Monday, November 3, 2014

november 3

JOURNAL TOPIC:
Over the weekend it rained for the first time in a long, long time.  How do authors use rain to establish setting and tone?  Consider this example from Ray Bradbury:

“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.

Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Paragraph explaining your grade
3. Grade conferences

HW:
1. Review Fahrenheit 451 to p.110
2. Contribute vocab word candidates in a comment to this post

20 comments:

  1. perfunctorily
    dismay
    vantage
    tyranny
    rebut
    dwindled
    torrent
    verbiage
    cite
    welter

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  2. Here's some words! Perpetual, floured, gout, aesthetic, illumined.

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  3. perpetual
    incomprehensible
    burdensome
    aesthetic
    nuzzling
    plume
    litterateur
    liquefaction
    fender
    anesthetized

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  4. Latrine
    Parried
    Torrent
    Phosphorescent
    Verbiage
    Burdensome
    Perpetual
    Procaine

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  5. Procain
    Torrent
    Parried
    Filigree
    Verbiage
    Perpetual
    Dwindled
    Burdensome

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  6. Exploiters
    Vesuvius
    Enameled
    Subaudiable
    Latrine
    Manifested
    Folly
    Draughts
    Sickeningly
    Beatific

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  7. Verbiage
    Folly
    Trotting
    Reckoning
    Plume
    Welter
    Draught

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  8. Perpetual
    Gibbering
    Liquefaction
    Frothing

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  9. Reckoning
    Latrine
    Folly
    Nuzzling
    Subaudible
    Dwindle
    Gibbering
    Beatific
    Dismay
    Parried

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  10. Grotesque
    dwindle
    trotted
    muzzle
    procaine
    plunged
    wailing
    skidded

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  11. Dreary
    threadbare
    verbiage
    Beatific
    Perfunctorily

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  12. valise, gobbledegook, aesthetic, blossom, gagged,

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  13. Valise
    Rigidity
    Gout
    Plume
    Clad
    Plummet
    Gobbledegook
    Dilate
    Sear
    Gingerly

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  14. Minstrel
    Conscious
    Feigning
    Leisurely
    Conjure
    Anesthetized

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  15. patronage
    flue
    quiuble
    equate
    bestial
    cadenced
    suffused
    perspiring
    saccharine
    reiled
    praetorian
    trifle

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  16. Folly
    Valise
    Verbiage
    Vesuvius
    Grotesque
    Saccharine
    Stratum
    Retaliation

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  17. Abruptly
    Enameled
    Subaudiable
    Quavery
    Certitude
    Filigree
    Invigorated
    Profited
    Pries
    Tyranny

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  18. Tyranny
    Pries
    Profited
    Filigree
    Invigorated
    Subaudiable
    Enameled
    Abruptly
    Quavery
    Certitude

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  19. ruinous
    quavered
    certitude
    notch
    perspired
    manifested
    latrine
    uttered
    parried
    oracle
    conscious
    feigning
    leisurely
    conjure
    anesthetized
    tyranny
    folly
    dreary
    grotesque
    reckoning

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