Monday, November 22, 2010

Masterpiece Book Group - Week 5

UPDATE 11/25: concerning question 4, while Durer may not have painted or drawn each of the "four virtues" specifically, find a Durer painting or drawing online that you believe shows the virtue you chose.


Masterpiece by Elise Broach
Week 5: read pages 172-233


Vocabulary:

gloating (172)
extolling (173)
uncanny (174)
capitulated (175)
foreboding (178)
ruefully (178)
obscured (180)
impediment (187)
perilously (188)
cowered (189)
futilely (189)
intermediary (190)
indignation (195)
rendezvous (199)
interspersed (211)
arduous (220)
surreptitiously (222)


Questions:

1. Choose 3 vocabulary words and look up their parts of speech and definitions in a dictionary. Write them in your journal.

2. Choose another 2 vocabulary words and write interesting sentences for each in your journal.

3. What are the specifics of the plan as Christina describes it? (paragraph)

4. Find images of Durer's four virtues online. Which one do you like the best and why? (paragraph)

5. Who has stolen the painting? How does Marvin let James know? (2-3 sentences)

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