Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Literature Circle / Cesare Beccaria

Group Members: Matt, Nico, Pier, and Cici
Group Jobs:
  • Discussion Director: Cici
  • Wordsmith: Nico
  • Summarizer: Pier
  • Project Promoter: Matt

*Group members, remember to post all your vocabulary words and your DPD's so that we can discuss them.

7 comments:

Christina Connell said...

Vocabulary words:

fortuitous
ordained
superfluous
pageantry

Matt Gunn said...

vocab words:

consecrated
metaphysical
privation

Nicolas Cheng said...

fortuitous: lucky; fortunate

ordained: To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on.

superfluous: Extra; more than enough

pageantry: spectacular display; pomp

consecrated: to make or declare sacred

metaphysical: pertaining

privation: lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life

pernicious: causing insidious harm or ruin

barbarity: brutal or inhuman conduct; cruelty

Christina Connell said...

great job guys.
know remember that we need the DPD
and bring interpritive questions to class!!

Matt Gunn said...

ok.. we need a group dpd.. here is mine:

What is the limit to punishment?

I didnt really get how you are supposed to punish...

Matt

Nicolas Cheng said...

My DPD is:
How is the fear of men a fruitful and fatal source of crime?

Nico

Pierfrancesco Mazzolini said...

My DPD is:

How the punishment of death is pernicious to society, by the barbarity it affords?

~ Francesco