Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer

Here are the pictures of the tools from today's poem.

These are gouges:

Next, an Adze:

Finally a rasp:

I presume you know what a hammer looks like.

Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three

Your exam over Bless Me Ultima is tomorrow, Wednesday, October 14.
We'll finish going over the vocabulary words Thursday. We will also begin going through Chapter 2 of our grammar book Thursday.

Howl

As I mentioned in class today, this is the anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's reading of his poem, "Howl". It caused quite a stir, and is still considered controversial by many. Read with caution!

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179381

News Writing Tips

This is for my journalism students.
http://www.uil.utexas.edu/academics/journalism/pdf/PowerPoints/Newswriting%20PP.pdf

Made you look!

I figured some of you might come look at the blog if I mentioned it. Last year's class wasn't too intellectually curious, so I eventually stopped blogging for them. Mention this phrase to me tomorrow, so I'll know you visited: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". Or better yet, leave a comment!

Here's today's quote:
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."--Clarence Darrow

And here's today's poem: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/013.html

Happy Friday, everyone!

Here's a link to today's poem.
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/083.html
Things have been busy, and I haven't posted as often as I should, but I hope to post more often.
To that end, here are this week's vocabulary words.

VOCABULARY—LIST 13

1. RUPT: “break,” “burst”
abrupt (adj)
corrupt (adj)
corrupt (v)
disrupt (v)
erupt (v)
incorruptible (adj)
interrupt (v)
rupture (n)

2. CIDE: “killing,” “killer”
fratricide (n)
genocide (n)
germicide (n)
herbicide (n)
homicide (n)
infanticide (n)
insecticide (n)
matricide (n)
patricide (n)
pesticide(n)
regicide (n)
sororicide (n)
suicide (n)
tyrannicide (n)

Have a great weekend!