English 12, Blocks 4 and 7

Block 7, the narrative essay is due on Friday.

Please make sure that you have answered all the questions for "And Summer is Gone", "Pigeon" and "Icarus".

Block 4, make sure that your readings are completed for next class.  In addition, make sure that the poems are also completed.

English 10, Blocks 1 and 2

Study your vocabulary words for Thursday's quiz.

1. desolation (noun): devastation; barrenness               
2. refuge (n): safety  
3. exquisite (adj): special beauty; intense feeling of either pleasure or pain 
4. divert (v): change direction; redirect attention                                    
5. perversion (n): make a change from what is natural to what is unnatural/abnormal 
6. indomitable (adj): unbeatable  
7. inimical (adj): harmful; hostile; unfriendly 
8. lacerated (adj): savagely cut or sliced; torn 
9. obliquely (adv): indirectly, coming at an angle and not straight on                  
10. ochre (adj): yellowish orange colour 
11. trussed (adj):  tied tightly; bound up to prevent movement  
12. propinquity (n):  proximity; the state of being close or near to another  
13. audacity (noun): boldness; gall  
14. deputed (verb): to be given responsibility for something  
15. derision (n): ridicule; scorn  
16. dissemble (v): to lie  
17. dissimulation (n): the act of lying; being deceitful 
18. pitch (noun/adjective): tar; black 
19. tattoo (n): rhythmic rapping  
20. vex (v): to irritate
21. punctually (adv):  on time; not late
22. bewildered (adj): confused
23. congeal (verb): to clot; to solidify; to coagulate
24. trifle (noun):  an item of little value or importance
25. luxuriate (verb):  to enjoy a self-indulgent delight
26. well (verb):  (of a liquid) to rise to the surface and spill; (of an emotion) to become more intense
27. hysterically (adv):  laughing or crying intensely for a prolonged period of time
28. exasperated (adj):  irritated intensely; infuriated

Also, read the poem "Richard Cory" and then list the similarities and differences between Richard Cory and Miss Hancock from "The Metaphor".

Richard Cory

by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown, top of head

Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed, dressed

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich—yes, richer than a king,

And admirably schooled in every grace:

In fine, we thought that he was everything

To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,

And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

Went home and put a bullet through his head.

Richard Cory and Miss Hancock are very different characters, but their stories share some elements.  Create a T-chart outlining the similarities and differences in their stories.