English 12
December Agenda
AGENDAS, JOURNALS, VOCABULARY
Agenda 12/4/12
 SAT Movie Vocabulary Set 3-Lesson 5
 Quiz on Thursday, Dec. 6th
 Review Canterbury Tales
 Wife of Bath’s Tale
 Patriot Tales assignment
 In pairs, write your own tale (see rubric)
SAT Movie Vocabulary Set 3-Lesson 5
 Grace: Parker, you know, I used to think it was
benign neglect, but now I see that you’re
intentionally screwing me…I need a researcher, not
some jarhead dropout…
 Parker: Look, you’re supposed to be winning the
hearts and the minds of the natives, isn’t that the
whole point of your little puppet show?...Relations
with the indigenous are only getting worse.
 Grace: Yeah, that tends to happen when you use
machine guns on them…
Movie: Avatar, 20th Century Fox, 2009
 Benign means kind or harmless. Synonyms:
innocuous, nonmalignant.
 Indigenous means native or home-grown.
Synonyms: aboriginal, autochthonous
Agenda 12/6/12
 SAT Movie Vocabulary Lesson 5 Quiz
 Work on Patriot Tales
 Netbooks/turnitin.com
Agenda 12/10/12
 Movie SAT Vocabulary Set 1-Lesson 6
 Finish Patriot Tales
 Share??
Movie SAT vocabulary Set 1-Lesson 6
Sister: I understood what he was doing, that he had
spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious
duty of graduating from college, and now he was
emancipated from that world of abstraction,
false security, parents, and material excess-the
things that cut Chris off from the truth of his
existence…
I fear for the mother in her-instincts that seem to
sense the threat of a loss so huge and irrevocable
that the mind balks at taking its measure.
Movie: Into the Wild, Paramount Vantage, 2007
 Absurd means unreasonable or ridiculous
 Tedious means boring
 Emancipated means freed
 Abstraction means ideas or theories
 Irrevocable means permanent or not reversible
 Balks means hesitates
Agenda 12/12/12
 Movie SAT Vocabulary Set 2-Lesson 6
 Quiz on Friday, Dec. 15th
 Share Patriot Tales
 Medieval Romance
 Characteristics
 Hero-Knight archetype
 Shrek
Movie SAT Vocabulary Set 2-Lesson 6
Jeffrey: I just want to understand this, sir. Every time
a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to
compensate the person?
The Dude: Let me explain something to you. Um…I
am not Mr. Lebowski. You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the
Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or
His Dudeness, or Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not
into the whole brevity thing.
Maude: Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey
Movie: The Big Lebowski, PolyGram Films, 1998
 Micturated means urinated. Believe it or not,
another equally fancy term for peeing is emiction.
 Compensate means pay back or make up for.
Synonyms: atone, expiate, indemnify
 Brevity means briefness. Shakespeare said, “Brevity
is the soul of wit,” meaning if you want to be funny,
keep it short.
 Fatuous means silly or foolish. Synonyms: absurd,
asinine, inane, vacuous, vapid.
Agenda 12/14/12
 SAT Movie Vocabulary Lesson 6 Quiz
 Characteristics of a Medieval Romance
 Hero Knight
 Shrek
 Read excerpt of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”
pg. 162 (SSR)
 Answer Questions 1-6 that follow
 Discuss