Wednesday, 9/30/15: Now You Can All Come to Our Chesterton Meeting On Thursday, No?

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• Per. 1; I need to check your note cards. 

ignominious (adj.) 

• disgraceful, shameful, contemptible

Etymology:

• from Latin ignominia "loss of a (good) name" 
• in- "not, opposite of" 
• nomen "name"

Examples (copy #1):
1. Crucifixion was an ancient mode of capital punishment considered especially ignominious to the Romans.  

2. "I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously."  -- Nina Bawden

Now, create your own sentence (with an introductory phrase or clause).

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• Part III Scenes

* Read and Annotate Part IV

HW: Read and Annotate Part IV