Monday, Nov. 2: Fecund Final Thoughts

* Open

• Prayer 
• Wondrous Words:
• Review Assignment: Due Block Day
•  Week 12: Incorporate quotations into your sentences.
  fecund
  fortuitous
  malady
  nuance
  scintillate

• Per. 6-7: I need to check your 20 outside words
• Fecund (adj.): fertile [pronounced fee-kuhnd OR fek-uhnd]

• Latin: fecundus "fruitful, fertile, productive; rich, abundant,
• from fe-kwondo-, fe- "to suck, suckle," also "produce, yield" 
• Melanie Almeder writes in her "Country Love Song" of the "greened fields [that are] slathered, fecund....Then I dream a little dream of you/ and me."  The speaker envisions love unfolding in seasons and landscapes establishing the "country" nature of her sensual affections. 

• Fortuitous: work on your own

* Chaucer

• Memorization
• Final Thoughts
• Retraction
• Fun

HW: Read and annotate this essay analysis overview. This will also help you write or edit your analysis paragraphs properly. 

Here's an interesting passage from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad:

• "She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul" (3.14).

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