Home Learning, Due Monday & Wednesday, 1/31 and 2/2

For Their Eyes Were Watching God, choose your favorite scene.  Then, make a list of 20 quotes (throughout the entire book, not just from that favorite scene) that exemplify 5 different literary or syntactical tools (4 for each of the 5) that Hurston incorporates in the novel.  We have discussed several in class.  If you do not wish to make a separate list, use sticky notes to mark the pages of the quotes directly in your book.  YOU WILL NEED THESE FOR OUR CLASS ACTIVITY ON MONDAY, SO COME PREPARED! 

You also need to make notecards for ALL the words and roots. (Here is the link to the comprehensive word list.)  You are allowed to group words that mean the same thing.  Do not group words that are of different parts of speech!  On one side should be the word (or words), and the other side should have the definition and/or a synonym.  No typing!  THIS IS DUE ON WEDNESDAY, but START NOW!

Enjoy your weekend!  :o)

If you are interested in going on the Zora Neale Hurston Festival field trip next Friday, 1/27, post a comment ASAP.  It's $30.  If we get enough people to sign up, we may still be able to afford a Coach bus! :0) Plan to be gone all day; we are expected to return around 11:00 pm.

Home learning - due Tuesday, 1/17

Read chapters 6-9 of TEWWG.

Complete the 2 handouts (<--- click if you need them) I gave you in class and identify 2 examples of imagery in each of chapters 7, 8, and 9 (for a total of 6 examples of imagery).  Be sure to identify which sense is being appealed to, the literary technique employed, and the meaning (just at the second handout does). 

Get started on your reading and assignment so you can enjoy your long weekend!  ;o)

Homework - Due Thursday, 1/12

Finish reading chapters 1- 4 of Their Eyes Were Watching God, and create your own bookmark! 

SIDE ONE - you need to look for literary tools that are present in these chapters.  You will need to find two different lit tools per tier then include them on your bookmark.  You will write the lit tool, the example from the book, why the author used it, as well as the page number:

Tier One - metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, oxymoron
Tier Two - personification, paradox, hyperbole, allusion
Tier Three - apostrophe, metonymy, pun, or irony (verbal, situational or dramatic)

You will also need to give the four chapters ONE title! 

SIDE TWO will reflect your vocab at work.  You are NOT looking for the vocab words in the chapters; rather, you are looking for events or situations that are examples of your vocab words.  You will only need to do do this for 7 words from the Unit 7 word list.  You will write the vocab word, the quote that relates to the word, the page number and a brief explanation why that word relates to that quote. 

Write your name, the date and the period on this side at the bottom :o)

Don't forget to also add to our lexicon below! 

LEXICON for Their Eyes Were Watching God

Some of you may find it difficult to read Their Eyes Were Watching God because of the southern dialect.  Never fear - we've got each other's backs!  We'll start a lexicon to help us with the reading! 

If you find a word that you've figured out, post a comment with the word and its modern-day translation.

Read the ones below, and let's add more under COMMENTS as we go!

"useter" - used to
"git" - get
"chillun" - children
"mah" - my
"de" - the
"fuh" for
"thu" to
"dawgs" - dogs
"dem" - them
"ah" - I
"gwine" - going to
"dat" - that
"ole" - old
"lak" - like
"betcha" - bet you
"sho" - sure
"g'wan" - go on
"keer" - care

Vocabulary Unit 7 Words

Create a chart with the word, definition, part of speech, 2 synonyms, and 1 antonym for each word.

Pugnacious:  having a quarrelsome or combative nature
Sodden:  heavy with or as if with moisture or water
Languid:  drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion
Sanctum:  a place where one is free from intrusion
Conjecture:  an inference from defective or presumptive evidence
brazen:  sounding harsh and loud like struck brass
temerity:  unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition
coquetry:  a flirtatious act or attitude
fractious:  tending to be troublesome
promoter:  a substance that in very small amounts is able to increase the activity of a catalyst
menial:  of or relating to servants
confidante:  a trusted ally, possibly female
cur:  a surly or cowardly fellow
usurp:  to take or make use of without right
commiserate:  to feel or express sympathy
ostentatious:  a rather pretentious display
chastise:  to inflict punishment on
wanton:  the act of being mischeivously playful
privy:  belonging or relating to a person in one's individual rather than official capacity

Their Eyes Were Watching God

I found the novels on amazon.com for $10.89 with free shipping.  If you would like me to order a book for you, please comment below and bring the money on Friday.  (Spread the word about this post to your classmates.)

I will place the order tomorrow evening. 

Reading Assessment Dates for Their Eyes Were Watching God 

(I will likely have to modify the schedule depending on the novels' arrival.)

1/10 - Ch. 1-4
1/12 - Ch. 5-6
1/17 - Ch. 7-9
1/19 - Ch. 10-12
1/24 - Ch. 13-17
1/26 - Ch. 18-20

You will need to maintain an 80% average on all TEWWG quizzes in order to attend our field trip to the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida on 1/27.

Grammar Notes and Review (Wednesday, 1/4)

Click here for the grammar notes.

Click here for the 20 Most Common Grammatical Mistakes