WUP for Friday, 4/25

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. --John F. Kennedy

Vocab
dissension (n.) disagreement, sharp difference of opinion
Write your own sentence using the following sentence as an example.
The political party was torn by dissension and finally split into two wings.

Literary Term
DIALECT A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.

Usage

farther, further Use farther to express physical distance. Use further to express abstract relationships of degree or quantity.

EXAMPLES

We swam farther than we usually do.

After discussing “The Road Not Taken” further, we agreed with Karl’s interpretation of the poem.

Homework

• Quiz on this week's warm-ups.
• Read and answer questions for chaps. 20,21, & 22
  

WUP for Thursday, 4/24

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands. --Cathy Better

Vocab
pillage (v.) to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; (n.) the act of looting; booty
The commanding officer warned his troops not to pillage the conquered city. (v.)
Pillage and murder became a fact of life in Europe during the Dark Ages. (n.)

Literary Term
BALLAD A song or poem that tells a story. The typical ballad tells a tragic story in the form of a monologue or dialogue. Ballads usually have a simple, steady rhythm, a simple rhyme pattern, and a refrain, all of which make them easy to memorize.

Usage

who’s, whose Who’s is the contraction of who is or who has. Whose is the possessive form of who.

EXAMPLES

Who’s [who is] going to portray the Navajo detective in the play?

Who’s [who has] been using my computer?

Whose artwork is this?

Homework
Read and answer questions for chapters 18 & 19.
For Monday, read and answer questions for chapters 20, 21, & 22.

WUP for Wednesday, 4/23

Lord save us all from...a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
--Mark Twain

Vocab
reprove (v.) to find fault with, scold, rebuke
Use the following example to write your own sentence using reprove correctly.
She reproved her staff for having followed orders blindly.

Lit Term
ATMOSPHERE The mood or feeling created in a piece of writing. A story’s atmosphere might be peaceful, festive, menacing, melancholy, and so on. Elie Wiesel’s Night (Collection 6), for example, creates an atmosphere of terror and sadness.

Usage

their, there, they’re Their is a possessive form of they. As an adverb, there means “at that place.” There can also be used to begin a sentence. They’re is the contraction of they are.

EXAMPLES

The performers are studying their lines.
I will be there after rehearsal. [adverb]
There will be four acts in the play. [expletive]
They’re performing a play by Lorraine Hansberry.

Homework
Read Chapters 15, 16 & 17 and answer the questions in your notebook.

WUP for Monday, 4/21

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. --Mark Twain

Vocab
restitution (n.) the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage
They made restitution for the damage to the car but never fully regained the friendship of its owner.
SYNONYMS: compensation, reimbursement

Lit Term
AMBIGUITY A technique by which a writer deliberately suggests two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem” (Collection 5) has an ambiguous ending.

Harlem

    
      What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Usage

of Of is a preposition. Do not use of in place of have after verbs such as could, should, would, might, must, and ought [to]. Also, do not use had of for had.

EXAMPLES

You ought to have [not of] studied harder.
If he had [not had of] remembered the name of the author of “Mending Wall,” he would have [not would of] made a perfect score.

Homework
Read chapters 11-14 and answer the questions.