Nice Group of people sharing dinner on a rainy night...

Nice Group of people sharing dinner on a rainy night...

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

PASSWORD: Choose one;)



B&B for next class:


  • Finish reading the short story.
  • Read poems by Lanston Hughes and write your own poem to Arnie, Amanda, Claudine, The Pembertons or other character in the short story.

Famous Speeches :)

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VOCABULARU Focus 1:

  • The child was five when his father was drafted; and…326
  • The Pumbertons were never known to shirk a duty.326
  • A little white spot in a forest of white heads above the stiff pews.327
  • Throughout the years the whole of Mapleton began to preen itself on its charity.327
  • Everyone was a little baffled and a little ashamed.328
  • The black kids from the slums of Boston who cussed and fought and made fun of him…328
  • He went to a senior prom 329
  • But he was a lucky chap. 329
  • Claudina sang divinely and danced like a dryad. 330
  • Claudina was playing whist. 331
  • A native orchestra would play rattles and drums.332
  • Some rather ederly musicians were in spats.332



VOCABULARY Focus 2:

four score & seven years ago/ five score years ago
piggybagto use something that already exists or has already been done successfully to do something else quickly or effectively
neard = geek
deferto delay something until a later time:
sagto drop down to a lower level in the middle/ to become weaker
footage(a piece of) film especially one showing an event:
raft:piece of text, a formal suggestion, or a drawing in its original state, often containing the main ideas and intentions but not the developed form:
rough paper paper that is used for the first versions of a drawingpiece of writing, or calculation