Using the vocabulary words and their definitions the different groups identified and provided from last week's readings, go to the New York Times and put one of the words in the search box. Find an article that somehow relates to the word, provide a five sentence response. In your response, summarize the article and explain how the word is used:
- Isolated-to be put apart to be completely alone and away.
- Bullishly-to act with self-assurance.
- Prolonged-to keep going, extend, draw out.
- Bristling-rising, standing up.
- Perplexity-not being able to understand, confusing, complication.
- Discerning-to distinguish or understand something.
- Connoisseur-someone who knows her stuff, an expert in matters of taste.
- Pathological-obsessive or diseased.
- Frantic-excited or wildly agitated.
- Pilgrimage-a journey to a shrine or holy place.
- Gesticulating-to make gestures when speaking.
- Doggedness-having persistence, tenacity.
- Describe Haji Ali's household? (28)
- What word could be used for the village of Korphe? (29)
- Explain the following phrase: "...he thought he'd stumbled into a sort of Shangri-la" (30).
- The children of Korphe sang the national anthem every morning as they began their school day without a school or teacher; the anthem includes the following lines: "Blessed be the sacred land. Happy be the bounteous realm, symbol of high resolve, land of Pakistan." Why do you think this detail is included in the book?
Make sure to complete the following for next week:
- Getting Started
- The Paragraph
Reading
Read through Chapter 5 of Three Cups of Tea.
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