Just a reminder:  Your vocabulary words are due Monday when you get to class. If you want to email the list to me, there is a “contact” button at the top of this page.  Also, we will be discussing the novel to chapter six on Monday, so please get caught up before then.

So, the plan is to check your answers, take the numbers you got wrong, write down the definition in your own words, use it in an original sentence, then turn it in before March 23rd. (That’s the Monday after Spring Break.)

Also, we will be moving our reading schedule back a day. Read through page 123 for tomorrow.

1. Unrequited
2. Eminent
3. Peregrinations
4. Austerity
5. Premonitory
6. Contemplative
7. Indomitable
8. Faltering
9. Erosion
10. Fastidious
11. Disingenuous
12. Diligent
13. Despondency
14. Anachronism
15. Clandestine
16. Inexorable
17. Atavistic
18. Miasmic
19. Solemnity
20. Avid
21. Putrefaction
22. Pedagogy
23. Inculcate
24. Convalescence
25. Quagmire
26. Ominous
27. Interminable
28. Capitulated
29. Complaisant
30. Providential
31. Vulgarization
32. Facile
33. Reiterated
34. Brevity
35. Effusiveness

In case you missed it, here’s the assignment due Monday:

We have encountered several types of “love” thus far in Love in the Time of Cholera, so I’d like to give you all an opportunity to voice your own perspective/opinion.  Bring to class on Monday a written (see specs below) account of your thoughts on love. 

Now, you can choose your format (as long as it’s prose; no poetry, sorry), be it an academic essay or a short story.  You can deliver an account from your own experience (as long as you make it clear how others can learn from it), you can write a philosophical examination of the phenomenon, you can differentiate between different types of love, or explicate the metaphors in the novel so far (I’d suggest the “bird” imagery or Florentino vs Dr. Urbino).

The Specs:

Paper must follow the guidelines set out here, be between 150 and 500 words, and be written in third person.  (No “I,” “me,” or “we” words.)

If you do not follow these guidelines, I will return your paper to you.  I would rather you not have to focus on the technical aspects, but some of the papers I receive just look funky.

Great first day, guys.  I hate talking as much as I did, but I think we’re set for the year.  If you want a copy of the syllabus or the LitToC stuff, you can download it all here.

As you read, mark the parts that are interesting to you.  This will be the first thing I ask about tomorrow.  (And don’t forget vocab!)