Tuesday, December 4 seeing and communication exercise

Coming up: vocabulary The Fall of the House of Usher vocabulary quiz on Monday, December 10 (class handout on Monday, December 3)

If you were absent for yesterday's quiz, please make arrangements to  make it up outside of class. As well, we watched a short video on romanticism yesterday. The link is on the blog for Monday, December 3.

In class today: Take out your notebook and copy the following philosophical sayings. Begin with a correct MLA heading. Under each write two to three complete sentences that explain what these mean. Make sure the sentences can stand independently. (graded class assignment.) 

Age of Reason
1. Descartes: “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I exist)
Age of Romanticism
2. Rousseau: “Exister, pour nous, c’est sentir” (For us, to exist is to feel.)]

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Part 2: seeing and communication exercise

1. Take out a pen or pencil

2. Collect a sheet of white paper.

3. Find a partner and turned the so you are facing each other, with one of you having your back to the board in the front and the other facing the board.

4. The person facing the board with describe the image, whilst the other person draws it. 

5. How accurated is your language/ diction?

6. Phrases to consider:

            Hold the paper horizontally / vertically

            In the top / bottom, middle/ right/ left
             parallel / perpendicular

            curved/ straight/ forward/ back

7. Turn around and look before I call time and your grade is a zero!

Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe   VOCABULARY 1  Quiz on Monday, December 10.

1. tract (noun)- an extended piece of land

2.  to pervade (verb) – to spread or diffuse something

3. sublime (adj) sublimity (noun)- inspiring awe, superb, marvelous

4. insoluble (adj)- having no explanation

5. malady (noun)- illness

6. stealthy (adj)-  sneaky, furtively

7. insufferable (adj)- unbearable

8. trepidation (noun)- feeling of alarm or dread

9. to manifest (verb)- to reveal or show itself

10 spontaneity (noun)- voluntary, undetermined action

11. munificent (adjective)- very generous

12. pallid (adj)- deficient in color, sickly looking