Huck Finn Final Grades are up!

There was a slight curve to get the average to a true C, but many of you didn’t need the help. Good job, Mustangs!

Prepare for Test on “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

There is a test tomorrow on “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Best of luck to you all!

Part B Due Tomorrow

Part B of your Satire project is due tomorrow.

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Vocabulary Test Tomorrow – In case you’ve lost them, the words are below!

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Vocabulary 2

Pathos – Greek, meaning suffering

1. Pathos – the art of evoking emotions from an audience.
2. Antipathy – long-standing dislike, repugnance, distaste or hatred.
3. Empathy  – understanding another person’s point-of-view or thoughts and feelings.
4. Pathetic – Arousing pity, sympathy, scorn, contempt or compassion often due to woeful inadequacy.
5. Patient – not bothered or suffering due to inconvenience or waiting
6. Pathology – the study of human suffering, especially disease and its causes and processes.
7. Pathogen – any organism or substance capable of causing widespread human suffering, especially bacteria, viruses, protozoa, or fungi.
8. Sympathy – A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering of others
9. Psychopathy – a personality disorder that has a lack of concern, understanding, or sympathy for the suffering of others

Context Vocabulary

10. Afoot – (adverb/adjective) in progress

11. Calamity – (noun) the results of a disaster

12. Didactic – (adjective) excessively moralizing; preachy

13. Divination – (noun) the act of foretelling the future

14. Hues – (noun) shades of color; facets of a personality

15. Ponderous – (adj) extremely clumsy; an awkward and heavy weight

16. Recondite – (adj) difficult to understand

17. Salient – (adj) relevant or prominent

18. Sublime – (adj/noun) noble and majestic; impressive and awe-inspiring.

HOMEWORK: 2/25/2010

Study for the vocabulary quiz tomorrow!

Vocabulary for Friday’s quiz, finally posted online!

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Vocabulary #1

Context Vocabulary

Abolish –to do away with

Brazen – bold

Dissipation – (noun) wasteful spending; squandering; dispersing; vanishing

Furl – to wrap or roll something closely around something else

Gaunt – excessively thin or angular

Loquacious – overly talkative

Histrionic (noun/adj) used as a noun or an adjective to describe actions that are overly theatrical

Muse – to ponder

Stealthy – silently, evading notice

Greek Root

Apo – (Greek root/prefix) – away from

Apocalyptic – to reveal or take the cover off (usually associated with the end of the world)

Apogee – the furthest point a satellite has from its axis

Apology – words that remove oneself from past actions or writings

Apoplexy – an umbrella term for medical issues that cause a loss of consciousness and can result in death.  Also, seizures or spasms that result from or end with a loss of consciousness.

apostle – a person who is sent off to share the ideas/work of his or her leader

Apostrophe – in speeches, brief segments of a speech that turn away from the whole to focus on individuals

Apotheosis – glorification; deification (i.e. making someone godlike)

Homework

Tonight’s Homework: Read Chapter 18.  There will be a reading check quiz on Thursday.

Welcome Back, English students!

Write down the song in Ch. 17 — explain how it foreshadows the future of the Grangerfords

Quiz Today!

I’ll scan your quizzes in a short while.   In the meantime, turn in your healthy kids surveys tomorrow ONLY IF YOU DON’T WANT TO DO IT.  Reread Chapters 1 and 2 and answer the  study guide questions for those two chapters.
Great work today!

Vocabulary Test Tomorrow

Based on the Literary Humor Vocabulary. Be sure to scope them out.