Friday, October 14, 2011

Complete reading of "The Flood" p. 923 from old literature book. Answer questions.
Of Mice and Men Vocabulary Quiz #1 anguished - complacently

Thursday, October 13, 2011.

Finished watching Steinbeck bio film. Students worked on questions relating to film and turned in work.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011.
PSAT TEST 17 min. classes.

SSR and log.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011.

1) SSR and LOG: Log will be picked up for project grade next week. Make sure it is neatly organized, written in pen, with the pages tallied for each page.

2) Read Steinbeck Author Study beginning on page 918 in old literature book. We discussed Steinbeck's driving force behind his work: An appreciation for the decency of the common person. Steinbeck was a voice for the common laborer, whose biased depiction in newspapers was negative. Read the excerpt "The Flood" from The Grapes of Wrath. (We only began reading this.)

3) Of Mice and Men Vocabulary List # 1

1. anguished - adj. : feeling great suffering, worry, or grief
2. appraise – v : to judge the quality or worth of; to set a price for
3. apprehension – n : an anxious feeling of foreboding [a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment] or dread
4. apprehensive – adj. : feeling apprehension
5. avert – v : to turn away from
6. belligerently – adverb: showing a readiness to fight or quarrel; in a rude way
7. bemused – adj. : stupefied; preoccupied in thought;
8. bindle – n : slang for a bundle of bedding carried by a hobo
9. bridled – adj : harnessed; restrained
10.burlap – n : a coarse cloth made of jute or hemp used
for making sacks(ie for potatoes )
11.complacent - adj. : satisfied

Study for quiz on Friday, 10/14