Monday, 11/9/15

* Open

• Survey (if you were absent on block day)
   

• Any cards for Mrs. Price?
  
  
   
  Week 13 Vocabulary: Incorporate quotations and apostrophes into your sentences.

1. analogous (adj.): comparable in certain respects, typically in a way that makes clearer the nature of the things compared

• Greek analogia "proportion," from ana- "upon, according to" + logos "ratio," also "word, speech, reckoning". A mathematical term used in a wider sense by Plato.
• Jesus' idea that unless you "hate your father and mother" you cannot be his disciple is analogous to his idea that if your "right hand causes you to sin, cut it off": both are masterful examples of hyperbole.  

2. brigand

* Passage-based writing practice (see the board)

• Prose Passage Examples

HW: Annotate The Renaissance chapter of your Brit. Lit. Notes

Did you know that if you don't learn how to use the apostrophe, you will be cursed with having to compose grammatically incorrect signs in discount shopping malls for the rest of your life?

Or worse: