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postvide

this week's theme: Words from the OED, part II

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postvide
v., “To make plans for an event only after it has occurred.” Note that the original meaning of "provide" is “to make provision for beforehand.” To "postvide" is therefore basically to close the barn door after the cows have escaped.r

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Quote of the Week: "Literature is news that stays news." - Ezra Pound

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Website of the Week: How Stuff Works

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American Literature:

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Attention:Juniors interested in an exciting extra credit opportunity should speak with me!

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1. Poetry Teaching!
2. Poetry Teaching!
3./4. Gettysburg Address Seminar
5. Poetry Teaching!

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Read pp. 1-33 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
2. Read pp. 33-65 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
3./4. Read pp. 65-92 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
5. Read pp. 92-118 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

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garbist

this week's theme: Words from the OED, part II

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garbist
(n.) one who is adept at engaging in polite behavior

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Quote of the Week: "Literature is news that stays news." - Ezra Pound

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Website of the Week: How Stuff Works

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American Literature:

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Attention:Juniors interested in an exciting extra credit opportunity should speak with me!

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1. Multicultural Day!
2. Research Day in the Batten Library's Johnson Lab
3./4. Poetry Teaching Begins! Consult our sequence for the order.
5. Poetry Teaching

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Holiday!
2. Read as far as you can in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
3./4. Read as far as you can in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
5. Finish Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
and bring a list of your keyword references

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foiblesse

this week's theme: Words from the OED, part II

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foiblesse
a. A characteristic weakness; a failing. b. A liking or ‘weakness’ for (something).

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Quote of the Week: "Literature is news that stays news." - Ezra Pound

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Website of the Week: How Stuff Works

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American Literature:

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Attention:Juniors interested in an exciting extra credit opportunity should speak with me!

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1. Multicultural Day!
2. Research Day in the Batten Library's Johnson Lab
3./4. Poetry Teaching Begins! Consult our sequence for the order.
5. Poetry Teaching

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Holiday!
2. Read as far as you can in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
3./4. Read as far as you can in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
5. Finish Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
and bring a list of your keyword references

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constult

this week's theme: Words from the OED

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constult
v. to act stupidly together

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Quote of the Week: "History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy." - George W. Bush

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Website of the Week: Critical Reading Guide

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American Literature:

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Attention:Juniors interested in an exciting extra credit opportunity should speak with me!

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1. Multicultural Day!
2. Research Day in the Batten Library's Johnson Lab
3./4. Poetry Teaching Begins! Consult our sequence for the order.
5. Poetry Teaching

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Holiday!
2. Read as far as you can in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
3./4. Read as far as you can in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
5. Finish Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
and bring a list of your keyword references

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charientism

this week's theme: Words from the OED

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charientism
n., a rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way

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Quote of the Week: "History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy." - George W. Bush

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Website of the Week: Critical Reading Guide

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American Literature:

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Attention:Juniors interested in an exciting extra credit opportunity should speak with me!

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1. Holiday!
2. In-Class Reading
3. Read "The Hollow Men" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot, pp. 360-369 in the Pearson Custom Anthology of American Literature
4. Research poems; bring to class a digital copy of all your research and citation information
5. Research poems; teaching begins next week!

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Holiday!
2. Read Act IV in Hamlet
3. Read Act V in Hamlet
4. Bring to class a list of five references to your keyword in Hamlet
5. Read as far as you can in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

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comminute

this week's theme: Words from the OED

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comminute
(v): reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading ( less... ) (v): break or cause to break into pieces

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Quote of the Week: "History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy." - George W. Bush

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Website of the Week: Critical Reading Guide

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American Literature:

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Attention:Juniors interested in an exciting extra credit opportunity should speak with me!

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1. Holiday!
2. In-Class Reading
3. Read "The Hollow Men" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot, pp. 360-369 in the Pearson Custom Anthology of American Literature
4. Research poems; bring to class a digital copy of all your research and citation information
5. Research poems; teaching begins next week!

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Holiday!
2. Read Act IV in Hamlet
3. Read Act V in Hamlet
4. Bring to class a list of five references to your keyword in Hamlet
5. Read as far as you can in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

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epigram

this week's theme: Words about poetry

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epigram
this week's theme: Words about poetry

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epigram
A very short, witty poem: "Sir, I admit your general rule,/That every poet is a fool,/But you yourself may serve to show it,/That every fool is not a poet." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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Quote of the Week: "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost

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Website of the Week: Manybooks

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American Literature:

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Attention:Juniors interested in an exciting extra credit opportunity should speak with me!

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1. In-Class Reading; begin interpreting your poem, read it in as many different ways as you can
2. A one-paragraph interpretation of your poem due
3./4. Poem Research Day; B bell has an audience with Chris Crutcher; C and F bells report to the Johnson Lab in the Batten Library!
5. Read "The Law of Life" by Jack London (handout); B bell to the Johnson lab!

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Read as far as you can in Hamlet
2. Finish Act I in Hamlet
3./4. Read Act II in Hamlet
5. Read as far as you can in Act III in Hamlet

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Could hardly have been coarser,
But this never harmed the sales
Of his Canterbury Tales.

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Quote of the Week: "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost

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Website of the Week: Manybooks

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American Literature:

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Attention:Juniors interested in an exciting extra credit opportunity should speak with me!

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1. In-Class Reading; begin interpreting your poem, read it in as many different ways as you can
2. A one-paragraph interpretation of your poem due
3./4. Poem Research Day; B bell has an audience with Chris Crutcher; C and F bells report to the Johnson Lab in the Batten Library!
5. Read "The Law of Life" by Jack London (handout); B bell to the Johnson lab!

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Read as far as you can in Hamlet
2. Finish Act I in Hamlet
3./4. Read Act II in Hamlet
5. Read as far as you can in Act III in Hamlet

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clerihew

this week's theme: Words about poetry

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clerihew
clerihew, a form of comic verse named after its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956). It consists of two metrically awkward couplets, and usually presents a ludicrously uninformative ‘biography’ of some famous person whose name appears as one of the rhymed words in the first couplet:

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Could hardly have been coarser,
But this never harmed the sales
Of his Canterbury Tales.

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Quote of the Week: "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost

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Website of the Week: Manybooks

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American Literature:

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Attention:Juniors interested in an exciting extra credit opportunity should speak with me!

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1. In-Class Reading; begin interpreting your poem, read it in as many different ways as you can
2. A one-paragraph interpretation of your poem due
3./4. Poem Research Day; B bell has an audience with Chris Crutcher; C and F bells report to the Johnson Lab in the Batten Library!
5. Read "The Law of Life" by Jack London (handout); B bell to the Johnson lab!

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Read as far as you can in Hamlet
2. Finish Act I in Hamlet
3./4. Read Act II in Hamlet
5. Read as far as you can in Act III in Hamlet

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w00t

this week's theme: Words of the Year (2008) from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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w00t
(interjection) expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word "yay" w00t! I won the contest!

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Quote of the Week: "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." - T. S. Eliot

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Website of the Week: 43 Things

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American Literature:

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1. In-Class Reading; begin interpreting your poem, read it in as many different ways as you can
2. A one-paragraph interpretation of your poem due
3./4. Poem Research Day; B bell has an audience with Chris Crutcher
5. Read "The Law of Life" by Jack London (handout)

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Read as far as you can in Hamlet
2. Finish Act I in Hamlet
3./4. Read Act II in Hamlet
5. Read as far as you can in Act III in Hamlet

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truthiness

this week's theme: Words of the Year (2008) from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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truthiness
truthiness (noun) 1 : "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005) 2 : "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect Society, January 2006)

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Quote of the Week: "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." - T. S. Eliot

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Website of the Week: 43 Things

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American Literature:

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1. Faculty Meetings; STUDENT HOLIDAY!
2. Exam Review and Poetry Teaching Assignment
3. Post to your blog your latest reading choices (list all books in one entry); bring your latest outside reading books to class
4. Read "The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, p. 313 in the Pearson Custom Anthology of American Literature
5. Poem Choice due

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Faculty Meetings; STUDENT HOLIDAY!
2. Course Introduction
3. Bring to class a paragraph explaining how or how not you consider yourself to be a southerner; send Mr. Kidd two images through e-mail of things you feel represent the south
4. Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
5. Read article(s) about the Confederate Battle Flag

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sardoodledom

this week's theme: Words of the Year (2008) from

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sardoodledom
Etymology: sardoodle- (blend of Victorien Sardou died 1908 French playwright criticized by G. B. Shaw died 1950 English playwright for the supposed staginess of his plays and English doodle) + -dom : mechanically contrived plot structure and stereotyped or unrealistic characterization in drama : STAGINESS, MELODRAMA

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Quote of the Week: "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." - T. S. Eliot

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Website of the Week: 43 Things

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American Literature:

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1. Faculty Meetings; STUDENT HOLIDAY!
2. Exam Review and Poetry Teaching Assignment
3. Post to your blog your latest reading choices (list all books in one entry); bring your latest outside reading books to class
4. Read "The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, p. 313 in the Pearson Custom Anthology of American Literature
5. Poem Choice due

Southern Literature and Culture

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1. Faculty Meetings; STUDENT HOLIDAY!
2. Course Introduction
3. Bring to class a paragraph explaining how or how not you consider yourself to be a southerner; send Mr. Kidd two images through e-mail of things you feel represent the south
4. Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
5. Read article(s) about the Confederate Battle Flag

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blamestorm

this week's theme: Words of the Year (2008) from

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blamestorm
blamestorm (verb) : to place blame for a given failure They spent the whole meeting blamestorming about the quarterly losses. —Alex Flood
(verb) : to gather and discuss who is to blame for a given failure All the managers were locked up in a meeting for the all day blamestorming about the lost contract. Submitted by: munthu from Arizona on Mar. 12, 2007 16:16
(noun) : a meeting held in order to come up with a name of a person to assign guilt to a certain incident The board of directors were exhausted after a four hour blamestorming session which finally resulted in two names for the chopping block. —Gab Halasz, Submitted by: gab from Canada on Jan. 13, 2006 11:27

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Quote of the Week: "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." - T. S. Eliot

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Website of the Week: 43 Things

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American Literature:

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1. Faculty Meetings; STUDENT HOLIDAY!
2. Exam Review and Poetry Teaching Assignment
3. Post to your blog your latest reading choices (list all books in one entry); bring your latest outside reading books to class
4. Read "The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, p. 313 in the Pearson Custom Anthology of American Literature
5. Poem Choice due

Southern Literature and Culture

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1.1. Faculty Meetings; STUDENT HOLIDAY!
2. Course Introduction
3. Bring to class a paragraph explaining how or how not you consider yourself to be a southerner; send Mr. Kidd two images through e-mail of things you feel represent the south
4. Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
5. Read article(s) about the Confederate Battle Flag

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