile,

diffident,

perambulation,

desolating,

dirge,

obdurate,

abhor,

debilitate,

venerable,

mortification,

tumultuous

dissipate,

candor

This week is poetry blogging!

Please go to the site http://www.favoritepoem.org/videos.html and watch the following three short videos from a nationwide poetry project.

View the following poems:

"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Nick and the Candlestick" by Sylvia Plath
"Out, Out" by Robert Frost

Write a brief response to each clip. Post due by Wednesday 3pm.

Enjoy!

Week's Vocab....and Orxy and Crake

We will focus on our tone words again--just the ones we have covered so far, so please begin to research the nuances of each word and not just the mini definitions on the handout.
:-)

Oh, and please have Oryx and Crake by Wednesday's SSR. That's 10 days from when I asked you all to get the books! There are still MANY copies available in the Broward County Library System. If you haven't ordered it to be delivered to your branch, you may have to drive across town, so get on it! In your hands, in class, on Wednesday....

:-)

Your Poetry Selection

Check out Poetry Out Loud website and watch the videos of excellent examples of poetry recitation:

http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems/video_bestpractices.html

Begin looking through their list of eligible poems for the contest and choose a few possibles for YOUR poetry recital!

Post your choices by Thursday 3pm