English 12

After reading the short story "Identities", respond to the following:

1. What surprised you about this story?

2. Would you recommend this story to a friend? Why or why not?

3. If you were an editor at a publishing house, how might you change this story?

4. In a few sentences, explain how a stranger might identify you. What judgements might he or she make based on appearances?

Next Monday, you will have a vocabulary quiz. Your words are: layman (n), sadist (n), infamy (n), macabre (adj) , dissuade (v), garrulous (adj) , impetuous (adj), meander (v), labyrinth (n), superficial (adj), sheath (n & v), pockmarked (adj), degenerate (n & v), recriminations (n), accentuate (v), psychopath (n), sociopath (n).