VOCAB (SOW2)

Harrowing
Embankment
Feigning
Innuendo
Rapport
Prattled
Ambience
Lethargy
Perpetual
Fortnight

One Page Essays for 01.28.10 Period 1

1. Whether or not Kien is scared of what he writes or reads.

2. If writing is therapy on Kien's mind and soul, or if it just makes him relive the experience.

3. Will Kien ever be "normal" again or will he be tramuatized by war forever.

4. Does the book pertain to the author/ is Kien 's life the authors life or is it all fictional.

-KM

Vocab (SOW1)

Indoctrination
Omnipresent
Somnambulantly
Attributes
Rife
Wanton
Petulantly
Audacity
Monotony
Elated

BREAK!

Enjoy your break. You all deserve it. Just don't forget to qrite your rough drafts. Those are due upon your return. Tackle a little every night or two and it won't seem so bad. Don't save the whole thing for the night before we get back!

Look at that dog on the right.

Research Essay Outline

This a an EXAMPLE of an outline. Use it as a starting point for your own.

Outline Example

Note Cards and Source Cards

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one page essay for 12. 4. 09

Ibo culture compared to the American dream.
Ikemefuna's singnificance and the changes he can bring in Okonkwo's personality.
Nwoye feeling the same way Okonkwo felt about his father due to characterstic differences.
What were the reasons behind Unoka's failure?
-SB

One Page Essays for 12/4/09

1. Compare and contrast Okonkwo to his father and you to your father.

2. How does fear affect your personality, and what you do?

3. How is the Ibo culture similar and different to our culture?

-KH

One page essay for friday dec. 4th, 2009

1.) Do you think its fair that Unoku lives life of pleasure, while others work hard and then loan Unoku money?

-S. B.

One Page Essays for 12/4/09

Is the significance of life found through simple everyday pleasures or through making great accomplishments?

Does this significance change depending on whether one has the lives of others to support as well as their own?

-FC

Vocab (TFA1)

Harmattan
Improvident
Prowess
Gnashed
Ultimatum
Imperious
Interim
Capricious
Malevolent
Prosperity

Vocab (TRAIN2)

Rheum
Despondently
Turbid
Gesticulations
Rapt
Intermittently
Intrinsically
Implicit
Tumultuous
Pursed

one page essays for the next closest date.

1. Name an obsession you have, and how does that effect who you are and your personalty?

-MikeyT

One Page Essays for 11/12/09

1. How has Hukum Chand's actions towards women changed since we first are introduced to him? Do you think these actions were ever justified, if so how?

2.Choose a scene in the book and explain the message given in that particular scene. Use evidence and examples to prove your reasoning.

3.Compare and contrast Iqbal and Juggah's actions. Explain how these actions relate to their personalities.

4.Relate something from the book (and incident or message) to that of something outside the book. Use details to express this relation.

5. If you were in Juggah's situation, how would you react? would you act in the same way Juggah did? why or why not?

**DR**

Today's Journal Prompt

For your scene:

1. What happens?
2. What else is going on in Mano Majra at the time?
3. What does the interaction reveal about each character's personality?
4. What could the interaction symbolize about the relationship between the government of India and its people?

Outline Example

Here is an example of a possible outline. Enjoy.

Outline Example

Works Cited Info

Your Source Cards are due next class. If you want to be sure that you have done everything in proper MLA format (which you need for the points), check out the guidelines on the FHS Library site:

http://www.falmouth.k12.ma.us/index.php/our-schools/Falmouth-High-School/fhacademics/fhlibrary/fhs-workscited

They don't include movie citations right there, so here is the guideline for that (again, be sure to tab in after the first line!):

An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore, Billy West. Paramount, 2006. DVD.

Vocab (TRAIN1)

Kismet
Falsetto
Communal
Buttress
Adjutant
Antimony
Censorious
Charpoy
Precipitated
Extricated

TOMORROW

There is no one-page essay due, because I'm good like Gandhi.

You should be working on your five-paragraph SIDDHARTHA essay. Tomorrow the first two paragraphs of your rough draft are due. Also, don't forget about your GANDHI journal entry (Ally).

VOCAB (SIDD2)

Subservient
Ostracize
Fervor
Courtesan
Renowned
Covet
Onerous