Tuesday, September 17, 2013

English 9

Tonight, complete the writing assignment begun in class.  You need to discuss the character of the protagonist in "The Sea Devil" by following this plan:

Point 1:         The protagonist in "The Sea Devil" is compassionate.
Example:       provide an example with a quote from the story supporting Point 1
Explanation:  tell how your example shows that the man is compassionate

Point 2:         intelligent
Example:      provide and example with a quote from the story supporting Point 2
Explanation: tell how your example shows the man's intelligence

Point 3:        overconfident (you could also use a risk taker or oblivious)
Example:      provide and example with a quote from the story supporting Point 3
Explanation:  tell how your example shows the man's overconfidence

Also, your new spelling words for the week are as follows:

  1. accompany
  2. accomplice
  3. ambiguous
  4. animosity
  5. celestial
  6. cerebral
  7. chagrin
  8. disastrous
  9. elicit
  10. etiquette
  11. fictitious
  12. finesse
  13. hideous
  14. independence
  15. nauseated
The words in bold will be the vocabulary words for this week.  The spelling/vocab quiz will be next Monday, Sept. 23.