IV Hr [I BSc Phy/Chem]

Completed the poem 'Ode to a Skylark'
Started 'The Solitary Reaper'
General Awareness:
Personification (prosopopeia)
Pathetic Fallacy:
Conceit/paradox/pun/symbol etc.
In Dec 1991, the former USSR split into 15 separate republics.
"Bismark" was known as the 'UNSINKABLE" during World War II
World Cup City - Mexico City
Absentees: Phy: 15,21,25,30,31,32,34,35,36,37,39
Chem: 5,28,35,37,40,42

D.O - I - Part II English Phy/Chem

Shingle - a small signboard, especially outside a doctor's/lawyer's office.
What's the minimum no. of serves needed to win a game in tennis?
Four
In cricket, what does 'bodyline' mean?
An illegal bowling style.
Literature:
Style: The Manner in which the speaker says something.
Point of view: The way a story gets told.
First Person Narrative: 'I'
Second Person Narrative: Address by the narrator to someone he calls 'you'
Third Person Narrative: Narrator is outside the story.
Metonymy: (change of name)
the crown - stands for the king
Hollywood - stands for the film industry
I've read Milton - stands for the works of Milton
Synecdoche: (taking together)
ten hands - hands represents workmen.
hundred sails - sails represents ships.
wheel - automobiles

In Daily Quiz today, Jacob George won the prize - a pen.

I Hr: I BSc Phy/Chem
Started the poem 'Ode to a Skylark'
Use of Punctuation: To ensure the clarity nad readability of writing.
The use of Commas, before a coordinating conjunction joining independent clauses.
Ellipsis: The practice of leaving word(s) when they are not needed for the understanding of a text.
Absentees:
Phy: 15,25,26,29,31,35,38
Chem: 14,20,23,28,29,32,40,41,42

II BA Phil/Tam/His (Voc)
Completed the poem 'The World is too much with us'
His: 3,5
Tam: 1,3,11,14,19,23,26
Phil: 1,4,7,9,10,19,20,29,30,31,33,36,37,38,39,40
The use of semi colons:
Used between independent clauses not linked by a conjunction.
The coat is beyond repair; still Akay hopes to do sth about it.
Present were Cam, the wicked; Prue the Fair;

The use of Colons:
Used between two parts of a sentence, when the first part creates a sense of anticipation about what follows in the second.
Used to introduce a list:
The reading list includes the novels: 'Emma', 'Jane Eyre', 'The Mill on the Floss', etc
Commas make a break in the continuity of a sentence.
Dashes make a sharper break in the continuity.
Parentheses make a still sharper break in the continuity of sentences.
Dashes and parentheses are used to enclose a sentence element that interrupts the train of thought.
Square brackets around a parenthesis/within a paranthesis for easily distinguishing the levels of subordination.

Part II English Classes Today:

II Hr: I BSc Physics/Chem:
Finished the poem 'Mending Wall'
Gave the application of etymology in everyday life.
pend- hang
pendent - hanging drops of ice
pendant - jewellery that hangs
pending - hanging over
pendulum - a freely swinging piece of machinery
dependent - hanging on to something for suppor
independent - not hanging on anyone
suspended - hanging from
perpendicular - hanging straight down at right angles.
Absentees: Phy: 2, 15, 20, 25, 26, 37, 42
Chem: 12, 14, 23, 40, 41, 42

II BA Tam/Phil/His (Voc):
His (Voc): 1,4,5
Phil: 9,10, 19, 20, 27, 30, 31, 38, 39, 40
Tam: 10, 19, 23

Started the poem 'The Road is too Much with us"
All titles of works should be underlined.
niche - definition
What is a paragraph?
Difference between an acronym and an abbreviation
Use of the hyphen - to form compound words and to indicate word-continuity.
eg: best-known work
low-priced tickets
writer-critic/scholar-athlete

II Hr (I BA Eng)
Complete the words in the text below by writing ie or ei:
Please write a br__f p__ce about the rel__f work in Sudan. We bel__ve the work you did in this f__ld was for charity organisations who rec__ve medicines from the West and teach hyg__ne. We do not wish to dec__ve the public who often prec__ve the problem in Africa as ch__fly one of lack of food, particularly prot__n.

IV Hr [I BSc Physics/Chem]
Introduced the poem 'Mending Wall'. Announced prize sessions for the class from Monday 24 Nov 2003.
Absentees:
Phy: 2,15,25,30,31,32,35
Chem: 14,29,40,41,42

ELF - Extremely low frequency
Popular: prevalent among the general public.
popsy - an attractive young woman
pop - relating to commercial, popular music.
pop culture - commercial culture based on popular taste.
Quote: "If you judge people you have no time to love them" Mother Teresa

Part II English Classes Today:

II Hr: (I BSc Physics/Chem)
Gave general knowledge and vocabulary quiz for the I BSc Phy/Chem class.
Absentees: Phy: 2,29,38,42
Chem: 14,23,24,41,42

Mouse potato - one who lives in front of the computer.
eavesdrop - to listen to someone's conversation discreetly.
New Englanders were called Yankees.
Today's quote: Today's dreams are tomorrow's realities.
To wait is to wait time and opportunity.
'O Lord, thou givest us everything at the price of an effort" - Vinci

V Hr: Absentees:
His (Voc): 1,3,4,5
Tam: 12, 17, 19, 21, 23, 26
Phil: 1,2,10, 15, 19, 20, 30, 31, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40