Friday, February 28 selecting your character ...tidying up for the week...missing anything?



In class: vocabulary quiz.  My grades are up-to-date. Check yours! Missing something? 

I will collect your 5 completed character charts on Monday.

 You are also going to choose 1 character from the Spoon River text to perform.  These will take place next Tuesday / Wednesday. On Monday you will practice with me.  No one in the same class may have the same character. Come share with me. I will post the list on the blog, so those who are absent today can check the list.

 Period 4:
Period 7:

 Period 9:

Take a look at the rubric below, to know the expectations,


Name_________________________________________
                                                                                                                                      points possible    /                received  
                                                                                   
Prepared and on time and had prop                                         10/
Speaker maintains good eye contact with the audience and is
appropriately animated (e.g., gestures, moving around, etc.).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          15    /

Speaker uses a clear, audible voice.                                          15  /

Delivery is poised, controlled, and smooth.                                                                                    15 /

Good language skills and pronunciation are used.                                                                                       15  /

Poetic punctuation is followed                                              15   /

Character is maintained throughout the presentation                                                                               15    /
           
Final score                                                                                                 
                                                                                         100       /




Vocabulary words from the poems we read.  Hand out on Monday, February 24…quiz on Friday, February 28

The quiz will consist of defining the words only and identifying the part of speech.
1.       cornice (noun)- a molding around a room just below the ceiling.  Cornices are often decorative.
2.       to surmise (verb)- to suppose or deduce  You may surmise that with little effort, you will not succeed.
3.       cindery (adjective)- ashy......Cinderella’s hair was gray and cindery from cleaning out the fireplace.
4.       incandescent (adjective) emitting a fiery light  His smile was incandescent, and his kisses ever-flowing.
5.       ominous (adjective)- threatening, something bad happening   A dark sky is an ominous sign.
6.       fawn (noun)- young deer  A mother deer might neglect its fawn, if a human touches it.
7.       to kindle (noun) – to light a fire or to awaken a thought  The poem kindled a latent thought.
8.       a plank (noun)- thin, long piece of timber  While iron is substituted for planks in buildings, once they were only wood
9.       attired (adjective)- dressed …How are you attired today?
10.   visage (noun)-face- His visage wore a trail of tears.
11.   to mock (verb)- to tease or laugh at.  To mock another individual is often a form of bullying.
12.   colossal (adjective)-extremely large     The sphynx is an ancient, colossal structure.
13.   sycamore (noun)- a tree    Deciduous sycamore trees grow large, shady leaves.
14.   rankish (adjective)-growing out of control.   The weeds were rankish, so it took several hours to tame them.
15.   to dapple (verb)- to mark with spots     The sun radiating through the leaves dappled the afternoon grass.
16.   katydid (noun)  - type of cricket   The chirping katydids sang to us as the moon rose.
17.   to begirt (verb)- to surround             A series of ponds begirt the farmer’s field.
18.   bayou (noun)- a marshy outlet in the southern US.  Crawdads and shrimp are fished for in Louisiana’s bayous.
19.   conviction (noun) – a firmly held belief   The conviction in his voice was poignant, as we affirmed out beliefs.
20.   spiritus mundi (noun) spiritual world    After World War I, many feared that the spiritus mundi had collapsed
21.   muscadine (nou n)- a southern grape         Muscadine grades are sweet and make a refreshing summer refresher.
to grope (verb) - to feel about blindly    Sometimes we feel like we grope through life, not knowing what’s to come.                                                                                                                                                                                      

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