Thursday, November 16, 2017

Sound Smart in Front of Your Friends (Or Make Them Hate You)

Author: Areli G.
Purpose/Objective: By using the context clues found in the sentences provided, the students will be able to match the vocabulary underlined in the sentences, to the definitions.
Audience/Grade Level: This assignment can most likely be used for most grade levels, but in this case, the end of middle school to the beginning of high school will be the targeted audience. The vocabulary that I chose is from the website https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/79298


Sentences
1)    “I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble that I could lie forever on the sofa and keep opening and closing my eyes without knowing the difference.”
Franz Kafka (Author),
Letters to Felice‎
2)    Let me tell you a little something about love, Dennis. It has a voracious appetite. It eats everything. Friendship. Family. It kills me how much it eats. But I'll tell you something else. You feed it right, and it can be a beautiful thing, and that's what we have.”
Arnie Cunningham (Character), Christine (1983)
3)    “And if I sometimes hear nothing for hours on end it is for reasons of which I know nothing, or because about me all goes really silent, from time to time, whereas for the righteous the tumult of the world never stops.”
Samuel Beckett (Author), Molloy


Definitions
-                                                    -    A state of commotion and noise and confusion
-                                                    -    Devouring or craving food in great quantities

-                                                    -    Deserving or inciting pity

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