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SPRING 2011
You will find here terms we used or defined in class that I could not easily place somewhere else on the website or could not easily be found in any of our class books.
For To Kill a Mockingbird dictionary click here
If we talked about a term in class that I have not mentioned here and you believe is worth mentioning, please let me know.
Terms you could find in a dictionary
| boarding school | a school where students live (not college) | College Reading, "La Gringuita" |
| chaparone | one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | College Reading, "La Gringuita" |
Idioms & Phrasal Verbs
| thrown into the deep end of the pool | to be thrown into a situation for which you are not prepared and simply have to survive | College Reading, "La Gringuita"
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| rein in | to control (rein (n) = strap used to control a horse) |
College Reading, "La Gringuita" |
Reading Skills
| theme | the lesson learned or the change in the main character ; should never be confused with the plot or the storyline of a book; theme can be described in one word or one phrase, for example, ambition or "no pain, no gain" | |
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