MS Lit Oct 26/28

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Use this Slideshow

 1. Grammar Starter

2. Quick Quiz

3. Review the HW questions

4. Fortune Discussion--Use this note page

5. Review HW

Homework:

 1. Read Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, chapters 10-19 and answer the questions in your homework packet.

The full text of this book is online here. 

2. Study the vocabulary for these chapters. 

  1. tribute - something given or done as an expression of esteem

  2. flaw - an imperfection in an object or machine
  3. leer - look suggestively or obliquely

  4. haggard - showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

  5. wail - a cry of sorrow and grief

  6. delicacy - something considered choice to eat
  7. beckon - summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture
  8. swerve - turn sharply; change direction abruptly
  9. pang - a sudden sharp feeling

  10. canopy - a covering (usually of cloth) that shelters an area
  11. bloom - produce or yield flowers

  12. emissary - someone sent on a mission to represent another's interests

  13. esteem - the condition of being honored
  14. covet - wish, long, or crave for

  15. wry - humorously sarcastic or mocking
  16. vast - unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope

3. Journal (in your journal packet)
Make a chart with you in the middle and at least 15 people in your life around you. Use a red marker/crayon/pen to connect yourself with these people. Use a straight line if your connection is good; use a wavy line if your connection is bad/argumentative/strained. Use a broken line if your haven't talked to this person in a while. Choose a few lines to explain with three sentences under your chart. 

4. Grammar: Write your rough draft of your story, due November 9/11. Make sure your story has all the elements on the story chart in your homework packet.



 


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