English 11 E, Friday, Sept. 10

Vocabulary:

All grade 11 students are studying/learning/using the same 75 words. These words are found in the books you'll read this year.

For each word, complete the following

Part of Speech:
Definition:
Synonym:
Sentence: NOTE: Ensure the word's definition is included in your sentence.

For example, empathy-to understand how someone is feeling. Shelby has empathy for her father who has just lost his job; she understands his feelings of despair.

For those students who were absent today, here are the first eight words. Complete all eight for Monday. Pick up the list of 75 words on Monday, also.
1. foreordained
2. propinquity
3. convalescence, convalescent
4. Belsen
5. gallivanting, to gallivant
6. gangling, gangly
7. florid, floridly
8. resplendent, resplendently

I will be checking this homework on Monday.

Keep this list in the front of your notebook as we'll be accessing it frequently. Weekly quizzes. Memorize the word. Use it in your writing.
Read your USSR book this weekend. Aim for three books by the end of September.

Also, finish reading Morley Callaghan's story, "An Enemy of the People". Keep looking for examples of irony. Be able to provide oral responses to all the questions we wrote down in class.

We will be writing a paragraph on this story Monday. Good copy due for peer editing on Tuesday.