Block Day, Week 10: Gawain to Chaucer

* Open
  • Inscrutable (adj.): unfathomable; mysterious; impossible to understand
    • Latin: in "not, opposite of" + scrutari "examine" 
    • The inscrutable nature of Donald Trump's success will eventually be uncovered: he's using mind control. 
  • Wizened (adj.): withered; wrinkled; dried up (esp. due to age)
    • Anglo Saxon: wesanen "to dry up, shrivel, wither"
    • The carcass of the doe showed explicit proof of the hunter's sad mistake: bullet holes in the wizened hide told the tale.
* Quiz

* Finish Video

* Chaucer

HW: Chaucer  (the Prologue Reading and Journal Questions)



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