Homework due 10/9-10/12

***There are no classes on Monday, 10/8.  Hunter College is closed.***

***Wednesday, 10/10, follows a Monday schedule.  All other days are the same.***

Portfolio:
Due by 10/7, Sunday night at 8pm:  Post Journal #5 (In Medias Res).  Please remember that I don't want any more than 6 sentences.  You are to start in the middle of the conflict for the story and make sure to "show" what is happening.  Do not tell the reader, or list.

Vocabulary Words:

You will be having a vocabulary exam in November.  This will help those of you are that are still studying for vocabulary for the SAT.
Here are the 75 words that I will be composing your exam from.  I am giving them to you very early so that you can make flash cards and study.  These are all words that come directly from your reading.

-paradox  -impediment  -luminous  -mundane  -paraphernalia  -veracity  -incongruity      

-connotation  -umbrage  -inexorable  -agility  -intrusion  -morose  -fragile  -perception
-visceral  -competent  -bludgeon  -emaciated  -periphery  -indulgence  -prompt  -hone      

-spontaneity  -revelation  -trivial  -coherent  -recalcitrant  -ambiguous  -reiteration

-superficial  -rapturous  -reverberate  -furtive  -affluence  -interim  -corrupt  -morbid
-generic  -abstraction  -beneficial  -staccato  -sleight  -aspires  -inane  -innocuous             

-fraught  -vandal  -exposition  -tentative  -distilled  -rote  -relinquished  -eloquent
-tonal  -unobtrusive  -convoluted  -thwarts  -prototype    -visceral  -dissipate

-transcendent  -wallop  -girded  -debasing  -inexhaustible  -rouge   –excursion
-deciduous  -trudge   -monotone  -abominable  -descending  -embellish