READING 3Fall 2014

Nikki Mattson

IECP

Agenda• Review RE 1A and 1B words• TOEFL practice

Pg. 11 - …and a few friends in a boat commenced their journey from Edo on May 16, 1689.

Pg. 11 – He has an open, friendly manner and a contagious intensity of spirit.

Pg. 11 – Early in the evening I hire a boat, which slowly navigates the Sumidagawa River almost to Tokyo Bay…

Pg. 12 – Many people arrive at Matsushima on ferries.

The ferries sail past Niwo Island, whose shape resembles a submarine…

Pg. 12 - …some are piled double on each other, or even triple, and some are divided at one end and overlapping at the other.

Pg. 12 – Some bear others on their backs; some seem to embrace them, as if caressing their offspring…

Pg. 12 – Basically, about 800 years ago a woman tried to flee from a powerful official with her small child along the cliffs.

Pg. 13 – Cormorants are birds that can be trained to dive and catch fish, which the fisherman retrieve by reaching into the cormorant’s throats.

Pg. 17 – My parents were both fluent in Japanese, but they only used Japanese at home as sort of the secret language.

Pg. 17 -Like every amateur, I bought a camera to essentially record what I was seeing and doing….

Pg. 17 – I just got really obsessed by the whole process.

Pg. 18 – For me, that is an ideal picture.

Pg. 18 – I thought about what happened on each section of the route…

Pg. 18 – I was up to my waist in this smelly temple pond, early in the morning, concentrating on a frog and thinking…

Pg. 18 – I managed to anticipate the moment just before it was ready to jump…

Pg. 19 – I’m in the glare of the sun.

Pg. 19 – Well, there is not that much economic motivation…

Pg. 19 – What it takes is basically passion; you have to be really obsessed with your craft.

TOEFL Practice

HW• Novel Reading Assignments - before class on Monday (3A) or

Tuesday (3B)• Oliver = chapter 1-3• Great Expectations = chapters 1-3• A Tangled Web = chapters 1-4• Cry Freedom = 1-4

• Reading Explorer Unit 1 Test (vocabulary from Unit 1A and 1B + comprehension questions on a new text)

• VP 4 group work quiz (print from the blog, complete at home, and turn in on Wednesday (3A)/Thursday (3B)