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    • The Chosen>
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      • Chaim Potok
      • "Walking Away" and "Paths"
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      • Important Passages for Analysis - The Scarlet Letter
      • Nathanial Hawthorne - The Birthmark and Young Goodman Brown
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    • Wislawa Szymborska>
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      • Szymborska: The Human Condition: Lonely, Empty and Brief
      • Szymborska: Mockery and Wit
      • Szymborska: Poetry as Salvation
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    • The Stranger, by Albert Camus>
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        • The Myth of Sisyphus colormarked
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    • Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy>
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      • Parallel Plot Lines in AK
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      • Article written about Sojourner Truth's speech
    • If This is a Man, by Primo Levi>
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    • A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift
    • Paper 1>
      • The Red Wheelbarrow
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      • Analyzing Poetry
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
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Synonym     10%
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Vocabulary for English III

Marking Period 1

9-15 to 9-19:
connotation
denotation
explicit
implied

parallelism

9-22 to 9-26:
suffragette
distraction
alleviate
interspersed
avarice

9-29 to 10-3

arduous
rectitude
facilitate
subsequent
eradicate

10-6 to 10-10: 
martial
celestial      
relinquished
perseverance 
deductive reasoning

10-13 to 10-17:
insidious
avert
spurned
solace
vigilant

10-20 to 10-24:
acquiesce
magnanimity
expunge
poise
transient

10-27 to 10-31:
retrospect
secure
invariable
observant
exuberant

11-5 to 11-9:
pertinent 
encumbrance
temporal
impervious
superficial




Marking Period  2






Marking Period 3






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