Wednesday, October 26, 2011

10/26

Warm-up: The cursed words on the bathroom wall were ______; no amount of scrubbing by the custodians could wash them away.

A.) tangent C.) incubate
B.) arbitrary D.) indelible

Classwork: Read Angelou's "Graduation" on pg 9-21 of 50 Essays. In your notebook write examples of language that match Prose's description of her language - "murky, turgid, convoluted prose," "stale, inaccurate similies," etc. Also, identify examples of clear, wonderful language.

Homework: study your vocabulary lists, get your independent reading selections

8 comments:

  1. Can you put all the examples and directions up, everything that was on the projector during class

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  2. guys i'd like everyone to know that i wrote that question, that warm up there.
    yep.
    you're welcome.
    from ivyyyyy todd.

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  3. Where's the link to the essay

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  4. how are we suppose to complete the classwork without the link ?

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  5. U think ur better thn me Ivy!? My sat question was about an old man eating raisin oatmeal off of his belly while listening to "Friday" in a Zombie Asylum. Ez son get trolled pwnt its over 9000!!!

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  6. Is there the questions and examples for the page long assignment we're supposed to be doing?? {:c
    -Sarah N.

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  7. http://www.scribd.com/doc/7855241/Excerpt-From-Chapter-23

    here's the essay link i found.

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