Meghan

1. Vocab Thespian- Some type of actor or a person that is theatrical Autistic Vestibular
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2. Connection Master a. Since I watch the show The Walking Dead I keep on thinking of the show in that there are no people and the world is mostly abandoned. b. It sounds like many of the houses have been looted because they were surprised to see that the windows of the gas station were still intact. Or there was some type of nuclear blast. Both of these scenarios happened in the short story I wrote with the prompt c. "Which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must." To me this sounds like Yoda from //Star Wars.// The whole book is written in this kind of language and I think it is not meaningful like the author is probably trying to make it.

1. Vocab Penitent Macadam Imbecile Siwash
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2. Literary Luminator a. ANSWERS -" Treking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a fallen plate". "A long shear of light then a series of low concussions" (52). - "I should have done it a long time ago. When there were three bullets instead of two" "Sooner or later they will catch us and they will kill us" (56). - "They came shuffling through the ash casting their hooded heads from side to side. Some wearing canister masks. One in a biohazard suit" (60). - "This was the first human being other than the boy he had spoken to in more than a year" (75). b. - "A single round left in the revolver. You will not face the truth. You will not" (68). - "This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job" (74).

1. Vocab Krugerrands Hasp Geild Mendicant Formica
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2. Discussion Director - If you came across this bunker, would you stay there as long as you could or get healthy and leave? Why? - Will the fake bullets come in handy? -What role does God play in the story? - The husband can make bullets, make a torch from a beer bottle, and he methodically goes through all of the supplies. Whats his story? - What are they saying when they are "carrying the fire"?

1. Vocab Verdigris Fey Shill
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2. Connection Master - They mention that the entrance to the bunker was emanating light and the man related it to a painting in a post apocalyptic world. But they are actually in a post apocalyptic world. -The person they met on the road would not tell the man and the boy his actual name because he didnt trust them with his identity. Identity has been a common theme throught the whole book.

1. Vocab Cognate Salitter Rickets
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2. Literary Luminator -"Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie" (238). -"He shook his head. I dont know what we're doing. The man started to answer but he didnt. After a while he said: There are people. There are people and we'll find them. You'll see" (244). -"You have to stay near, he said. You have to be quick. So you can be with him. Hold him close. Last day of the earth" (250). - "Yes I am, he said. I am the one" (259). - "A vast low swale where ferns and hydrangeas and wild orchids lived on in ashen effigies which the wind had not yet reached" (276).