Vocabulary Words for 3/8/2013

Here is a link to the Vocabulary words for the week!  

http://screencast.com/t/sGBUnpfDDMa

This is Your Brain on Storytelling: discussion on 3/6 and 3/7

This is your brain on storytelling:

                                  What is the role of storytelling in our society? Where is it heading?

• On a chemical level, how do stories capture our attention and change our moods?
• Which kinds of stories lead to concrete action?
• Can stories permanently change our opinions?

Flashcards for you!

Here are a set of flashcards and vocabulary games that you can play to help you study for your quiz.  

BALZAC ATLCS Vocabulary List

Hello!  Here is a video of this weeks words.   Quiz on Friday before February vacation.   That's right.  You're welcome.  Click here to see the video!!!

Best movie about precarious and vertiginous situations ever.   

Notice and Note

Here is a new note taking system that we will be using in class to help promote our analytic abilities.   Remember that noticing is just the first step in analysis.  The "note" part are moments that we expound from the signposts.

Vocabulary Chapter 1 of BATLCS

Here is a link to the Chapter 1 Vocabulary Words.  Quiz on Tuesday 2/12/13

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Vocabulary: Quiz February 12th

•Audacity-- Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention.

•surreptitious- Obtained, done, or made by clandestine or stealthy means

•compromise- A settlement of differences 

•dumbfounded- as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise

•bourgeois- A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.

•ambitious- Full of, characterized by, or motivated

•nil- Nothing; zero.

•foisted- . To insert fraudulently or deceitfully

•Inquisition- A rigorous, harsh interrogation

•Limpid-Adjective

•(of a liquid) Free of anything that darkens; completely clear

•Statutory- an act of a corporation or of its founder intended as a permanent rule

•Denounces -to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil<they denounced him as a bigot>

•Foisted-: to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant

•Vigilant -: alertly watchful especially to avoid danger

•Evasively-tending or intended to evade : equivocal <evasiveanswers>

•— eva·sive·ly adverb

•Galvanized-b : to stimulate or excite as if by an electric shock 

•Furtive : done by stealth 

•Officious :

–Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, esp. with regard to petty or trivial matters.

•Exuded-exuded  past participle, past tense of ex·ude (Verb) def. Discharge (moisture or a smell) slowly and steadily.

•Hearth-The area in front of a fireplace.