Oct.18: Washington Irving-2

1. Please read The Devil and Tom Walker
The following vocabulary words might be included in the quiz:
articulate, avarice, balk, censure, consecrate, daunt, expedient, forbearance, impregnable, incantation, ostentatious, parsimony, piety, precarious, prevalent, propitious, prostration,
refuge, resolute, superfluous.
2. Revise the main features of Romanticism.
3. Assignment for students from Group 3 CCC: Please start your own blogs which you will use as an electronic portfolio for your future web site and practice posting.
Step 1. You will need to sign up for your group's Blogger.com account. Go to http://www.blogger.com/start and click the "Create Your Own Account" link. Make sure that your group has a personal email account before attempting to sign up. (Since the three of you will be using one and the same login and password, it's a good idea to open up a new mail.ru or gmail.com email account and share it for the duration of the project.) As part of the registration process, Blogger.com sends out a confirmation email containing a link necessary for activation of the new account. As your websites will be available for public viewing, it is perfectly acceptable for you to use pseudonyms or nicknames when signing up. Note: My display name is anna_filatova for obvious convenience reasons.
Step 2.You will be required to enter your blog title which will be the heading of your weblog (eg. mine is "American Literature at MSU"). If need be, you can always change it though. Also, you are to choose your blog's URL (its Internet address). My URL is http://american-literature-msu.blogspot.com
Step 3.Customize your blog, i.e. select a layout and color scheme for your group's weblogs. Blogspot.coml provides a generous selection of ready-to-go templates and colors that can be chosen with the click of a mouse. Simple customization is important, for it helps to create a sense of ownership and unique online identity from the very beginning. Edit your group's profile, i.e. upload your photos, put some info about yourselves and your interests.
Step 4.Practice posting and editing! Play around with it. Then learn how to make comments on other Blogspot.com sites and answer comments on your own sites. Go to my weblog and leave your group's comment about your successful creation of your weblog and its URL.
Step 5. Start working on collecting materials for the web site and post them on your blog.
Best of luck!