PRESENTATION – “WHAT YOU PAWN, I WILL REDEEM”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpQw73gxVrk&feature=youtu.be
Here’s my presentation. To whoever is watching, hope you enjoy.
Presentation – “A Rose For Emily”
Glossary words
- Tableau
- Boughs
- pious
- Drabness
- Leanto
- Bonnet
- perspiration
- Sopping
- Prodding
- Febrile
- monotonously
- quizzical
This glossary assignment, was surprising because i did not expect to find so many words that i did not know. For this assignment i did slack off a bit by not explaining the meaning of the word in the context it is used in. I have not really used any of the words so far in normal usage but there may be a time i could uses these words. This assignment was a good one because it helps with the reading process, since it lets you help understand what is happening in the story instead of not know what is being said cause of a word. This assignment would help me greatly later on as i get to read more and i can be more aware of how important not knowing what a word means to the story.
Video Presentation
Shawl
Shawl- fabric intended to cover a woman’s head and shoulders, protection, intended to hide a womans appearance
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shawl
The Shawl By Louise Erdrich
“who curled up each night exhausted in her red-and-brownplaid shawl, and slept and slept, until the husband had to wake her to awaken her mother”
“who curled up each night exhausted in her red-and-brownplaid fabric, and slept and slept, until the husband had to wake her to awaken her mother”
For my mothers birthday i made her a shawl for hot summer days to protect her from the sun.
quizzical
quizzical – odd, queer, or comical.
“I reached for the closest rag, and picked up this piece of blanket that my father always kept with him for some reason. And as I picked it up and wiped the blood off his face, I said to him, Your nose is crooked again. He looked at me, steady and quizzical, as though he had never had a drink in his life, and I wiped his face again with that frayed piece of blanket.”
The Shawl BY LOUISE ERDRICH
unshriven
unshriven- unforgiving, unwilling to confess, not free, guilty
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unshriven
“Beloved” by Toni Morrison P 130
“like the unshriven dead, zombies on the loose, holding the chains in their hands”.
“like the guilty dead, zombies on the loose, holding the chains in their hands”.
My neighbors ghost is unshriven, turning on and off the air conditioner.
“Words For a Better Understanding”
1: Spry
2: Indolent
3: Genial
4: Repression
5: Regalia
6: Teetering
7: Monotonously
8: Rivulets
9: Noisome
10: Bulbous
11: Marvel
12: Virulent
13: Acquiescene
14: Unshriven
15: Shawl
I eventually liked the idea of glossary posts. It made me stop look up words so that i can better understand what i was reading. Before this class i never wrote on books or short readings, i felt as if i was wasting someone else’s paper. Not anymore i realized highlighting or underlining made all the difference, because when your reflecting or trying to look for a specific passage it was easier to find. Many of my glossary posts if not all i will remember for years to come since i looked them up made up sentences and translated in ways i can not forget.
Spry
Spry- full of energy, energetic, graceful
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indolent
“Beloved” by: Toni Morrison P. 142
“now she is spry, executing, even extending the assignments Sethe leaves for them”
“now she is graceful, executing, even extending the assignments Sethe leaves for them”
The lazy old man drank coffee and became spry.
