Monday, December 2, 2013

Homework and Vocabulary December 2-6


DUE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3  (Don´t panic! This is the last week of homework! You can do it! )
-Read “A Moral Solution to the Organ Shortage” p.551
-Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.553
-We will complete the highlighted portion together  in class  on Tuesday. It will be due at the end of 3rd period.
-Read “Need Transplant Donors? Pay Them” p.555
-Answer Questions for Close Reading ALL p.557
-Read “The Border on Our Backs” p.559
-Answer Questions for Close Reading, #1-4 p.561
-Answer Questions About the Writer’s Craft #3, p.562

DUE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4
-Read “Se Habla Entitlement” p.564
-Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.566
-Answer Questions About the Writer’s Craft #2-3 p.566-567
-Essay p.569, 1st draft, handwritten, double-spaced

DUE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5
-Final draft of argument-persuasion essay TYPED, MLA due by the end of the day

DUE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6
-Vocabulary TEST

DUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 9
-NO HOMEWORK! Well done! (:

VOCABULARY TEST LIST:
FILL IN THE BLANK:
             ANTANAGOGE: placing a good point or benefit next to a fault criticism, or problem in order to reduce the impact or significance of the negative point. EXAMPLE: True, he always forgets my birthday, but he buys me presents all year round.
             METABASIS- consists of a brief statement of what has been said and what will follow. It might be called a linking, running, or transitional summary, whose function is to keep the discussion ordered and clear in its progress. EXAMPLE: Such, then, would be my diagnosis of the present condition of art. I must now, by special request, say what I think will happen to art in the future. --Kenneth Clark
             SCESIS ONOMATON emphasizes an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements. While it should be used carefully, this deliberate and obvious restatement can be quite effective. EXAMPLE: We succeeded, we were victorious, we accomplished the feat!
             APOPHASIS (also called praeteritio or occupatio) asserts or emphasizes something by pointedly seeming to pass over, ignore, or deny it. This device has both legitimate and illegitimate uses. Legitimately, a writer uses it to call attention to sensitive or inflammatory facts or statements while he remains apparently detached from them. EXAMPLE: We will not bring up the matter of the budget deficit here, or how programs like the one under consideration have nearly pushed us into bankruptcy, because other reasons clearly enough show . . . .
             CATACHRESIS is an extravagant, implied metaphor using words in an alien or unusual way. While difficult to invent, it can be wonderfully effective. EXAMPLE: I will speak daggers to her. --Hamlet [In a more futuristic metaphor, we might say, "I will laser-tongue her." Or as a more romantic student suggested, "I will speak flowers to her."]
             ANTIPHRASIS: one word irony, established by context. EXAMPLE: "Come here, Tiny," he said to the fat man.
             APOSIOPESIS: stopping abruptly and leaving a statement unfinished. EXAMPLE: If they use that section of the desert for bombing practice, the rock hunters will--.
             SENTENTIA: quoting a maxim or wise saying to apply a general truth to the situation; concluding or summing foregoing material by offering a single, pithy statement of general wisdom. EXAMPLE: But, of course, to understand all is to forgive all.          

MATCHING/FILL IN THE BLANK:
             STAID- unemotional; serious
             FRACTIOUS- quarrelsome; unruly
             HACKNEYED- worn out through overuse; trite
             TIMOROUS- timid; fearful about the future
             NASCENT- coming into existence; emerging
             CANDOR- sincerity; openness
             SONOROUS- producing a deep or full sound
             COPIOUS- large in scope or content
             LAUDATORY- giving praise
             SARDONIC- disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh, bitter, or caustic
             PROPITIOUS- presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
             DISPARITY- inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference

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