Today I checked annotations. Then we discussed the reading and finished the theme analysis activity from yesterday. Groups broke up and formed new groups to share the theme statements and evidence that the original groups found. We also discussed the rap assignment that is due Monday. We ran out of time to discuss vocab. Here are definitions for your words:
felicitate: to make happy or delightful
opulent: wealthy, affluent, abundant
preeminence: superiority to all others
derides: scoffs at; mocks; ridicules
amities: friendships
maledictions: curses
entreaty: a plea; an earnest request
upbraids: scolds harshly; reproaches
gall: a bitter, irritated feeling
debauched: morally corrupted
dotage: senility
clamorous: loudly; noisily
ruffian: rowdy individual
peruse: to read or examine
obscured: made difficult to see
penury: extreme poverty
vouchsafe: to grant in a condescending manner
superfluous: beyond what is needed or required
impetuous: violent, hasty, rash, impulsive
engendered: to cause, to produce, to create
contentious: quarrelsome; stirring controversy
vexes: discomforts, distresses
defile: to make dirty, to desecrate, to pollute
bedlam: a place or scene of wild and mad uproar; an extremely confusing scene
wanton: immoral, lewd
presages: foreshadows of a future event
impertinency: rudeness
disdain: intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt or reject as unworthy
hamartia: error of judgment
dramatic irony: audience knows something characters do not
Homework: Read and annotate Act 2, Scene 4; Rap due Monday.
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