CAN WE WATCH THE MOVIE

Watching the movie The Great Gatsby we will get to see a visual aspect of the book, it might not be how Fitzgerald's imagined it but it gives us a taste . On watching the movie we also get to see the action, like how today we saw when Tom hit Myrtle and you said "that's not how you imagined it huh" and thats how I mean by this.

Vocab #5

1. venomous: (of a person or their behavior) full of malice or spite.
2. stolid: (of a person) calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.
3. hypnotized: produce a state of hypnosis in (someone).
4. suspended: temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect.
5. transformed: make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.
6. accuse: claim that (someone) has done something wrong.
7. anticipate: regard as probable; expect or predict.
8. fringe: not part of the mainstream; unconventional, peripheral, or extreme.
9. melancholy: a feeling of pensive sadness, typic with no obvious case..
10. earnestly: showing or expressing sincerity or seriously
11. dissolve: (with reference to a solid) become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution
12. aggravate: make (a problem, injury, or offense) worse or more serious.
13. illuminate: light up.
14. capillary: any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
15. proboscis: the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir.

Vocab #4 Fall List

1. Intermittent: occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady..
2. Ebb: the movement of the tide out to sea.
3. Regress: return to a former or less developed state.
4. Tendency: an inclination toward a particular characteristic or type of behavior.

5. Antiseptic: scrupulously clean or pure, especially so as to be bland or characterless..

Team Vocabulary

"THE PEDESTRIAN" FIRST IMPRESSION!

My first taste of "The Pedestrian" had me very excited. I can tell me and the class are going to like this story. I like how books are mysterious and can't wait to see what happens next!!

Vocab #3

1. Coherent: logical and consistant.

2. Belabor: Argue or elaborate a subject in excessive detail.

3. Eschew: Deliberately avoid using; abstain from.

4. Acquisitive: Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.

5. Emulate: Match or surpass

6. Banal: So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

7. Excoriation: Hash criticism.

8. Congeal: Solidify or coagulate, especially by cooling.

9. Carping: Difficult to please

10. Substantiate: Provide evidence to support or prove the truth of

11. Temporize: Avoid making a decision or committing to oneself in order to gain time

12. Largesse: Generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others.

13. Tenable: Able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.

14. Insatiable: Impossible to satisfy.

15. Reconnaissance: Military observation of a region to locate an enemy a ascertain strategic features.

16. Germane: Relevant to a subject under consideration.

17. Ramify: From branches or offshoots; spread or branch out.

18. Intransigent: Unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.

19. Taciturn: Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.

Vocab #2

1. faith: complete trust or confidence in someone or something
2. Threshold: a strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a door way 
3. Tarry: stay longer than intended; delay leaving a place 
4. Resolve: firm determination to do something
5. discern: perceive or recognize 
6. Martyr: a person who is killed because of their religion 
7. Mirth: amusement 
8. Catechism: instructions for Christians 
9. pious: devoutly religious
10. Frenzy: a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior