January 10 ... Beginning "A Modest Proposal"
- Vocab ... be prepared for a possible vocab quiz tomorrow or Friday.
- SUSTENANCE - Food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment; the maintaining of someone or something in life or existence
- RUDIMENTS - the first, most basic, principles of a subject; fundamentals
- COLLATERAL - something pledged as security for repayment of a loan (subject to forfeit/loss if the loan is defaulted/not repaid); a person of the same descent in a family as another, but by a different line
- DEFERENCE - humble submission and respect
- EXPEDIENT - convenient and practical
- ENCUMBRANCE - a burden or impediment
- FAMINE - an extreme scarcity or shortage of food
- PROPAGATION - reproduction by natural processes (in all living things; plant, animal, etc.)
- Complete the vocabulary study over those 8 words before you begin reading "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift (pp. 620-631) in the lit book. Once you have completed the vocabulary study, use the reading questions to guide your reading of the essay. Keep in mind that the essay is SATIRE .. although it addresses the very real issues of POVERTY and HUNGER that you examined on Monday in your journal.
- We will look at the essay and finish reading it tomorrow - but you should begin reading at least some of it on your own today.
