Agenda: 1) Instructions on JOURNAL #3 and how to format definitions; 2) Discuss journal #2.
Homework: 1) Read Nabokov's "Good Readers, Good Writers"; 2) Complete journal #3.
JOURNAL #3: Define the following words from Nabokov’s “Good Readers, Good Writers:”
· EPHEMERAL, FUTILE, SULLEN, ALOOF, TEMPERMENT
HOW TO DO DEFINITIONS: Choose the definition that matches its use in the writing (Dictionary.com is a good online source for definitions). Copy the sentence from the text in which it appears, identify its part of speech, and write the definition.
SAMPLE:
IRREVOCABLE (page 17) “Outdoors was the end of something,
an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our
metaphysical condition.” Adjective. Impossible to alter; unchangeable.
an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our
metaphysical condition.” Adjective. Impossible to alter; unchangeable.
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