Reminders 10/2/17 Vocabulary Unit 8 – starts today! Vocab Pic Quiz 8 - Friday Othello Quiz, Acts III & IV – Wednesday, Oct. 4 Need a copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns (by Khaled Hosseini) by Monday, October 16 – that’s two weeks from today!

Voice Lesson: Diction #4 Read and Think: Write About It: Brown as a coffee-berry, rugged, pistoled, spurred, wary, indefeasible*, I saw my old friend, Deputy- Marshal Buck Caperton, stumble with jingling rowels**, into a chair in the marshal’s outer office -- O. Henry, “The Lonesome Road,” 41 Stories by O. Henry *something that can’t be cancelled **a sharp-toothed wheel in the end of a spur 1. Look at the first two boldface words (pistoled and spurred). Both of these words describe Deputy-Marshal Buck Caperton. What do they mean? How would the meaning change if O. Henry had said, I saw my old friend Deputy-Marshal Buck Caperton, who was wearing a pistol and spurs, stumble…? 2. The word indefeasible is usually used to describe a contract or some kind of legal document. O. Henry uses it to describe a character. What does it mean in this context? In other words, how can a person be indefeasible? What does this choice of words add to the impact of the sentence?

Vocabulary unit 8 Intro - #s 1-10

othello Read Act IV, Scenes 2 & 3 Sticky Note responses Recap/Refresh Othello (The Important Thing – next slide) Read Act IV, Scenes 2 & 3 Sticky Note responses Complete for Act IV Post Act III and Act IV on chart paper

The Important Thing The important thing about ___ACT I/II/III_ is _________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________. Detail #1 Detail #2 Detail #3 But the MOST important thing about ACT I/II/III is__________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________ because…