See you in August!!!

PASSWORD:

“I am the Love that Dare not Speak its Name”

 ― Alfred Bruce Douglas

B&B for next class:

• Write an email to a friend explaining what happened last night.
• Find a story ( fictional or non-fictional) about a person who discovered she/he was gay and did not feel comfortable in a " too sophisticated" town that did not accept him/her.

SIIDS

Hugh Laurie-The Sophisticated Song

PASSWORD:

Choose a definition of the word:

sophisticated /səˈfɪstɪˌkeɪtɪd/

1. having refined or cultured tastes and habits

2. appealing to sophisticates: a sophisticated restaurant.

3. unduly refined or cultured

4. pretentiously or superficially wise

5. (of machines, methods, etc) complex and refined

1.(of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to beworldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of a journalist.

2.pleasing or satisfactory to the tastes of sophisticates: sophisticated music.

3.deceptive; misleading.

4.complex or intricate, as a system, process, piece of machinery, or the like: a sophisticated electronic system.

5.of, for, or reflecting educated taste, knowledgeable use, etc.: Many Americans are drinking more sophisticated wines now.

Having, revealing, or involving a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture:a chic, sophisticated woman or a young man with sophisticated tastes

1. worldly-wise; showing knowledge of the world:sophisticated travelers.
2. appealing to cultured tastes:sophisticated music.
3. complex; intricate:a sophisticated electronic control system.

The opposite behavior of 98% of the population below age 21. 
Sophistication is a mix of knowing when a joke's over, caring somewhat about the consequences of your actions, talking about something of reasonable importance, having a good dose of common sense, not letting your immediate reactions control your life, knowing how much information is TOO much information, and not wearing your jeans lower than your underwear.

B&B:

• Read the first two pages of the short story: "Sophisticated Pets"
• Underline new words or expressions.
• Write a list of sophisticated pets you may have at home. 
• Search about legal and illegal pets in Argentina.

Slow Motion Flashbacks:

                 

She cleaned the gin stains from her shirt with a damp cloth.        She placed an ice cube in a glass of gin.

                      

She took the pastries out of the oven.                     She made sanwiches and took her children to the coast.

Sophisticated pets:

    
          Bengal Cat                      Bush Baby                                  Fennec Fox

Patagonian Cavy              Slow Loris                             Spotted Genet         Squirrel Monkey
         
                 Sugar Glider                        Tamanduas                           Wallaby

PASSWORD: Choose one quotation:)

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Rob Lowe

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Beverley Mitchell

I did not grow up with a spatula in my hand. I didn't even cook that much in high school. I was busy being a teenager and doing everything that goes along with that.

Christine Teigen

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

Kay Panabaker

“The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.” 
― Quentin Crisp

“Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.” 
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

B&B for next meeting:

• Answer the three DISCUSSION questions in the booklet.
• Solve ACTIVITY 2: Instead of writing six letters, do write a series of text messages or twitters among the characters of the story.
• Write a description of one of the rural town pictures below.

VOCABULARY Focus:

• put up
• rectory
• engulfed
• bound
• bustled
• marshes
• bearer
• mackintosh
• bolted out
• dashed off
• snarling
• romance

The AUTHOR

H.H. Munro [pseudonym Saki] (1870-1916), prolific Scottish author of the Edwardian era, often referred to as the master of short stories and compared to O Henry and Dorothy Parker.

The name 'Saki' is Farsi for 'cup-bearer', and is thought to be taken from either the ancient Persian poem The Rubayat of Omar Khayyam or possibly from the New World Saki monkey Pitheciidae, both being referred to in his acerbically witty and sometimes macabre stories.

Hector Hugh Munro was born 18 December, 1870 in Akyab, Burma, son of Scotsman Charles Augustus Munro, an inspector-general in the Burma police and his mother, Mary Frances (née Mercer) who died in a tragic accident in England with a runaway cow in 1872. He had a brother Charles and sister Ethel (who like Hector would never marry).

After the death of Munro's mother, the children were sent to Broadgate Villa, in Pilton village near Barnstaple, North Devon to be raised by aunts who frequently resorted to corporal punishment. It is said that they were most likely models for a few of his characters, notably Sredni Vashtar. Undoubtedly the days of his youth would provide much fodder for his future career. Leading slightly insular lives Munro and his siblings were initially educated under tutelage of governesses. At the age of 12 young Hector was sent to Pencarwick School in Exmouth and Bedford Grammar School.

In his early 20s, Munro went to Burma in 1893 to join the Colonial Burmese Military Police (an occupation which George Orwell would later pursue as well) until ill-health caused him to return to England a year later. Munro would then embark on his career as a journalist, writing for various publications including the Daily Express, the Bystander, The Morning Post, the Outlook and his Lewis Carroll-esque "Alice in Westminster" political sketches for the Westminster Gazette. He often satirised the then Edwardian society with veiled and cruel innuendo, sometimes bitter and often unconventional.

I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got". "The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesque-ness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other".

Munro's first book, a historical treatise called The Rise of the Russian Empirewas released in 1900. His collection of short stories Not-so-Stories came out in 1902.

From 1902 to 1908 Munro worked as a foreign correspondent for The Morning Post in the Balkans, Russia and Paris. He would publish The Chronicles of Clovis (1911) a collection of his short stories and Unbearable Bassington (1912) shortly after. The heartless and cruel Reginald and Clovis are two of his most famous heroes. He deals with the theme of what would happen if the German emperor conquered England in When William Came. (1914) Beasts and Super-Beasts was published the same year.

World War I started and while he was officially too old, at age 44 Munro volunteered as a soldier, enlisting in the 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He was offered a commission but refused, saying he could not expect soldiers to obey him if he did not have any experience. He wrote a number of short stories from the trenches and promoted to Lance Sergeant (full Corporal) in September of 1916.

Just a month later, on 16 November 1916, while serving near the French town of Beaumount-Hamel, Hector Hugh Munro was fatally shot by a German sniper's bullet. According to several sources his last words were:"Put that damned cigarette out!" It is alleged that Munro's sister Ethel had destroyed his personal papers.

A RURAL TOWN :

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