February 11, 2010

Hi Class,
Great discussions today! I'm also enjoying your essays a lot, and I'll have them back for you Tuesday.

I handed out the short handout on Fredrick Douglas. I'll leave extras in my box in 313. Also I found SIX photocopies of the "Verbs" chapter in Sin and Syntax, which is due next time. They are also in my box--first come first serve.

Here's a Link to A Homemade Education by Malcolm X: Click here

Journal Prompt #8: A Life-Changing Event

Think of an event, or even just a moment in your life that changed everything for you. After this happened, you were never the same. It could be that things changed for the better, for the worse, or maybe just changed, but you could never go back. Write for 10 minutes.

Dictionary Word of the Day
(Who can use it in a sentence? Post in the comments)

coquetry\KOH-ki-tree; koh-KE-tree\ , noun;
1.Dalliance, flirtation.

Quotes:
'You were probably very bored by it,' he said, catching at once, in mid-air, this ball of coquetry that she had thrown to him.
-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Her pose, quite natural for a woman of the East, might perhaps in a Frenchwoman, have suggested a slightly affected coquetry.
-- Alexandre Dumas père, The Count of Monte Cristo

Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel's old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders. Edna marveled, not comprehending. She herself was almost devoid of coquetry.
-- Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Origin:
Coquetry, French coquetterie, is from coquette, the feminine form of French coquet, "flirtatious man," diminutive of coq, "rooster, cock." The adjective form is coquettish. The verb coquet (also coquette) means "to flirt or trifle with."