AGENDAS, JOURNALS, VOCABULARY English 12 December Agenda

Agenda 12/4/12 SAT Movie Vocabulary Set 3-Lesson 5  Quiz on Thursday, Dec. 6 th Review Canterbury Tales  Wife of Bath’s Tale Patriot Tales assignment  In pairs, write your own tale (see rubric)

SAT Movie Vocabulary Set 3-Lesson 5 Grace: Parker, you know, I used to think it was benign neglect, but now I see that you’re intentionally screwing me…I need a researcher, not some jarhead dropout… Parker: Look, you’re supposed to be winning the hearts and the minds of the natives, isn’t that the whole point of your little puppet show?...Relations with the indigenous are only getting worse. Grace: Yeah, that tends to happen when you use machine guns on them…

Movie: Avatar, 20 th Century Fox, 2009 Benign means kind or harmless. Synonyms: innocuous, nonmalignant. Indigenous means native or home-grown. Synonyms: aboriginal, autochthonous

Agenda 12/6/12 SAT Movie Vocabulary Lesson 5 Quiz Work on Patriot Tales  Netbooks/turnitin.com

Agenda 12/10/12 Movie SAT Vocabulary Set 1-Lesson 6 Finish Patriot Tales Share??

Movie SAT vocabulary Set 1-Lesson 6 Sister: I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college, and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess-the things that cut Chris off from the truth of his existence… I fear for the mother in her-instincts that seem to sense the threat of a loss so huge and irrevocable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

Movie: Into the Wild, Paramount Vantage, 2007 Absurd means unreasonable or ridiculous Tedious means boring Emancipated means freed Abstraction means ideas or theories Irrevocable means permanent or not reversible Balks means hesitates

Agenda 12/12/12 Movie SAT Vocabulary Set 2-Lesson 6  Quiz on Friday, Dec. 15 th Share Patriot Tales Medieval Romance  Characteristics  Hero-Knight archetype  Shrek

Movie SAT Vocabulary Set 2-Lesson 6 Jeffrey: I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the person? The Dude: Let me explain something to you. Um…I am not Mr. Lebowski. You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or His Dudeness, or Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. Maude: Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey

Movie: The Big Lebowski, PolyGram Films, 1998 Micturated means urinated. Believe it or not, another equally fancy term for peeing is emiction. Compensate means pay back or make up for. Synonyms: atone, expiate, indemnify Brevity means briefness. Shakespeare said, “Brevity is the soul of wit,” meaning if you want to be funny, keep it short. Fatuous means silly or foolish. Synonyms: absurd, asinine, inane, vacuous, vapid.

Agenda 12/14/12 SAT Movie Vocabulary Lesson 6 Quiz Characteristics of a Medieval Romance  Hero Knight  Shrek Read excerpt of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” pg. 162 (SSR) Answer Questions 1-6 that follow Discuss