Today in class students took the vocabulary quiz. If you were absent today, you will need to make that up during a time other than our actual class hour. See me to schedule this.
Additionally, students picked up the essay, "On Essays: Literature's Most Misunderstood Form." I drew a box around 42 words in the essay that I thought might be problematic for students and might impede comprehension.
For tomorrow, students are writing definitions for these words in the margins of the essay. Our next vocab quiz covering these words will be Monday, September 28. Format to be announced.
Additionally, for tomorrow, students are reading the essay and making a list of the author's assertions about the essay form. These should be written in complete sentences.
That's it.
You can find the essay here: http://www.pw.org/content/essays
The vocab words are as follows: cleave, inconclusive, assertion, practitioners, revelatory, artifice, postmodernism, machinations, in flagrante delicto, dialectic, metaphysical, self-effacing, tincture, accrue, systemic, vacillations, anecdote, amorphous, protean, epiphanies, crescendo, excursions, cinematic, render, narcissism, subordinate, distillation, tier, hypertextuality, insatiable, musings, inconceivable, poignancy, potency, pithiness, adverse, succinctness, flippancy, mutable, protoplasmic, terra firma, divulgence
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