Tuesday, March 5

WARM UP:

# 8 revere (v) - to honor, to honor with respect
The family reveres their St. Patrick's Day traditions.

TODAY:

Study Guide for Q3 Test

1. Know all 8 vocab words and be able to use them in a sentence.

• altruistic
• embellish
• pretentious
• obscure
• lament
• insipid
• disdain
• revere

2. Know poetry terms.

• iambic pentameter
• volta 
• rhyme scheme
• sonnet
• stanza
• couplet
• sestet
• tercet 
• refrain
• quatrain
• sonnet
• villanelle 

3. Know what's going on in Across a Hundred Mountains

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Read pgs. 76-86
J 12   Answer the following questions:

1. What or who made Adelina's body ache with pain? Any guesses why?

2. Again we see the motif (a dominant idea in a literary work) of the moon. What does Juana notice about the moon and who or what does she compare it to?

3. What do you think the moon motif symbolizes throughout the story?

4.  How do you explain the fact that Don Elias can no way be the father of Lupe's child?

5. Don Elias seems convinced the baby boy is his. How does he justify the timing of the baby's birth?

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Immigration Investigation

Choose an article from The New York Times
Write 1 page summary and thoughts/opinions

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HOMEWORK:

• J12 due Wed.

• Immigration Investigation due Thurs.

• Q3 Test on Thurs.