Block Day: Week 9

* Open

• Check Focus for Any Issue
• Grammar: Copy and Punctuate Psalm 23 (King James Version)
  
  The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want
  He maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters

* Review Notes

• Quick Quiz
• Questions?  Let me make myself nebulous = ).  

* Vocabulary

nebulous (adj.): in the form of a cloud or haze; unclear; vague; ill-defined

from Latin nebulosus "cloudy, misty, foggy, full of vapor."  

Example: Composing a thesis is an absolute mystery to me; sadly, this nebulous witchcraft is demanded of me weekly.

Example 2: In poems such as "Heritage" and "Atlantic City Waiter," Cullen reflects the urge to reclaim African arts—a phenomenon called "Negritude" that was one of the motifs of the Harlem Renaissance. The cornerstone of his aesthetic, however, was the call for black-American poets to work conservatively, as he did, within English conventions. In his 1927 foreword to Caroling Dusk, Cullen observed that "since theirs is ... the heritage of the English language, their work will not present any serious aberration from poetic tendencies of their times." Braving the wrath of less moderate peers, he further stated that "negro poets, dependent as they are on the English language, may have more to gain from the rich background of English and American poetry than from any nebulous atavistic yearnings toward an African inheritance."

And now, as the night was senescent

      And star-dials pointed to morn—

      As the star-dials hinted of morn—

At the end of our path a liquescent

      And nebulous lustre was born,

Out of which a miraculous crescent

      Arose with a duplicate horn—

Astarte's bediamonded crescent

      Distinct with its duplicate horn. 

--Edgar Allan Poe




Grammar: The Rules

•  Semicolon
1. Use a semicolon between closely related independent clauses not joined with a coordinating conjunction.
2. Use a semicolon between independent clauses linked with a transitional expression.
3. Use a semicolon between items in a series containing internal punctuation.

•  The Colon
1. Use a colon after an independent clause to direct attention to a list, an appositive, or a quotation.
2. Use a colon between independent clauses if the second summarizes or explains the first.

Make example sentences in groups to share with the class on the board. If you need more help, use Bedford punctuation, section 34.

* More Goodness

HW: 

• Add two words to your vocabulary (as we have a shorter week):
• paradigm
• urbane