Monday, October 27, 2008

Honors English 11 Vocabulary List Week X

The words below are from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Page number are from my copy.

01. haphazard (Huck Finn) -
02. painstakingly (Huck Finn) -
03. victuals (1) -
04. tolerable (2) -
05. particular (2) -
06. providence (10) -
07. airs (18) -
08. nabob (24) -
09. delirium tremens (25) -
10. roust (27) -
11. palavering (27) -
12. slough (check context !) (30) -
13. brash (35) -
14. fantods (37) -
15. security (check the context!) (42) -
16. bluffs (44) -
17. rummaged (47) -
18. varmint (47) -
19. jabbering (57) -
20. derrick (60) -

Monday, October 20, 2008

"Occurrence" questions

1. Where does the point of view change?
2. At what points does the realistic imagery become unrealistic?
3. What other elements of realism are present in the short story?

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Mr. Morris's English Blog Makes the NHS Front Page!

Though I should note, "English" is always capitalized.

http://www.chatham.k12.nc.us/nhs/


ROCK.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Honors English 11 Vocabulary List Week 8 (Quiz 10/17)

The following words are gleaned from your copy of "Chickamauga." If you want to get a head start, you can find the text here.

01. rude (1)
02. hewn
03. dominion
04. intrepid
05. prudence
06. curb (v.)
07. formidable
08. immemorial (2)
09. acclivity
10. gait
11. prone
12. clad
13. grotesque
14. caricatured (3)
15. maculated
16. spoor
17. martial
18. exodus (4)
19. conspicuous
20. conflagration

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Emily Dickinson Poetry

You will be responsible for the poems found here.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

September 2008 Mixtape Up

As always, send me an email, I'll send you a link. This month is much more accessible, I think.

Song - Time - Artist - Album - Genre

01. Falcon Jab 3:55 Ratatat LP3 Hipster Electronica
02. Cleveland 4:52 Simon Wickham-Smith & Richard Youngs Veil (For Greg) Experimental Classical
03. Little Twig 3:36 Neil Halstead Oh! Mighty Engine Indie Folk
04. Night & Day 7:59 The Moondoggies Don't Be A Stranger 70s Country-rock throwback
05. Oppressions Each 3:27 Brightblack Morning Light Motion To Rejoin Psychedelic soul-drone jam
06. I Love You, I'm Going To... 7:33 Mogwai The Hawk is Howling Post-rock
07. Cygnet 3:20 Blevin Blectum Gular Flutter Noise/Experimental Electronica
08. This Is What 3:10 Horse Feathers House With No Home Alternative & Punk
09. Decisions Are Made 4:18 Religious Knives The Door Psychedelic drone
10. Living Forest 6:12 The Curtains Of Night Lost Houses Sludge Doom Metal
11. Immediate Mate 5:43 Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday Experimental Rock
12. A Light That Does Not Dim 1:47 O'Death Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin Weirdo Country
13. Beast That You Are (Side A) 15:05 Pocahaunted Beast That You Are Experimental/Noise Folk

Honors English 11 Vocabulary List Week 7 (Quiz 10/10)

The words for this week will be gathered from the works of Walt Whitman in the textbook. You can get a preview here and here.

01. castes
02. slough
03. stalwart
04. ampler
05. disdaining
06. audacity
07. candor
08. physiognomy
09. indecorous
10. susceptibility
11. slight (n.)
12. "loafe" = loaf (v.)
13. distillation
14. inception
15. equanimity
16. fratricidal
17. impalpable
18. fathomless
19. tenacious
20. acquisitive

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

CP English 12: Renaissance Webquest

Since I cannot talk today, we're going to kill three birds with one stone with this webquest.

1. As an overview, read these two pages: One, Two. A couple of quiz questions that will likely pop up on Thursday are 1) What does "Renaissance" mean? and 2) Where did the Renaissance begin?

2. Open the Renaissance Webquest here. Following the guy's instructions, you and your partner will come together to create a 250-word (roughly 1/2 page) magazine or newspaper-style article on the topic I assign you. The site has plenty of links to choose.

3. Write the article, but include a Works Cited page using the MLA format. An overview is here, but the format you will need to use to cite websites is here. Don't worry about in-text citation for now- we'll work on that later.

4. Once completed, be sure to put your name and your partner's name on the page, saving it as a .doc file. Email me the finished product: fmmorris@chatham.k12.nc.us.

ROCK!