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!