What to expect Thursday

In addition to going over your essays, you'll have a quiz over "The Perpetual Adolescent," "The Meaning of Sarah Palin," and the vocabulary words for each. We'll also be talking about fused sentences and comma splices.

No class Tuesday

I think I have flu and will not be in class Tuesday. I had thought about giving you an online assignment. But I need rest, and why don't you get some rest, too? I expect to be well and to see you again Thursday.

Reading for Tuesday, 10/6/09

"The Meaning of Sarah Palin"

Vocabulary for Thursday, 10/1/09

For maximum benefit, please familiarize yourself with the meaning of these words before reading the web assignment for Thursday:

anomaly
benign
chanteuse
coarsen
credo
debacle
decorum
inexorable
perpetuity
paucity
pretension
juvenilia
tenet
niche
transcendent
Sturm und Drang