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Sophomores
You have three things going on between now and Monday:
  • Quiz on Walden on Friday
  • One-page reflective assignment due on Monday
  • Two poems, one ABABCDCDEFEF inspired by Emerson and/or Thoreau, and one free verse poem beginning with the words "I sit and look out" - due Monday
Juniors
Answer questions on the following pages:
  • p285 #1-4
  • p287 #2-6
  • p291 #1-3
  • p293 #2-5
Reminder: your Macbeth projects and one-page rationales are due on Monday.
Seniors
Finish the AP exam and bring to class.  Your vocabulary quiz is on Monday:

  1. pompous - excessively elevated or ornate
  2. slipshod - careless
  3. discretion - showing good judgement
  4. colloquial - relating to conversation
  5. avail - to be of use or advantage
  6. opaque - hard to understand or explain
  7. pedantic - making a show of knowledge
  8. gabble - to talk fast or foolishly
  9. perspicuous - plain to the understanding
  10. circumlocutions - evasion in speech
  11. extemporaneous - composed, uttered or performed on the spur of the moment
  12. ambivalence - simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings
  13. eloquent - marked by forceful and fluent expression
  14. cadence - a rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds in language
  15. throes - pang or spasm
  16. conciliatory - gaining goodwill through pleasing acts
  17. capricious - impulsive; unpredictable
  18. labyrinthine - intricate or involved
  19. inexorably - incapable of being persuaded, moved or stopped
  20. solemnity - formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event
All definitions taken from Merriam-Webster Online.Another great resource for building your vocabulary is Dictionary.com's Word Dynamo.

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