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).

Soccer Tryouts, Anyone?

Sometimes, the World Makes Me Sad

China: One Child Policy Becomes Two (see the article)

But you're still willing to sterilize women and attack them when pregnant: that's sick and evil.

The larger thought, probably, is the way a society seeks to prosper over the death of its children, and in that regard America is little better.

Lord, have mercy; send us better wisdom than we've concocted with our own imaginations, our governments, our technologies...send us Your Wisdom.  

Tomorrow Morning During Flex: Bible Study

Hi,

Tomorrow we begin our book, The Seven, tied to our Revelation study.  Bring your Bible, and we can share books if we don't have enough.  We can always order more for next week. 

See you during Flex.

Enjoy,

Mr. S

Chaucer's Retraction

Here the maker of this book takes his leave

Now I pray to all who hear or read this little treatise, that if there is anything in it that they like, they thank our Lord Jesus Christ for it, from whom proceeds all wisdom and goodness. And if there is anything that displeases them, I pray also that they ascribe it to the fault of my ignorance and not to my will, which would readily have spoken better if I had the knowledge. For our book says, "All that is written is written for our doctrine," and that is my intention. Therefore I beseech you, for the mercy of God, that you pray for me that Christ have mercy on me and forgive my sins, especially my translations and compositions of worldly vanities, which I revoke in my retractions: such as the book of Troilus and Criseyde, and the book of The House of Fame, the book of The Legend of Good Women, The Book of the Duchess, the book of Saint Valentine's day of The Parliament of Fowls, The Canterbury Tales (those that tend toward sin), the book of the Lion, and many another book, if they were in my remembrance, and many a song and many a lecherous lay; that Christ for his great mercy forgive my sins. But for the translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy and other books of saints' legends, homilies, moralities, and devotions, I thank our Lord Jesus Christ and his blessed Mother, and all the saints of heaven, beseeching them that they from henceforth unto my life's end send me grace to lament my sins, and to meditate upon the salvation of my soul, and grant me the grace of true contrition, confession, and satisfaction for sins in this present life,  through the benign grace of him who is king of kings and priest over all priests, who bought us with the precious blood of his heart; so that I may be one of those at the day of judgment that shall be saved. Qui cum Patre et Spiritu Sancto vivit et regnat Deus per omnia secula. Amen.

Here ends the book of The Canterbury Tales,
compiled by Geoffrey Chaucer,
on whose soul may Jesus Christ have mercy.
Amen.

Block Day, Week 11

* Open

• Prayer 

• Quiz

* Vocabulary

• derisive (adj.): expressing contempt or ridicule
•  Latin: deridere "ridiculous"
• The derisive remarks were heard every day; fingernail length mockery was an everyday event in Tae Kwon Do.  

• effeminate (adj.): (of a man) having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly.
• Latin: ex "out of", femina "woman"
• While some men are naturally less assertive than others, a forced effeminate affectation in a man is ostentatious and displays internal confusion through an outward performance.
• ostentatious (adj.): characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.
• Latin ostentationem "showing, exhibition, vain display" 
• If a young man drove to school in a rhinestone-encrusted Mercedes featuring fluffy feathered headrests, it would be an ostentatious, effeminate display, worthy of derisive jeers...except on Pink Friday.  

* Note for Mrs. Price (optional; bring to Mr. Schwager by block next week)

• What do you enjoy most about MVC?

• What have you learned about the Lord at MVC?

* Review Journal Questions

HW: Outside Reading

• Next Week: read and annotate this essay analysis overview.   We will quiz on analysis writing next week. This will also help you write or edit your analysis paragraphs properly.

If a young man came to school in a rhinestone-encrusted Mercedes featuring fluffy feathered headrests..it would be an ostentatious, effeminate display, worthy of derisive jeers...even on Pink Friday.