In class: please turn in your vocabulary at the beginning of class for full credit.
Reminder: your summer reading assessment is this coming Monday and Tuesday. We will be in the 3rd floor computer lab. It is strongly suggested that you bring your thumb drive to class, although you should have access to your school drive (h drive).
Student presentations today: each group will address the issue of the narrator's paranoia in terms of the literary element they were assigned.
Grading: group organization: who's speaking when. content: your point is supported through textual details.
Handout: Hamlet vocabulary
Hamlet vocabulary list number 1 The assessment will involve simply defining the word. It is suggested that you create flash cards. Assessment: Thursday 15 September (This will be a matching quiz.)
.1 .to entreat -
3. fortified- shielded; secured; protected
4. to illume - to brighten; to lighten
5. to usurp - to seize; to confiscate
6. to avouch - to certify; to confirm; to guarantee
7.to esteem- to honor; to respect; to prize; to treasure
8. to ratify- approved; confirmed; legalized
9. mettle- endurance; bravery
10. resolute- brave; fearless; relentless people
11. portentous- foreboding; threatening; sinister
12. privy - adj.- made participant in a secret
13. discretion - permission to make decisions with own judgment
14. auspicious- adj.- delightful; joyous; happy; lucky; favorable
15. dirge- funeral song; death march
16. dole - sadness (think doldrums from Coleridge)
17. visage - the face or facial expression of a person
18. denote - to indicate; to mark; to signal; to mean
19. countenance - n.- appearance; facial expression / v.- to condone
20. calumnious - adj.- slanderous; attacking one's character
22. precept-- rule; principle
23. perilous.- dangerous
24. to importune- to insistently beg
25. to traduce- to slander
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