Sunday, March 18, 2012

Lit'rature Explained

This week's Sunday Review of The New York Times focused on writing and language. Here are three pieces on:
what makes writing good,
how language learning helps us,
and how fiction works in the brain.

We'll read and discuss these in class this week. I'll let you know due dates, etc. in class on Monday.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Monte Cristo Vocabulary, Part 2

Chapter 45: impassable, irksome, condescension, temperate
 
Chapter 46: abated, auspices, yonder, apoplectic, phantom

Chapter 47: distraught, reconciliation, resolute, ineffable, supplications, torpor, desolation, scrutinizing, austere

Chapter 48: notary, convulsively, stupefied, injunction, filial, candor, ominous, recourse, ruffian

Chapter 49: misapprehension

Chapter 50: amorous, laden, contemptuous, dainty, perceived, ascend, reminiscence, sonorous, aperture