Now that you are almost finished with your final exams, please note the following:
You must pick up a vocabulary sheet before you head home. I have copied that sheet below. Please note the due dates on the last page:
First Vocabulary List
In Cold Blood
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Impinge (5)
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Keening (5)
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Beneficence (5)
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Pious (6, 26)
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Lamentably (8)
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Myriad (9)
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Abstemious (10)
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Equanimity (10)
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Tawny (10)
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Pungent (11)
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Obscure (13)
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Sentry (13)
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Valor (13)
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Chamois (14)
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Enthralled (15)
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Changeling (15)
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Ominous (16)
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Mesmeric (16)
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Pragmatic (16)
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Reverie (16)
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Jauntiness (18)
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Enigma (18)
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Girth (19)
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Wan (21)
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Ardently (21)
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Affront (21)
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Reticent (21, 39)
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Devoid (22)
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Ludicrous (22)
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Solace (22)
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Ineffable (23,37)
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Protégée (24)
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Elocution (25)
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Ethereality (25)
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Lilliputian (26)
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Diminutive (26)
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Dote (27)
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Austere (29)
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Fastidious (30)
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Serpentine (31)
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Itinerant (32)
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Opulent (32)
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Wanton (32)
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Evocative (33)
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Placid (33, 68)
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Nostalgia (33)
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Eminent (34)
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Coterie (34)
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Quandary (37)
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Decrepit (38)
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Dourness (38)
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Disheveled (40)
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Emanated (40)
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Credulous (42)
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Furtive (46)
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Ruminations (47)
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Agoraphobic (49)
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Sojourn (54)
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Mirthful (56)
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Edifice (59)
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Languid (59)
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Pallid (59)
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Lair (60)
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Caustic (67)
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Gaunt (67)
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Ruefully (70)
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Mica (77)
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Annihilating (79)
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Raucous (80)
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Delineating (83)
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Tantalized (84)
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Intrepid (87)
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Prevarications (90)
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Affable (91)
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Sullen (92)
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Bravura (92)
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Stealthy (98)
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Homework for Thursday, January 8, 2015 – this vocabulary
sheet completed!
Homework for Friday, January 9, 2015 – the first 74 pages of
In Cold Blood, read and annotated.
As you read In Cold Blood, please focus on information about the following
issues: (i) the venue of the murders and the trial; (ii) the childhoods of Dick
and Perry; (iii) Dick and Perry’s potential insanity defense; and (iv) the
death penalty.
Also, if you have not finished the summer assignment, please note the assignment below:
Summer – Autumn – Winter – Spring Assignment
To make up your summer assignment for a late grade, you may
do the following:
Read and annotate one of the following: Brave New World OR Persepolis (part one);
Write an essay on the following prompt: Which society is more repressive? The society of Brave New World or Persepolis
or the society depicted in The
Handmaid’s Tale? (Just to be
clear: you must discuss in your essay
either BNW OR Persepolis AND The Handmaid’s
Tale.
Your essay must be at least 1,000 words. It is due to turnitin.com on or before
January 12, 2015. You must submit your
annotated book to me on or before that date as well.
I will be grading and recording throughout the holiday. Grades will be finalized on or before January 5, 2015.
Have a great holiday!
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