Nice Group of people sharing dinner on a rainy night...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
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.
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
piggybag: to use something that already exists or has already been done successfully to do something else quickly or effectively
neard = geek
defer: to delay something until a later time:
sag: to drop down to a lower level in the middle/ to become weaker
footage: (a piece of) film especially one showing an event:
raft:a 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 drawing, piece of writing, or calculation
piggybag: to use something that already exists or has already been done successfully to do something else quickly or effectively
neard = geek
defer: to delay something until a later time:
sag: to drop down to a lower level in the middle/ to become weaker
footage: (a piece of) film especially one showing an event:
raft:a 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 drawing, piece of writing, or calculation
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