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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Bel Canto Post 1

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-people are at mr. hosokawa's party
-Roxane Coss is the famous opra singer everyone wants to see.
-mr. hosokawa is from japan but the party is in a spanish country.
-while roxane sings the light go out
- suddenly a bunch of men with guns come in a hold all the guests hostage(they are terrorists and they want the president)

4 questions
-what country are they in?
-is roxane coss pretty?
-how did all those terrorists fit in the vents?
- why didnt anyone think something was wrong when the lights went out?

3 vocabulary words
-elicited---To bring or draw out
-billfold---a thin, flat, folding case, often of leather, for carrying paper money in the pocket and with fewer compartments than a wallet.
surreptitiously--- obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine

2 literary terms
simile-they were impossible to count because they seemed to be everywhere, because they were so similar, like trying to count bees in a swarm around your head.
onomatopoeia-bang

1 overview sentence
there are people at a party and they are held hostage by a group of Spanish terrorists that were native to the country the party was held in.

New Book

THIS term i am reading an extra credit book called Bel Canto! it is by Ann patchett