Today, we need work on vocab words, to finish "From Farewell to Manzanar" and discuss how it relates to Personal Narratives.  Finally, I want to give you some time to work on your essays from last week.  Note, the next draft is due on Wedensday.

On Thursday, you will be starting your Personal Narratives.  I will give you some hard due dates for it on Wednesday.

For those of you who haven't written sentences with your words yet, below is an example of the fun you can have:

contempt (noun): the feelings or attitude toward a person one considers unworthy

The contempt that Jackie felt for her ex-boyfriend amounted to her burning all his photos and letters, smashing his cds with a sledgehammer, donating all his clothes to charities, cracking eggs on the hood of his car, spitting in his new girlfriend’s face, and writing a letter: “Dear Mike, you are such a bastard and I don’t deserve how you mistreated me –locking me in your closet for two days – so I pray that some hour soon, you will be impaled by a sharp object, through the stomach, and that your death ends up on the six o’clock news (by the way, I have a knife); on the day of your death, I will have a party and laugh all night with the thoughts of your suffering.”

retribution (noun): deserved punishment

Jackie’s letter of retribution disturbed Mike; he moved out of state, changed his name and phone number, and had plastic surgery done on his face.