Othello Supplemental Vocabulary

Please review the following vocabulary words and definitions from Othello.

https://docs.google.com/a/capeelizabethschools.org/document/d/1aD2CMDhZHdv4SrrvhM8hRCKitS-WpLuizT3TfioK8EQ/edit

Modifier Help

Check out the following link for notes and practice on modifiers.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/597/1/

Othello Initial Response

After reading Act 1, Scene 1, respond in one of the following ways:

1.  Ask a question and pose a possible answer.  This should be a why or how question.
2.  Note a particular line, phrase, or word that resonates with you.  Explain your reaction or response to this line, phrase, or word.
3.  Note your impression of a character, a subject, or an idea that has been raised so far.  Use the text as a basis for this impression.

Making Connections

Read the following poem.  Reflect on how this poem connects to themes in Catcher in the Rye.  How does it connect to life in general?  What is the tone?  How might this poem connect to love and relationships?

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay. 

Robert Frost

Why Read Catcher?

This article in The New Republic describes one take on why The Catcher in the Rye is such a widely read text.  What, in your opinion, is the value in reading this book.  Is there one?  Justify your response.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/why-do-people-love-catcher-the-rye#

Respond to at least one person.  Please post by Sunday, 2/17.

Vocabulary Lesson 14

Answer the following questions to help you understand the meaning of these vocabulary words.

What is a pervasive attitude in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, or the U.S.?

What are two things that seem correlated?

Create a newspaper headline using some form of coalesce or amalgamate.

Use the word permeate to describe a cooking smell.

Use disseminate in a sentence to describe information getting out.

What is the difference between disseminate and diffuse?

Catcher Response 3

Is Holden a typical teenager?  Does his voice ring true?  Do his words reveal a keen eye for humanity's foibles, or does his voice simply illustrate a cynical, depressed complainer?  Select a quote from Chapter 15 up until the end of the book that you feel is a strong illustration of your take on Holden.  Use this quote as a jumping off point to illustrate your take on Holden as a character.  Explain how this quote illustrates your point.

Respond to at least one other person's quote.

This post is due by Tuesday at 11:00 p.m.