1st/3rd period homework for Friday, 11/13

Read "Winter Moon," literature book p. 79. and then answer these questions (in your Five-Star):

1. What words or phrases are repeated in this poem?
2. How does this poem make you feel about the moon?
3. In your own words, describe the moon that the poet sees.
4. Why does the poet repeat the phrases he does?
5. Does the poet like what he sees, or not? Explain.

Homework for Monday, November 9, 2009

Write a great sentence with each of the following words:
1. vague
2. pursue (pursued)
3. hysterical
4. serene
5. serenity
6. hasty
7. hastily
8. vivid
9. vividly

Vocabulary for "Harriet Tubman"

1. fugitive (n) 36
2. pursuit (n) pursue (v) 36
3. vague (adj) 36
4. hasty (adj) (hastily) (adv) 37
5. vivid (adj) 37
6. incentive (n) 38
7. instill (v) in 38
8. dispel (v) 38
9. hysterical (adj) 38
10. incomprehensible (adj) 37
11. serenity (n) serene (adj) 40
12. eloquent (adj) eloquence (n) 40
13. evoke (v) 40
14. disclose (v) 41
15. cajole (v) 41

phrases to know:

• in succession
  in the vicinity