On March 8, 2015 we have the wonderful opportunity to go to the newly opened Holocaust Museum in Seattle.
Monday, 2/22: Introduction to the Holocaust and WWII background. Documentary shown: "In Their Eyes," produced by the Holocaust Center for Education in Seattle.
Tuesday, 2/23: Night Analysis and Group Discussion
Wednesday, 2/24: Documentary, "One Survivor Remembers. The Gerta Weissman Story" and the Elie Wiesel interview with Oprah at Auschwitz.
Thursday, 2/25: Creative Writing: Session #3
Friday, 2/26: SAT Vocabulary Test #111-120 and Literary Terms Test
SAT Vocabulary Words: #111-120
Test on Friday, 2.26.2016
111. Dissonance: lack of agreement or harmony
112. Listless: without energy or enthusiasm
113. Philistine: one who lacks culture or taste
114. Scrupulous: concerned; conscientious; proper
115. Tentative: not final; uncertain
116. Adulation: adoration
117. Dogmatic: stubbornly opinionated
118. Futile: hopeless; without effect
119. Languid: slow and listless
120. Pious: religious; devout
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Literary Terms/devices used in literature to give depth, images, and detailed descriptions.
Test with SAT Vocabulary words on Friday, February 26, 2016.
You must be able to define and identify examples.
- Analogy: Analogy compares similar concepts, characters, or world of literature so the reader better understands a difficult idea.
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2. Allusion: Allusion is a direct or indirect reference to a significant person, event , time , or work of literature.
Example: “Some talked of Gog, of his mysterious ways, of the sins of the Jewish people, and of their future deliverance. But I had ceased to pray. How I sympathized with Job! From the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel.
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3. Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of a beginning consonant sound within a phrase or sentence.
Example: --“we will sit down a little way within the wood, and rest ourselves” From the novel, The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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4. Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds found within or at the end of words and phrase.
Example: … “Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks.” From the play, “Romeo and Juliet,” by William Shakespeare.