Monday, April 2, 2012

Vocabulary for April 2nd

Before I list the vocabulary that connects to our new story, here is to the sample movie review we discussed in class:
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0DE2DD1739F93AA15755C0A9679C8B63

25. eradicate (v)--to destroy, get rid of; do away with completely
26. incorrigible (adj)--impossible to correct or reform; very difficult to control

QUOTE WORKSHEET - Due: 4/16

ANALYZING QUOTES:  April 2nd – April 5th

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MONDAY—
Ernest Hemingway once said, “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”


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TUESDAY—
Khalil Gibran once said, “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

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WEDNESDAY—
Walt Disney once said, “We have created characters…in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.”


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THURSDAY—
Richard Bach once said, “If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”


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FRIDAY—
Vladimir Nabokov once said, “I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”

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