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THE ILLUSTRIOUS MR. PASTOR

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HOMEWORK: Wednesday,
ROCKtober 14, 2026:
 
 
AP ENGLISH #GET-LIT-ERATURE!  Read, THOROUGHLY annotate, come prepared to act out Tartuffe Act II by Wednesday night
 
AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE ELITE!   Odyssey Annotations due Thurs. night
 
ENGLISH II CP:   Written BP1 due TONIGHT
 
ENGLISH II GEN:  Written BP1 due TONIGHT
 
Weekly Spelling, Vocabulary, and Word Parts
 
Weekly SPELLING Words for Context Evaluation:
  1. corruption
  2. Establishment (the founding of a business or entity)
  3. evanescent (here one second, gone the next)
  4. exemplify (to serve as a model of / example of)
  5. Exhilarating (energizing)
  6. Expedient (quickest, most efficient way)
  7. expertise (knowledge and experience)
  8. Exploit (to take advantage of)
  9. expository (analytical)
  10. exquisite (highly refined in quality)
  11. extraordinary (beyond the norm)
  12. exuberance (excitement)
  13. facilitate (to carry out, delegate responsibility)
 
Weekly Vocabulary Words:
  1. Pseudonym (n.) - fake name
  2. Prostrate (adj.) - lying face down in front of someone
  3. Prosaic (adj.) / Prose (n.) - paragraph-based writing
  4. Propriety (n.) - sense of proper behavior / decorum
  5. Proprietor (n.) - owner of a business / manager of a property
  6. Proposition (n.) - formal suggestion
  7. Propitiate (v.) - to appease or calm / soothe
  8. Prominent (adj.) - highly noticeable or important
  9. Probity (n.) - personal integrity and moral conduct
  10. Principle (n.) vs. principal - moral belief / head of a school
 
Weekly Word Parts:
 
PREFIXES
CATA (down) - catastrophe: intense downturn in one's fortunes
COL (together) - collaborate: work together
 
ROOTS

DOMIN (master) - domineering: controlling personality

DON (give) - pardon: to give forgiveness

DUC/DUCT (lead) - abduct: to lead away from

 

SUFFIXES
DOM (state of) - freedom: state of being free
DOX (belief) - paradox: seemingly contradictory belief / occurrence
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Daily Schedule:
 
Period 1 - 7:45-8:40 AP English Literature and Composition
 
Period 2 - 8:44-9:35 AP English Language and Composition
 
Period 3 - Planning / Student Assistance (Tutoring)
 
Period 4 - English II College Prep
 
Period 5 - English II General
 
Period 6 - English II General
 
Period 7 - English II College Prep
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