On board
1. Maya Angelou quote
2. "compassionate" How many words can you make from this word?
3. Sigmund Freud
Winston Churchill
What do we know about them?
(B. the G. Chapter 8 homework, exercises 8.5 and 8.6)
"Each one of us has lived through some
devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm,
when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel
because I have been there myself. We must support each other and
empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike."
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Word on the board: compassionate (students generated the following words)
paste pat Pat
eat main Maine
pet pest
seat mop
compose map maps
most mope
sin pin pen
ion
ate as
stomp come
toe compassion
pass mate
compass past
mass stamp
cost camp
tea passionate composite compost
pit spit sap
set cope tone
set tame coast
team stop cast
host cost aim
note on one
tone tape to cape
stone tap
mist noise
spin pain miss
ate stomp toe
pass compass moss
mass cost tea
"Too great a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. Oh when will it suffice?" William Butler Yeats "Easter 1916" a poem about the cost of the Irish Revolution (against the British)
Discussion of exercises 8.5 and 8.6 in B. the G. -- Freud and Churchill
Homework:
1. B. the G. pages 404-413 -- read and do all the exercises to hand in on Monday -- note the great list of words on pp. 404 and 405 for describing a writer's tone
2. Due date for all the Concept Preps will be December 2nd, Friday
3. Final exam will be December 14th from 8:00 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. in LWH 2005 (as usual) -- but NOTE THAT THIS IS HALF AN HOUR EARLIER THAN OUR USUAL CLASS TIME
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