Wednesday afternoon I posted a bonus-point assignment that asked you to identify all of the playable names among your classmates and the students in my other section of English 1103. Congratulations to Amelia Courbron and Callie Walker who submitted their answers before yesterday’s 4 p.m. deadline. They will each receive five bonus points for their second Check, Please! assignment.
All of the playable names in sections 19 and 20 appear below in bold.
Section Nineteen
- John (a boy or man) Connors
- Molly (a type of tropical fish) Dewees
- Amy Loving (feeling or showing love)
- Nick (to make a shallow cut) Marotta
- Riley Mason (a builder and worker in stone)
- Molly (a type of tropical fish) McCarver
- Jack (to hoist with a type of lever) Mertz
- Sat (past tense of sit) Patel
- Callie Walker (one who walks, or a device for helping one walk)
Section Twenty
- Jesse (to fasten a strap around the leg of a bird in falconry) Brewer (a person or company that manufactures beer)
- Ty Elder (a person of greater age)
- Mckayla Flood (an overflowing of water beyond its normal confines)
- Jack (to hoist with a type of lever) Garrity
- Audrey West (the direction toward the point of the horizon where the sun sets at the equinoxes, on the left-hand side of a person facing north, or the part of the horizon lying in this direction)
Next Up
On Monday we will continue our study of David Sedaris‘s “Me Talk Pretty One Day.” We will also examine a second model literacy narrative, Helen Keller’s “The Day Language Came into My Life.”
Jane Lucas 