Vocab Quiz (Lu to Boviard)

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What are some interesting/important things you've learned about the Umuofian culture?

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Tell me two things--

The event I reactyed to most strongly was...

The most interesting little detail was...

Poetry prize info

Use this link to download guidelines and the official form.

http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/highschoolprize.html

If you aren't, well, a girl, but you still want to submit a poem, try one of these. (or if your poem doesn't fit the Smith specs...)

http://teenink.com/Resources/ContestsR.html#SC8

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Sorry this is so late going up.

Pick a specific moment (passage w/pg #) and explain either how Achebe pulls you into the story or how he pushes you away. (In other words, explain a moment where you connect or fail to connect with the text.) Then, briefly explain to what extent this connection/discord is due to Achebe and to what extent it comes from your own predispositions.

The Second Coming

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

W.B. Yeats

1920

Vocab Words Quiz 4

This is Boviard through Pezza.

80-90% of the words will be from Boviard through Pezza. 10-20% will be from earlier in the year.

Q1 Connections & Big Ideas

What I'd like you to do here is take a few moments to draw connections. These could be huge and obvious, or they could be small and curious. Stretch. Be peculiar.

Try to come up with one big idea that links several texts, and then come up with one small one. Add texts to what other people notice.


Here's the run down of our readings...
Life of Pi & Cat's Cradle
"Thinking as a Hobby"
"The Conversion of the Jews"
1984
The Gospel of Mark (excerpt)
The Bagavad Gita (excerpt)

And some poems...
"An Introduction to Poetry"
"The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently"
"Neither out Far nor in Deep"
"next to of course god america i"
"Stopping by the Woods..."
"The Space Heater"
"The Victims"

Cat's Cradle

Here's the Cat's Cradle blog. What are your questions about this one?

Life of Pi (test ground)

Let's see how this works. Try posting a few thoughts about Life of Pi--questions, theories, etc.

1984 reading journal

When we get started, post responses here.

202 Vocab Words

antiquarian--one who collects, studies or deals in old things (antiques)

mendicant--a beggar