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 /
|
V
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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